RMG 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Information Processing, Cloud Computing, Apple Music

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Retail Management
• Course: RMG 300
• Professor: Norman Shaw

Document Summary

The transformative power of it as a disruptor. Focuses on it and its disruptions throughout the retail industry. It can transform, it can disrupt: example: the wheel was transformative, canals were used to bring product to the city (london), camden market was at the end of a canal. Consisted of vendors who had stables for the horses, horses and carriages transported merchandise. Until the invention of the car disrupted this. Definition of a system: a connected bunch of parts that forms a whole, set of procedures to complete an activity, an organized scheme, computers are not necessary, but they do help. Computers can help with speed, organizing, automation, analysis and delegation of tasks: example: a calendar, your heart. A(cid:374) i(cid:374)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374) s(cid:455)ste(cid:373) is : any computer based tool that people use to work with information that supports: Information processing: does(cid:374)"t have to (cid:271)e (cid:272)o(cid:373)puter (cid:271)ased (cid:271)ut i(cid:374) the (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)t of retail it usuall(cid:455) is.