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What is MIS
- Learn to
- Access, Evaluate, and Apply Emerging Information Technology to Business
- Gain marketable skills and perspectives
- Moore's Law creates infinite oppotunities for innovation
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Moore's Law
Number of transitions per square inch on an integrated chip doubles every 18 months
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Consequences of Moore's Law
- Data storage and communications costs are zero
- Companies use technology and techniques creatively
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Moore's Law
An increase in computer power and performance, but decrease in price, make the business grow
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Moore'a Law
- Speed of computers increases in proportion to density
- Price/performance ratio falls dramatically
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How to attain job security
Develope strong nonroutine cognitive skills
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Nonroutine Cognitive Skills
- Collaboration
- Abstract reasoning
- Systems thinking
- Experimental ability
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What is MIS
Goals and Objectives - Management, use and aligment of IS to achieve business strategies
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Five Components of Information
- Hardware
- Software
- Data
- Procedures
- People
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What is IS
it is a group of five components that interact to produce information
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Why take active role in IS
Use IS to develope and ensure the system meets their need
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Business Professionals need to
- take active role in IS to ensure system meets their need
- understand how IS are constructed
- consider users' need during development
- learn how to use IS
- take into account ancillary IS functions( security, backups)
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Achieving Strategies
- MIS empowers users to achieve business objectives
- IS exist to assist business peopel
- IS exist to help achieve business goals and objectives
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Actors
Hardware and People
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Instrutors
- Software and Procedures
- Software instructs hardware
- Procedures instruct people
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Computer side
Hardware and Software
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Human side
Procedures and People
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Human side to Computer side
- Automation
- Increasing effecientcy
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Computer side to Human side
increasing degree of difficulty of change
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Purpose of the Five-Component Model
- Understanding scope of new information systems
- Components ordered by difficulty to change and amount of disruption
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The most important component
YOU
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IT=
hardware + software + data
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you can buy IT but not IS
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IS =
IT + people + procedures
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IS
- people require training
- managing employees using new system
- people execute procedures to employnew IT
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Differences b/w Cooperation and Collaboration
Cooperation lacks feedback and iteration
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Collaboration
occurs when two or more people work together to achieve a common goal, result, or work product
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keys items to do for collaboration
- Communicating
- Combining Skills
- Sharing Information
- Sharing Knowledge
- Sharing Time
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Iteration
several times of trying before reaching the common goal
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Takes time to create a collaboration team
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Importance of Feedback and Interation
- One person produces something
- Others review and comment
- Check if it has any changes
- Make changes or Done
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Key Characteristics of Collaboration
- Speaks their mind even it is a unpopular viewpoint
- Be willing to put forward unpopular ideas
- Be willing to enter into difficult converstion
- Be skillful at giving or receiving negative feedback
- Thinks differently than I do or brings different perspectives
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Criteria for judging team success
- Successful outcome
- Growth in team capability over time
- Meaningful and satifying experience
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Four Primary Purposes of Collaboration
- Become Informed
- Make Decisions
- Solve Problems
- Manage Projects
- Being informed -
- Sharing data and communicate with one another to share interpretations
- Document team's understandings
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Problem-solving Phases
- Define the problem
- Identify alternative solutions
- Specify evaluation criteria
- Evaluate alternatives
- Select an alternative
- Implement solution
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Planning
budget planning, decide how much time and money
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Components and Functions of Collaboration Information System
- Iteration
- Feedback
- Accomplish task within time and budget
- Promote team growth
- Increase team satisfaction
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Synchronous
- Same time/ Real time
- Can be different place
- Face-to-face
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Asynchronous
Different Times
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Conference calls
Synchronous
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Multiparty text chat
Synchronous
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Screen Sharing
Synchronous
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Video Conference
Synchronous
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Discussion Forums
Asynchronous
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Team Surveys
Asynchronous
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Use Collaboration Tools to Facillitate Content Sharing
- No Control
- Version Managememt
- Version Control
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No control in collaboration tools
- Email with attachments
- Shared files on a server
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Version Management
- Wikis
- Google Drive
- Windows Live SkyDrive
Before updating, someone will monitor, post after updating
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Version Control
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Can access and see
- Can see what are changed while updating
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Shared Content with Version Controls
- Permission-Limited Activity (Account with set of permission)
- Document Checkout (Check out documents before they can be modified)
- Version History (Histories of changes on documents)
- Workflow Control (Manage activities in a pre-defined process, the system knows automatically and send to the next person after one done)
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Five Forces that determine Industry Structure
- Bargaining power of customers
- Bargaining power of suppliers
- Threat of Subsitutions
- Threat of new entrants
- Rivalty
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