• Understanding the effects of info

• Understanding the effects of information systems on business and their
relationship to globalization.
• Explain why information systems are so essential in business today.
• Define an information system and describe its management,
organization, and technology components.
• Define complementary assets and explain how they ensure that
information systems provide genuine value to an organization.
• Describe the different academic disciplines used to study information
systems and explain how each contributes to our understanding of them.
• Explain what is meant by a sociotechnical systems perspective.