Management Information Systems Flashcard

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It deals with the coordination and use of three very important organizational resources - information, people and technology.

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Management Information Systems

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These are the raw facts that describe a particular phenomenon.

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Data

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This is data that has a particular meaning within a specific context.

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Information

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This is collective information about your customers, your competitors, your business partners, your competitive environment and your own internal operations that give you the ability to make effective, important and often strategic decisions.

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Business Intelligence

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This broad term includes the contextual explanation of business intelligence.

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Knowledge

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In defining information quality, this is how fast can you get access to the information as well as if the information is relevant to current period.

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Timeliness

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In defining information quality, information is of no value to you if you can't access it.

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Location

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In defining information quality, this is a check if the information is in a structure most useful to you: audio, text, video, animation, graphical or others, as well as if it is free of errors.

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Form

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In defining information quality, this is a check if information is from a credible source.

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Validity

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Direction of information flow wherein daily transactions are from the lower level to a higher level until it reaches the top.

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Upward