ITM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Item Number, Microelectronics, P21

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 102
• Professor: Ozgur Turetken

Document Summary

Information systems are computer based tools that people use to work with information and that support the information/information processing needs of an organization. Information technology (it) is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics based combination of computing and telecommunications. Management information systems (mis) is the function that plans for, develops, implements and maintains is software to support the goals of an organization. Data are raw facts that describe the characteristics of an object or event. Date, item number, item description, quantity ordered, customer name, shipment details. Student to professor ratio, percentage of marketing majors who are female, number of students who pass the course. If you were building a system to track inventory: Data might include chair manufacturer, chair colour, and chair size. Information might include number of chairs required for students in each class, average number of chairs needed to be replaced each semester.