1. BIS 220 Computer Applications and Systems
WORKSHOP III
RAJI GOGULAPATI, JULY 2014
2. Workshop II Review
Wireless World
Business Uses of information
Management & Decision Making
Role & Focus of Information Tools
Summary
Your activities for coming week
TOPICS
3. Workshop II Review
Wireless World
Business Uses of information
Management & Decision Making
Role & Focus of Information Tools
Summary
Your activities for coming week
Topics – Wireless World
13. Current state of affairs at organizations
How will this present to the market place?
How are web/ mobile/ wireless apps related?
14. Human and organizational behavior changes
Closed versus open security issues
Work life balances and boundaries
Smart, context aware users interactions
Generation Z
Wireless and Human Health
Emerging Markets – Prahlad’s fortune at the bottom of the pyramid
Source: Chapter Two, New world of wireless by Scott Snyder
DRIVERS
15. How does the organization operate?
How much of the work/ operations is done wireless?
Geographic footprint?
Other Factors?
Success Factors for wireless in organizations
16. Discuss, compare and contrast possible future scenarios for industries/ regions
Scenarios for business impact
17. Workshop II Review
Wireless World
Business Uses of information
Management & Decision Making
Role & Focus of Information Tools
Summary
Your activities for coming week
TOPICS
19. • Accounting
• Finance
• Human resources
• Production operations
• Marketing
What are the
functional
areas in an
organization?
• ?
• ?
Lack of
integration
21. Operational
Business Processes
• Develop new
products,
services
• Market and sell
new products
and services
• Order
management
• Manage logistics
• Provide
customer
support
Business Process
Perspectives
Infrastructure
Business Processes
• Manage
performance
• Finance and
operations
• Human
resources
• Information
resources
• Physical assets
• Support services
24. Core idea
What business
processes are
supported by ERP?
If Not ERP?
• Complete
Integration of
organization
systems
• ?
• ?
• ?
• ?
Enterprise Resource Planning
25. ERP Horror stories
Hershey’s two
days before
Halloween of
1999 – “...It can’t
fill its orders Even
as Inventory
Grows” – Wall
Street Journal
Nike’s installation
of i2
Technologies’
supply chain
applications
(2001)
Medical Products
Maker Invacare’s
Oracle ebusiness
suite
http://www.cio.com/article/486284/_Famous_ERP_Disasters_Dustups_and_Disappointments
28. Workshop II Review
Wireless World
Business Uses of information
Management & Decision Making
Role & Focus of Information Tools
Summary
Your activities for coming week
TOPICS
29. Intelligence
• Expanding the reach
• Leading to a culture of inquiry
Design
• Scientific method with statistical evidence
• Context
Choice
• More data sources, better access to results
• Ability to scale, better access to results, more user
friendly visual tools
Phases in Corporate decision making process
30. How does computer support fit
in this?
Nature of decisions
Operational
control
Management
control
Type of
decisions
Strategic
planning
Decision Making Framework
31. Workshop II Review
Wireless World
Business Uses of information
Management & Decision Making
Role & Focus of Information Tools
Summary
Your activities for coming week
Topics
33. “The processes, technologies, and tools needed to turn data
into information, information into knowledge into plans that
drive profitable business action. Business intelligence
encompasses data warehousing, business analytic tools, and
content/ knowledge management”
- Data Warehousing Institute
Business Intelligence
38. Summary
Tools are evolving, converging for consumers, technologists and decision makers
Several business management solutions to conduct business intelligently!
39. Work on the team assignments
Prepare for your final exam.
Read:
Selected Readings specified in Materials page,
Refer to your syllabus for details on activities during the
workshop
Your activities for coming week
40. The chapters recommended from the electronic texts in
Materials were used.
Sources of images:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-
D/ict/statistics/material/graphs/20112/graphs/mob%20cell%20
01-11.JPG
http://www.itu.int/itunews/issue/2003/06/thirdgeneration.h
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The new world of Wireless by Scott Snyder, Wharton School
Publishing for the Wireless technologies portion of the
workshop
Source Material Used in Workshop