Advantages & Disadvantages of MIS

Advantages of MIS:

• Improves quality of an organization or an information content by providing relevant information for sound decision making.
• MIS change large amount of data into summarize form and thereby avoid confusion which may an answer when an information officer are flooded with detailed fact.
• MIS facilitates integration of specialized activities by keeping each department aware of problem and requirements of other departments.
• MIS serves as a link between managerial planning and control. It improves the ability of management to evaluate and improve performance.

Disadvantages of MIS:

• Too rigid and difficult to adapt.
• Resistance in sharing internal information between departments can reduce the effectiveness.
• Hard to quantify benefit to justify implementation of MIS.
• Quality of output of an MIS is directly proportional to quality of input and processes.