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Title: MIS625
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MIS625
- IS Strategy Planning
- Introduction
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Information
- Definitions of information
- Processed data For some this yields a hierarchy
of data ? information ? knowledge ? wisdom - The reduction of uncertainty Does information
convey meaning? - Knowledge communicated concerning some particular
fact, subject, or event That which is
communicated
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Semiotics
- Theory of signs Communication takes place by
means of signs - Levels of communication
- The content and purpose of communication
- Pragmatics intentions
- Semantics meanings
- The form and means of communication
- Syntactics formalisms
- Empirics signals and codes
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Information redux
- Information is a bizarre word Does it refer to
a product or a process? - Consider other words that end in tion
- Instruction product and process
- Pollution
- Contribution
- What meaning is lost because information only
refers to a product?
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Technology
- Technology is another bizarre word Its original
meaning is the study of techne - Is technology a noun that refers to an object? Or
a category of objects? - Technology is concerned with the invention,
development, and cognitive deployment of tools
and other artifacts, brought to bear on raw
materials and other stock parts, with a view to
the resolution of perceived problems. - Hickman
2001 - Information technology may use information and
information products as inputs and outputs. - Key features of this definition are goal
orientation, human involvement through the
application of learned techniques, and design and
use of tools and techniques
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What is Strategy?
- Etymology - strategy
- 1810, "art of a general," from Fr. stratégie,
from Gk. strategia "office or command of a
general," from strategos "general," from stratos
"multitude, army, expedition," lit. "that which
is spread out" (see structure) agos "leader,"
from agein "to lead" (see act). Strategic
"pertaining to strategy" is from 1825.
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What is Strategy?
- a. The science and art of using all the forces
of a nation to execute approved plans as
effectively as possible during peace or war. - b. The science and art of military command as
applied to the overall planning and conduct of
large-scale combat operations. - A plan of action resulting from strategy or
intended to accomplish a specific goal. See
Synonyms at plan - The art or skill of using stratagems in endeavors
such as politics and business.
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