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AGILE APPROACH TO MIS: CASE STUDY OF AMAZON
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Overview of Agile Approaches in Deployment of MIS    3
Operational Plan for Transforming Current Practices    3
Measurable Key Performance Indicators    4
Impact of Information Systems on Society    4
Ethical Impact of the Organisations Operations    4
Evaluation of Organisations Current Practices    4
Organisation’s Credo in Relation to CSR    5
Weekly Goals    5
Conclusion    6
References    7
Introduction
Management Information System (MIS) can be described as an information system consisting of hardware and software, which assist in decision making, coordination, control, visualisation and analysis of information available with an organisation. To develop an in depth understanding of the MIS deployed by an organisation it is essential to understand the system involving processes, people and technology within the organisation. In order to deploy MIS for gathering information from multiple sources, analysing the information and using it for better decision-making most of the business organisations have now adopted agile approach to deploy MIS systems. Through this report, agile approach to MIS shall be discussed considering Amazon.
Overview of Agile Approaches in Deployment of MIS
Agile approaches can be considered as alternative methodologies for managing projects. Using agile approaches ensures that there is evolutionary development, adaptive planning, continuous improvement of the business processes, flexibility towards changing business environment and early delivery (Kroener, Barnard-Wills & Muraszkiewicz, 2019). Agile approaches are being widely adopted now to share the available information and resources among various users within the organisation while deploying MIS. Agile MIS infrastructure supports changes in the business processes. Amazon has been facing a fierce competition in the industry and therefore, needs to adopt the idea of agile based MIS to fight the fierce competition and to meet the changing needs of the customers for their satisfaction.
Operational Plan for Transforming Current Practices
MIS is being widely used by Amazon to streamline a number of management activities of the business and at the same time Amazon has been making several efforts to satisfy its customers with diversified products and services through MIS. As competition for Amazon is increasing in the industry, it has become essential for the business to come up with agile approaches, which can help to optimise...