MGT 417

What does Information System have to do with business? What is the purposed of learning about Information System? To answer this question for you, here my short essay about Information system. This is where we will see how global business use technology and information system to increase their profitability, gain market share, improve their customer services, and manage their daily operations. In other words, information system provided the foundation for business which we can apply in the future.

The goal of learning Information System is how to use IT to master our  future jobs and help ensure the success of our organization. Our focus is not merely learning the concepts of information technology but rather on applying those concepts to facilitate business process in the future itself.

In this course you will be exposed about Information Technology (IT) because IT is the backbone of the business and as the HR student which is under the business management, we need to know all about this because we will apply all this thing in our future. In this course every chapter will show the attention to how IT topics relates to student in each major. This course not only applied for Human Resources management it also guide to relevant issue for their specific functional area such as accounting (ACC), finance (FIN), marketing (MKT), production operation management (POM), and human resources management (HRM). Then it will end with a summary of how the concepts relate to each functional area.

This is where we can learn about the concept and type of the information system and how we will managed the information. It also exposed us to the modern organization in the digital economy which lead us on how doing those business and also exposed to other problem relate to the information system. It also show us about the ethics, privacy and Information security which will benefits to us in the future and as a precaution because in the Information System we cant not escaped from this ethical and privacy issues.

 Information technologies and system support organization in managing that is acquiring, organizing, storing, accessing, analyzing and interpreting data. When these data are managed properly, they become information and then knowledge. As we have seen, information and knowledge are valuable organizational resources that can provide competitive advantage so by learning Information system we can explore the process whereby data is transformed into information then into knowledge. Plus, we also learn about the network computing which can help our task to be easier. This course also provided about the E-Business and E-Commerce which important for us to lead our job in the future. It also touch about the organizational informational system which for operation of an organization which it can make the flow easier.