1. Chapter 1
MIS and You

2. Agenda MIS, IS, and IT IS Components User’s Responsibility
Information and Data
Information Characteristics
Moore’s Law
Discussion and Case Study

3. What Is MIS
Management Information Systems: the development and use of information systems that help business achieve their goals and objectives

4. Information System
System: a group of components that interact to achieve some purpose
Information system (IS): a group of components that interact to produce information
IS: computer-based information system
High-tech versus low-tech IS

5. IS Components Hardware Software Data Procedures
People – the most important one

6. User’s Responsibility
Active role to define the system’s requirement
Use the IS to accomplish your jobs and goals
Protect the IS security
Perform backup and recovery

7. Information and Data Date: raw Information Knowledge derived from data
Data presented in a meaningful context
Processed data
Data processed by summing, ordering, average, grouping, comparing or other similar operations
A difference that makes a difference

8. Information Characteristics
Accurate: cross check
Timely: real time
Relevant
Just barely sufficient
Worth its cost

9. Information Technology (IT)
Products, methods, inventions, and standards that are used for the purpose of producing information

10. Moore’s Law
The number of transistors per square inch on an integrated chip doubles every 18 months
The speed of a computer chip doubles every 18 months
Decreasing price/performance ratio
Internet

11. Discussion Security: password and password etiquette (5a-b)
Questions 2, 4, and 5
Ethics: misdirected information use (11a-b)
Question 5
Opposing forces: your purpose of this class and future career (13a-b)
Questions 3 and 4

12. Case Study Case 1-1 (20-21) Case 1-2 (21-22) Questions 1, 2, 3, and 4

13. Points to Remember MIS, IS, and IT IS Components Information and Data
Information Characteristics
Moore’s Law
Discussion and Case Study