Question

Why are operational systems not suitable for providing strategic information? Give three specific reasons and explain.

Answer 1

Actually, Strategic information neither perform day-to-day operations nor produce an invoice, make a shipment, post a withdrawal from a bank account.

It in an enterprise is meant for executives and for managers. They need this information to make the right decisions.

Specific reasons:

(i) They are responsible to put the data in the database and to collect various types of data.

(ii) In order to produce reports for decision making, this data is converted to meaningful information.

(iii) They are required to perform daily based transactions unlike strategic.

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