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Management Information Systems

Notes 6. Explain the use of primary activities in value chain analysis.
7. Enlighten the theory of MIS and Core Competencies.
8. What is Strategic Information System? Discuss the key features of Strategic Information
System.
9. How Strategic Information Systems (SIS) is used to provide business a competitive
advantage.

10. Explicate the traits of successful Strategic Information Systems.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. transaction 2. agency
3. Behavioral 4. information
5. communicate 6. value chain
7. Primary 8. leveraging

9. integration 10. enterprise
11. decision making 12. Strategic Information System (SIS)
13. competitive advantage 14. Strategic

15. top management
3.9 Further Readings

Books Bhatnagar, S.C. and K.V. Ramani, Computers and Information Management, Prentice
Hall of India Private Ltd, New Delhi, 1991.
Davis, Gordon B. and Margrethe H. Olsen, Management Information Systems,
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Singapore, 1985.
Goyal D.P., Management Information Systems (MIS), Deep & Deep Publications,
New Delhi, 1994.
Kenneth C Laudon and Jane P Laudon, Management Information Systems - Managing
the Digital Firm, 9th Ed. Pearson Education Asia, New Delhi, 2007.

O, Brien, James A., Management Information Systems , Galgotia Publications (P)
Ltd., New Delhi, 1991.
Post, Gerald V., Management Information Systems: Solving Business Problems with
Information Technology, Third edition, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
Limited, New Delhi, 2003.

Scott, George M., Principles of Management Information Systems, McGraw-Hill Book
Company, Singapore, 2003.

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