Ch 1 vocab

Question 1

Why is introduction to MIS the most important class in the business school?

Answer 1

• Because of Moore’s Law, the cost of data communications and data storage is essentially zero.
• Future business professionals need to be able to assess, evaluate, and apply emerging information technology to business
• It will give you the ultimate in job security, marketable skills, by helping you learn abstraction, systems thinking, collaboration, and experimentation.

Question 2

5 component framework

Answer 2

Hardware, software, data, procedures, people

Question 3

Abstract reasoning

Answer 3

the ability to make and manipulate models

Question 4

Systems thinking

Answer 4

the ability to model the components of the system, to connect the inputs and outputs among those components into a sensible whole that reflects the structure and dynamics of the phenomenon.

Question 5

collaboration

Answer 5

the activity of two or more people working together to achieve a common goal, result, or work product

Question 6

experimentation

Answer 6

is making a reasoned analysis of an opportunity, envisioning potential solutions, evaluating those possibilities, and developing the most promising ones, consistent with the resources you have.

Question 7

information system

Answer 7

a group of components that interact to produce information