BUSI 1402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Computer Hardware, Insourcing, Workflow
Document Summary
Info systems (is): integrated, man/machine system for providing info to support the operations, management and decision-making functions in an organization. The system utilizes computer hardware and software, manual procedures, management and decision models and a database. Function has changed, in placed, provide some support in decision-making. Professor borje langefors introduced the infological equation: i=i(d,s,t) The design, development, management of info technologies, as well as their use by and impact on individuals, groups and organizations- or info technologies (and their specific components) that enable communication, collab, and decision making. The global economic playfield is being levelled. Ten flatteners- three forces that moved us to collab, six tools that facilitate collab, one glue to put them all together. 11/9/89 the new age of creativity: when the walls came down and the windows went up. 8/9/95 the new age of connectivity: when the web went around and netscape went public.
