Reference no: EM132713274

BIT203 Management Information Systems - Emirates College of Technology

LO #1: Identify the role of Information Systems in business.

LO #2: Distinguish between the various types of Information Systems.

LO #3: Evaluate the strengths and limitations of systems building approaches.

LO #4: Choose the key networking and internet technologies to support communication and e-business.

Task 1
1. Choose any business firm / organization.

Explain through a precise example the differences in terms of decision making performed in a TPS and ESS of this firm. (5 marks)

2. Select any business process within this firm, describe it as a set of steps then fill the following table (flow, information, sender and receiver)

Task 2:

Prototyping and Outsourcing are common system-building approaches.
1. Distinguish between these two methodologies and explain the main characteristics of each building approach.
 Distinguish Prototyping:

explain the main characteristics of Prototyping:

Distinguish Outsourcing:

explain the main characteristics of Outsourcing:

2. Provide five reasons explaining why firms adopt one of those two methodologies as a main system development methodology?

Task 3

1. Select any real-life e-business firm in the public or private sector in UAE

2. Explain and discuss how telecommunications tools, Internet connection and wireless technology have contributed to support the distant working processes in this firm during the Covid-19 crisis.

a. Telecommunications tools.

b. Internet connection.

c. Wireless technology.