Summary: Yang

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• 1 MIS and You

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• Q1 - What is MIS?

  Mangement Information Systems:
  
  Development and use of IS that help businesses achieve their goals and objectives.

• Q3 - What are the characteristics of good information?

  • Accurate ( correct & transparent)
    
  • Timely 
    
  • Relevant
    
  • Sufficient (<=> information overflow)
    
  • worth the cost 

• Q4 - What is the difference between IT and IS?

  
  IT:
  

  1. Products
     
  2. Methods
     
  3. Inventions
     
  4. Standards
     

  
  IS:         
  5 Components together

• 2 Collaboration Information Systems

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• Q1 - What are the two key characteristics of collaboration?

  
  

  1. Two or more people working together to achieve a common goal
     
  2. Feedback and iteration

  
  
  -> Cooperation lacks feedback and iteration.

• Q2 - What Are Three Criteria for Successful Collaboration?

  
  

  1. Successful outcome –“Did we do it within the time and budget allowed?”
  2. Growth in team capability over time –Develop better work processes, improve task skills, gain knowledge, provide perspective to each other.
  3. Meaningful and satisfying experience – Recognition, rewards, camaraderie

  
  
  Criteria for judging team success: How do we know the collaboration is successful?

• Q4: What Are the Requirements for a Collaboration Information System?

  
  Five Components of an IS for Collaboration
  

  • Hardware - for participating, sharing, saving group’s work.
    
  • Software - email, text messaging, Google Drive, Microsoft Web Apps, other tools that support collaborative work.
    
  • Data

  Project data (Contents),
  Project metadata (Schedule, Budget).
  

  • Procedures - usually designed by the team.
    

  Sequential
  Parallel
  

  • People - know how, when to use collaboration applications.
    

• What are the three primary functions of IS?

  
  

  • Communication
    
  • Content Sharing
  • Task Management

• Q5: How Can You Use Collaboration Tools to Facilitate Communication?

  IT helps our communication overcome the time and location constraints

• Q6: How Can You Use Collaboration Tools to Share Content?

  • Content type
    

  Office Documents (Word, Excel, ppt
  

  • Desktop Application
    

  MS Office, Libre Office... 
  

  • Web Application
    

  Google Docs, MS Web Apps
  

  • Cloud Drive   
    

  Google, MS One drive, MS Sharepoint

• Q7: How Can You Use Collaboration Tools to Manage Tasks?

  • Rights management
    
  • Workflow control