What is a Management Information System? There are different definitions of a management information system: "Management Information system products produce information products that support many of the day-to-day decisions -making needs of management. ... Management information systems provide a variety of reports and displays to management. ... Characteristics of Management Information System 1. Management Information Systems support structured and semi-structured decisions at the operational and management control levels. 2. ...

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Management Information Systems: "What Is That"? ... Looking in my book I came across Management Information Systems. ... Here are the questions I asked for the students who are majoring in Management Information Systems: (1) What made you want to major in Management Information Systems? ... (5) Do you regret majoring in Management Information Systems? ... I also interviewed a person who does Management Information Systems work. ...

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However, only in the last 40 years has the computer changed American management to it's greatest extent. From the first wooden abacus to the latest high-speed microprocessor, the computer has changed nearly every aspect of management, and our lives for the better. ... This was one of the first management tools used. ...

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However, only in the last 40 years has the computer changed American management to it's greatest extent. From the first wooden abacus to the latest high-speed microprocessor, the computer has changed nearly every aspect of management, and our lives for the better. ... This was one of the first management tools used. ...

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However, only in the last 40 years has the computer changed American management to it's greatest extent. From the first wooden abacus to the latest high-speed microprocessor, the computer has changed nearly every aspect of management, and our lives for the better. ... This was one of the first management tools used. ...

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Many software managers are concerned with the legal compliance, along with asset management and costs at their organizations. ... Included in the kit, is a software inventory management program designed to help an organization track their commercial software programs that are on all hard disks. ... Also available is the SPA Software Management Guide which helps companies audit their current software policies, educate employees about the legal use of software, and establish procedures to purchase, register, upgrade and backup computing systems. ...

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Introduction Computer technology has created a new revolution in how intellectual property is created, stored, reproduced and disseminated. Understanding intellectual property and how to protect it are some of the new challenges that we face. Of course computers have given rise to a whole new category of intellectual property, especially computer software. A major commercial program can take a team of one hundred or more highly skilled and highly paid programmers years to create and sell for hundreds of dollars per copy. The fundamental problem with intellectual property as an ethical ca...

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IBM was created as IBM by T. J. Watson, Sr. from a small company, the Computing and Tabulating Company, which he happened to lead near the beginning of this century. Watson Sr. built the company into a leader of office equipment, which at the time consisted largely of time clocks and eventually punc...

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For example, if a hotel were implementing a new property management system, the computer-training program would walk the trainee through the step-by-step through check in and check out procedure with the actual screens as if the trainee were actually checking a guest out. ... The trainee would be more familiar with the property management system when he or she uses it on the job because the same computer was used during the training program. ...

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CHAPTER 1 Introduction The year 2000 computer issue is defined by Zetlin (1998) as "the result of a universal programming standard that records dates as six digits rather than eight, using only two digits for the year. Software that uses two-digit year fields (that is, almost all of it) will understand the year 2000 as "00- if the problem is not corrected in time- (pg. 1). The medical industry as a whole will approach year 2000 with months of new system implementations and developing contingency plans to deal with problems associated with Y2K. Medical manufacturers must pay close atte...

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Software Crimes: The Ethical and Economical Downfalls In 1996, worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $15.2 billion to the software industry, with losses of $5.1 billion in North America alone. Some sources put the total up-to-date losses due to software crime as...

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According to the Encyclopedia of Management, "Machines with the capacity to learn, store knowledge, utilize commonsense reasoning, apply analytical abilities, discern relationships between facts, communicate ideas and perceive the world around us are intelligent" (15). ...

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INTRODUCTION "Global computer-based communications cut across territorial borders, creating a new realm of human activity and undermining the feasibility "and legitimacy "of applying laws based on geographic boundaries."" (Post and Johnson 1996) The Internet is a relatively new phenomenon and this "cyberspace- is causing problems for regulatory systems. The Internet is a world that is very difficult to govern and it is because of this that criminals are discovering the net as a place to conduct illegal activity. It is the government's goal to understand the reasons ...

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