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46 Cards in this Set
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Any pattern of organisation contains 4 elements |
Location Sequence Actors Action |
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5 features of a system |
Identity Purpose Emergence Holism Interaction |
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Two major organisational perspectives |
Action perspective Institutional perspective |
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3 types of inter-related business systems |
Data system Activity system Information system |
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Equifinity |
Means that a system can achieve it's purpose in more than one way |
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Holism refers to |
The whole of a system being more than the sum of its parts |
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Three inter-related types of action |
Articulation Communication Coordination |
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3 different types of actors |
Humans Data Structures ICT structures |
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Business activity involves.. |
The transformation of value |
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Anything considered to be of worth to somebody |
Value |
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All measurement is |
Communication |
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Performance of a system can be expressed by |
Efficiency Effectiveness Efficacy |
3 E's |
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Coordination problems are solved through.. |
Conventions of action |
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A label for a package of expected actions to be undertaken by a designated actor |
A role |
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A coordination problem exists when.. |
Two or more actors have a goal in common which must be achieved through joint action |
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The goal of most activity systems is the creation of |
Value |
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Feedback is.. |
The activity for comparing performance against targets and adjusting operations to any variation found |
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A bit |
A binary digit |
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Capacity of data storage is measured in.. |
Bytes |
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A datum |
Single item of data |
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To create |
Involves encoding symbols in some data structure/element/item |
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To delete |
Involves removing some existing data structure/element/item |
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To update |
Involves changing symbols in some existing data structure/element/item |
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To read |
Involves decoding symbols from some data structure/element/item |
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A record is a data.. |
Element |
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A file is a data.. |
Structure |
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Data are.. |
Differences made in some substance used to symbolise something |
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Data systems are.. |
Systems for articulating data structures |
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Something which stands to somebody for something |
A sign |
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A symbol used to identify something |
An identifier |
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Types of communicative acts |
Assertive Directive Commissive Expressive Declarative |
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Assertive |
Explains how things are in the world |
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Directive |
Attempts to get the receiver to perform some action |
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Commissive |
Commits speaker to some future course of action |
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Expressive |
Represents senders internal state |
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Declarative |
Changes the world through the communication |
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Information systems are systems for |
Formal communication |
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ICT Infrastructure can be divided into 5 elements |
Back end ICT Front end ICT Communication channels Data Management Access Devices |
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5 types of digital innovation |
Mobile commerce Cloud computing Big data Internet of things Blockchain |
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Mobile commerce |
Able to offer good and services to customers anywhere |
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Cloud computing |
Able to locate and manage much of functionality of an ICT system in a remote data centre |
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Big data |
Able to mine large data sets accumulated from numerous sources for business insight |
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Internet of things |
Able to communicate with and control remote devices over the internet |
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Blockchain |
Able to manage transactions in distributed electronic ledgers |
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Something that is created as a result of some activity |
Goods/Products |
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An activity performed by somebody or something on someone or something else |
A service |
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