ITM 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Internet Service Provider, Wide Area Network

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 100
• Professor: Ron Babin

Document Summary

Midterm chaps 1-5/tech guide a,b, c, e. Knowledge-enabled professional - a person who uses information, information systems, and information technology to create business value for organizations. Knowledge work - the intellectual activity that people perform on data, information and knowledge to discover business opportunities. It involves discovery, analysis, transformation, synthesis, and communication. Explicit knowledge - knowledge that is already codified (textbook) Tacit knowledge - knowledge gained through experience, insight and discovery/experience of others. Information system - an organized collection of people, information, business processes, and information technology designed to transform inputs into outputs to achieve a goal. Businesses use information systems to leverage human ability to achieve business goals through the timely and appropriate application of technology, and the timely delivery of appropriate and useful data, information and knowledge. The physical components, typically hardware, software and connectivity, that makes up an is. Technology enables processes to perform the steps they were designed to accomplish.