ADM 2372 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Electronic Waste, Cost Accounting, Performance Indicator

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 2372
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Information systems (is): computer based tools that people use to work with information and that support the information and information-processing needs of an organization: represents business success and innovation. Information technology (it): acquisition, processing, storage, and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual, and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications. Is resources: people, processes, information systems, information. Information culture: information functional culture, information sharing culture, information inquiring culture, information discovery culture. Designs processes and is to make it easy to use and reuse knowledge: encourage employees to keep information up to date, improve bottom line by making it easier for new employees. The biggest problem nowadays is the lack of communication between the business personnel and the it personnel. The terms that the it personnel use are unknown to business personnel. We must improve these communications, by increasing the average business person"s knowledge of is.