Management Information Systems: Managing The Digital Firm -- Student Value Edition (16th Edition)
Management Information Systems: Managing The Digital Firm -- Student Value Edition (16th Edition)
16th Edition
ISBN: 9780135191927
Author: Kenneth Laudon, Jane Laudon
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 4, Problem 4RQ
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Information Systems:

  • An information system is a system, which provides the necessary information to an organization to achieve goals.
  • It monitors the transactions details, provide required information to decision makers, and provides necessary documents to the customers.
  • The main components in an information system include people, data, procedures, hardware, and software.
  • The main function of information system is to accept and process the input data, and then store the retrieved information and distribute it across the organization.

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Principle causes of system quality problems:

The three principle reasons for poor system performance are as follows:

  • Software threats and faults
  • Facility disappointments produced by usual or other reasons.
  • Data quality is poor.

In the software code, no zero defects are achieved because the bugs cannot be estimated...

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Four quality of life impacts of computers and information systems:

  • Balancing Power and Maintaining boundaries
    • Human jobs are vanished when computers substitute the workers; the tasks become pointless in re-engineered business methods.
    • Skill to individual and usage of computer creates worsening socioeconomic differences among different cultural people and social classes.
  • Rapidity of change
    • The speed of technology is faster than ever before because the time-based competition has an unpleasant side.
    • The universal market place has condensed the usual social barriers that allowed businesses several years to regulate to competition...

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Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) and Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI) in Information Technology:

  • RSI is a common occupational disease, which occurs on muscle groups with repetitive actions.
  • In information technology, the main source is computer keyboards that creates carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in which stress occurs on the nerves...

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