CHAPTER 1

  BUSINESS DRIVEN TECHNOLOGY

Information Technology's Role in Business

 IT is everywhere in Business. E.g:

 

Information Technology's impact on Business Operation

- organization typically operate by functonal areas or functional silos

- functional area are independent

functional organization= each functional area has its own systems and communicates with every other functioal are

                     

Information Technology Basic

- IT is a feild concerned with the use of technology in managing and process the information

- it is also an important enabler of business success and innovation

- Management Information Systems (MIS) is a general name for the business function and academic discipline covering the application of people, technologies, and procedured to slove business procedures to solve business problems

- MIS is a business function, similar to Accounting, Finance, Operation ans Human Resources

Data, information and business intelligence IT resource and IT cultures are the important to learn about IT

Information

- Data = raw facts that describe the characteristic of an event

- Information = data converted into a meanigful and useful context

- Business intelligence = applications and technologies that are use to support decision- making efforts

IT resources 

-people use

- information technology to work with
- information

Organizational IT cultures

- IT cultures = Employees use information as a means of exercising influence or power over others. E.g: Sales manager refuse to share information with marketing. This causes marketing to need the sales manager's input each time a new sales strategy is developed.

- Information-sharing cultures = Employees across departments trust each other to use information (esp problems and failures) to improve performance

- Information-inquiring culture = Employess across departments search for information to better understand the future and align themselves with current trends and new directions

- Information-discovery culture = Employees across departments are open to new insights about crisis and radical changes and seek ways to create competitive advantages