Silver et al. (1995) provided two views on IS that includes software, hardware, data, people, and procedures.
The Association for Computing Machinery defines "Information systems specialists [as] focus[ing] on … See more

Information technology departments in larger organizations tend to strongly influence the development, use, and application of information technology in the business. A series of methodologies and processes can be used to develop and use an information … See more

Information systems workers enter a number of different careers:
• Information system strategy
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• Rainer, R. Kelly and Cegielski, Casey G. (2009). "Introduction to Information Systems: Enabling and Transforming Business, 3rd Edition" Archived 2010-06-28 at the See more

The "classic" view of Information systems found in textbooks in the 1980s was a pyramid of systems that reflected the hierarchy of the organization, usually transaction processing systems at the bottom of the pyramid, followed by management … See more

The field of study called information systems encompasses a variety of topics including systems analysis and design, computer networking, information security, database … See more

Information systems research is generally interdisciplinary concerned with the study of the effects of information systems on the behaviour of individuals, groups, and organizations. Hevner et al. (2004) categorized research in IS into two scientific paradigms … See more