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Why is it important for us IS users that we understand fundamental concepts of IS?
Can communicate with the techies
Can make educated IS-related decisions
Understand what different types of IS are capable of doing
Understand fundamental concepts related to IS
Basic automated
Voicemail, doors opening
Process automation
Payment is part of the process to get something and Star Gps
Intelligence automation
capable of learning changes overtime like AI, Spell check and writing ahead of you
Automation and artificial intelligence are changing the nature of work.
Demand for basic digital skills, Demand for advanced technological skills such as programming, Demand for social and emotional skills such as leadership, managing others, initiative taking
Useful information systems
process raw data from many different sources in an attempt to convert those relatively meaningless bits of data into useful information and knowledge
Data
Raw symbols
Information
Formatted, organized, and processed data
Knowledge
Information mash-ups
IS consist of three things
IT, data and people
Information Technology (IT)
Hardware, software, and networking components of an information system
Data
Raw symbols, such as words and numbers, which have no meaning in and of themselves and are of little value until processed
People
Builders, managers, and users of information systems
BYOD
Bring your own device, Which of the following statements are false: BYOD its when your allowed to use companies computing devices at work and at home
Which of the following statements about the internet of things is false
There are many challenges of connecting to business of the internet of things and its means their is complete security over all the internet things
IT Code of Ethics
Standards of conduct pertaining to the use of IT/IS and information resources: Privacy, Accuracy, Property, Accessibility
Internet of things and things connect to the internet
are possible because of GPS and technology that let you track things and allow you to communicate with any device. What does it refer to, how is it made possible, case scenarios, like tracking supplies and devices that connect to our homes
Outsourcing
Recruiting from different places and then they ship it off to where it is needed
Offshoring
Where you move part of your company abroad but you still run the operation yourself
Open Sourcing
Where a bunch of strangers get together to achieve something like wikipedia
Supply-chain
It has something to do with raw material and collaboration with raw materials and the delivery of final products to customers
Insourcing
Like outsourcing but you will be able to shorten the time it takes to complete certain business process
Informing
Where I collaborate with search engines to get myself informed to get
Outsourcing
is where they move business or task to another country which is false
Supply chain
refers to the use of technology to improve operations efficiency of the supply chain process is true
Insoucring
is when organizations hires another company to help them handle internal logicalist and bypass certain stuff which is true
The operational level
is very straightforward, faster cheaper and automate with greater accuracy
Managerial level
we need IS to help middle manager about organizational learning and make sure they are used effectively of the resource
Executive level
strategic planning that will increase profit
Point of sales systems is considered a information system at an operational level
True
Automation is the main public system at an operational level
True
Organizational learning and strategic learning are the main purpose of IS use the managerial level and executive level
True
information systems are suppose to help organizations are suppose to help do things at organizational level and smarter at the executive level
True
The object of is use of the operational level is to improve the organizational effectiveness and the is to improve its efficiency
False
Process requirements
The organization has to eliminate process inefficiencies before implementing innovative IS.
Paid inclusion
has nothing to do with what is being searched
Search marketing is increasing a markets visibility in search result
True
Search engine optimization is used to improve website opportunities
True
Paid inclusions has to do with what is being searched
False
Paid search It's a way to ensure that a link for your company's page appears on the first head that users see when searching for specific term
True
Model of the package model of web advertising you would say
pay-per-click
Self sufficient
with redundant or backup power supplies redundant data communications connections environmental control
Modular
so as to be easily expandable, and want to use this approach when you design the resources you need, in the future if it grows then you add more
Which of the following is not a competent of is infrastructure
Appliaton SW
System SW
Operating system
Middleware
Appliaton SW
Why do we normalize data?
And what do we want to achieve and the goal of data organization and we streamline it till it cannot
If you would like to innovate you need to be what?
willing to change and you have to be willing to give up your old ways. Also when you introduce IS you have to process requirements and have to learn
What is necessary to do when creating a product?
Put technology ahead of strategies and marketing and it's all about developing IT products and you look at existing technology and see what we will need in five to ten years and have to ask yourself how this technology will help you look forward. Strategy is how this can help your company and can be on anything
Invest approach
when it comes to IS invest there are two business/ IT alignment and strategic necessary, if i have multiple I'S and don't have enough resources you have to prioritize what is necessary and without being able to execute a business alignment and helps you do day by day operations
IS
an asset, it is important to invest in them wisely. The goal is to maximize business/IT alignment. that is considered as strategic necessity will not help improve competitive advantage
Business model enabled by
IT and IS, platform base is where others can share for free or with a fee
Freeconomics
something is offer for free but someone else is paying for it and then you ask which of the following is not an example of freeconomics
Digital business transformation
is where IT and IS is used to robust a business model and is aligned with digitize customer experience. What is it
What is not the example of business digital transformation and when it comes to that its not about using IT to support business process
ITS about not the use of IT and starbucks using POT is not an example and its how we use it to support the system
What does disintermediation mean?
Cutting out the middleman
Search marketing
is a practice of improving companies visibility in search results we can use search advertising and web advertising and paid search, were the ad will rely on keywords and search engine optimization, we do what we can do
The ingredient of search engine
optimization, to make sure your at the top of the search engine
Pricing model of web advertising
we need to know the basic pricing model cost per thousand, pay per click
Use automated fraud screening services that provide a risk score based on
Email address, Shipping and billing addresses, IP address, Transaction pattern
Taxation on internet sales
Technology that companies in the entertainment industry use to stop sharing and have digital watermark which can be traced back to the original purchaser
Technology that enable social media, and have three characteristics:
interactive, participatory and mixable for further research development and make it possible to mix and match services
Groupware:
tools that help with synchronization communication
Enterprise social networking
use to enhance discussion and knowledge sharing and each connect with people outside of your company and is empowered by webtool companies
Collective intelligence and wisdom of the crowds is
that many heads are better than one head
Example of collective intelligence and identify the one that has nothing to do with the collective intelligence.
Examples is layʻs that can put together flavors but because their ideas are limited they ask the public for help and they put together a website that allows them to collect ideas and on their
Mountain dew collaborated with four thousand fans to come up with new dew flavor is an example of collective intelligence
What data normalization
Data dictionary
Entity- relationship modeling
Primary key and foreign key
Component of data infrastructure: what are they
Hardware/ metaware
System software/ operating system
Storage
Telecommunications network
Data center
Data center must be
self sufficient and modular so it is easily expandable
storage and why we need to archive certain business documents
because we need to comply with sarbanes oxley act
Service model of cloud computing
Software of a service is like canva and you are given set of features and function
Platform as a service is renting computing resources and its all about infrastructure
Cloud computing model
is where we get access to storage and processing power and data and online services and where you rent as you need and pay as you use and has something to do with IT and IS
The service you can get can be scaled up and down and
Green computing
Making sure to dispose your computer batteries correctly
integration
web site that can be linked to corporate database to provide real tine access to personalized information
mass customization
firms can tailor their products and services to meet a custimers needs
global information dissemination
Operational Level
Carry out day-to-day business processes (repetitive)
Interact with customers, IS use Automate the processes to improve efficiency and optimize performance, i.e., complete a task FASTER, more cheaply and with greater accuracy
Managerial Level
Monitor and control operational-level activities within a business function Ensure effective utilization of resources, Decisions are semi-structured. Solutions and problems are not clear-cut and often require judgement and expertise and Facilitate the assessment of progress toward Key Performance Indicators to learn about things that can be done BETTER to improve organizational effectiveness
Executive Level
Focus on long-term strategic questions, e.g., decision to develop new products/services or discontinue existing ones, Unstructured and complex with non-routine problems and long-term ramifications, Obtain aggregate summaries of future trends and projections, Consolidate KPIs across organization and use them to benchmark organization’s performance against rivals, Take into account data related to global economic factors, demographic changes, and changing customer preferences, Help plan organizational strategy that enables organizations to compete in a SMARTER way