Sistemas de informação e gestão nos bancos: O caso do Banco Austral

Abstract

Information is one of the first resources of a company that aims to modernize. It is considered by analogy to human needs because it designates the content of man's exchanges with the environment that surrounds him to facilitate his adaptation. The word information has several synonyms: wisdom, knowledge, observation, fact, etc., but it does not have the same meaning. Since information is intended for all workers in an organization and in particular for managers, to help them in decision-making, this is where the Information System (IS) approach has developed more and more efficiently and effectively. The creation of an IS is simultaneously the result of several practical experiences, studies, scientific research on the fundamentals of management and applications made also to other disciplines. The SI, is a network of information flows “formalized and structured according to the needs and possibilities of the organization, supported by an evolved system of data processing to provide all managers, in a timely manner and in a directly usable form , the necessary information for the direction and management of the organization ”(Rigaud 1991: 49). In short, the SI is an interdependent set of elements capable of collecting, processing, storing and providing information. No activity, whatever it may be, can be managed without the use of information.