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Management Information System
with Internet Tecnologies
Part 1 Organizations, Management
and the Networked Enterprise
Chapter 1
Information Systems in Global Business
Today
Opening Case: New Yankee Stadium
The Role of Information Systems in
Business Today
How Information Systems are
transforming business
• More wireless cell phone accounts
were opened in 2009 than telephone
land lines installed
• Eighty-nine million people in the
United States access the Interne t using
mobile devices in 2010, that is nearly
half the Internet user population
• In June 2010, more than 99 million
businesses worldwide had dot-com
Internet sites registered.
• As newspaper readership continues to
decline , more than 78 million people
receive their news online.
• Social Networking site Facebook had
attracted 134 million monthly visitors in
2010 in the U.S. and over 500 million
worldwide.
Globalization Challenges and
Opportunities: A Flattened World
• In 1492, Columbus reaffirmed what
astronomers were long saying: the
world was round and the seas could
be safely sailed.
• As it turned out, the world was
populated by peoples and languages
living in isolation from one another,
with great disparities in economic and
scientific development.
• The world trade that ensues after
Columbus’ voyage has brought these
peoples and cultures together
• Hence the start of “Industrial
Revolution”
• In 2005, journalist Thomas
Friedman wrote an influential
book declaring that the world
was now “flat”. by which he
meant that the Internet and
global communications had
greatly reduced the economic
and cultural advantages of
developed countries.
• Friedman argued that the U.S.
and European countries were
in a fight for their economic
lives, competing for jobs,
markets, resources, and even
ideas with highly educated,
motivated populations in low-
wage areas in the less
developed world
The Emerging Digital Firm
• A digital firm is one in which nearly all of the
organization’s significant business relationships
with customers, suppliers, and employees are
digitally enabled and mediated. Core business
processes are accomplished through digital
networks spanning the entire organization or
linking multiple organizations.
Business Processes
• Business processes refer to the set of logically
related tasks and behaviors that organizations
develop over time to produce specific business
results and the unique manner in which these
activities are organized and coordinated.
• Examples: Developing a new product,
generating and fulfilling an order, creating a
market plan and hiring an employee
Time and Space Shifting
• In digital firms, both time shifting and space
shifting are the norm.
• Time shifting refers to business being
conducted continuously, 24/7 rather than in
narrow “work day” time bands of 9:00 am to
5:00 pm.
• Space shifting means that work takes place in
a global workshop, as well as within national
boundaries. Work is accomplished physically
wherever in the world it is best accomplished.
Strategic Business Objectives of
Information Systems
• Operational Excellence
• New Products, Services and Business Models
• Customer and Supplier Intimacy
• Improved Decision Making
• Competitive Advantage
• Survival
What is Information Technology?
• Information Technology can be defined
technically as a set of interrelated components
that collect (or retrieve), process, store, and
distribute information to support decision
making and control in an organization.
Data and Information
• Information systems contain information about
significant people, places, and things within the
organization or in the environment surrounding it.
• By information we mean data that have been
shaped into a form that is meaningful and useful to
human beings.
• Data, in contrast, are streams of raw facts
representing events occurring in organizations or
the physical environment before they have been
organized and arranged into a form that people can
understand and use.
Raw data from a supermarket checkout counter can be processed
and organized to produce meaningful information, such as the total
unit sales of dish detergent or the total sales revenue from dish
detergent for a specific store or sales territory.
Information System Activities
• Input captures or collects raw data from within the
organization or from its external environment.
• Processing converts this raw input into a meaning
form
• Output transfers the processed information to the
people who will use it or to the activities for which it
will be used. Information Systems also require
feedback, which is output that is returned to
appropriate members of the organization to help
them evaluate or correct the input stage.
An information system contains information about an organization and its
surrounding environment. Three basic activities—input, processing, and
output—produce the information organizations need.
Information Systems Literacy
• Information systems literacy is the broader
understanding of information systems, which
encompasses an understanding of the
management and organizational dimensions of
systems as well as the technical dimensions of
systems.
• The field Management Information
Systems (MIS) tries to achieve this broader
information systems literacy.
Using information systems effectively requires an understanding of the
organization, management, and information technology shaping the systems.
Dimensions of Information Systems
Organizations
• Information systems are an integral part of
organizations.
• The key elements of an organization are its people,
structure, business processes, politics, and culture.
• Organizations have a structure that is composed of
different levels and specialties. Their structures
reveal a clear-cut division of labor. Authority and
responsibility in a business firm are organized as a
hierarchy, or a pyramid structure. The upper levels
of the hierarchy consist of managerial, professional,
and technical employees, whereas the lower levels
consist of operational personnel.
Business organizations are hierarchies
consisting of three principal levels: senior
management, middle management, and
operational management.
Management
• Management’s job is to make sense out of the
many situations faced by organizations, make
decisions, and formulate action plans to solve
organizational problems.
• Managers perceive business challenges in the
environment; they set the organizational
strategy for responding to those challenges; and
they allocate the human and financial resources
to coordinate the work and achieve success.
Information Technology
• Information technology is one of many tools managers use to
cope with change.
▫ Computer Hardware is the physical equipment used for input,
processing, and output activities in an information system.
▫ Computer software consists of the detailed, preprogrammed
instructions that control and coordinate the computer hardware
components in an information system.
▫ Data management technology consists of the software
governing the organization of data on physical storage media.
▫ Networking and telecommunications technology,
consisting of both physical devices and software, links the various
pieces of hardware and transfers.
▫ A network links two or more computers to share data and
resources.
End of Chapter 1

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Management Information Technology - Chapter 1

  • 1. Management Information System with Internet Tecnologies Part 1 Organizations, Management and the Networked Enterprise
  • 2. Chapter 1 Information Systems in Global Business Today
  • 3. Opening Case: New Yankee Stadium
  • 4.
  • 5.
  • 6. The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
  • 7. How Information Systems are transforming business • More wireless cell phone accounts were opened in 2009 than telephone land lines installed • Eighty-nine million people in the United States access the Interne t using mobile devices in 2010, that is nearly half the Internet user population • In June 2010, more than 99 million businesses worldwide had dot-com Internet sites registered. • As newspaper readership continues to decline , more than 78 million people receive their news online. • Social Networking site Facebook had attracted 134 million monthly visitors in 2010 in the U.S. and over 500 million worldwide.
  • 8.
  • 9.
  • 10. Globalization Challenges and Opportunities: A Flattened World • In 1492, Columbus reaffirmed what astronomers were long saying: the world was round and the seas could be safely sailed. • As it turned out, the world was populated by peoples and languages living in isolation from one another, with great disparities in economic and scientific development. • The world trade that ensues after Columbus’ voyage has brought these peoples and cultures together • Hence the start of “Industrial Revolution”
  • 11. • In 2005, journalist Thomas Friedman wrote an influential book declaring that the world was now “flat”. by which he meant that the Internet and global communications had greatly reduced the economic and cultural advantages of developed countries. • Friedman argued that the U.S. and European countries were in a fight for their economic lives, competing for jobs, markets, resources, and even ideas with highly educated, motivated populations in low- wage areas in the less developed world
  • 12. The Emerging Digital Firm • A digital firm is one in which nearly all of the organization’s significant business relationships with customers, suppliers, and employees are digitally enabled and mediated. Core business processes are accomplished through digital networks spanning the entire organization or linking multiple organizations.
  • 13. Business Processes • Business processes refer to the set of logically related tasks and behaviors that organizations develop over time to produce specific business results and the unique manner in which these activities are organized and coordinated. • Examples: Developing a new product, generating and fulfilling an order, creating a market plan and hiring an employee
  • 14. Time and Space Shifting • In digital firms, both time shifting and space shifting are the norm. • Time shifting refers to business being conducted continuously, 24/7 rather than in narrow “work day” time bands of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. • Space shifting means that work takes place in a global workshop, as well as within national boundaries. Work is accomplished physically wherever in the world it is best accomplished.
  • 15. Strategic Business Objectives of Information Systems • Operational Excellence • New Products, Services and Business Models • Customer and Supplier Intimacy • Improved Decision Making • Competitive Advantage • Survival
  • 16. What is Information Technology? • Information Technology can be defined technically as a set of interrelated components that collect (or retrieve), process, store, and distribute information to support decision making and control in an organization.
  • 17. Data and Information • Information systems contain information about significant people, places, and things within the organization or in the environment surrounding it. • By information we mean data that have been shaped into a form that is meaningful and useful to human beings. • Data, in contrast, are streams of raw facts representing events occurring in organizations or the physical environment before they have been organized and arranged into a form that people can understand and use.
  • 18. Raw data from a supermarket checkout counter can be processed and organized to produce meaningful information, such as the total unit sales of dish detergent or the total sales revenue from dish detergent for a specific store or sales territory.
  • 19. Information System Activities • Input captures or collects raw data from within the organization or from its external environment. • Processing converts this raw input into a meaning form • Output transfers the processed information to the people who will use it or to the activities for which it will be used. Information Systems also require feedback, which is output that is returned to appropriate members of the organization to help them evaluate or correct the input stage.
  • 20. An information system contains information about an organization and its surrounding environment. Three basic activities—input, processing, and output—produce the information organizations need.
  • 21. Information Systems Literacy • Information systems literacy is the broader understanding of information systems, which encompasses an understanding of the management and organizational dimensions of systems as well as the technical dimensions of systems. • The field Management Information Systems (MIS) tries to achieve this broader information systems literacy.
  • 22. Using information systems effectively requires an understanding of the organization, management, and information technology shaping the systems. Dimensions of Information Systems
  • 23. Organizations • Information systems are an integral part of organizations. • The key elements of an organization are its people, structure, business processes, politics, and culture. • Organizations have a structure that is composed of different levels and specialties. Their structures reveal a clear-cut division of labor. Authority and responsibility in a business firm are organized as a hierarchy, or a pyramid structure. The upper levels of the hierarchy consist of managerial, professional, and technical employees, whereas the lower levels consist of operational personnel.
  • 24. Business organizations are hierarchies consisting of three principal levels: senior management, middle management, and operational management.
  • 25. Management • Management’s job is to make sense out of the many situations faced by organizations, make decisions, and formulate action plans to solve organizational problems. • Managers perceive business challenges in the environment; they set the organizational strategy for responding to those challenges; and they allocate the human and financial resources to coordinate the work and achieve success.
  • 26. Information Technology • Information technology is one of many tools managers use to cope with change. ▫ Computer Hardware is the physical equipment used for input, processing, and output activities in an information system. ▫ Computer software consists of the detailed, preprogrammed instructions that control and coordinate the computer hardware components in an information system. ▫ Data management technology consists of the software governing the organization of data on physical storage media. ▫ Networking and telecommunications technology, consisting of both physical devices and software, links the various pieces of hardware and transfers. ▫ A network links two or more computers to share data and resources.