COB 204 Lecture 1: week 1

• School: JMU
• Department: College of Business
• Course: COB 204
• Professor: johnkarabelas

Document Summary

Information technology (it): refers to any computer based tool that people use to work with information and to support the information and information processing needs of an organization. Information system (is): collects, processes, stores, analyzes, and disseminates information for a specific purpose. Informed user: a person knowledgeable about information systems and information technology. Future business professionals: assess, evaluate, apply - emerging information technology to business. Moore"s law: data storage & communications costs = 0. Mis: development and use of information systems that help businesses achieve their goals and objectives. Automation moves work from human side to computer side. **people most difficult to change, used to old ways; also most important. It = hardware + software + data.