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Chapter 1: Managing Information in Modern Organizations

Figure 1.1: The applications portfolio grid. Source: ACCA (2001) Business Information Management: paper 3.4 textbook, Foulks Lynch Ltd.

Figure 4.1: The communication process.
Figure 4.2: The context of the concept information system . Source: Land, 1985

Figure 5.1: A process model of the active human agent in the world.
Figure 5.2: A process model of active human agents in the world.
Figure 5.3: The organizational form of the model of the social process in which meanings are established and lead to information support for people undertaking purposeful action: the processes for organization meanings (POM) model.

Figure 8.1: Examples of business information systems. Note how they support the major functional areas of business.
Figure 8.2: The new product development process in a manufacturing company. This business process must be supported by cross-functional information systems that cross the boundaries of several business functions. (Source: Adapted and reprinted by permission of The Harvard Business School Press from Process Innovation: Reengineering Work Through Information Technology by Davenport, T.H. (Boston: 1993), p. 222. Copyright 1993 by Ernst & Young.)
Figure 8.3: Marketing information systems provide information...

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