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Chapter 17: Managing Information Systems & Technologies Mgmt 220 March 3,2005 Dr. Mary Lynn Manns.

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1 Chapter 17: Managing Information Systems & Technologies Mgmt 220 March 3,2005 Dr. Mary Lynn Manns

2 Data versus Information Data Information Quality Timeliness Completeness Relevance

3 Management Information Systems Information Systems (I.S.) accounting, inventory, registration, etc. Information Technology (I.T.) software and hardware The field of Management Information Systems (M.I.S.)

4 Trends in I.T. The tumbling cost of information Hardware developments Wireless communications Networks client/server LAN/WAN

5 Trends in I.T. Software Developments  Artificial intelligence software Expert systems Robotics Pattern recognition Software bots / intelligent agents  Business Intelligence Software  Geographic Information Systems  etc. etc. etc.

6 So why does a business person need to care about this? To understand who in the I.T. Department can address your need To understand the terminology I.T. people use To manage I.T. people To help build information systems

7 M.I.S. at UNCA (Mgmt 386) What I.T. is used to solve various business problems? How does the business person help to introduce new technologies into the organization?


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