Understanding Information Systems and Technology

- Where data are raw unformatted symbols or lists of words or numbers, information is data that has been organized in a form that is useful.

-Information systems are described as the combination of people and information technology that create, collect, process, store, and distribute useful data.

- Other terms that can be used to represent the knowledge society include all of them

- Which of the following was not discussed as a common type or category of information system used in organizations? Web graphics

-What is meant by BYOD? The use of personal devices and applications for work-related purposes

-A website asking for your permission to send you a weekly newsletter is an example of opt-in

- Which of the following is not considered an intellectual property violation? All of the above are considered intellectual property violations

-Being computer literate, or knowing how to use the computer as a device to gather, store, organize, and process information, can open up myriad sources of information

- Information: data that has been formatted in a way that is useful

- Internet of Things: a network of a broad range of physical objects that can automatically share data.

- Information system: a combination of people and information technology that create, collect, process, store.

- Info privacy: an area concerned with what information an individual should have to reveal.

- Computer fluency: the ability to independently learn new technologies as they emerge.

- Globalization: integration of economies around the world enabled by innovation and new technology

- Outsourcing: the moving of routine jobs or tasks to people in another firm

- Digital divide: the gap between those individuals in society who are computer.

- Intellectual property: creations of the mind that have commercial value

- Computer ethics: the issues and standards of conduct as they pertain to the use of information systems.

- Automating

- Radical innovation

- Increasing operating cost

- Competitive advantage-being the subject of hostile takeover

- Innovation

- Disruptive innovation cycle

- Affiliate marketing

- Managerial

- Structured

- Value chain analysis: the process of analyzing an organization's

- Freemium: an economic system in which assets or services are shared between

- Managerial level: the middle-level functional managers focus on motion and controlling

- Value chain: the set of primary and support activities

- Disruptive innovations cycle: a model suggesting that the extent to which modern org

- Sharing economy: giving away limited versions of digital products.

- Platform: a business model that enables other businesses and users to co-create value

- Open innovation: innovation that uses markedly new or different tech to provide greater benefits

- Radical innovation: the process of integrating external stakeholders

- Operational level: bottom-level, day-to-day

- Excepts: applications

- Not a consequence of lack of availability: loss of managerial oversight

- Workstations: engineering drawings

- Magnetic tape: archiving data

- TCP/IP