BUS 237 Study Guide - Business Process, Information System, Statistic

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 237
• Professor: Kamal Masri

Document Summary

Business processes are central to what every organization does. That is why understanding business processes is critical to understanding the information systems that support them. Business process: a network of activities, resources, facilities, and information that interact to achieve some business objective. Business process: describes a set of activates, that are necessary to complete a response to a stimulus applied to an organization. ---- a business process is a system, which is sometimes also referred to as a business system. In this book, we will use the term business process. Example of inventory-management process how information system support business process . ---- understanding, modeling, and redesigning business processes are a big part of what business analysts do. A business process consists of activities, resources, facilities, and information. Activities: transform resources and information of one type into resources and information of another type. : milk, working people, cheque, the customer cash.