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21 Cards in this Set
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Moore's Law
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Number of transistors per square inch on an integrated chip doubles every 18 months (cost of data storage is zero now).
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MIS is important because?
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Future business workers need to be able to asses, evaluate, and apply emerging info technology to business.
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Four cognitive skills you need
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Abstract reasoning, systems thinking, collaboration, and ability to experiment
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Abstract Reasoning
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ability to make and manipulate models
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Systems Thinking
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ability to model the components of the system, connect the inputs and outputs among the components into a sensible whole, to explain the phenomenon observed
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Collaboration
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two or more people working together to achieve a common goal, result or work product
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Ability to Experiment
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making reasoned analysis of an opportunity, envisioning potential solutions, evaluating those possibilities, and developing the most promising ones
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MIS
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management information systems: development and use of IS that help businesses achieve their goals and objectives
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System
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group of components that interact to achieve some purpose
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Information Systems
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IS: group of components that interact to produce info
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Five-Component Framework
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model of components of an IS: computer hardware, software, data, procedures, and people
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Computer-Based Information System
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IS that includes computers
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Information
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knowledge derived from data
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Data
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recorded facts or figures
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Accurate
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good info is based on correct and complete data, and has been processed correctly as expected
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Timely
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produced in time for its intended use
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Relevant
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info related to the context and the the subject
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Sufficient/Just Barely So
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enough info for the purpose which it is generated
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Worth its Cost
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appropriate relationship must exist between the cost of ino and its value
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Information Technology (IT)
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products, methods, inventions, and standards that are used for the purpose of producing info
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Computers-in-a-Product
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computer capabilities embedded within common consumer products
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