INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY

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INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY
(Week 1, Thursday 1/11/2007)
BUS3500 - Abdou Illia, Spring 2007
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LEARNING GOALS

• Describe major characteristics of digital world
• Explain difference between data an information
• Identify main components of information systems
• Describe kinds of information systems.
• Describe ethics and the ethical problems posed by
  the digital world.

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Introducing Stan BRJ

• Stan L. lives and works in a digital world
• Digital house
• Digital paper
• Portable, digital communications everywhere
• Stan owns BRJ Consulting
• Completely digital company
• No offices
• Stan and BRJ have a new client the Bead Bar

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Introducing the Bead Bar

• Founded in 1998 by Meredith S.
• Create your own bead jewelry
• Bead Bar provides
• Beads
• Wire
• String
• Customer designs and constructs product with Bead
  Bar materials and instruction
• Three divisions
• Studios six
• Franchises five
• Bead Bar on Board
• 15 full-time employees and 20 part-time
• 1.5M annual revenues

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Data versus Information

• Data raw facts
• Temperature 75 F
• Information facts within a given context
• The temperature at midnight in Times Square, NYC
  was 75 F

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The Value of Information

• Accuracy (Is information correct? Can we rely on
  it?)
• Timeliness (How current is the information?)
• Accessibility (Can the information be accessed
  when needed?)
• Engagement (Is the information capable of
  affecting a decision?)
• Application (Is the information relevant to the
  current context?)
• Rarity (Is the information previously known?)

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Information Systems

• A set of interrelated information technologies
  that work together to collect, store, process,
  and distribute information
• Major components of information systems
• Hardware (physical parts of a computer or other
  computing devices)
• Software (Instructions that tell hardware what to
  do)
• Databases (Software that enables
  storage/retrieval of data)
• Networks (Computing devices that communicate with
  each other)
• People

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Information Systems in Organizations

• An organization is an administrative and
  functional structure applied to people working
  toward a specific goal.
• Understanding the organizations IT needs means
  understanding the administrative and functional
  structure.
• Hierarchical
• Matrix
• Other

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Administrative Information Systems

• Transaction Processing Systems (TPS)
• Office Automation Systems (OAS)
• Knowledge Work Systems (KWS)
• Management Information Systems (MIS)
• Decision Support Systems (DSS)
• Executive Information Systems (EIS)
• InterOrganizational Systems (IOS)

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Functional Information Systems

• Finance and Accounting Systems
• Marketing and Sales Systems
• Manufacturing and Operations Systems
• Human Resources Management Systems

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Types of Information Systems
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Interaction of Administrative and Functional IS
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Working in the Digital World

• The digital world caused major changes in
  business and in the ways individuals work.
• Creation of knowledge workers
• People who create new knowledge or modify
  existing knowledge
• Mental not physical
• Advanced education
• College degree
• Professional certifications MCSA
• Telecommuting working from home or other remote
  location

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Ethics in the Digital World

• Ethics
• A set of principles of right conduct
• The rules or standards governing the conduct of a
  person or the members of a profession
• Ethical is not always the same as legal.
• Ethics in the digital world are confusing.
• Legal system has not kept pace with the
  technology developments.

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Major Ethical Issues in the Digital World

• Privacy
• Identify theft
• Sale of confidential personal information
• Intellectual Property
• Old Napster
• Freedom of Speech

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Bead Bar Exercise 1

• Visit the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Web
  site at www.uspto.gov. Using the Basic Form
  Search, research the availability of the Bead Bar
  trademark. How many trademarks that include the
  name Bead Bar are currently registered or are in
  process at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office?
  Check the status of one of the trademarks that
  appeared called NANTUCKET BEADBAR and mention its
  current status and filling date. For the Bead Bar
  company described in your textbook, search for a
  trademark not registered or being process with
  the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. What
  available trademark did you find?

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Summary Questions
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Summary Questions (cont.)
Rate 10/hourHours 45
Mrs. Johnsons weekly salary is 450.
WS numeric variableWS 10 45

• Given the illustration above, what could be an
  information?
• Rate 10/hour
• Mrs. Johnsons weekly salary is 450
• WS 10 45
• The accuracy of an information could be affected
  by the accuracy of the input data? T F

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Information system vs. Information Technology
Information System
Information Technologies
Information