BUS-1202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Chief Information Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Computer Hardware

• School: University of Winnipeg
• Department: BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATION
• Course: BUS-1202
• Professor: Dennis Ng

Document Summary

14. 1 - explain the role of management information systems in business. 14. 2 - list the components and different types of information systems. 14. 3 - outline how computer hardware and software are used to manage information. 14. 4 - describe the networking and telecommunications technology and types of computer networks. 14. 5 - discuss the security and ethical issues involving computer information systems. 14. 6 - explain the steps that companies go through in anticipating, planning for, and recovering from information system disasters. 14. 7 - review the current trends in information systems. This chapter will be based on mc questions. Data are raw facts and figures that may or may not be meaningful to a business decision. Information is knowledge gained from processing data. Eg. , business people need to gather demographics, or population data, about a target market or the. Data is useless unless it is transformed into relevant information that can be used to make a competitive.