Jaytilak Biswas received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, and PhD from the Industrial Management Department of the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He worked for about threeand-a-half decades in senior executive positions of various public sector enterprises and the Government of India. He has published several papers in specialised national and international journals of repute. He is a guest faculty member of many leading management institutions and a member of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of India. His areas of academic interest are Management Information Systems, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management and Project Management. He has successfully conducted management development programmes for senior managers of private and public sector enterprises.

Foreword Preface 1. Concept and Role of Management Information System 2. Information Needs and Structure of MIS 3. Decision-making 4. Decision Support Systems 5. Executive Information Systems 6. Information System for Planning 7. Information System for Control 8. System Analysis 9. System Design and Development 10. Database and Database Management Systems 11. Computer-based Management Information Systems 12. Computer Networking and Communication Technology 13. Big Data Analytics and Cloud Computing 14. Business Process Re-engineering 15. Generative Artificial Intelligence 16. Information Systems for Managerial Decisions: The Future