MIS 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Network Management, Scope Creep, Database Administrator

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Management Info Systems Main
• Course: MIS 111
• Professor: ALL

Document Summary

January 10th (first class beginning of module 1) Mis is: finance, accounting, security, convenience, privacy, and personal safety. Scope creep: technology leading to unintended consequences. Is professionals: 1. create solutions 2. focus on customer and business needs. Specialities include: project management, business analyst, network management, database administrator, website designer, security analyst. Is professionals solve real problems for real people. Design perceptive: people human factors: understandability, capability, cost of knowledge acquisition, and acceptance. Design perspective: process design factors: algorithm, parameters, complexity, accuracy. Design perspective: technology system factors: operational accuracy, implementation and operating costs, technical feasibility, complexity/interdependence. Legal issues: 1. codified for a segment of society 2. sometimes has a definitive answer 3. determination is made by others (not you) Ethical issues: 1. determined by a person, society, or group 2. sometimes have a definitive answer 3. Legal doesn"t always equal ethical and vice versa. Ethical drift people drift slowly from good to bad.