Business Driven Technology

                               

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY'S IMPACT ON BUSINESS OPERATIONS :

• Organizations typically operate by functional areas or functional silos

• Functional areas are interdependent

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BASICS

•  Information technology (IT) its a field concerned with the use of technology in managing and processing information

•  Information technology is an important enabler of business success and innovation
• Management information systems (MIS) - a general name for the business function and academic discipline covering the application of people, technologies, and procedures to solve business problems
• MIS is a business function, similar to Accounting, Finance, Operations, and Human Resources
• When beginning to learn about information technology it is important to understand                                      - Data, information, and business intelligence                                                                                       - IT resources                                                                                                                                        - IT cultures

DATA INFORMATION, AND BI

• Data- raw facts that describe the characteristic of an event
• Information- data converted into a meaningful and useful context
• Business intelligence- applications and technologies that are used to support decision making effort

IT RESOURCES

1. People use
2. Information technology to work with
3. Information

 IT CULTURES
Organizational information cultures include :

• Information-functional culture

          Employees use information as a means of exercising influence or power over others. For example, a             manager in sales refuses 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 culture

          Employees across departments trust each other to use infomation (especially about 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.