information age - Answers the present time, during which infinite quantities of facts are widely available
to anyone who can use a computer
data - Answers raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event or object.
information - Answers data converted into a meaningful and useful context.
business intelligence - Answers information collected from multiple sources that analyzes patterns,
trends, and relationships for strategic decision making.
knowledge - Answers the skills, experience, and expertise, couples with information and intelligence,
that creates a persons intellectual resources.
human resources - Answers maintains policies, plans, and procedures for the effective management of
employees
sales - Answers performs the function of selling goods and services
marketing - Answers supports sales by planning, pricing, and promoting goods and services
accounting - Answers records, measures, and reports monetary transactions
finance - Answers deals with strategic financial issues including, money, banking, credit, investments,
and assets.
operations management - Answers manages the process of converting or transforming of resources into
goods and services
sales and marketing - Answers focus on moving good and services into hands of customers. Maintain
transactional data.
finance and accounting - Answers focus on managing the companys resources. maintain monetary data.
operations - Answers focuses on manufacturing. maintains production data
HR - Answers focuses on hiring and training people. Maintains employee data.
systems thinking - Answers a way of monitoring the entire system by viewing multiple inputs being
processed or transformed to produce outputs while continuously gathering feedback on each part.
CSO - Answers responsible for ensuring the security of business systems and developing strategies and
safeguards against attacks by hackers and viruses.
CKO - Answers responsible for collecting, maintaining, and distributing company knowledge.