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Modern Management: concepts and skills, 14/e
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Modern Management: concepts and skills, 14/e

by Samuel C. Certo, S. Trevis Certo
December 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
480 pages
118h 48m
English
Pearson
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The Information System (IS)

Technology consists of any type of equipment or process that organization members use in the performance of their work. This definition includes tools as old as a blacksmith’s anvil and tools as new and innovative as virtual reality. This section discusses one segment of technology, information technology (IT) , which is technology such as computers and telecommunication devices that focuses on the use of information in the performance of work.

An information system (IS) is a network of applications established within an organization to provide managers with the information that will assist them in decision making.42 The following, more complete definition of an IS was developed by the Management Information System ...

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ISBN: 9780134729138