Chapter 1 Flashcards
What are the 3 changes in information systems lately?
1) using cloud more
2) growing business use of data
3) emerging with digital platforms
Digital firm
Significant business relationships with customers, suppliers, employees, digitally enabled
Core business processes
Accomplished through digital networks spanning the entire organization or linking multiple organizations
Business processes
Related tasks and behaviors organizations develop over time to produce specific business results. Developing a new product etc.
Key corporate assets
Intellectual property, core competentices, financial and human assets.
Time shifting
Work days, basically time shifting and business continuing 24/7
Business model
Describes how a company produces, delivers, and sells a product or service to create wealth
Information technology
Consists of all the hardware and software that a firm needs to use in order to achieve its business objectives
Information system
Set of interrelated components that collect or retrieve, process, store, and distribute information to support decision making and control in an organization. It may also help managers analyze problems, visualize problems and create new products
Information
Data that have been shaped into a form that is meaningful and useful to human beings
Data
Raw facts
What are 4 activities in an information system that produce the information that organizations need to make decisions, control Operations etc?
Input
Processing
Output
Feedback
Input
Captures or collects raw data from. Within organizations or from its external environment
Processing
Converts raw information into meaningful form
Output
Transfers processed information to people who will use it or to activities for which it will be used.
Feedback
Output that is return to appropriate members of organizations to process or evaluate
Information system literacy
Knowledge of info system
Management info systems
Used by managers
Senior management
Makes long range strategic decisions about products and performance of the for.
Middle management
Carries out programs and plans for senior management
Operational management
Responsible for monitoring daily activities
Knowledge workers
Engineers, scientists, etc create new knowledge
Data workers
Secretaries, clerks etc. Scheduling etc
Production or service workers
Actually produce and create
Business functions
Specialized tasks completed
Levels in a firm
Bottom to top
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computer hardware
physical equipment used for input, processing, and output activities in an information system.
computer software
detailed pre-programmed instructions that control and coordinate the computer hardware components in an information system
data management technology
consists of software governing the organization of data
networking and telecommunications technology
both physical devices and software, links to various pieces of hardware and transfers data from one physical location to another
network
links 2 or more computers to share data or resources such as a printer.
internet
largest network
intranets
internet networks based on internet and world wide web technology and standards
extranet
private networks that is accessible to authorized users. like vpn
world wide web
system with universally accepted standards for storing, retrieving, formatting, and diaplying information in a networked environment.
information technology infrastructure
computer hardware,
