The basic requirements are:
Concept and structure of management information system: master the basic concept, definition, function and structure, development conditions and methodology of management information system.
Management information system development process: master the whole process of management information system development life cycle and the concepts of object-oriented development process and prototype development process.
Management and maintenance of management information system: master the management and maintenance of management information system in development stage and operation stage.
Management information system development environment and tools: master the concept and content of management information system development environment, the types and use of development tools.
Management information system development example: Take the whole development process of a small management information system as an example to explain the development process of management information system.
In order to facilitate self-study, we first analyze the key points and difficulties of each chapter, so as to have a general understanding of what we have learned.
Chapter I Information Age and National Informatization
This chapter mainly introduces the definition, guiding ideology, principles, main tasks and measures of China's national informatization under the global informatization environment, and analyzes the significance of enterprise informatization and the measures to be taken in combination with the overall goal of national informatization.
Chapter II Management, Information and Systems
This chapter mainly introduces the basic knowledge of management, information and system. Because management information system is a combination of three words: management, information and system, it is necessary to master these concepts skillfully. Pay attention to understanding the connotation of management level; The basic attributes of information and the main tasks of each stage of information processing life cycle; The logical model of the system, as well as the goals and principles of system decomposition.
Chapter III Concept of Management Information System
In fact, this chapter only talks about one problem, that is, the concept of MIS. 1 to 3 are all about this problem, so it is required to understand the concepts of "man-machine system" and "integrated system" on the basis of reading through this chapter.
chapter four
Structure of management information system. Simply put, the so-called architecture refers to the composition of MIS. This chapter introduces the basic structure, functional structure, management/functional structure and network computing structure of MIS from several different angles. Among them, the infrastructure and management/functional structure are the focus of this chapter, which need to be understood and mastered. Network computing structure is the difficulty of this chapter, which needs to be gradually realized in the practice of MIS development, and only needs to understand its basic concepts and principles in the theoretical learning stage.
Chapter V Development of Management Information System
This chapter briefly introduces the development method and process of management information system. Chapters 6 to 9 enrich and expand the content of this chapter. On the basis of studying the contents of this chapter, you can have an overall understanding of the development of the whole MIS, so you must understand the contents of this chapter. It is required to understand the basic problems of MIS development, such as the conditions required for system development, the preparatory work before system development, and the unfavorable factors of system development. And focus on mastering the basic idea of structured method, that is, "top-down, gradual refinement". On this basis, combined with the life cycle model of MIS development shown in Figure 5-6 in the textbook, the objectives and tasks of MIS development are learned from the stages and final results.
Chapter VI Overall Planning of Management Information System
Overall planning is the first step of MIS development. Simply put, the purpose of the master plan is to conduct feasibility analysis and provide a "blueprint" for future system development. Specifically, the purpose of the master plan can be summarized as follows: to ensure information sharing; Coordinate the work between subsystems; Make the development work orderly. It is required to understand the purpose and task of the master plan and focus on its main steps, that is, all the contents of the first section.
Chapter VII Analysis of Management Information System
System analysis is the second step of MIS development. According to the requirements of the syllabus, the contents of this chapter need to be mastered, but on the basis of understanding the working ideas and steps of system analysis, we should focus on mastering the methods of data flow analysis (in short, drawing data flow diagrams), which is also the focus of the book.
Chapter VIII Design of Management Information System
If the system analysis solves the problem of "what does the system do", then the system design is based on it, which can generally be divided into two stages: overall design and detailed design. The difficulty of overall design is module structure design, and the difficulty of detailed design is code design.
Chapter IX Implementation of Management Information System
This chapter covers the fourth and fifth stages of MIS development life cycle model (Figure 5-6 in the textbook), which means that the system implementation mentioned in this chapter is a broad concept, which includes several specific stages, such as program design, system testing, operation and maintenance, system evaluation, etc. Each of the above stages basically corresponds to a section, which requires mastery.
Chapter 10 Development of Management Information System
This chapter mainly introduces some new forms of MIS development, which is not the key content of course learning, and only needs to understand some basic concepts. Specifically, it is necessary to clarify the basic concepts, composition and application fields of e-commerce, expert system, decision support system and geographic information system, and focus on the concepts of e-commerce, logistics and supply chain management.
Third, learning methods.
On the basis of a preliminary understanding of the system structure of teaching materials, we talk about how to use teaching materials for theoretical study of management information systems. Of course, if you really want to learn the content of this course well and reach the level of application, you must also systematically develop and practice while learning the theory, and realize what you have learned in practice to achieve a comprehensive understanding. Students can combine the study of video teaching materials and carry out system development practice. The following only discusses how to use text textbooks for theoretical study.
In fact, the whole text textbook only talks about two issues, one is the basic theory related to MIS; The second is how to develop and establish a management information system. Through our analysis of the teaching effect of this course for many years, as long as students master these two aspects, they basically have the ability to further study and improve in practice.
1. The first question "Basic theory related to MIS"
In fact, it is the content of the second to fourth chapters of the textbook. The second chapter introduces the basic concepts of management, information and system. The third and fourth chapters answer the question of what MIS is, namely its concept and composition (structure).
2. The second question "How to develop and establish a management information system"
Chapters 5 to 9 all talk about this problem. This is the core content of this course. This part of the content seems to be a lot, but it is actually elaborated around Figure 5-6 on page 98 of the textbook, that is to say, the content from Chapter 5 to Chapter 9 is explaining Figure 5-6 "MIS development life cycle model", which is also commonly known as "waterfall model".
Based on this understanding, it is required to be impressed with Figure 5-6 in the learning process. On this basis, grasp the following points:
Firstly, it is clear that MIS development includes several stages, such as overall planning, system analysis, system design, system implementation and operation and maintenance.
Second, clarify the relationship between each stage. For example, after the overall planning stage is completed, a feasibility report will be made and delivered to the system analysis stage, and the final report "system specification" in the system analysis stage is the main basis for system design;
Third, for each specific stage, we should be clear about its purpose, task, main principles and steps, and skillfully remember, understand and master these contents;
Fourthly, after learning all the contents of the book, recall the contents of each stage according to Figure 5-6, and simulate the development process of MIS.