This topic might be complicated for the one who have not experience any real functioning information system in organization. For this topic, various information systems in organization will be described.
Learning Objectives
Describe and categorize of information system then utilize the organization
Evaluate the role played by system serving the various levels of management
Describe different types of decisions and decision-making in organization
Assess how information systems support the activities of manager and management decision making
Define Enterprise Systems- What are the benefit and risk of enterprise system?
Information Systems
Information system collects, processes, stores, analyzes and disseminates information for a specific purpose of application. Normally, information system consists of hardware, software, data, network, procedures, and people.
Terms
There are differences among the term of data, information and knowledge that can be described as the followings:
• Data
The data is raw fact to describe things, events, activities and transaction. The data is not useful and has a little benefit for decision making. For example, the temperature of this room is 25 degree.
• Information
The data has to be processed into information that creates some meaning. It consists of unit of analysis that can facilitate good decision making. For example, the average age of women in this room is 25 year olds.
• Knowledge
For the knowledge, it’s the relationship among information. The knowledge is the most useful type of information that the organization is able to use. Normally, knowledge express in term of theory in term of relationship with the information.
Basic Components of Information Systems
The basic components of information systems can be classified into six categories which are as the followings:
• Hardware
• Software
• Network
• Data
• Procedures
• People
Business Process
The term business means