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| Chief Information Officer |
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| Executive level individuals responsible for the information systems component within their organization |
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| Computer-Based Information System |
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| Systems using computers to provide useful data to people |
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| Organizations looking for ways to streamline business functions and, in some cases, to slash costs and replace people |
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| Refers to physical computer equipment such as the computer monitor, central processing unit or keyboard |
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| Combination of hardware, software and telecommunications networks that people build and use to collect, create and distribute useful data, typically in organizational settings |
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| Information Technology (IT) |
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| Any type of technology that is controlled by or uses information |
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| New economy/Digital world |
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| Professionals who are reletively well educated and who create, modify and/or synthesize knowledge as a fundamental part of their jobs |
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| A world in which people work with their brains instead of their hands |
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| Many of the more routine jobs are done this way, these jobs and/or tasks are being conducted by people in another firm, in another part of the country, or on another continent |
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| A program or set of programs that tell the computer to perform certain tasks |
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| Connecting seperate information systems and data to improve business processes and decision making |
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| Telecommunications Networks |
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| A group of two or more computer systems linked together with communications equipment |
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