Management Decision and Control Systems

Many businesses are faced with situations that need critical analysis, compilation of raw data, circulation of precise documents and effective utilization of computer systems. Frito Lay is an example of a company who implemented various decision support systems (DSS) into their business model. A DSS is a “highly flexible and interactive IT system that is designed to support decision making when the problem is not structured.” (Haag, Cummins p.162) Managers require information to guide their organization in the right direction. DSS increases productivity, efficiency, and enhances understanding of business processes. DSS helped carve their business success,

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* General Manager/Proprietor - Act as the Chief Security Director for Operations and shall be the head of the agency. He shall be responsible for the entire operation and administration/management and canvassing of clientele of the agency.

Mueller Water Products is the parent company of two smaller business units – Mueller Co. and Mueller Technologies – which makes up one of the largest U.S. manufacturers and distributors of fire hydrants, gate valves, and other water infrastructure products. A merger occurred between Mueller Water Products, LLC, Mueller Water Products Co-Issuer, Inc., and Muller Holdings Company, Inc. in September of 2005 that led to the creation of Mueller Water Products, Inc. (Annual Report, 2015). Currently, the company is governed by a board of 10 directors who oversee the two business units; Mueller Co. and Mueller Technologies (Mueller Water Products, 2017). The following is an analysis of Mueller Water

General Manager- The chief agent of the Company in its African territory. He also runs the Central Station.

The company’s objective is to enable business and operational success through integrated world class solutions and development by utilizing the organizational restructure of the Engineering and R&D departments. Having a centralized organization with a decentralized engineering department makes meeting the company objective quite difficult. Also, if the company’s objective does not align with the department specific objectives Campbell Soup is setting their selves up for failure. Sales and Marketing are concerned with increasing market share and gaining profit, while the Plants are worried about operational performance, and Engineering is focused on individual parts of the system. In order to have a successful company

Decision making refers to the process of finding and selecting options according to the priorities and values of the person making the decision. Since there are many choices involved, it is important to identify as many options as possible so as to pick the option that best fits a company’s target, goals, values and vision. Due to the integral role of decision making in company growth and financial progress, many firms such as Amazon.com and EBay are pumping in huge investments in business intelligence systems, which are made up of certain technological tools and technological applications that are created for the purpose of facilitating improved decision making process in

What you measure is what you get” – In the journal ‘The Balanced Scorecard – Measures that drive performance’ by renowned professors, Kaplan and Norton (1992), a new management system was introduced to a peripheral perspective economic industry. Past the industry era, traditional financial performance measures such as return-on-investment and earnings-per-share were deemed no longer competent in the ever-changing market. The view of focussing on either financial or non-financial perspectives alone were regarded as one-dimensional and ignorant of other crucial factors in both the company and the market.

General Manager with responsibility for planning, organizing, coordinating and carrying out the general functions of the enterprise, working with the co-operation of the other members of the management team.

1. In the case study, we referred to the systems being developed and used as decision support systems. However, we also identified various artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. How can a decision support system incorporate and use AI technologies such as pattern recognition?

Case 2 is divided into two independent parts. You have to complete both parts.   Part 1: Case “Spice is right” (Hall, Chapter 4, Internal control case) (max 1-2 pages) Only point c (COSO), not a, b, and d. Part 2: Case “Vouch and Trace” (max 2-3 pages)

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The purpose of this case study is to describe and analyse the features of the management control system (MCS) of University of Southern California (USC). Before commencing the analysis a brief background of USC is provided.

5) Information technology (IT) consists of all the hardware that a firm needs to use in order to achieve its business objectives, whereas information systems consist of all the

remote service, thus, not caring about the mechanisms of maintenance of all this armada of servers and applications, the timely expansion of