Group Members



Group Members
Jeremiah Sebastien Chan
KK1080686
Joanne Esther Teo
KK1080761
Wanda Beckey Jefferin Dulau
KK1080664
Nurul Aida Binti Abdullah
KK1080623
Christy Foo Mei Hua
KK1080630

Company
Shangri-La Hotel Kuala Lumpur

Friday, November 25, 2011

Importance

        The hotel benefits from the huge amount of information used by its diverse departments. In order to properly manage all the information, several processes have been developed, processes that comprise a management information system (MIS). With the use of such system, the necessary information within an organization will be provided as well as effectively managed. In other words, every business decision should be backed up by a responsible MIS.

        The hotel software is very important to ensure operational excellence. Business improves the efficiency of their operations in order to achieve higher profitability. Management information systems are important tools available to managers or knowledge worker for achieving higher levels of efficiency and productivity in business operations.

        For a MIS to be really helpful in maintaining a proper development process, it should benefit from a clear set of guidelines, as well as the hotel’s healthy practices, standards and other procedures. It is of utmost importance that the administration of a MIS should strongly rely on a solid framework of rules and regulations, whether we are talking about the MIS development, maintenance or use.
This software also will help with customer/supplier intimacy. When a business serves its customers well, the customers generally respond by returning and checking in more. This raises revenue and profits. The more a business engages its suppliers, the better the suppliers can provide vital inputs. Indirectly it will lower costs. This Hotel exemplifies the use of information systems and technology to achieve customer intimacy. They use computers to keep track of guests' preferences, such as their preferred room temperature, check-in time, and television programs.

        The entire decision making process within an organization is based on the MIS efficiency. The MIS not only supplies facts and figures but also enhances job performance by monitoring and distributing information between company and its customers. All management information systems should be supportive on the long run by backing up the organization’s objectives and goals as well as the entire development strategy.

        Not forgetting, the software is vital to the hotel because of competitive advantages. The hotel invests in management information system and technology because they are necessities of doing business. These necessities are driven by industry level changes. When firms achieve one or more of business objectives, chances are they have already achieved a competitive advantage. Doing things better than their competitors, charging less for superior rates, and responding to customers and suppliers in real time all add up to higher rate, and higher profits.

        Managing information systems are the foundation for conducting business today. In many industries, survival and even existence without extensive use of IT is inconceivable, and IT plays a critical role in increasing productivity. Although information technology has become more of a commodity, when coupled with complementary changes in organization and management, it can provide the foundation for better services, and ways of conducting business that provide hotel with a strategic advantage.