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ChapterOne
Business Information Systems in Your Career
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An abstraction of what an enterprise is and how the enterprise delivers a product or service, showing how the enterprise creates wealth. | Business model |
| The unique ways in which organizations coordinate and organize work activities, information, and knowledge to produce a product or service. | Business processes |
| Giving proper consideration to the impact of organizational change associated with a new system or alteration of an existing system. | Change management |
| Physical equipment use dfor input, processing, and output activities in an information system. | Computer hardware |
| Knowledge about information technology, focusing on understanding how computer-based technologies work. | Computer literacy |
| Detailed, preprogrammed instructions that control and coordinate the work of computer hardware components in an information system. | Computer software |
| Sustained suspention of judgement with an awareness of multiple perspectives and alternatives. | Critical Thinking |
| Fundamnental set of assumptions, values, and ways of doing things that has been accepted by most members of an organization. | Culture |
| Streams of raw facts representing events occuring in organizations or the physical environment before they have been organized and arranged into a form that people can understand and use. | Data |
| The software that governs the organization of data on physical storage media. | Data management technology |
| Private intranets that are accessible to authorixed outsiders. | Extranets |
| Output that is returned to the appropriate members of the organization to help them evaluate or correct input. | Feedback |
| Data that have been shaped into a form that is meaningful and useful to human beings. | Information |
| Interrelated components working together to collect, process, store, and disseminate information to support decision making, coordination, control, analysis, and visualization in an organization. | Information system (IS) |
| Broad-based understanding of information systems that includes behavioral knowledge about organizations and individuals using information systems as well as technical knowledge about computers. | Information systems literacy |
| Computer hardware, software, data, storage technology, and networks providing a portfolio of shared IT resources for the organization. | Information technology (IT) infrastructure |
| The capture or collection of raw data from within the organization or from its external environment for processing in an information system. | Input |
| Global network of networks using universal standards to connect millions of different networks. | Internet |
| Internal networks based on Internet and World Wide Web technology and standards. | Intranets |
| The study of information systems focusing on their use in business and management. | Management information systems (MIS) |
| The linking of two or more computers to share data or resources, such as printer. | Network |
| Physical devices and software that link various pieces of hardware and transfer data from one physical location to another. | Networking and telecommunications technology |
| The distribution of processed information to the people who will use it or to the activities for which it will be used. | Output |
| The conversion, manipulation, and analysis of raw input into a form that is more meaningful to humans. | Processing |
| A system with universally accepted standards for storing, retrieving, formatting, and displaying information in a networked environment. | World Wide Web |
| Why are businesses investing so much in information systems and technologies? | They do to achieve important business objectives: operational excellence; new products, services, and business models; customer and supplier intimacy; improved decision making; competitive advantage; survival. |
| Information systems are more than just computers | It involves technology, people and organizations. |
| Functions of an information system? | IS contains information about an organization and its surrounding environment. Three basic activities: input, processing, and output. |
| Model of the problem solving process? | Problem identification-->solution design-->solution evaluation and choice--> implementation. Feedback occurs at all levels. |
| What careers will IS affect? | Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Operation Management, Management, Information Systems, Outsourcing and offshoring. |
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