MIS 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Continuous Computing, Information System, Business Process

• School: Iowa State University
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 301
• Professor: John Beard

Document Summary

Information technology (it): refers to any computer-based tool that people use to work with information and to support the information and information-processing needs of an organization. Information systems: collects, processes, stores, analyzes, and disseminates information for a specific purpose. Homo conexus generation - information technologies are so deeply embedded in our lives that our daily routines would be unrecognizable to a college student 20 years ago. Have a world of information at our fingertips. Informed user: a person knowledgeable about information systems and information technology. Understand what is behind the applications you use. You can enhance the quality of your organization"s it applications. Quickly be in a position to recommend and help select the it applications that your organization will use. Keep you up to date on new it and rapid developments. Know how using it can improve our orgs performance. Help users when starting a new business (for entrepreneur"s)