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Unit 1: Management Information Systems

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Figure 1.3: Contemporary Approaches to
Information Systems

1.5.1 Technical Approach

The technical approach to information systems emphasizes mathematically based models to
study information systems, a well as the physical technology and formal capabilities of these
systems.
The disciplines that contribute to the technical approach are:
 Computer science,

 Management science
 Operations research
Computer science is related with instituting speculations of computability, methods of
computation, and techniques of efficient data storage and access.

Management science highlights the expansion of models for decision-making and management
practices.
Operations research concentrates on mathematical techniques for optimizing chosen parameters
of organizations like transportation, inventory control, and transaction costs.
From a technical approach, an information system is observed from a mathematical point of
view. Mathematical models are used to study information systems and to elucidate how they
can be applied. By means of a technical perspective, management would like to establish
speculations of computability which can be utilized to recognize how to apply information
systems.
Let us consider an analogy: A "techie" looks at most things linked with computing as a sequence
of zeroes or ones. After all, everything in a computer is eventually diminished to a zero or a one.
So by means of the technical approach, you could state that 2 + 2 = 4.
1.5.2 Behavioural Approach

An important part of the information systems field is concerned with behavioral issues that
arise in the development and long-term maintenance of information systems. Issues such as
strategic business integration, design, implementation, utilization, and management cannot be
explored usually with the model used in the technical approach.

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