ITM 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Chief Information Officer, Wireless Internet Service Provider, Supply Chain Management Software

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 102
• Professor: Shavin Malhotra

Document Summary

Functional organization - each functional area has its own systems and communicates with every other functional area. Information systems (is) - are computer based tools that people use to work with information and that support the information and information- processing needs of an organization. Information technology (it) - is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual, and numerical information by a micro electronics based combination of computing and telecommunications. Management information systems (mis) - is the function that plans for, develops, implements, and maintains it hardware, software, and applications that people use to support the goals of an organization. Data are raw facts that describe the characteristics of an object or event. Characteristics for a sales event could include the date, item number, item description, quantity ordered, customer name, and shipping details. Information is data converted into meaningful and useful context. Information from sales events could include best-selling item, worst-selling item, best customer, and worst customer.