2.1. DATA AND INFORMATION Data Data is the raw materials from which information is generated. Data are raw facts or observations typically about physical phenomena or business transactions. It appears in the form of text‚ number‚ figures or any combination of these. More specifically data are objective measurements of the attributes (the characteristics) of entities (such as people‚ places‚ things and events) According to Loudon and Loudon- “Streams of raw facts representing events
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MIS-Revision Notes Agenda 1. Role of Information System 2. Perspective on Information System 3. Types of Information System 9. Organizational and Behavioral Impacts 10.Achieve Competitive Advantages by IS 11.Ethical and Social Issues 12.E-Commerce 4. ERP – Enterprise System 5. SCM – Supply Chain Management System 13.Global Growth of IS 6. CRM – Customer Service Management System 7. KM – Knowledge Management System 8. Collaboration and Teamwork System Management Information
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A marketing information system (MIS) is intended to bring together disparate items of data into a coherent body of information. An MIS is‚ as will shortly be seen‚ more than raw data or information suitable for the purposes of decision making. An MIS also provides methods for interpreting the information the MIS provides. Moreover‚ as Kotler’s1 definition says‚ an MIS is more than a system of data collection or a set of information technologies: "A marketing information system is a continuing
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Sun Microsystems‚ Microsoft‚ and IBM. Assess the impact of this situation on business performance. What factors and management decisions must be considered when developing a solution to this problem? UPMC must look at capacity planning and scalability. Capacity planning is the process of predicting when a computer hardware system becomes saturated. UPMC has not done this in the past but now must plan for the future. Scalability refers the ability of a computer‚ product‚ or system to expand to serve
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[pic] [pic] [pic] TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE NO 1. AVNET – DEVELOPING SYSTEMS TO SUPPORT GLOBAL STRATEGY 03 • SOLUTION 07 2. OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING – GOOD BAD OR DOES NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE 10 • SOLUTION 14 3. COLGATE-PALMOLIVE KEEPS THE WORLD SMILING 16 • SOLUTION 20 4. BIBLIOGRAPHY 25
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Acquisition offer the following is an excerpt from a news article in the Daily Update‚ March 07‚ 2010 “SystemX Inc.‚ called off its acquisition of SoftGuide Knowledge Consultants‚ Friday‚ saying that 1 Billion was too high a price.” (SoftGuide has a considerable market share in Training and development services and would therefore help SystemX to diversify and expand its range of services to customers.) “Although SystemX officials would not comment further‚ several observers said that problems discovered
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the one companies should be taking. We would argue that because the winds of change affect IT more than any other area of the organization‚ IT benefits most from a long-term‚ disciplined‚ strategic view‚ and a square focus on achieving the company’s most fundamental goals. For example‚ Frito Lay’s strategic goal has always been to make‚ move‚ and sell tasty‚ fresh snack food as rapidly and efficiently as possible. That goal hasn’t changed since 1930s‚ when founder Herman Lay ran his business from
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Geng Wang Case ABCs of Spend Analysis Why are data analysis skills and thinking so important to spend analysis? Can’t software applications be used to generate the information needed automatically? Data analysis skill is important to decision making. We cannot understand why the company isn’t doing well but keeps very high productivity without data – perhaps the total cost for operating the robots are too high‚ perhaps the number of workers is too big‚ perhaps the demand for the products
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Song Paragraph (Mi Gente) One of the songs I chose is named “Mi Gente”‚ which is an Urban Latin/pop song which is frequently played at South-American parties (From personal experience). Mi Gente is an upbeat song which happens to be in the top 20 songs in Canada. I feel this song relates to me on a personal level in multiple ways. For instance‚ listening to the song with no meaning other than to enjoy the song‚ it would probably sound pleasant or delightful. Though if you examine the lyrics
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“Importance and Role of Computers in Teaching and Learning Process” A Research Paper in College English II Submitted by: Submitted to: Mahatheer M. Dalandas Prof.Pernia Wilvena Second Semester (S.Y 2011-2012) Instructor
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