BUS 237 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Business Process, Information System, Purchase Order

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 237
• Professor: Chin Swee Seah

Document Summary

Business processes: a business process describes a set of activities necessary to complete a response to a stimulus, applied to an organization, example: : series of steps to produce a product or service: also referred to as business systems, examples: inventory management, manufacturing, sales and support, example of a business process: Develop new marketing: business process is a network of activities, resources, facilities and information, these network interact to achieve business function. Activities: activities: transforms resources and information of one type into resources and information into another type, example: payment (activity) transforms quantity received (information) and shipping invoice (information) into supplier payment (resource): Data: data are recorded as fact or figures, it requires context to be meaningful. Is five components: hardware and people are both actors; they take actions, software is a set of instructions for hardware, procedures are instructions for people, data is the bridge between the computer and the human side.