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CH 01

1) The document discusses how information systems are transforming business through increased online commerce, social media usage, data storage laws, and changing jobs. 2) It defines an information system as interrelated components that manage information to support decision making, analysis, and product creation using data, hardware, software, and people. 3) An information system has inputs, processes, outputs, and feedback to produce useful information for an organization.

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Management Information Systems:

Managing the Digital Firm


Sixteenth Edition • Global Edition

Chapter 1
Information Systems in Global
Business Today

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How Information Systems Are
Transforming Business (1 of 2)
• By June 2018, more than 160 million businesses
worldwide had dot-com Internet sites registered
• In 2018 1.8 billion Internet users purchased online,
generating $2.9 billion
• Facebook attracted more than 2 billion monthly visitors
worldwide

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How Information Systems Are
Transforming Business (2 of 2)
• Social networking tools being used by businesses to
connect employees, customers, and managers
• Internet advertising continues to grow at more than 20
percent per year
• New laws require businesses to store more data for longer
periods
• Changes in business result in changes in jobs and careers

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Figure 1.1 Information Technology
Capital Investment

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What Is an Information System?
(1 of 3)

• Information technology: the hardware and software a


business uses to achieve objectives
• Information system: interrelated components that manage
information to:
– Support decision making and control
– Help with analysis, visualization, and product creation
• Data: streams of raw facts
• Information: data shaped into meaningful, useful form

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Figure 1.3 Data and Information

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What Is an Information System?
(2 of 3)

• Activities in an information system that produce


information:
– Input
– Processing
– Output
– Feedback
• Sharp distinction between computer or computer program
versus information system

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What is an Information System?
(3 of 3)

• Feedback
– Output is returned to appropriate members of
organization to help evaluate or correct input stage
• Computer/computer program vs. information system
– Computers and software are technical foundation and
tools, similar to the material and tools used to build a
house

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Figure 1.4 Functions of an
Information System

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Dimensions of Information Systems
• Organizations
• Management
• Technology

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Figure 1.5 Information Systems Are
More Than Computers

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Dimensions of Information Systems:
Organizations (1 of 2)
• Hierarchy of authority, responsibility
– Senior management
– Middle management
– Operational management
– Knowledge workers
– Data workers
– Production or service workers

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Figure 1.6 Levels in a Firm

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Dimensions of Information Systems:
Organizations (2 of 2)
• Separation of business functions
– Sales and marketing
– Human resources
– Finance and accounting
– Manufacturing and production
• Unique business processes
• Unique business culture
• Organizational politics

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Dimensions of Information Systems:
Management
• Managers set organizational strategy for responding to
business challenges
• In addition, managers must act creatively
– Creation of new products and services
– Occasionally re-creating the organization

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Dimensions of Information Systems:
Technology
• Computer hardware and software
• Data management technology
• Networking and telecommunications technology
– Networks, the Internet, intranets and extranets, World
Wide Web
• I T infrastructure: provides platform that system is built on

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