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Portfolio Assessment
Part 1
Answer the following questions:
Question 1. How can a manager turn data into information?
Question 2. What are the relationships among data, information, business intelligence, and knowledge?
Question 3. Why is it important for a company to operate cross-functionally?
Question 4. Do you agree that MIS is essential for businesses operating in the information age? Why or why not?
Question 5. Explain systems thinking and how it supports business operations.
Part 2
Question 1. Why must business professionals understand how MIS supports decision making and problem solving?
Question 2. What is the relationship between critical success factors and key performance indicators? How can a manager use them to understand business operations?
Question 3. what are the three levels of management found in a company? What types of decisions are made at each level?
Question 4. Why do managers need to understand business processes? Can you make a correlation between systems thinking and business processes?
Question 5. Explain how finding different ways to travel the same road relates to automation, streamlining, and business process reengineering.