NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: United Parcel Service, Sociotechnical System, Computer Hardware
26 Sep 2016
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Nov 20th - comp lecture slides - computers & business. Representing events in an organization or in other environments. Example: total number of votes in an election. Information is data that have been shaped into a form that is meaningful and useful to human. Example: the number of votes that each party obtained in an election. Example: predicting the political, economic, social, rami cations of the election results. Almost from their beginnings computers have been strongly associated with business. First, there was a narrow de nition of computers" role in business: electronic data. Then, a broader de nition of a computers" role in business: information technology (it) The computer is integrated in all the operations of the organization. An information systems (is) is a set of interrelated components that collect (or retrieve), process, store, and distribute information to support decision making and control in any organizations.
