chapter 1

BUSINESS DRIVEN TECHNOLOGY

COMPETING IN THE INFORMATION AGE

- We live in the information age, when infinite quantities of fact are widely available to anyone who can use a computer.

- The impact of information technology on the global environment is equivalent to the printdent startups were mostly unheard of before the information age.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY'S ROLE IN BUSINESS

-Information technology is everywhere in business

-Understanding information technology provides great insight to anyone learning about business.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BASICS

-IT is a field concerned with the use of technology in managing processing information.

- Management information systems is a business function just as marketing, finance operation and human resources are business function. for example, data, information and business intelligence.

THE SOLUTION; MANAGEMENT INFORMANTION

- A system is collection of parts that link to achieve a common purpose,

-System thinking is a way of monitoring the entire system by viewing multiple inputs being processed or transformed tor produce outputs while continuously gathering feedback on each part.