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| Describes how a company produces, delivers and sells a product or service to create wealth. |
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| set of interrelated components that collect (or retrieve), process, store, and distribute information to support decision making, coordinating and control in an organization. |
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| data that have been shaped into a form that is meaningful and useful to human beings. |
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| Streams of raw facts representing events occuring in organizations or the physical environment before they have been organized and arranged into a form that people can understand and use. |
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| Captures or collects raw data from within the organization or from its external environment. |
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| Converts raw input into a meaningful form. |
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| transfers the processed information to the people who will use it or to the activities for which it will be used. |
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| Output that is returned to appropriate memebers of the organization to help them evaluate or correct the input stage. |
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| Information Systems Literacy |
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| encompasses an understanding of the people and organizational dimensions of systems as well as the techinical dimensions of systems. Includes a behavioral as well as a technical approach to studying information systems. |
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| Focuses primarily on knowledge of information technology. |
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| Management Information Systems (MIS) |
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| deals with behavioral issues as well as technical issues surrounding the development, use, and impact of information systems used by managers and employees in a firm. |
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| logically related tasks and behaviors for accomplishing work. |
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| Fundamental set of assumptions, values, and ways of doing things, that has been accepted by most of its members. |
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| phsyical equipment used for input, processing and output activities in an information system. |
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| consists of the detailed, preprogrammed instructions that control and cordinate the computer hardware components in an information system. |
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| Data Management Technology |
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| consists of the software governing the organization of data on physical storage media. |
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| Networking and Telecommunications Technology |
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| consisting of both physical devices and software, links the various pieces of hardware and transfers data from one physical location to another. |
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| Links two or more computers to share data or resources, such as a printer. |
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| global "networks of networks" that uses universal standards to connect millions of different networks in nearly 200 countries around the world. |
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| Internal corporate networks based on Internet technology. |
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Private intranets extended to authorized users outside the organization.
Firms use to cordinate their activies with other firms or making purchases, collaborating on design, and performing other interoragnizations. |
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| service provided by teh Internet that uses universally accepted standards for storing, retreiving, formatting, and displaying information in a page format on the internet. |
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| Information Technology Infrastructure |
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| provides the foundation or platform on which the firm can build its specific information systems. |
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| refers to the many techniques used to bring about successful change in a business. |
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| sustained suspensions of judgement with an awareness of multiple perspectives and alternatives. |
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