Question

In the context of learning from mistakes of companies in their IT investments that did not produce the right IT/IRM infrastructure to allow them to selectively lead with new technology or fast follow the leaders, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Select one:

a.

Investment in IT must be in line with a long-term MIS Master Plan

b.

MIS Master Plan requires participation and direct input from non-MIS Management

c.

An Executive MIS Steering Committee needs to manage the IT department

d.

An input to MIS Master Planning development process must be emerging technologies

e.

An output of the MIS Master Plan must be the ERD that represents, in part, the organizational information requirement

Answer 1

Ans c

MIS (Management Information System) is the backbone for any organization in today’s world. The investment made in the IT must be in line with the long term MIS Master plan of the organization. The input from non MIS management is important in regard to expectation and business requirement without which IT system will yield results. The emerging technologies like Big Data etc. must be an input to MIS master planning development process so that long term plan is comprehensive. Also, the output of a MIS master plan must include ERD (Entity relationship diagram) which provides the overview of the organizational information requirement which helps to better sync MIS with master plan with the business