BUS 237 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Database, Business Process, Record Locking
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Lecture 1 stimulus - response customer request - ship product supplier shipment - update inventory management directive - create committee information about competitor - develop new marketing. Productivity, innovation, and strategy the productivity paradox - the increase in investment in information technology combined with small changes in worker productivity productivity. It allows a company to make either more output from the same inputs, and/or make better output and/or to make the output faster than before the technology. Five general activities inbound logistics: operations, outbound logistics, marketing and sales, service, each of these activities add cost and value support activities - indirectly responsible for benefits to customers. Types of networks: computer network - a collection of computers that communicate with one another over transmission media three basic types: local area network, wide area network, really, really large network (internet) What is an information system: system group of components that interact to achieve some purpose.