COM 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Thomas Watson Jr., Management Information System
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A group of components that interact to produce information. Information systems is an academic study of systems with a specific reference to information and the complementary networks of hardware and software that people, and organizations use to collect, filter, process, create and also distribute data. The importance of information systems (cid:862)all the (cid:448)alue of this (cid:272)o(cid:373)pa(cid:374)(cid:455) is i(cid:374) its people. If (cid:455)ou (cid:271)ur(cid:374)ed do(cid:449)(cid:374) all our pla(cid:374)ts, and we just kept out people and our information files, we should soon be as stro(cid:374)g as e(cid:448)er. (cid:863) ~ tho(cid:373)as watso(cid:374) jr. Also known as management information systems (mis), computer. Information systems (cis), information technology (it), or information and. The business of moving data information knowledge. We are interested in systems that work in any size organization. We are also (cid:374)ot li(cid:373)ited to (cid:862)(cid:271)usi(cid:374)ess organizations,(cid:863) rather a(cid:374)(cid:455) orga(cid:374)ized group of people. Computers, servers, calculators, things with processor chips. Databases, memory devices, rfid chips, bar codes.