ZBUS2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Organized Crime, Endangerment, Human Resource Management
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Week 1: introduction to information systems (chapter 1 p. g. Information system (is) a collection of processes, stores, data, people and procedures that all work together to produce quality information. Firms become hostage" to is, cant operate without it. Due to computers being located in all departments rather than mis only, its resulted in mis main role using it to solve end users business problems. Responsibility of managing information resources is now divided between mis and end users. Computer based information systems (cbis): an is that uses computer technology to preform all or some of its intended tasks. (most is are cbis/term is often interchangeable) It components shows how these four components interact to form a cbis: hardware: is a drive such as a processor, monitor, keyboard. Information data that has been organized so that they have meaning and value to the recipient.
