Using MIS 2e Chapter 1: The Importance of MIS David KroenkeStudy QuestionsSlide 3Q1: Why is MIS Important?Slide 5Q1 – Why is MIS important?Q2 – What is MIS?Slide 8Q3 – How Can You Use the Five-Component Framework?Slide 10Slide 11Q4 – What is Information?Slide 13Slide 14Q5 – What are the Characteristics of Good Information?Q6 – What is the Difference Between Information Technology and Information Systems?Slide 17Moore’s Law (continued)Slide 19Ethics Guide – Use of Misdirected InformationEthics Guide – Use of Misdirected Information (Continued)Security Guide–Passwords and Password EtiquetteSummaryReview: Select the appropriate term for each itemUsing MIS 2eChapter 1: The Importance of MISDavid KroenkeThis presentation has been modified from the original and should be downloaded from the Course Documents area in BlackboardStudy QuestionsQ1 – Why is MIS important?Q2 – What is MIS?Q3 – How can you use the five-component framework?Q4 – What is information? Q5 – What are the characteristics of good information?Q6 – What is the difference between IT and IS?Ethics Guide: Use of Misdirected InformationSecurity Guide: Passwords and Password Etiquette1-2Chapter 1: The Importance of MISJennifer is fired after only four months; her job was to find ways to increase revenues.She followed orders, but did not show initiativeShe did not become a team member nor collaborate with othersShe did not understand business process conceptsBeing reliable, hard-working, honest, and having integrity is important, but today, they are not enough 1-3Chapter 1: The Importance of MISQ1: Why is MIS Important?Q1: Why is MIS Important?Business professionals must be able to adapt to changing technology and shifting demand, which in turn requires strong cognitive skills. These include:Abstraction; e.g., construct a model or representation. Jennifer’s problem was the inability to model the customer life cycleSystem thinking; e.g., model system components and show how components’ inputs and outputs relate to one another. Jennifer’s problem was her confusion about how customers contact accounts payableCollaboration; e.g., develop ideas and plans with others. Jennifer’s problem was that she was unwilling to work with othersExperimentation; e.g., create and test promising new alternatives. Jennifer’s problem was that her fear of failure prohibited the discussion of new ideas1-4Chapter 1: The Importance of MISQ1: Why is MIS Important?You will be asked to experiment in this course; i.e., to use products with which you have little or no familiarity. It might be Microsoft Excel or Access, or features and functions of Blackboard you have not used. Will your instructor explain and show every feature of those products that you’ll need? You should hope not; i.e., it will be up to you to experiment, to envision new possibilities on your own, and experiment with those possibilities.1-5Chapter 1: The Importance of MISQ1 – Why is MIS important?This course will provide the background you need:To be an informed and effective consumer of information technology products and servicesTo develop important skills should as abstraction, systems thinking, collaboration, and experimentationTo ask pertinent questions; to be able to correctly interpret the responses to your questionsTo use spreadsheets effectively as a tool within a decision support system.To understand and apply the design concepts underlying a relational database1-6Chapter 1: The Importance of MISQ2 – What is MIS?Management Information Systems (MIS) is the development and use of information systems to help businesses achieve their goals and objectivesAn information system (IS) is a group of components that interact which each other to produce information1-7Chapter 1: The Importance of MISInformation systems exist to help people achieve the goals and objectives of their business. You should take an active role in specifying system requirements and helping manage development projects since you are the one who’ll be using the system to do your job.You need to learn how to use an ISYou have responsibilities for protecting the security of the system and its dataYou have responsibilities for backing up dataIf you do not know what to do with the information produced by the system, you are wasting time and money.Q2 – What is MIS?1-8Chapter 1: The Importance of MISQ3 – How Can You Use the Five-Component Framework?1-9Chapter 1: The Importance of MISQ3 – How Can You Use the Five-Component Framework?You can evaluate new information systems by asking questions about each componentWhat new hardware will you need?Which programs will you have to license?What databases and other data must you create?Which procedures will need to be developed for use and administration of the system?What will be the impact on people?Which jobs will change?Who will need training?How will the new technology affect morale?Will you need to hire new people?1-10Chapter 1: The Importance of MISQ3 – How Can You Use the Five-Component Framework?The five components can also be evaluated based on the order of difficulty and disruption; hardware is the easiest part while people are (according to the author) the most difficult.Hardware is easy to order and installObtaining or developing new programs is more difficultCreating new database or changing structure of existing data is more difficultChanging procedures by requiring people to work in new ways is even more difficultChanging personnel responsibilities and/or hiring and terminating is very difficult and disruptive1-11Chapter 1: The Importance of MISQ4 – What is Information?We know what an information system is – an assembly of hardware, software, data, procedures, and people that interact to produce information. But what is information?Definitions vary. Information is:Knowledge derived from data.Data presented in a meaningful context.Data processed by summing, ordering, averaging, grouping, comparing, or other similar operations.Any of these definitions will do; the important point is to discriminate between data and information.1-12Chapter 1: The Importance of MISQ4 – What is Information?Information is subjectiveInformation in one person’s context may be just a data point in another person’s context, since what may be