ADMS 2511 Chapter Notes -Outsourcing, Visible Minority, Alternative Civilian Service
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Chapter 1: the modern organization in the global, web-based environment. Management information systems (information systems): deal with the planning for and the development, management, and use of information technology tools to help people perform all of the tasks related to information processing and management. Information technology (it): relates to any computer-based tool that people use to work with information and to support the information and information-processing needs of an organization. Organizational strategic plan: states the firm"s overall mission, the goals that follow from that mission, the broad steps necessary to reach these goals. The strategic planning process modifies the organization"s objectives and resources to meet its changing markets and opportunities. The organizational strategic plan and the existing it architecture provide the inputs in developing the it strategic plan. It strategic plan: set of long-rang e goals that describe the it infrastructure and identify the major it initiatives needed to achieve the organization"s goals.