MIS exam 1
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- IT=
- hardware, software and data
- IS=
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IT plus procedures, and ppl that produce information
- you cannot buy...
- IS
- moores law
- the cost of data communications and storage is zero
- abstract reasoning
- the ability to make and manipulate models
- collaboration
- the act of two or more people working together to achieve a common goal, result or work product.communicating, sharing info, combining skills
- skills important for effective collaboration.. team member influnced by
- natural skills, childhood environment, previous experience, attitude of team leader
- qualities that make you a good collaborator
- says what they think even if its unpopular,curious and open-minded, easy to work with, good listener,responds promptly
- empathetic thinking
- strive to hear,learn, and adapt when appropriate
- mis is important becuase
- lets the future business professional to be knowledgeable and effecive participant in the development and use of information systems..gives us background to assess, evaluate, and apply emerging info systems to business
- marketable skills for job security
- collaboration,abstraction, systems thinking,experimentation
- systems
- a group of components that interact to achieve some purpose
- Information system(IS)
- a group of components that interact to produce information
- five component framework present in every info. system
- procedures, data, people, software,hardware
- hardware
- computer, storage, keyboard, disk
- software
- microsoft
- datea
- sentences, paragraphs in report
- MIS
- management information systems
- def of mis
- development and use of info. systems to help businesses acheive their goals
- 3 key elements of info, systems
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development and use, information systems, business goals
- information technology (IT)
- products, methods, standards that are used for the purpose of producing information(refers to hardware, software, data components)
- IS-
- assembly of hardware, software, data, procedures ..people that produce info.
- for any systems.. always have
- costs,need to overcome employees resistance to change,manage employees as they utilize system
- you can buy___ but you cant by
- you can buy it but you cnt by IS
- strong passwords
- 7 or more characters,dont contain username.realname.company name, doesnt contain complete dictionary name,has uppercase+lowercase letters and special characters
- job security
- non rountine collaborative skills, and ability to adapt to changing technology ...abstract thinking, collaboration, systems thinking, ability to experiment
- activites
- collection of related tasks that recieve inputs and process those inputs to produce outputs..can be manual(people following procedures) or automated (hardware directed by software) or both
- decision
- a question that can be answered yes or no
- roles
- set of procedures
- resources
- people, facilities, or computer programs that are assigned to roles
- repository
- collection of business records.. ex=notebook, database, spreadsheet
- data flow
- the movement of data from one activity to another
- how to information systems support business processes
- impletmenting activites, by serving as data repositories, and controlling the flow of data
- outermost components
- hardware and people..they can take the actions
- software and procedures
- set of instructions
- information
- knowledge derived from data, where data is defined as recorded facts or figures
- characteristics of good info
- accurate, timely,relevant to both-context,subject, just barely sufficient, worth its cost
- accurate info
- info based on correct and complete data
- timely info
- produced ontime
- relevant info
- directly pertains to the contect and the subject
- just barely sufficent
- sufficent for purpose its generated, avoid too much or extraneous info
- worth its cost
- appropriate relationship must exist btwn cost of info and its value
- where is the info in business processes
- stored in repositories
- two benefits of info systems
- labor savings and more data can be processed for more info
- data us a stimulus and info is
- a response to that stimulus
- egocentric thinking
- self centered, im right everyone else is wrong
- unstructures process
- cant predict certain things
- five forces model-model for determining the potential profits of an industry
- competitive forces- compeition from vendors of substitutes, from new competitors, from existing rivals.. bargaiing power forces-bargaining power of suppliers, of customers
- how does organizational strategy determine info. systems structure
- organizations examine structure of their ndustry and determine a competitive strategy, competitive strategy determines value chains determine business process , structure of business process determine design of supporting info. systems
- five force model determines
- industry structure
- competitive strategy
- cost differentiation, industry-wide, focus
- to be effective in a competitive strategy..
- an organizations goals, objectives, culture, and activities must be consistent with its strategy, info systems must facilitate its competitive strategy
- value
- amount of money a customer is willing to pay for a resource, product, or service
- margin
- difference btwn value and activity generates and cost of activity
- value chain
- a network of value creating primary and support activites
- value chain primary activites
- inbound logistics, operations/manufacturing, outbound logistics,sales and marketing, customer service
- inbound logistics
- recieving, storing, and disseminating inputs to the product
- operations/manufacturing
- transforming inputs into the final product
- customer service
- assiting customers use of the product thus maintaining and enhancing the products value
- primary activities
- business functions that relate directly to the production of an organizations products or services
- support activities
- business functions that assist and facilitate the primary activies
- supply chain
- whole process untl the end
- value chain linkages
- interactions across value activites
- maufacturing systems use linkages to
- reduce costs
- tangible costs
- can pu fixed cost in, actual price down
- intangible costs
- searching for info . that is hard to find, guess estimated cost
- information systems provide competitive advantages by
- creating a new product /service, enhancing products, differentiate them, lock in cutomers and buys, lock in supploers, reduce costs, establish alliances
- switching costs
- lock in customers by making it hard or expensive for customers to switch to another product
- client computer
- used for word processing, spreadsheets, and database access
- servers
- provide services to clients
- server farm
- large collection of coordinated servers, amazon can process 110 order items per second
- license
- right to use specified number of copies of a program, limits vendors liability
- site license
- flatt fee payment for right to isntall oftware product on all companys computers or computers at specfic site
- firmware
- computer software installed into hardware devices.. printers, communication devices, can be chagned and upgraded, installed into read-only memory
- linux
- a version of unix that was developed by the open source community
- open source commuity
- group of programmers who mostly volunteer their time to contribute code to develop and maintain linux
- linux free to run and mostly used for
- web servers
- cloud computing
- a form of hardware/software leasing in which organizations obtain server resources from vendors that specialize in server processing
- cloud comuting allows multpiple organizations to use the same computing infrastructure
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- virtualization is
- the process whereby multiple operating systems share the same hardware
- application software
- performs a service or function
- horizontal market application
- software provides capabilities common across all organizations and industries... example.. microsoft, photoshop,
- vertical market application
- software serves the needs of a specific industry
- examples of vertical market application
- programs used by dental offices to schedule appointments and bill patients
- vertical apps can be altered or customized
- horizontal is bought off the shelves
- one of a kind application
- software is developed for a specific need
- tailor made software=
- customerdeveloped software