COMM 190 Study Guide - Cost Accounting, Content Management System, Switching Barriers
23 Oct 2013
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Information system: a group of components that interact to produce information. Five-component framework: computer hardware, software (applications), data, procedures, people. Management information system: the development and use of information systems that help businesses achieve their goals and objectives: development and use, business goals and objectives. Q4 how important are is to our economy. Information and communications technologies sector: the industry sector most closely related to the use of information systems in canada. Big supplier of jobs service industry growing. Core skills: technical, specific technology and industry, and satisfactory communications and other business skills. Q6 what is the shape of things to come. Moore"s law: predicts that the number of transistors on a computer chip would double roughly every two years. Business process: a network of activities, resources, facilities, and information that interact to achieve some business objective (business system: manufacturing process, sales process, customer-support process. Activities: transform resources and information of one type into resources and information of another type.
