Learning objectives

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Information Systems in Global Business Today
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Management Information Systems
Chapter 1 Information Systems in Global Business Today

• Understanding the effects of information systems on business and their relationship to globalization.
• Explain why information systems are so essential in business today.
• Define an information system and describe its management, organization, and technology components.

• Define complementary assets and explain how they ensure that information systems provide genuine value to an organization.
• Describe the different academic disciplines used to study information systems and explain how each contributes to our understanding of them.
• Explain what is meant by a sociotechnical systems perspective.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES (Continued)
Management Information Systems
Chapter 1 Information Systems in Global Business Today

Problem: Lack of hard data usable in decision-making processes, costly and competitive market.

NBA Teams Make a Slam Dunk with Information Technology

• Problem: Lack of hard data usable in decision-making processes, costly and competitive market.
• Solutions: Developed a new system designed to collect and organize data using video clips of games.
• Synergy Sports Technology tags video of each game with hundreds of descriptive categories and allows coaches and players to stream game footage from the Web.
• Demonstrates IT’s role in innovation and improving business processes.
• Illustrates how the Web has allowed businesses to use new tools to analyze critical data.

Management Information Systems
Chapter 1 Information Systems in Global Business Today
The Role of Information Systems in Business Today

• How information systems are transforming business
• Increase in wireless technology use, Web sites
• Shifts in media and advertising
• New federal security and accounting laws
• Globalization opportunities
• Internet has drastically reduced costs of operating on global scale
• Presents both challenges and opportunities