Business Information System

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CHAPTER OUTLINE

CHAPTER 1

The Modern Organization in the

Global, Web-Based Environment

Introduction to Information Systems, Second Edition

by

Kelly Rainer and Efraim Turban

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Differentiate among data, information, and

knowledge

• Differentiate between information

technology infrastructure and information

technology architecture

Homo Conexus

• You are the most connected generation in

history

• You practice continuous computing

• You are surrounded by a personal,

movable information network

1.1 Information Systems: Concepts and

Definitions

1.2 The Global, Web-Based Platform

1.3 Business Pressures, Organizational

Responses, and IT Support

1.4 W hy Are Information Systems

Important to You?

1.5 The Plan of the Book

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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• Describe the global business environment

and the new information technology

infrastructure

• Discuss the relationships among business

pressures, organizational responses, and

information systems

1.1 Information Systems:

Concepts and Definitions

Data Item

Information

Knowledge

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Information Systems:

Concepts and Definitions (continued)

Information Technology Architecture

Information Technology Infrastructure

1.2 The Global, Web-Based

Platform

• Best represented by the Internet and the

W orld Wide Web

• Enables us to connect, compute,

communicate, collaborate, and compete

everywhere and anytime

• Operates without regard to geography,

time, distance, and language

Thomas Friedman’s Ten

Flatteners

The Stages of Globalization

(From Thomas Friedman in The World is Flat)

• Globalization 1.0 (from 1492 to 1800)

• Globalization 2.0 (from 1800 to 2000)

• Globalization 3.0 (from 2000 to the

present)

The Steroids

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Digital

Mobile

Virtual

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Fall of the Berlin Wall

Netscape goes public

Development of work-flow software

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