Mis Flashcards For Exam 1

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Business functions

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Specialized tasks performed in a business organization, including manufacturing and production, sales and marketing, finance and accounting, and human resources.

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Business model

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An abstraction of what an enterprise is and how the enterprise delivers a product or service, showing how the enterprise creates wealth.

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Business processes

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The unique ways in which organizations coordinate and organize work activities, information and knowledge to produce a product or service.

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Complementary assets

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Additional assets required to derive value from a primary investment.

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Computer hardware

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Physical equipment use for input, processing, and output activities in an information system.

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Computer literacy

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Knowledge about information technology, focusing on understanding of how computer-based technologies work.

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Computer software

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Detailed, preprogrammed instructions that control and coordinate the work of computer hardware components in an information system.

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Culture

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The set of fundamental assumptions about what products the organization should produce, how and where it should produce them, and for whom they should be produced.

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Data

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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.

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Data management technology

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The software governing the organization of data on physical storage media.

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Data workers

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People such as secretaries or bookkeepers who process the organization's paperwork

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Digital firm

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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.

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Extranets

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Private intranet that is accessible to authorized outsiders.

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Feedback

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Output that is returned to the appropriate members of the organization to help them evaluate or correct input.

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Information

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Data that have been shaped into a form that is meaningful and useful to human beings.

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Information system

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Interrelated components working together to collect, process, store and disseminate information to support decision making, coordination, control, analysis, and visualization in an organization.

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Information systems literacy

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Broad-based understanding of information systems that includes behavioral knowledge about organizations and individuals using information systems as well as technical knowledge about computers.

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Information Technology (IT)

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All the hardware and software technologies a firm needs to achieve its business objectives

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Information technology (IT) infrastructure

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Computer hardware, software, data, storage technology, and networks providing a portfolio of shared IT resources for the organization.

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Input

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The capture or collection of raw data from whitin the organization or from its external environment for processing in an information system.

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Internet

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Global network of networks using universal standards to connect millions of different networks

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Intranets

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An internal network based on Internet and World Wide Web technology and standards

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Knowledge workers

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People such as engineers or architects who design products or services and create knowledge for the organization.

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Management information systems (MIS)

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The study of information systems focusing on their use in business and management.

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Middle management

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People in the middle of the organizational hierarchy who are responsible for carrying out the plans and goals of senior management.

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Network

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The linking of two or more computers to share data or resources, such as a printer.

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Networking and telecommunications technology

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Physical devices and software that link various computer hardware components and transfer data from one physical location to another.

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Operational management

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People who monitor the day-to-day activities of the organization.

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Organizational and management capital

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Investments in organization and management such as new business processes, management behavior, organizational culture or training.

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Output

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The distribution of processed information to the people who will use it or to the activities for which it will be used.

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Processing

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The conversion, manipulation, and analysis of raw input into a form that is more meaningful to humans

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Production or service workers

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People who actually produce the products or services of the organization

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Senior management

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People occupying the topmost hierarchy in an organization who are responsible for making long-range decisions.

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Sociotechnical view

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Seeing systems as composed of both technical and social elements

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World Wide Web

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A system with universally accepted standards for storing, retrieving, formatting, and displaying information in a networked environment.