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IT: Chapter 1: Business Information Systems in your Career Flashcards

1
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What’s new in MIS?

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New technologies
People and Behavior changes
Organizations

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ABBREV: Business Drivers of Information Systems

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ONCICS

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Business Drivers of Information Systems

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Operational Excellence
New products, services, and business models
Customer and Supplier intimacy
Improved decision making
Competitive Advantage
Survival
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Operational Excellence

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-improved efficiency and productivity results higher profits

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New products, services, and business models

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Business Model

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Business Model

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how a company produces, delivers, and sells its products and services

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Customer and supplier intimacy

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  • satisfied customers mean repeat customers

- close relationships mean lower costs

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Improved Decision Making

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real-time data improves ability of managers to make decisions

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Competitive Advantage

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advantages over competitors

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Survival

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business need to invest in information systems out of necessity

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Information technology

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the hardware and software a business uses to achieve objectives

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Information system

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interrelated components that manage information to support decision making and control, and help with analysis visualization, and product creation

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Data

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streams of raw facts

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Information

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data shaped into meaningful, useful form

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ABBREV: Activities in an information systems that produce information

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IPOF

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Activities in an information systems that produce information

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Input
Processing
Output
Feedback

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Input

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collect data

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processing

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converts raw input into a meaningful form

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output

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transfers the processes information to the people who use it

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feedback

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output that is returned to appropriate members of the organization to help evaluate or correct input state

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information systems literacy

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includes behavioral and technical approach

21
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computer literary

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focuses mostly on knowledge of IT

22
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Management Information Systems (MIS)

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focuses on broader information systems literacy

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ABBREV: Dimensions of Information systems

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OPT

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Dimensions of Information Systems

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Organizations
People
Technology

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Organizations

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  • Coordinate work through structured hierarchy and business processes
  • culture embedded in information systems
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Business processes

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related tasks and behaviors for accomplishing work

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Culture

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a fundamental set of assumptions, values, and ways of doing things

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People

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to build maintain and use them

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ABBREV: Role of Managers

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PSAC

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Role of managers

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Perceive business challenges
Set organizational strategy
allocate human and financial resources
creative work

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Technology

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IT Infrastructure

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IT infrastructure definition

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foundation or platform that information systems built on

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What are some IT infrastructures?

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Computer hardware
Computer software
Data management technology
Networking and telecommunications technology

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Problem solving has

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four-step process

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ABBREV: four-step process

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PSCI

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Four-step process

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Problem Identification
Solution Design
Choice
Implementation

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Problem identification

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agreement that problem exists

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Solution Design

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consider many possible solutions to understand range of solutions

39
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Choice

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cost
feasibility
length of time needed

40
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Implementation

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testing solution, employee training

change management

41
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Change Management

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refers to the many techniques used to bring about successful change in a business

42
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Without critical thinking,

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it is easy to jump into conclusions, misjudge a problem and waste resources

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ABBREV: Four elements of critical thinking

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MBTB

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Four elements of Critical Thinking

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Maintaining doubt and suspending judgment
Being aware of different perspectives
Testing alternatives and letting experience guide
Being aware of organizational and personal limitations

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