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    The Potential Impact of Computers and Mis On A Different Level

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    Computers and management information systems (MIS) have the potential to significantly impact different levels of management in the future: - Top-level management may use computer simulations to assist with planning work activities and testing the impact of ideas on profitability. Computers could enable sensitivity analysis to determine how individual factors affect outcomes. - Middle management may see many routine decisions programmed and made by computers, reducing the need for managers. Inventory control is one example where computers could automatically reorder items. - Supervisory management is already most impacted as computers provide reports for routine, day-to-day control functions. In the future, most controls and many operations will be automated, further reducing the need for supervisory managers.

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    Computers and management information systems (MIS) have the potential to significantly impact different levels of management in the future: - Top-level management may use computer simulations to assist with planning work activities and testing the impact of ideas on profitability. Computers could enable sensitivity analysis to determine how individual factors affect outcomes. - Middle management may see many routine decisions programmed and made by computers, reducing the need for managers. Inventory control is one example where computers could automatically reorder items. - Supervisory management is already most impacted as computers provide reports for routine, day-to-day control functions. In the future, most controls and many operations will be automated, further reducing the need for supervisory managers.

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    Computers and management information systems (MIS) have the potential to significantly impact different levels of management in the future: - Top-level management may use computer simulations to assist with planning work activities and testing the impact of ideas on profitability. Computers could enable sensitivity analysis to determine how individual factors affect outcomes. - Middle management may see many routine decisions programmed and made by computers, reducing the need for managers. Inventory control is one example where computers could automatically reorder items. - Supervisory management is already most impacted as computers provide reports for routine, day-to-day control functions. In the future, most controls and many operations will be automated, further reducing the need for supervisory managers.

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    Computers and management information systems (MIS) have the potential to significantly impact different levels of management in the future: - Top-level management may use computer simulations to assist with planning work activities and testing the impact of ideas on profitability. Computers could enable sensitivity analysis to determine how individual factors affect outcomes. - Middle management may see many routine decisions programmed and made by computers, reducing the need for managers. Inventory control is one example where computers could automatically reorder items. - Supervisory management is already most impacted as computers provide reports for routine, day-to-day control functions. In the future, most controls and many operations will be automated, further reducing the need for supervisory managers.

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    THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF COMPUTERS AND MIS ON A DIFFERENT LEVEL

    OF MANAGEMENT

    The potential impact of computers on top-level management may be quite significant. An


    important factor that may be accountable for the change is the fast development in the area of
    computer science. It is believed that in the future the computer would be able to provide
    simulation models to assist top-level management in planning their work activities. For example,
    with the help of a computer, it may be possible in the future to develop a financial model by
    using simulation technique, which will facilitate executive to test the impact of ideas and
    strategies formulated on future profitability and in determining the needs for funds and physical
    resources. By carrying sensitive analysis with the support of computers, it may be possible to
    steady and measure the effect of variation of individual factors to determine the final result. Also,
    the availability of a new class of experts will facilitate effective communication with computers.
    Such experts may also play a useful role in the development and processing of models. In brief,
    the potential impact of computers would be more in the area of planning and decision making.

    Futurists believe that top management will realize the significance of techniques like simulation,
    sensitivity analysis, and management science. The application of these techniques to business
    problems with the help of computers would generate accurate, reliable, timely, and
    comprehensive information to top management. Such information will be quite useful for the
    purpose of management planning and decision making, Computerised MIS will also influence
    the development, evaluation, and implementation of a solution to a problem under the
    decision-making process.

    The potential impact of computers and MIS on the middle management level will also be
    significant. It will bring a marked change in the process of their decision making. At this level,
    most of the decisions will be programmed and thus will be made by the computer, thereby
    drastically reducing the requirement of middle-level managers. For Example, in the case of the
    inventory control system; Computer will carry records of all items in respect of their purchase,
    issue, and balance. The reorder level, reorder quantity, etc. for each item of material will also be
    stored in the computer after its predetermination. Under such a system, as soon as the
    consumption level of a particular item of material will touch the reorder level, the computer will
    inform for its purchase immediately. The futurists also foresee the computer and the erosion of
    middle management as the vehicle for a major shift to re-centralization. The new information
    technology will enable management to view an operation as a single entity whose effectiveness
    can only be optimized by making the decision that takes into account the entity and not the
    individual parts.

    The impact of Computer and MIS today at the supervisory management level is maximum.
    At this level, managers are responsible for routine, day-to-day work decisions and activities of
    the organization which do not require much judgment and discretion. In a way, the supervisory
    manager’s job is directed more towards control functions, which are highly respective to
    computerization. For control, such managers are provided with accurate, timely, comprehensive,
    and suitable reports. A higher percentage of information requirements of executives is met out at
    this level.

    The potential impact of Computer and MIS on the supervisory level will completely
    revolutionize the working at this level. Most of the controls in the future will be operated with
    the help of computers. Even the need for supervisory managers for controlling the operation will
    be substantially reduced. Most of the operations/activities now performed manually will be either
    fully or partially automated.

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