ITM 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Spring Break, Information System, Business Process

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Chapter 1 it for business and business and business professionals. Why is matters: knowledge work involves discover, analysis, transformation, synthesis, and communication of data, information, and knowledge. Information system (is) is an organized collection of people, information, business processes, and it, designed to transform inputs into outputs, in order to achieve a goal. Input is items entered into a system to transform them into outputs (ex. Entering email address into your contact list: process is a series of one or more steps used by a business to transform inputs into outputs (ex. Save to contact database: output is the end result of a process (ex. Alphabetical list of friends and their contact information: data is raw, unorganized facts (ex. People who might go to a trip during spring break) Information is processed/organized/transformed data that are useful (ex. Confirmed list of people going to trip during spring break: knowledge is information plus human experience and judgment (ex.