ITM 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Information System, Management Information System, Operations Management

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 102
• Professor: Franklyn Prescod

Document Summary

Information systems" impact on business operations: business functions receive the greatest benefits from information systems. Information technology plays a critical role in deploying/organizing such initiatives by facilitating communication and increasing business intelligence. For example instant messaging allows people across an organization to communicate. To understand information systems, it"s important to understand how business functions and information systems role creates effectiveness in organizations. Each area has its own specific business function. Accounting marketing operations management human resources production. Management finance sales management information systems. All departments must work together and share information to work efficiently. Information systems to produce information: data is raw information used to describe a characteristic. Information is when that data is converted into a meaningful context. Is personnel have the technological expertise: this typically causes a communications gap between the business personnel and is personnel, four kinds of information cultures , information-functional = use it as a form of power over others.