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I attended the MIS kickoff meeting on April 3rd, that was held by Dr. Chung. The event was extremely helpful in learning things outside of the classroom such as connecting MIS to other business concepts that one might not think connect. Also, they reiterated to go out and learn more about topics your interested in, ask questions, and shake hands. Here is the link to the event https://my.chatham.edu/happenings/get_event.cfm?m1=4&y1=2018&d1=3&EventID=22215.

At the meeting, the speakers spoke about how data and knowing how to find and manage date can help in all areas of business, such as accounting be cause by tracking data it can help our statistics to follow our business. In the textbook, they talk about how data is generated in all aspects of life. Before these lessons, doing certain things such as buying a bag of chips to buying house is all data that we generate and is useful in someway. Sometimes security of data is major issue. In recent news, Mark Zuckerberg has been under heat for selling Facebook member's data to companies that members have not given permission to have. Although data is very useful in so many different ways, it is very important to keep it safe.

In the article, "How Effective Managers Use Information Systems," by Steven L. Atler, on hbr.org, he talked about how in today's world applications are being developed to support managers and help them effectively run their business. Thanks to information systems, this is extremely beneficial in today's world for speeding up the process of gather data, reading reports, and other things to make life of a manager easier.