MIS Exam 1

First Exam: Ch 1, TG 1,2,4,5

142 cards   |   Total Attempts: 188
  

Cards In This Set

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Elementary description. No organization for specific meaning
Data
Organized data with meaning and value
Information
Organized data/info processed to convey understanding, experience, expertise. Apply to problem
Knowledge
Physical IT assets that support an organization
IT Infrastructure
Hardware/software/telecom/networks/wireless. Synonymouse with IT Platform.
IT Components
Management of data, security, risk. Systems development
IT Services
Use IT components to produce It services
IT personell
High level map of info assets in an organization. Blueprint for future operations
IT Architecture.
Countries/muscles. Key agent of change: brawn/horsepower. World went from large to medium sized. 1492-1800
Globalization 1.0
Key Agent of change: multinational companies. World went from medium to small-sized. First half: falling transportation costs. Second half: falling telecommunications costs. 1800-2000
Globalization 2.0
Tiny world. Key agent of change: software. Global fiber-optic network.
Globalization 3.0
Enables computer apps to interoperate, communicate with eachother
Workflow software
Collapse of Berlin wall/Communist govt; Netscape goes public; workflow software= 3 ________ that _____ the platform
3 Flatteners that built the platform
Uploading, outsourcing, offshoring, supply chaining, insourcing, informing= 6 ______ that were made ______ by the ________
6 Flatteners that were made possible by the platform
A flattener that represents new forms of IT
Steroids