Information Technology
Commmunication
Advances in Technology
Information Richness
Types of MIS
100
Data that is organized in a meaningful way
What is Information
100
Sharing of information between two or more people or groups to reach a common understanding
What is Communication
100
The exchange of information through a group or network of interlinked computers.
What is networking
100
A style of communication that enables managers to receive instant feedback.
What is face-to-face commmunication
100
A management information system designed to handle large volumes of routine, recurring transactions.
What is Transaction-Processing Systems
200
Information that reflects current conditions
What is Real-time information
200
The person or group wishing to send information
What is the sender
200
Large and powerful computers that can be used to store and process vast amounts of information
What is mainframe computer
200
A style for communication that doessnt allow visibility to body language and facial expressions but to the receivers tone of voice.
What is Spoken communication electronically transmitted
200
An interactive computer-based management information system with model-building capability that managers can use when they must make nonroutine decisions.
What is Decision Support Systems
300
Information is useless and may hurt the perfomance of a manager
What is Irrelevant Information
300
Translating a message into understandable symbols or language.
What is encoding
300
Software that tells computer hardware how to run
What is operating system software
300
This method of communication allows for common understanding to still be reached.
What is personally addressed written communication
300
A management information system that employs human knowledge captured in a computer to solve problems that ordinarily require human expertise.
What is Expert Systems
400
The means by which information is acquired, organized, stored, manipulated, and transmitted
What is Information technology
400
The pathway through which an encoded message is transmitted to a receiver
What is medium
400
Behavior performed by a machine that would be called intelligent if performed by a human building.
What is artificial intelligence
400
Lowest in information richness and well suited to reach a large number of receivers.
What is Impersonal written communication
400
Changes in meaning that occur as information passes through a series of senders and receivers.
What is Information distortion
500
Where does kevin want to go with his saved time?
What is Seaworld(See World)
500
Why does Kevin use his new language?
What is to save time
500
What does kevin aspire to be?
What is president
500
Who was Kevins motovation to use his new language?
What is Kevins mechanic
500
On a scale of 1 - 10 how awesome is Kevins hair?
What is 11