Lecture 9 Ist110 section 1 notes:
* administrivia
* any presentations scheduled, and presentations scheduled for next week
* Exercises on information systems
1 What is an organization?
group with a purpose or shared goals. at least an informal contract. with hierarchy, levels of decisions, activities of group, low management, high managnement (strategy) (some fuzziness in levels). could be an individual.
2 What is a system?
collection of processes or resources aimed at creating a solution, with inputs and outputs. processes something into something else
3 Example uses of information by organizations?
selling like items next to other items based on buying habits
research on audiences of media for selling adverts
personnel selection either for a task or for an organization joining or recruitment
suspect profiling in law enforcement \
census - for vote allocation, for demographics4 What is an information system?
mechanism(s) to gather, analyze and/or store information for an organization
6 Dimensions
formal vs. informal types of organisations
formal vs. informal communications
horizontal vs. vertical communications
centralzed vs. decentralised
Other dimensions?
7 Examples of information systems, particularly that the book does not cover
5 Example uses of information systems
* 9.10 review AI, Genetic algorithms, expert systems