First day learnings in MIS.

Management Information Systems learnings:

Management - it is the Planning, Directing, Organizing, and Controlling a certain matter or event.

Information Technology = HARDWARE + SOFTWARE

Information Systems = HARDWARE + SOFTWARE + PEOPLEWARE

Therefore, MIS is planning, directing, organizing and controlling IT and peopleware?

But our MIS Instructor said that people can't be managed because we are not robots, thus we have feelings.

What we can only do to people is to LEAD them.. give directions and be a guide.

We can all be MANAGERS but not LEADERS.

Aside from learnings I also gained confusions during our first meeting..hehe

Sir Gamboa left us the question "Is the subject MIS, correct?".

Well, a part of me says 'YES' because if it's wrong, then why would we have this subject?

And a part of me says 'NO' because only software and hardware could be manage..

So I browsed the meaning of Management Information Systems in wikipedia and below is just a part of it..

"Management information systems are distinct from regular information systems in that they are used to analyze other information systems applied in operational activities in the organization. Academically, the term is commonly used to refer to the group of information management methods tied to the automation or support of human decision making, e.g. decision support systems, expert systems, and executive information systems."
Source: en.wikipedia.org

The way I understand it, MIS is a method (Software + Hardware) to support or guide human (Peopleware) in decision making.