TAILIEUCHUNG - Lecture Information systems (3e): App A - Paige Baltzan

In this chapter students will be able to: Identify each of the three components of information technology management and use examples to illustrate how they might be implemented in a business; explain how failures in IT management can be reduced by the involvement of business managers in IT planning and management. identify several cultural, political, and geo-economic challenges that confront managers in the management of global information technologies;. | APPENDIX A HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE BASICS Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. 1 Overview HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE BASICS Hardware Basics Computer Categories Software Basics 2 INTRODUCTION Information technology (IT) - Any computer-based tool that people use to work with information and support the information and information-processing needs of an organization Hardware - Consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system Software - The set of instructions that the hardware executes to carry out specific tasks 3 HARDWARE BASICS Computer - An electronic device operating under the control of instructions stored in its own memory that can accept, manipulate, and store data Hardware components include: Central processing unit (CPU) Primary storage Secondary storage Input device Output device Communication device 4 HARDWARE BASICS 5 HARDWARE BASICS 6 HARDWARE BASICS 7 HARDWARE BASICS 8 Central Processing Unit Central processing unit (CPU) (or microprocessor) - The actual hardware that interprets and executes the program (software) instructions and coordinates how all the other hardware devices work together Control unit - Interprets software instructions and literally tells the other hardware devices what to do, based on the software instructions Arithmetic-logic unit (ALU) - Performs all arithmetic operations (for example, addition and subtraction) and all logic operations (such as sorting and comparing numbers) 9 Central Processing Unit The number of CPU cycles per second determines the speed of a CPU Megahertz (MHz) - The number of millions of CPU cycles per second Gigahertz (GHz) - The number of billions of CPU cycles per second 10 Central Processing Unit CPU speed factors Clock speed Word length Bus width Chip line width Binary digit (bit) - The smallest unit of information that a computer can process Byte - A group of eight bits .

• Quản trị kinh doanh
• Management information systems
• Lecture Management information systems
• Information systems in business
• Business applications
• Global management of information technology
• Organizing IT
• Information systems
• Computer based information systems
• Managing information resources
• Information security
• Electronic commerce
• Information systems combine
• Customer relationship management
• Supply chain management
• Transaction processing systems
• Managing data
• Network applications
• Business analytics
• General ethical framework
• Social computing
• Major E commerce mechanisms
• Mobile computing
• IT strategic plan