CS507 Glossary

1. ​ Arrow

It indicates the flow of procedure in a flow chart

2. ​ Connector

Connector are used in flow charts to reduce the number of flow lines

3. ​ Data Flow Diagram

A data flow diagram (DFD) is graphic representation of the "flow" of data through a process. It is used for the visualization of data processing.

4. ​ Flow chart

A schematic representation of a sequence of operations in a computer program

5. ​ Flow diagrams

A flow diagram is a graphical means of presenting, describing, or analyzing a process.

6. ​ Flow lines

It represents the movement of data

7. ​ HOD

It satnds for head of department

8. ​ Predefined Process

Where two or more steps are repeated in a standard sequence, they are collectively represented by predefined process.

9. ​ Shipment

The act of sending off something or dispatching

10. ​Single attribute

In which one value completely defines the attributes. E.g the age of a person

11. ​Terminator

It indicates from where the process starts and where its end

Q12. ​What is a service sector?

Final product is intangible, so information is critical at various steps, e.g. preparation, delivery and customer satisfaction. Quality maintenance is an issue which requires structured reporting.

Q13. ​What is trading sector?

Every organization has some plans and targets that have to be achieved, there are some systems, rules and procedures which must be planned and scheduled timely. For this, plan is developed and these plans are implemented and monitored time to time. Monitoring requires information for each product, e.g. • Customer profiles • Customer Comments • Volume of sales

Q14. ​What is Data and Information?

Data is the raw facts and figures but information is the processed form of data. Example: data of all the employees working in an organization can be converted into information when we perform different operation on this data. For example we get data about all the employees working in HRM department now this data is called information.

Q15. ​What is Conglomerate organization structure?

Conglomerate organization structure means a corporation made up of a number of companies that works in different fields. In other words different companies are merged in a corporation but their activities are different from their parent company.

Q16. ​what is Flat Organization Structure?

This is a type of organizational structure that has few level of management between executive levels and the other front line staff of the organization. The main objective of this structure is to minimize the bureaucracy by including the employees in decision making process. The well trained employees can be more productive for an organization if they become the part of the decision making process. This structure is suitable for small organizations and individual units of large organization. The flat structure can be more productive if the role of middle management is eliminated by assigning more responsibilities to the lower level employees.

Q17. ​What is Information Quality?

Information Quality is a survival issue for both public and private sectors: companies & governments with the best information have a clear competitive edge. IQ is based on rigorous relevant research, analysis, and practical experience.

18. ​What is difference between primary, secondary and tertiary resources.

Primary Resources: Autobiographies correspondence descriptions of travel diaries literary works interviews personal narratives paintings and photographs Secondary Resources: Biographies prior books & papers on a topic literary criticism & interpretation history & historical criticism political analyses reviews of law and legislation essays on morals and ethics analyses of social policy study and teaching material Tertiary Resources: Abstracts bibliographies chronologies classifications dictionaries & encyclopedias directories guidebooks and manuals population registers statistics

Q19. ​What type of information increases when organization is expanding?

When an organization is becoming expanded nation wide or world wide, the importance of information system also increases. It becomes very difficult to keep the whole records of an organization manually. So there is a great need of developing an information system to handle growing information. Your question is what kind of information increases, with the organizational point of view information will be about all the activities and all the personnel involved in the organizational activities should be saved. An organizational information system keeps record of its employees, its products, its sales & purchase, records of different locations in which the organization’s branches are located, records of its customers and all the other required information relevant to the organization.

Q20. ​What is audience centered?

Every one should receive that part of information that is relevant to the user. The specific information must reach to the specific user in accurate and correct manner. A design philosophy and a process in which the needs, wants, and limitations of end users of a product are given extensive attention at each stage of the design process. User-centered design can be characterized as a multi-stage problem solving process that not only requires designers to analyze and foresee how users are likely to use a product, but also to test the validity of their assumptions with regards to user behavior in real world tests with actual users. Such testing is necessary as it is often very difficult for the designers of a product to understand intuitively what a first-time user of their design experiences, and what each user's learning curve may look like.