(C1) Business Driven Technology

What will you learn at the end of the chapter?

  • Compare Management Information Systems (MIS) & Information Technology (IT)
  • Relationship among people, information technology and information
  • Identify 4 different department in a typical business and explain how technology helps them work together
  • Compare 4 types of organizational information cultures
What are the business functions (departments) that receive the greatest benefits from information technology

Business Driven Technology


* IT department is responsible for performing the MIS = Accounting Department is reponsible for performing the accounts payable and accounts receivable functions

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BASIS

Data - raw facts describing the charcteristic of an event, e.g. name, phone number, id number

Information - data converted into a meaningful (HELPS IN DESICION MAKING) and useful context, data mining; digging out the information

Business intelligence - applications and technologies that are used to support-decision making efforts


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