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Business Information Systems
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INF 0116BUSSINESS INFORMATION
SYSTEM
LECTURE # 2Information Systems in Global
Business today
ABDULLA, ALI A
Objectives
• Identify and describe important features of organizations that managers need to know about in order to build and use information systems successfully
• Evaluate the impact of information systems on organizations
• Assess how information systems support the activities of managers in organizations
Objectives
• Analyze how information systems support various business strategies for competitive advantage
ORGANIZATIONS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
The Two-Way Relationship between Organizations and Information Technology
• Stable, formal social structure that takes resources from the environment and processes them to produce outputs
• A social unit of people that is structured and managed to meet a need or to pursue collective goals.
What is an Organization?
Organization
• All organizations have a management structure that determines relationships between the different activities and the members, and subdivides and assigns roles, responsibilities, and authority to carry out different tasks.
• Organizations are open systems--they affect and are affected by their environment.
ORGANIZATIONS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Common feature of organization
• All organizations have some similar “structural” features.
Shared features of all Organization
• Clear division of labor • Hierarchy• Explicit rules and procedures• Impartial judgments• Technical qualifications for positions• Maximum organizational efficiency
Routines and Business Processes
• Routines are patterns of individual behavior.• Business processes are a collection of
routines.• Business firms are a collection of business
processes.• Business processes enable organizations to
cope with all recurring expected situations.
Routines, Business Processes, and Firms
• Structures• Goals• Constituencies• Leadership styles• Tasks• Surrounding environments
Unique Features of Organizations
Environments and Organizations Have a Joint Relationship
Level of Information System in an Organization
Level of system cont..
• Operational level system– Information systems that monitor the basic
activities and transactions of the organization• Knowledge-level system– Information systems that support knowledge and
data workers in an organization.• Management-level system– Information systems that support the monitoring,
controlling, decision making, and administrative activities of middle managers.
• Strategic-level system:– Information systems that support the long-range
planning activities of senior management .
Level of system cont..
How Information System help Organizations (Business process)
• Achieve great efficiencies by automating parts of processes
• Rethink and streamline processes• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
– Manages all ways used by firms to deal withexisting and potential new customers
– Uses information system to coordinate entire business processes of a firm
– Provides end-to-end customer care– Provides a unified view of customer across the company– Consolidates customer data from multiple sources and
provides analytical tools for answering questions
IS vs Business process cont..
• Supply Chain Management (SCM)– Close linkage and coordination of activities involved in
buying, making, and moving a product– Integrates supplier, manufacturer, distributor, and
customer, logistics, time– Reduces time, redundant effort, and inventory costs– Network of organizations and business processes– Helps in procurement of materials, transformation of
raw materials into finished products– Helps in distribution of the finished products to
customers
End of Lecture 2Any Question?