Understanding advantages and disadvantages of MIS

1. Advantages and
Disadvantages

2. Advantages
 Provide relevant information for facilitating planning and timely
control
 Data is available in summarized form which minimize information
loading
 Ease in measuring performance helps in encouraging
decentralization in an organization
 Improve coordination as all departments are aware of course of
action or any change in plan
 Enhance quick, cheap and efficient communication
 Bring down linguistic, geographical and cultural boundaries.
 24*7 availability of information
 Automation helps in saving time and papers
 Creation of new type of jobs like computer programmer, system
analyzer, software and hardware developer etc

3. Disadvantages
 Require constant monitoring of sensitive data
 Security issues like hacking always prevail
 Quality of output depends on quality of input
 Implementation of MIS is costly as requires hardware,
software and training of human resources
 Lack of flexibility to upgrade software
 Takes only quantitative data
 Increase unemployment
 Effectiveness decreases due to frequent change in top
management and their policies