After you have read the Introduction in your text and watched the lecture. Research on your own the following question:

Why do managers need to understand and participate in the information systems decisions of their organizations?

Create a thread to respond to the discussion post.

Note: Students must post an initial reply to the discussion prompt and at least one additional response to a classmate. All initial posts must contain a properly formatted in-text citation and scholarly reference.

A note about plagiarism (from the syllabus):

1. plagiarism—using the published writings, data, interpretations, or ideas of another without proper documentation. All of the following are considered plagiarism:
   1. turning in someone else's work as your own
   2.     copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
   3.     failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
   4.     giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
   5.     changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
   6.     copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)

Please see http://www.plagiarism.org/ for more details. This includes discussion boards. A plagiarized discussion board post will result in a zero for the assignment.