Table 1 Main characteristics of modern informational technologies
Methodology
Main characteristics
Results
Fundamentally new
information processing
means
Integration into
management technology
New communication, information
processing, formation and use of
informational resources technology
Complete technological
systems
Integration of specialists
and managers functions
New technology of informational
resources and certain information quality
processing results formation and transfer
Purposeful creation,
transfer, storing and
representing of
information
Taking into account rules
of social environment,
user’s individual abilities
and knowledge
New technology in management decisions
making
Functions of informational management system define its structure, which
includes the following procedures as collecting and registration of data, preparing
information arrays, processing, accumulation and storing of data, forming final
information results, transferring data from sources to processing place, and transferring
results to information consumers for management decisions to be made. Collecting and
registration of information is made differently in various economic objects.
The most complex procedure is that of automated management processes at
industrial enterprises and firms where collecting and registration of initial information
reflecting manufacturing and financial activity of an object takes place. Particular
importance is devoted to authenticity, completeness and timeliness of initial
information. As a rule collecting information is followed by its writing onto material
object (a document, machine-readable medium), its input into hard/software complex.
Writing down into primary documents is done basically by hand, that is why collecting
and registration procedures remain the most labour-intensive, and the document flow
is still of current importance. That is why special attention in automated management
system should be paid to the use of information collecting and registration technical
means, combining operations of information measuring, registration, accumulating and
transferring through data channels, and input into informational system to form
necessary documents or accumulate data in the system.
Development of manufacturing enterprises automated management informational
systems raises accessibility of informational data and resources, lowers expenditures
on realization of deals between enterprises and their suppliers as to optimal decisions
making, provides for maximum efficiency of manufacturing processes and raising
market capitalization, simplifies procedures of entering international markets at lower
costs.
Accordingly each enterprise has management hierarchy divided into parts in
compliance with management levels and management decisions making competence.
The higher a hierarchical level is, the bigger the volume and complexity of fulfilled
functions, responsibility, ways of strategic decisions realization and access to
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