Abstract

Information systems are widely used in organizations and play a very important role in improving an organization’s performance. In recent years knowledge management has become an important issue for managers, consultants and researchers. This paper describes definition and attribution of management information system and knowledge management. It clarifies points like data, information, process, information systems, management information systems and knowledge management system. The approach of this research is to analyze both systems in order to identify their role in an organization, the relationship between them, discover common and uncommon features between the two systems, determine the added value of knowledge management system to the organization’s performance and efficiency over the existing information system and to find out when an information system becomes a knowledge management system and when it is useful to implement the latter.

Highlights

  • At its 4th Annual Conference on Knowledge Management held in Washington, D.C. in May 2002, the American Productivity and Quality Association (APQC) echoed the sentiments spoken by Mrs Bush when it defined the goal of knowledge management (KM): Connecting people to the best practices, knowledge, and expertise they need to create value

  • We propose to measure the impact of these Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) at a different level in order to facilitate and isolate the effects of implementing knowledge management systems [20]

  • Knowledge management is a new form of management information system

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Summary

Introduction

Organization’s economic and innovative performance Knowledge is quite different from data and and fulfill manager’s daily task. As a result information in nature, sometimes people. Information and Communication Technology has use the three terms interchangeably [19]. Information is frequently said to be the glue that holds an organization together [12]. Nowadays information systems play a very important role in improving an organization’s performance and its increased competitive capacity. Information systems (IS) and management of knowledge are often discussed either as separate entities or alternatively as analogies [10]. In this paper a distinction will be made between information system and knowledge management and discussion of the values knowledge management and knowledge management systems added to the organization’s performance in term of economic and efficiency. System has to be implemented and conforms to the organization’s requirements [8]

What is MIS
KMS vs MIS
The border between KMS and MIS
Impact of MIS on organizations
Conclusions

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