Chapter 4, Problem 4RQ

Program Plan Intro

Information Systems:

• An information system is a system, which provides the necessary information to an organization to achieve goals.
• It monitors the transactions details, provide required information to decision makers, and provides necessary documents to the customers.
• The main components in an information system include people, data, procedures, hardware, and software.
• The main function of information system is to accept and process the input data, and then store the retrieved information and distribute it across the organization.

Explanation of Solution

Principle causes of system quality problems:

The three principle reasons for poor system performance are as follows:

• Software threats and faults
• Facility disappointments produced by usual or other reasons.
• Data quality is poor.

In the software code, no zero defects are achieved because the bugs cannot be estimated...

Explanation of Solution

Four quality of life impacts of computers and information systems:

• Balancing Power and Maintaining boundaries
  • Human jobs are vanished when computers substitute the workers; the tasks become pointless in re-engineered business methods.
  • Skill to individual and usage of computer creates worsening socioeconomic differences among different cultural people and social classes.
• Rapidity of change
  • The speed of technology is faster than ever before because the time-based competition has an unpleasant side.
  • The universal market place has condensed the usual social barriers that allowed businesses several years to regulate to competition...

Explanation of Solution

Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) and Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI) in Information Technology:

• RSI is a common occupational disease, which occurs on muscle groups with repetitive actions.
• In information technology, the main source is computer keyboards that creates carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in which stress occurs on the nerves...