is prohibited.
Embedded. Information.System
Information
Organisations and their processes cannot function without information. To determine
the strategy, an organisation will bring its means and its goals in balance (Bernard,
1976; Liddell Hart, 1991). Therefore it will seek a permanent way for information
that can be transformed to intelligence (analysed and integrated information needed
for a decision process (Rabaey, 2005). This strategy is then deployed throughout the
organisation to the processes. As already treated, processes are the modules which
form the capabilities to produce the output (see Figure 6).
An information system supports the information housekeeping of the organisation
and its processes. ???The term ???information system??™ means a discrete set of information
resources organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, transmission,
and dissemination of information, in accordance with defined procedures, whether
automated or manual??? (U.S. Office of Management & Budget [OMB], 1996).
Instead of exchanging information between processes and managing these processes,
the automation of an information system into applications tend to facilitate the
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