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2. 1- 2
Learning Objectives
1. Understand the concept of a system and how it
relates to information systems.
2. Explain why knowledge of information systems
is important for business professionals and
identify five areas of information systems
knowledge they need.
3. Give examples to illustrate how the business
applications of information systems can
support a firm’s business processes,
managerial decision making, and strategies for
competitive advantage.
3. 1- 3
Learning Objectives
4. Provide examples of several major types of
information systems from your experiences
with business organizations in the real world.
5. Identify several challenges that a business
manager might face in managing the
successful and ethical development and use of
information technology in a business.
4. 1- 4
Learning Objectives
6. Provide examples of the components of real
world information systems. Illustrate that in an
information system, people use hardware,
software, data and networks as resources to
perform input, processing, output, storage, and
control activities that transform data resources
into information products.
7. Demonstrate familiarity with the myriad of
career opportunities in information systems.
5. 1- 5
Case 1: Sew What? Inc.: The
Role of IT in Small Business
Success
• Sew What? provides custom theatrical draperies and
fabrics for stages, concerts, fashion shows, and special
events worldwide.
• After launching the company web site, they acquired
clients from all over the world and their revenue has been
growing more than 45% per year.
• Sew What? runs most of its business with Intuit’s Quick-
Books Enterprise Solutions & Dell PowerEdge servers.
• Recently, the National Federation of Independent
Businesses (NFIB) and Dell Inc. presented Sew What?
“Small Business Excellence Award” in recognition of its
innovative use of technology to improve its customers’
experience.
6. 1- 6
Case Study Questions
1. How do information technologies contribute to the
business success of Sew What? Give several examples
from the case regarding the business value of
information technology that demonstrate this
conclusion.
2. If you were a management consultant to Sew What?
Inc., what would you advise Megan Duckett to do at this
point to be even more successful in her business? What
role would information technology play in your
proposals? Provide several specific recommendations.
3. How could the use of information technology help a
small business you know be more successful? Provide
several examples to support your answer.
7. 1- 7
Real World Internet Activity
1. Search the Internet to help you evaluate the business
performance of Sew What? Inc. and its competitors at
the present time.
– What conclusions can you draw from your research about
Sew What?’s prospects for the future?
– Report your findings and recommendations for Sew
What?’s continued business success to the class.
2. Small businesses have been slower to integrate
information technology into their operations than larger
companies.
– Discuss the reasons for this state of affairs, identifying
several possible IT solutions and their business benefits
that could help small businesses be more successful.
8. 1- 8
Why study Information Systems and
Information Technology?
• Vital component of successful businesses
• Helps businesses expand and compete
• Businesses use IS and IT
– To improve efficiency and effectiveness of business
processes
– For managerial decision making
– For workgroup collaboration
9. 1- 9
What is a system?
• A system
– Is a set of interrelated components
– With a clearly defined boundary
– Working together to achieve a common set of
objectives
10. 1- 10
What is an Information System?
• An organized combination of
– People
– Hardware
– Software
– Communications networks
– Data resources
– Policies and procedures
• That stores, retrieves, transforms, and
disseminates information in an organization
11. 1- 11
Information System (IS) versus Information
Technology (IT)
• IS is all the components and resources
necessary to deliver information and functions to
the organization
• IT is hardware, software, networking and data
management
• In theory, IS could be paper based
• But we will focus on Computer-Based
Information Systems (CBIS)
13. 1- 13
What should a Business Professional
know about IS?
• Foundation Concepts: fundamental behavioral,
technical, business and managerial concepts
• Information Technology: Hardware, software,
networks, data management and Internet-based
technology
• Business Applications: Major uses of the IS in
the organization
• Development Processes: How to plan, develop
and implement IS to meet business opportunities
• Management Challenges: The challenges of
effectively and ethically managing IT
14. 1- 14
Fundamental Roles of IS in Business
• Support of business processes and operations.
• Support of decision making by employees and
managers.
• Support of strategies for competitive advantage.
17. 1- 17
What is E-business?
• The use of Internet technologies
– to work and empower business processes, electronic
commerce, and enterprise collaboration
– within a company and with its customers, suppliers, and
other business stakeholders.
• An online exchange of value.
19. 1- 19
E-business use
• Reengineer internal business processes
• Enterprise collaboration systems: support
communications, coordination and collaboration
among teams and work groups, e.g., virtual
teams
• Electronic commerce: buying, selling, marketing
and servicing of products and services over
computer networks
21. 1- 21
Operations support systems
• What are they?
– Efficiently process business transactions
– Control industrial processes
– Support communications and collaboration
– Update corporate databases
22. 1- 22
Types of Operations Support Systems
• Transaction Processing Systems
– Record and process data from business transactions
– Examples: sales processing, inventory systems,
accounting systems
• Process Control Systems
– Monitor and control physical processes
– Example: in a petroleum refinery use sensors to
monitor chemical processes
• Enterprise Collaboration Systems
– Enhance team and work group communications
– Examples: e-mail, videoconferencing
23. 1- 23
Two ways to process transactions
• Batch Processing:
– Accumulate transactions over time and process
periodically
– Example: a bank processes all checks received in a
batch at night
• Online Processing:
– Process transactions immediately
– Example: a bank processes an ATM withdrawal
immediately
24. 1- 24
Management Support Systems
• What are they?
– Provide information and support for effective decision
making by managers
25. 1- 25
Types of Management Support
Systems
• Management Information Systems (MIS)
– Provide reports and displays to managers
– Example: daily sales analysis reports
• Decision Support Systems (DSS)
– Provide interactive ad hoc support for decision making
– Example: A what-if-analysis to determine where to
spend advertising dollars
• Executive Information Systems (EIS)
– Provide critical information for executives and
managers
– Example: easy access to actions of competitors
26. 1- 26
Operational or Management Systems
• Expert Systems
– Provide expert advice
– Example: credit application advisor
• Knowledge Management Systems
– Support creation, organization and dissemination of
business knowledge throughout company
– Example: Intranet access to best business practices
27. 1- 27
Classifications of IS by scope
• Functional business systems
– Focus on operational and managerial applications of basic
business functions
– Examples: support accounting, finance or marketing
• Strategic information systems
– Help get a strategic advantage over its customers
– Examples: shipment tracking, e-commerce web systems
• Cross-functional information systems
– Systems that are combinations of several types of information
systems
– Provide support for many functions
29. 1- 29
Measuring success of an IS
• Efficiency
– Minimize cost, time and use of information resources
• Effectiveness
– Support business strategies
– Enable business processes
– Enhance organizational structure and culture
– Increase the customer and business value
• What’s the difference between Efficiency and
Effectiveness?
32. 1- 32
Ethical responsibilities
• What uses of IT might be considered improper or
harmful to other individuals or society?
• What is the proper business use of the Internet
or a company’s IT resources?
• How can you protect yourself from computer
crime?
33. 1- 33
Challenges of IT Careers
• Outsourcing of basic programming to India, the
Middle-East and Asia-Pacific countries
• Strong employment opportunities in other areas
in IS
• Shortage of qualified IS personnel
• Long-term job outlook positive and exciting
35. 1- 35
Job growth
• Among the fastest growing occupations through
2012
– Systems Analyst,
– Database administrators,
– Other managerial-level positions
– Network specialists
– Information security
36. 1- 36
IS Function represents
• Major functional area of business
• Important contributor to operational efficiency,
employee productivity, morale, customer service
and satisfaction
• Major source of information and support for
effective decision making
• Vital ingredient in developing competitive
products and services in the global marketplace
• Dynamic and challenging career opportunity
• Key component of today’s networked business
37. 1- 37
Case 2: Autosystems: The Business Value of a
Successful IT System for a small Manufacturer
• Autosystems is an automotive lighting designer and
manufacturer located in Belleville, Ontario.
• A few years ago it installed the ActivEntry shop floor
reporting system to move shop floor information into the
manufacturing planning and control system.
• They now have the ability to capture labor, efficiency,
production, scrap, etc., on time and by work center, for
every cell, and are able to talk about that every day in their
team meetings.
• Production managers can review information from all
three plants.
38. 1- 38
Case Study Questions
• Why did Autosystems decide to install the
ActivEntry system? Why did the company feel
it was necessary to integrate it with its
TRANS4M system?
• Which three business benefits, of the many
that resulted from the use of ActivEntry, gave
the company the most business value? Defend
your choices.
• What changes are already being planned to
improve the use of ActivEntry? What other
improvements should the company consider?
Why?
39. 1- 39
Real world activities
1. Go to the Infor Global Solutions Web site,
www.infor.com, to find other stories that
describe the business value of manufacturing
planning and control systems.
– Discover any common reasons for the success
of these companies with their systems?
– Present your findings to the class.
2. Search the Internet for examples of problems
that companies have had with manufacturing
systems.
– Discuss your findings and what solutions you
can propose to help companies avoid the
problems you discovered.
40. 1- 40
Real World Group Activity
1. Search the Internet for examples of problems
that companies have had with manufacturing
systems.
– Discuss your findings and what solutions you can
propose to help companies avoid the problems you
discovered.
41. 1- 41
What is a system?
• A system
– Is a set of interrelated components
– With a clearly defined boundary
– Working together to achieve a common set of
objectives
– By accepting inputs and producing outputs in an
organized transformation process
42. 1- 42
Systems have three basic functions:
• Input involves capturing and assembling
elements that enter the system to be
processed
• Processing involves transformation process
that convert input into output
• Output involves transferring elements that
have been produced by the transformation
process to their ultimate destination
43. 1- 43
Cybernetic system
• All systems have input, processing and output
• A cybernetic system, a self-monitoring, self-
regulating system, adds feedback and control:
– Feedback is data about the performance of a system
– Control involves monitoring and evaluating feedback to
determine whether a system is moving towards the
achievement of its goal
47. 1- 47
Components of an IS
• People Resources
– End users: the people who use the IS or the
information from the IS
– IS specialists: the people who develop and operate IS
• Hardware Resources
– All physical devices used in information processing
– Machines, data media, peripherals
• Software Resources
– All information processing instructions including
programs and procedures
– System software, application software and procedures
48. 1- 48
Components of an IS (cont.)
• Data Resources
– Facts about the business transactions
– Processed and organized information
– Databases of organized data
• Network Resources
– Communications media
– Network infrastructure: hardware and software
– The Internet, intranets and extranets
49. 1- 49
Data versus Information
• Data are raw facts about physical phenomena or
business transactions
• Information is data that has been converted into
meaningful and useful context for end users
• Example:
– Sales data is names, quantities and dollar amounts
– Sales information is amount of sales by product type,
sales territory or salesperson
50. 1- 50
IS Activities
• Input of data resources
– Data entry activities
• Processing of data into information
– E.g., calculate, compare, sort, classify, summarize
• Output of information products
– Messages, reports, forms and graphic images
• Storage of data resources
– Data elements and databases
• Control of system performance
– Monitoring and evaluating feedback
51. 1- 51
Recognizing IS
• As a business professional, you should be able
to look at an IS and identify
– The people, hardware, software, data and network
resources they use
– The type of information products they produce
– The way they perform input, processing, output, storage
and control activities
52. 1- 52
Case 3: Heidelberg, Honeywell and Eaton: Using IT
to Build Smart Products and Services
• Today it will not be enough for a companies to offer
valuable services for their products but they will have to
provide “smart services.”
• To provide smart services, companies must use
information technology to build “smart products,” products
with awareness and connectivity into the products
themselves.
• Typically, smart products can detect that a part is
approaching failure and alert users, thus giving the
company opportunity to provide maintenance services and
enjoy the resulting benefits.
53. 1- 53
Case Study Questions
1. Why should manufacturing companies build smart
products and provide smart services? What business
benefits can they gain? Provide several examples
beyond those discussed in this case.
2. What information technologies are used by the
companies in this case to build smart products and
provide smart services? What other IT components
might be used? Give examples of the capabilities they
would provide.
3. What are some limitations of a smart products and
smart services strategy? Give several examples of
challenges that a business might encounter, and explain
how it might overcome them.
54. 1- 54
Real World Internet Activity
1. Use the Internet to investigate how Heidelberg,
Honeywell, and Eaton are proceeding in their use of
smart products and services.
– Discover if they are expanding this approach and what
benefits they are claiming for this strategy.
2. Now expand your Internet investigation to other
manufacturing companies to find several that are
building smart products and offering smart services.
– What business value are they claiming for themselves and
their customers?
– If this search is fruitless, select several companies from
your Internet research and explain how and why they might
employ a smart products and services strategy.
55. 1- 55
Real World Group Activity
3. What security and privacy concerns might
consumers have about Eaton’s Home
Heartbeat service?
– Discuss the rationale for these concerns, and
consider what could be done to reduce any threats to
security and privacy posed by such services while
also improving the value of this new use of
information technology.
Editor's Notes
You might just as well ask why study accounting, finance, operations management, marketing, human resources, management. Most business majors include a class in IS.
Almost everything is a system One system can be made up of other systems or can be part of a bigger system
This is a simple definition that we will expand upon later What’s an example? Smoke signals to transmit information Card catalogs in a library Book bag with day planner, notebooks, that allows you organize inputs from lectures, presentations and discussions. The output is homework and good exam grades Cash register at restaurant Other examples?
Definition of IS from prior slide: An organized combination of People Hardware Software Communications networks Data resources Policies and procedures That stores, retrieves, transforms, and disseminates information in an organization In theory, an IS could be pencil and paper based
Refers back to figure 1.2 on prior slide Foundation Concepts: Examples: general systems theory, competitive strategies. Covered in chapters 1, 2 Information Technology: Covered in chapters 3-6 Business Applications: Chapter 7: applications in functional areas, Chapter 8: electronic commerce applications and Chapter 9: decision making Development Processes: By both business professionals and IS specialists. Chapter 10. Management Challenges: Managing IT at the end user, enterprise and global levels of a business. Chapter 11 is security challenges and Chapter 12 is how to manage IT in global businesses.
Examples of business processes: record purchases, track inventory, pay employees, etc. Business would stop without such IS. Examples of decision making: what lines of merchandise need to be added, what kind of investment required. Examples of competitive advantage: put kiosk in store to connect to e-commerce website. Help gain advantage over competitor without such a kiosk.
Note that while IS has expanded, they are still doing the same basic things that they’ve been doing. What has changed is: more integration of functions, greater connectivity across components, better use for maximum advantage of business and strategic opportunities
Support either operations or management applications
In reality most systems are Cross-functional
What uses of IT might be considered improper or harmful to other individuals or society? Improper uses might include collecting data that you don’t need, not protecting personal customer data, etc. What is the proper business use of the Internet or a company’s IT resources? Is it proper to use the company’s computers to surf the web, send personal e-mail, etc. How can you protect yourself from computer crime? Virus and spam protection, never replying to phishing, etc.
Repeating definition from earlier but adding accepting inputs, producing outputs, and transformation
A cybernetic system has both feedback and control. A home thermostat accepts the desired room temperature as input and sends a message to fire the furnace. The thermostat provides feedback to shut the system down when the desired temperature is reached.
A business can be viewed as a system. This system does not operate in a vacuum rather it functions in an environment containing other systems. A business is an open system in that it interacts with other systems in the environment. It is also an adaptive system in that it can change itself or its environment in order to survive.
Major components of an information: people, hardware, software, data and networks. These components perform input, processing, output, storage, and control activities.
Hardware: Peripherals include keyboard, mouse, video screen, printer