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The effective information system of management should be developed for concrete needs of the given enterprise. There are well developed principles of such working out, and in practice it is not so obligatory to begin with the elements. We have shortly told about some basic elements of system of monitoring and the control, but for those enterprises where there can be special information requirements, it is necessary to execute following,
1. To spend the review and the analysis of business decisions for definition of their nature, frequency and time characteristics. For example, for the price policy the information on character of the goods realised in certain sector of the market, on the contribution from each kind of the goods, behaviour of customers in this market, and also frequency and the time periods of consumer decisions is required. 2. Each decision it is necessary then to analyse and write down the requirements defining as the information - from internal or external sources should be going to. For the information on sales it is necessary to receive variety of data on the customer and the end user (the age groups, the available income, tastes, a residence, storage possibilities, quantity, etc.), for the information on manufacture - about expenses, terms of delivery, industrial technologies, etc.
3. Having established, what types of information be required and as it should be used, it is possible to develop information system for information formation. This system should satisfy to three elements,) the Information should be collected, ordered and saved in appropriate way. It is known, that gathering of the information for the majority of the enterprises is the most serious problem as the uniform methodology of selection and ordering does not exist. It does not mean, that the information is absent; the information, as a rule, has enough, however there are complexities with its perception. The information part involuntarily is going to the personnel which is constantly being in the market environment, during dialogue with buyers and competitors and search of favorable possibilities and changes. There is a unique question: how to write down (to formalize) this most valuable information? We will return to this question later. After gathering of the information it is necessary for sorting and grouping to (order) in convenient for use and storage a kind. In these purposes it is possible to use as kompjuterizovannuju base, and "manual" system. The system choice depends on a recoupment of expenses that is substantially defined by frequency of use and which complexity of the information processing is required. The "manual" system hardly will allow to process quickly the difficult information, and kompjuterizovannaja the system hardly probable will pay back expenses for it at processing of the simple information.
) search and processing of the written down information Further be required. The "manual" system assumes creation of suitable system of conducting records and a card file providing simple access. In a case kompjuterizovannoj systems it is important to choose a suitable database, and it not so is simple at the big assortment of databases and a variety of the prices. It is desirable to receive professional consultations and it is necessary to check up some software products in job.
) And, at last, the information should be presented and used in appropriate way, i.e. to be clear and short, especially, if other people participate in decision-making process. It will help with fast acceptance of correct decisions.
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