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MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Chapter 1

An information system is defined as a set of interrelated components that collect, process, store, and distribute information to support decision making and control in an organization. Information systems contain information about people, places, and things within an organization or its environment. They help managers and workers analyze problems, visualize complex subjects, and create new products. Cemex uses a sophisticated scheduling system to expedite cement delivery by managing deliveries and all manufacturing and production processes from a centralized control room, as the company moves toward becoming a digital firm.

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MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Chapter 1

An information system is defined as a set of interrelated components that collect, process, store, and distribute information to support decision making and control in an organization. Information systems contain information about people, places, and things within an organization or its environment. They help managers and workers analyze problems, visualize complex subjects, and create new products. Cemex uses a sophisticated scheduling system to expedite cement delivery by managing deliveries and all manufacturing and production processes from a centralized control room, as the company moves toward becoming a digital firm.

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Section 1.

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What Is an Information System?


Window on Organizations
Window on Technology
It Isn’t Just Technology: A Business Perspective on Information Systems
Dimensions of Information Systems

PERSPECTIVES ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Information systems can be best be understood by looking at them


from both a technology and a business perspective.

What Is an Information System?

An information system can be defined technically as a set of


interrelated components that collect (or retrieve), process, store, and
distribute information to support decision making and control in an
organization. In addition to supporting decision making, coordination,
and control, information systems may also help managers and workers
analyze problems, visualize complex subjects, and create new products.

Information systems contain information about significant


people, places, and things within the organization or in the environment
surrounding it. By information we mean data that have been shaped
into a form that is meaningful and useful to human beings. Data, in
contrast, are streams of raw facts representing events occurring in
organizations or the physical environment before they have been
organized and arranged into a form that people can understand and
use.

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Cemex uses a sophisticated scheduling system to expedite cement delivery.


Cemex manages deliveries and all of its manufacturing and production
processes from a highly computerized control room. The company is moving
toward a digital firm organization.

A brief example contrasting information and data may prove


useful. Supermarket checkout counters ring up millions of pieces of
data, such as product identification numbers or the cost of each item
sold. Such pieces of data can be totaled and analyzed to provide
meaningful information, such as the total number of bottles of dish
detergent sold at a particular store, which brands of dish detergent
were selling the most rapidly
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