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Chapter 1
Why Information Systems
Matter in Business
And to You
CHAPTER OUTLINE
• Value of Information
• Systems and Information Systems
• What Is Information, Really?
• Legal and Ethical Information Use
WHY THIS CHAPTER MATTERS
In 2015, computer literacy is a given. Every middle-school student is computer-literate,
just as every middle-school student knows how to read. is book won’t try to repeat what
you’ve known for years.
Knowing how to read isn’t the same as understanding literature or poetry. Computer
literacy isn’t the same as information literacy, either. Middle-school students are
computer-literate, but not information-literate. ey do ...