I. Evaluate the following if it is true or false. then explain your answer why. in 5 sentences. 1 whole sheet of paper.
1 Information technology primarily helps for-profit businesses improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their business processes, managerial decision making, and workgroup collaboration and thus strengthen their competitive positions in a rapidly changing marketplace.
2 While the terms information system and information technology are sometimes used interchangeably, they are two distinct concepts.
3 Computer hardware technologies include microcomputers, midsize servers, and large mainframe systems, but not the input, output, and storage devices that support them.
4 According to your text, information systems play three major roles in the organization. One of those roles is to support the business processes and operations. Examples of information systems that perform this role include computer-based information systems that help managers make decisions about what lines of merchandise need to be added or discontinued, or on what kind of investment they require.
5 Your text discusses the major trends that have transpired over the years in information systems. For example, up until the 1970's, the role of most information systems was focused on transaction processing and MIS reports of pre-specified information.
6 An extranet is an Internet-like network inside the enterprise, while an intranet is between the enterprise and its trading partners.
7 Your text classifies information systems as being either operations or management information systems. Using this conceptual classification, operations support systems produce a variety of information products for internal and external use. Their main emphasis is to produce the specific information products that can best be used by managers.
8 An organization consists of many subsystems; an organization is also an open system because it interfaces and interacts with other systems in its environment.
9 In the context of the information systems model, information-processing instructions known as "procedures" are considered the software programs that are used to direct the processing activities for a particular use of computers by end users.
10 Once data has been entered into a computerized information system, it is usually not necessary to ensure that the quality of the data is maintained through a continual process of correcting and updating activities. That is the benefit of a computerized system – once entered, always correct.
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