Topic 2

Question 1

How can information be used to monitor progress?

Answer 1

Companies can use ICT to see how well they are performing against targets. Personnel such as sales staff can judge performance using information about previous years sales.

Question 2

What three things make information useful?

Answer 2

Up to date

Accurate

Complete

Question 3

What act does personal come under?

Answer 3

The data protection act 1998

Question 4

How does information aid decision making?

Answer 4

• the more relevant information there is to make the decision, the less risk there is to making the decision.
• information enables a manger to take remedial action
• simulations can be performed to experiment with what if scenarios using the information in order to arrive at a decision