- A general name for the business function and academic discipline covering the application of people, technologies, and procedures to solve business problems.
- MIS is a business function, similar to Accounting, Finance, Operations, and Human Resources
- When beginning to learn about information technology it is important to understand
- Data, information, and business intelligence IT resources
- IT culturesD
Information
- Data - raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event
- Information - data converted into a meaningful and useful context
- Business Intelligence - applications and technologies that are used to support decision-making efforts
Data Turned Into Information
Information Turned Into Business Intelligence
IT Resources
IT Cultures
- Organizational information cultures include :
- Information-Functional Culture - Employees use information as a means of exercising influence or power over others. For example, a manager in sales refuses to share information with marketing. This causes marketing to need the sales manager's input each time a new sales strategy is developed.
- Information-Sharing Culture - Employees across departments trust each other to use information (especially about problems and failures) to improve performance.
- Information-Inquiring Culture - Employees across departments search for information to better understand the future and align themselves with current trends and new directions.
- Information-Discovery Culture - Employees across departments are open to new insights about crisis and radical changes and seek ways to create competitive advantages.
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HAPPY LEARNING GAISSS ^^
