Chapter 1 Flashcards
(44 cards)
People who spend most of their workday creating, using, and distributing information
Knowledge workers
Information systems support an organization’s business processes, operations, decision-making,
and strategies for competitive advantage
Roles of IS in business
Using IT to reengineer business processes to
support e-business operations.
Support of business processes
and operations
Using Web-based decision support systems to support sales managers.
Support of business decision
making
Using information technology for e-commerce to gain a strategic advantage over competitors.
Support of strategies for
competitive advantage
A system that uses people, hardware, software, and network resources to collect, transform, and disseminate information within an organization.
Information Systek
An information system that uses computers and their hardware and software.
Computer-based information system
Anyone who uses an information system or the information it produces
End-users
Applications using the Internet, corporate
intranets, and inter-organizational extranets for e-business operations, e-commerce, and enterprise
collaboration.
E-business applications
The buying, selling, marketing, and servicing of products over the Internet and other networks.
E-commerce
Groupware tools to support collaboration among networked teams.
Enterprise collaboration
systems
A group of interrelated components with a clearly defined boundary working together toward the attainment of a common goal.
Systems
Data about a system’s performance.
Feedback
- Making adjustments to a system’s components so that it operates properly.
Control
Facts or observations.
Data
Data that have been placed into a meaningful
context for an end user.
Information
Converting data into information is a type of this kind of activity
Information system
activities
An information system uses people, hardware, software, network, and data resources to perform input, processing, output, storage, and control activities that transform data resources into information products.
Information system model
Machines and media
Hardware resources
Computers, disk drives, video monitors, and
printers are examples
Machines
Magnetic disks, optical disks, and paper forms are examples.
Media
Programs and procedures
Software resources
A set of instructions for a computer.
Programs
A set of instructions for people.
Procedures