The Company's Central Nervous System

You know, the best way to wrap your head around this is to picture an MIS as the company's

own central nervous system. Seriously. It senses everything that's happening,

it processes all those different signals, and then it helps the business react

intelligently. It's this invisible network that connects every single part of the organization,

letting it act like one big cohesive unit. Okay, so what's the official

textbook definition? Well, a management information system is, at its core,

an integrated system with one huge goal: to take these massive mountains of raw, messy data and completely

transform it into clear, useful information that gives managers the power to make