MIS 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Management Information System, Transaction Processing System, E-Commerce

• School: Iowa State University
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 301
• Professor: John Beard

Document Summary

Homo conexus generation - information technologies are so deeply embedded in our lives that our daily routines would be unrecognizable to a college student 20 years ago. Managing systems development and systems project management. Managing computer operations, including a computer center. Initiating and designing specific strategic information systems. Decide which strategic systems you need - provide input into developing these systems. Incorporating the internet and electronic commerce into the business. Managing system integration including the internet, intranets, and extranets. Proactively using business and technical knowledge to seed innovative ideas about it. Data items: refer to an elementary description of things, events, activities, and transactions that are recorded, classified, and stored but are not organized to convey any specific meaning. Can be numbers, letters, figures, sounds, and images. Information: refers to data that have been organized so that they have meaning and value to the recipient.