10/5/21 Information Technology, Management Information System & Big Data pattern of exchange the market Conti nous info , done e for flow of E systematically IT: An organization’s processes for creating, storing, exchanging, using, and managing information. MIS: A means for gathering, analyzing and reporting relevant data to provide managers and other decision makers with a continuous flow of information about markets, customers, competitors and company operations. Big Data: Extremely large data sets that can be subjected to computational analysis to reveal patterns and trends. Copyright © 2017 Pearson Education, Ltd. 6-3 Sources of Information • Primary and secondary sources – Primary • Personal sources • Seeing, feeling, hearing, smelling, or tasting firsthand to find out what is going on in a country – Secondary → done first • Business intelligence • Management/marketing information systems Copyright © 2017 Pearson Education, Ltd. 6-4 2 10/5/21 Formal Marketing Research → consumer → → future based Copyright © 2017 Pearson Education, Ltd. needs plans on competition 6-5 Formal Marketing Research, (cont.) Copyright © 2017 Pearson Education, Ltd. 6-6 3