Information Systems
® Information systems are implemented within an organization
® For improving the effectiveness and efficiency of that organization.
® Capabilities of the information system and characteristics of the organization, its work systems, its people, and its development and implementation methodologies together determine the extent to which that purpose is achieved.
Information Systems
- The branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information.
- The term "IT" encompasses the methods and techniques used in information handling and retrieval by automatic means.
- The means include computers, telecommunications and office systems or any combination of these elements.
- The industry or discipline involving the collection, dissemination, and management of data, typically through the use of computers.
- Technology tasked with processing, storing and communication of information e.g. computers, mobile phones, PDA’s.
