信息管理与信息系统填空.doc

信息管理与信息系统填空 1. Information is data that has been shaped into a form that is meaningful to human beings 2. Feedback is output returned to appropriate members of the organization to help them evaluate or correct the input stage 3. The world’s largest and most widely used network is the Internet. 4. Computer software/software consists of the detailed, preprogrammed instructions that control and coordinate the computer hardware components in an information system. 5. The World Wide Web/Web/WWW is a service provided by the Internet that uses universally accepted standards for storing, retrieving, formatting, and displaying information in a page format 6. Extranets are private corporate networks extended to authorized users outside the organization 7. In business problem solving, the three major categories of factors are organization, technology, and people. 8. Training employees to handle new business processes is an example of change management. 9. Being aware of organizational and personal limitations is one of the four elements of critical thinking. 10. Having inadequate resources is a business problem that falls into the organizational dimension. 11. A(n) business process is a set of logically related activities for accomplishing a specific business result. 12. A firm depends heavily on its environment to supply capital, labor, customers, new technology, services and products, stable markets and legal systems, and general educational resources. 13. Enterprise applications span the entire firm, integrating information from multiple functions and business processes to enhance the performance of the organization as a whole. 14. A(n) decision-support system is used by middle management to combine data and sophisticated analytical models or data analysis tools to support semistructured and unstructured decision making. 15. The “economic order quantity” formula calculates the least expensive quantity to reorder for restocking inventory. 16. The human resources function is