Assignment:
Required Text Book:
Laudon, Kenneth and Laudon, Jane
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm,12 Edition Prentice- Hall
1. What major features of a business are important for understanding the role of information system?
•Define a business and describe the major business function,
•Define business processes and describe the role they play in organizations.
•Identify and describe the different levels in a business firm and their information needs.
•Explain why environments are important for understanding a business.
2. Howdo system sserve different management groups in abusiness?
•Define business intelligence systems.
•Describe the characteristics of transaction processing system (TPS) and role they play in a business
•Describe the characteristics of management information systems (MIS), decision support system (DSS), and executive support system (ESS) and explain howeach type of system help managers make decisions.
3. How do systems that link the enterprise improve organizational performance?
•Explain how enterprise applications improve organizational performance?
•Define enterprise systems, supply chain management systems, customer relationship management system, and knowledge management systems and describe their business benefit.
•Explain how intranet and extranets help firm simprove business performance.
4. Why are systems for collaboration and teamwork so importance and what technologies do They use?
•Define collaboration and teamwork and explain why they have become so important in business today.
•List and describe the business benefits of collaboration.
•Describe a supportive organizational culture for collaboration.
•List and describe the various types of collaboration and communication system
5. What is the role of the information system function in a business?
•Describe how the information systems function support a business.
•Compare the role played by programmers, systems analyst, information system managers,and the chief information officer (CIO) chief security officer (CSO) and chief knowledge officer (CKO).