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Unstructured data is data that has a defined length, type, and format and includes numbers, dates, or strings such as Customer Address.

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B) False

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How does the text recommend that a company operate if it wants to be successful in the information age?

A) Functionally independent between departments.
B) Interdependently between departments.
C) Together as one department with little or no independence.
D) Each department acting as its own individual business unit.

E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

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Information is data converted into useful, meaningful context.What are data characteristics that change or vary over time?

The business decisions made by the marketing department include promotional data, sales data, and advertising data.

What data is created by a machine without human intervention?

What is the science of fact-based decision making?

What are goods?

What type of report can include a sales report from last year or salary report from five years ago?

The information age is the present time, during which infinite quantities of facts are widely available to anyone who can use a computer.

MIS is a business function.Which of the following does MIS perform to help aid the company in decision making and problem solving?

Cheryl Steffan is the operations manager for Nature's Bread Company, which specializes in providing natural products for health-conscious individuals.Cheryl is responsible for compiling, analyzing, and evaluating daily sales numbers to determine the company's profitability and forecast production for the next day.Which of the following is an example of knowledge that Cheryl would be using to successfully perform her job?

The business decisions made by the accounting department include employee data, promotion data, and vacation data.

Cars, groceries, and clothing are all examples of goods.

Which of the following is considered data?

What is the rate at which goods and services are produced based upon total output given total inputs?

Cooking a patty and putting the ingredients together are included in the process of making a hamburger.

The challenge that companies today sometimes have is that they are departmentalized and act independently of each other.One solution that can help a company work ___________ includes management information systems.

Companies update business strategies continuously as internal and external environments change.

The sales department needs to rely on information from operations to understand _________.

Top managers use social intelligence to define the future of the business, analyzing markets, industries and economies to determine the strategic direction the company must follow to remain unprofitable.