Principles of Information Systems in Business and Organization

The purpose of the assignment is to give you the opportunity to explore the applicability of the Module to your own life, work, and place in space and time, and to experiment with the Module to see how the otherwise academically rigorous presentation of a topic may, with more or less work and/or trauma, become “up close and personal”. This is done in a number of different ways — sometimes cumulative papers, sometimes practical hands-on experimentation with a tool of some sort, sometimes reflections on a place of work or life. The common thread is personal application, aimed at demonstrating a cumulative knowledge and understanding of the class material.

For this assignment, the Project will take the form of encounters with online Internet-based resources of various forms but with the purpose of identifying different types of information systems that are being used in the real world.

Here you can find information about the different types of information systems available out there.

Introduction to Information Systems. Retrieved from http://www.oum.edu.my/oum/v3/download/CBAD2103.pdf and http://www.freetutes.com/systemanalysis/types-of-information-system.html

After reading the definitions and browsing these web sites PC Magazine, http://www.pcmag.com/ and CIO.com, http://www.cio.com/ for real applications of information systmes, do the following:

Please write a 2-3 page paper, structured as follows (please use these headings):
•Define an information system and types of information systems
•Provide three examples of information systems used in real life (from your experience or from the sites you visited) and tell us what type of information systems they (for example, an information system used by a cashier in a grocery store is a transaction processing system because it registers all the transactions).
•How this is related to the learning objectives ?
Comments from Support Team: Data, information, and Organizational knowledge

Required Reading

Introduction to Information Systems. Retrieved from http://www.oum.edu.my/oum/v3/download/CBAD2103.pdf

Leonard, D., & Swap, W. (2005). The Knowledge Coach. HBS Working
Knowledge. Retrieved from: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4562.html

Levinson, M. (2007). Knowledge Management Definition and Solutions.
Retrieved from
http://www.cio.com/article/2439279/enterprise-software/knowledge-management-definition-and-solutions.html

Wiig, K.M. (N.D.) On The Management of Knowledge. The Wiig Group. Retrieved from http://www.km-forum.org/wiig.htm

Theories Used in IS Research Wiki http://istheory.byu.edu/wiki/Main_Page

Optional Reading

KM-forum.org. (n.d.). KM Forum Archives. Retrieved, from the World Wide Web: http://www.km-forum.org/what_is.htm

Pelz-Sharpe, A. and Harris-Jones, C. (2005) Knowledge Management-Past
and future. KM World. 14(1). Retrieved October 15, 2007, from
http://www.kmworld.com/Articles
Data, information, and Organizational knowledge

Modular Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to satisfy the following outcomes:

◦Define the different types of systems and applications.
◦Define the key principles of knowledge management.

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