Information Systems: Harnessing the Competitive Power of It
Objective 14-3 Describe the role of information systems, the different types of information systems, and how businesses use such systems.
Business today relies on information management in ways that no one could have foreseen a decade ago. Managers now treat IT as a basic organizational resource for conducting daily business. At major firms, every activity—designing services, ensuring product delivery and cash flow, and evaluating employee performance—is linked to information systems. An information system (IS) uses IT resources that enable managers to take data, raw facts and figures that, by themselves, may not have much meaning, and turn those data into information, the meaningful, ...
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