ADMS 3930 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Free Trade Area Of The Americas, Bell Canada, Waste Treatment

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 3930
• Professor: Martin Stephanie

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London has the worst traffic in europe. Prediction that every 18 months, the cost of computing will drop by 50 percent as computer- processing power doubles. Differentiate a product or service from competitors. Using information to sustain a competitive advantage. After reading the next two sections, you should be able to: explain the basics of capturing, processing, and protecting information, describe how companies can share and access information and knowledge. Advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of data storage devices. Transforming raw data into meaningful information that can be used in decision making. Process of discovering unknown patterns and relationships in large amounts of data. Process of insuring that data are reliably and consistently retrievable for authorized users only. Security threats to data and data networks. Uses internal and external sources of data. Used to monitor and analyze organizational performance. Must be easy to use and must provide information that managers want and need.