MIS ch1 Flashcards
Business functions
Specialized taks performed in a business organization, finance and accounting, and human resources.
Business model
An abstraction of what an enterprise is and how the enterprise delivers a product or service, showing how the enterprise creates wealth.
Business processes
The unique ways in which organizations coordinate and organise work activities, information, and knowledge to produce a product or service.
Complementary assets
Additional assets required to derive value from a primary investment.
Computer hardware
Physical equipment used for input, processing, and output activities in an information system.
Computer literacy
Knowledge about information technology, focussing on understanding of how computer-based technologies work.
Computer software
Detailed, preprogrammed instructions that control and coordinate the work of computer hardware components in an information system.
Culture
The set of fundamental assumptions about what products the organization should produce, how and where it should produce them, and from whom they should be produced.
Data
Streams of raw facts representing events occurring in organizations or the physical environment before they have been organized and arranged into a form that people can understand and use.
Data management technology
Software governing the organization of data on physical storage media
Data workers
People such as secretaries or bookkeepers who process the organization’s paperwork.
Digital firm
Organization where nearly all significant business processes and relationships with customers, suppliers and employees are digitally enabled, and key corporate assets are managed through digital means.
Extranets
Private intranet that is accessible to authorized outsiders.
Feedback
Output that is returned to the appropriate members of the organization to help them evaluate or correct input.
Information
Data that have been shaped into a form that is meaningful and useful to human beings.
Information system
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 literacy
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 technology (IT)
All the hardware and software technologies a firm needs to achieve its business objectives.
Information technology (IT) infrastructure
Computer hardware, software, data, storage technology, and networks providing a portfolio of shared IT resources for the organization.
Input
The capture or collection of raw data from within the organization or from its external environment for processing in an information system.
Internet
Global network of networks using universal standards to connect millions of different networks.
Intranets
An internal network based on Internet and World Wide Web technology and standards.
Knowledge workers
People such as engineers or architects who design products or services and integration of new knowledge into the organization.
Management information systems (MIS)
The study of information systems focusing on their use in business and management.
Middle management
People in the middle of the organization hierarchy who are responsible for carrying out the plans and goals of senior management.
Networking and telecommunications technology
Physical devices and software that link various computer hardware components and transfer data from one physical location to another.
Operational management
people who monitor the day-to-day activities of the computer.
Organizational and management capital
Investment in organization and management such as new business processes, management behavior, organizational culture, or training.
Output
The distribution of processed information to the people who will use it or to the activities for which it will be used.
Processing
The conversion, manipulation, and analysis of raw input into a form that is more meaningful to humans.
Production or service workers
People who actually produce the products or services of the organization.
Senior management
People occupying the topmost hierarchy in an organization who are responsible for making long-range decisions.
Sociotechnical view
Seeing systems as composed of both technical and social elements.
World wide web
A system with universally accepted standards for storing, retrieving, formatting, and displaying information in a networked environment.
