Know how knowledge, information, and data differ. Know which skills are required for information systems literacy. Once each week the class will meet in a lecture format to review chapter topics of choice. Each student is encouraged to bring to the lecture questions pertinent to the chapter materials. An information system is a set of interrelated components working together to collect, retrieve, process, store, and disseminate information for the purpose of facilitating control, coordination, and decision making in businesses and other organizations.
Information systems consist of technology, people, and organization components.
They provide the means for inputting, storing, processing, distributing and communicating information. A computer program is the set of instructions that directs computer processing. It is analogous to a blueprint or recipe for combining raw materials. Software tells the computer how to store, process, distribute and communicate information. Describe the elements of each of them .