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CHAPTER I

An IS Framework for Business Professionals

The field of information systems encompasses many complex technologies, abstract behavioural concepts, and specialized applications in countless business and non-business areas.

5 Areas of Information System:

* Foundation Concepts – Fundamental behavioural, technical, business, and managerial concepts about the components and roles of information systems.

* Information Technologies – Major concepts, developments, and management issues in information technology-that is, hardware, software, networks, data resource management, and many Internet-based technologies.

* Business Applications – The major uses of information systems for the operations, management, and competitive advantage of a business, including electronic business, commerce, collaboration and decision making using the Internet, intranets, and extranets.

* Development Processes – How business professionals and information specialists plan, develop, and implement information systems to meet business opportunities using several application development approaches.

* Management challenges - The challenges of effectively and ethically managing information technologies, strategies, and security at the end user, enterprise, and global levels of a business.

Information system – can be any organized combination of people, hardware, software, communications networks and data resources that collects, transforms, and disseminates information in an organization.

Information System relies on:

* People

* variety of physical devices (hardware)

* information processing instructions and procedures (software)

* communications channels (network)

* stored data (data resources)

Information technologies

* Business professionals rely on many types of information systems that use a variety of information technologies.

System concepts – underlie the field of information systems.

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