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Can someone please assist me with my write-up? I am not sure if I am answering the question outlined below correct?
1.Explain why businesses develop information systems. Also, point out some of the wrong reasons businesses sometimes cite for developing information systems and support your answer with examples.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
MY ANSWER:
Information System (IS) is a group of components that work together to process data and produce information (Kroenke, 2015). Information systems exist to help people work in a business to achieve the strategies of that business (Kroenke, 2015). In an organization, information system consists of data, hardware, software, telecommunications, people, and procedures. Moreover, information systems have become necessary for serving association function in an international nation. Information systems are present to help people who work in a business realize the purpose, objectives, make better decisions, increase profitability, increase revenues, superior long-term strategic planning, and help make business process more efficient. Information system are not produced for the pure enjoyment of exploring technology (Kroenke, 2015). They are not produced so that the company can be "present" or so to the business can demonstrate it has a social networking presence on the Web. They are not produced because other information systems department thinks it needs to be created, because the company is "declining at the back of technology curve," or for the only cause that "every other business has one" (Kroenke, 2015, p. 12). Businesses at present use information systems to realize six major objectives: Operational excellence, new products, services, business models, customer/supplier intimacy, enhanced decision making, competitive advantage and day-to-day survival.
Reference
Kroenke, D. (2015). Using MIS 2014 (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall
Also, I am short of the required words (200) on the next question, can you please assist me?
2.Give your own best definition of information, and explain the difference between data and information.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
MY ANSWER:
The term "information" and "data" do not mean the same thing. The term information means the act of informing in regard to knowledge communication (news or facts about a situation, event, or a person). Information is capturing data and knowledge; however, data is the raw material in the production of information. Data is the facts or figures. Information, on the other hand, is facts or conclusions that have meaning within a context. Raw data is rarely meaningful or useful as information. To become information, data is manipulated through tabulation, statistical analysis, or any other operation that leads to greater understanding of a situation.