BUS 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intranet, Intellectual Capital, Proquest Dialog
Document Summary
United parcel service (ups) is the largest package delivery company in the world. Integrated data collection and management system that incorporates all levels of services, both global and domestic, in one pickup and delivery system. Facts or recorded measures of certain phenomena (things or events) Data formatted (structured) to support decision making or define the relationship between two facts. The subset of data and information that actually has some explanatory power enabling effective decisions to be made. Reflects how pertinent these particular facts are to the situation at hand. Degree to which data represent the true situation. Data are current enough to still be relevant. Radio frequency identification (rfid) tags track the whereabouts of virtually all kinds of products big and small. U. s. military uses them, but so do businesses. Walmart is pushing suppliers to adopt the technology. A blend of previous experience, insight, and data that forms organizational memory.
