Meaning & use
executive information system
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Meanings
nouncountablebusinesscomputing
A computer system that gathers key company figures and presents them to senior managers in simple summaries.
Grammar: Countable: say an executive information system or several executive information systems.
Patterns
- an executive information system for something
- use/install an executive information system
- an executive information system that shows something
The finance director checks sales and cash flow each morning on the executive information system.
They installed an executive information system so that the board could see profit figures at a glance.
Our old executive information system could only produce a few fixed reports.
noununcountablebusinesscomputing
The branch of software that builds such reporting tools for top management.
Grammar: Uncountable when it names the field or technology: she works in executive information system design.
Patterns
- work in executive information system design
- a specialist in executive information system
He spent ten years in executive information system development before moving into consulting.
The course covers executive information system design and data warehousing.
Word forms
| plural | executive information systems |
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Common combinations
- implement an executive information system
- The bank took eight months to implement an executive information system across its branches.
- executive information system dashboard
- The executive information system dashboard shows revenue, costs and headcount on one screen.
- executive information system software
- Most executive information system software now runs in the cloud.
- a company-wide executive information system
- A company-wide executive information system replaced the monthly paper reports.
- access to an executive information system
- Only the top forty managers have access to the executive information system.
Synonyms and how they differ
- decision support system
- Broader: it helps many kinds of staff make decisions, while an executive information system is aimed specifically at senior managers.
- business intelligence system
- The modern everyday term for tools that analyze company data; it covers far more than the executive summaries an executive information system provides.
- dashboard
- Informal and much shorter; it refers to the screen of summary figures rather than the whole system behind it.
Word family
- executive noun
- A senior manager or director, the main user of such a system.
- information noun
- Facts and data, the raw material the system collects.
- system noun
- A set of connected parts or programs working together.
Commonly confused: executive information system or management information system?
executive information system vs management information system
A management information system serves managers at many levels and handles day-to-day operations; an executive information system is narrower and designed for the top team's strategic overview.
Practice
Which sentence uses "executive information system" correctly?
Choose one answer.
Option 0 is a complete, correctly formed sentence with a singular countable noun and a present-tense verb. Option 1 repeats the indirect object "the board" twice. Option 2 puts "is" before the base verb "give". Option 3 has no finite verb for the subject.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “executive information system”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.