The organization structure, managers and activities - Unitedworld School of Business

2. Management Information Systems

3. INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
Hardware
Software
Databases
Networks
Other related
components
are used to build
INFORMATION
SYSTEMS
Payroll
System
Inventor
y
System
Marketin
g System
Custome
r Service
System
IS Vs IT

4. Information System
Resources
Information Systems Resources
And Products
People
Resources
Hardware
Resources
Software
Resources
Data
Resources
Network
Resources
Information
Products

9. The Role of MIS Executive
 Systems Planning
 Data Center Management & Operations
 Management of Remote Equipment
 Identification of Opportunities for New
Systems
 Systems Analysis, Design, and Construction
of New Systems
 Distributed Systems: The migration of
equipment to user areas and control
(selection, purchase, and ownership).
Standards sometimes set by IS department

10. The CIO's Responsibilities
 Understand the business: products,
markets & customers
 Establish credibility of the systems
department: responsiveness to needs
and requests
 Increase the technological maturity of the
organization: "Make it easier to take
advantage of computer and
telecommunications applications,” Spend
money, keep up with technology and
applications

11. The CIO’s
 Create a vision and sell it: Create a
goal for the use of IT within the
Organization and sell the goal to
others (The Marketing of IT)
 Implement a systems architecture
that will support the vision and the
company in the future. This is
perhaps the most difficult
responsibility (the Tech, and the
Paradigm keep changing).

12. The CIO
 Understand the Business
 Environmental Scanning: Find out what is
happening in the market place
 Concentrate on the lines of the business
 Sponsor weekly briefings
 Attend industry meetings with line executives
 Read industry publications
 Hold informal listening sessions
 Become a partner with the line manager

13. The CIO
 Concentrate on Lines of Business
 Example: GM sells cars, parts and
financing. Each is a different line of the
business, and each would required
different systems.
 support current operations
 use system to influence future ways of
working

14. Increase Technological Maturity
In a technologically mature
organization both the organization
and the employees are comfortable
using and managing the
technology.
◦ Ease of use
◦ use in intended ways
◦ have a good attitude to it
◦ have control over it

15. Types of IS Organizational
Design
 Centralized – IS applications and
resources housed, managed, and
controlled centrally
 Decentralized – business units have
complete control of their own IS
resources
 Federal – attempt to achieve benefits of
both centralized and decentralized
 Customized – mixed design in large
enterprises where each division
determines best design for that division

16. Organization design depends
on
 How rest of business is organized
 Type of customer markets,
products, and geographical spread
 Role of IT within the organization
 Reporting level of most senior IS
leader
 Types of technologies managed by
IS organization

17. IS Evaluation Criteria
 Meeting business objectives
 Responding rapidly and economically to
new needs
 Expanding business or services
 Developing an architecture and plan
 Operating reliable and efficient technology
resources
 Focusing on the customer
 Providing quality IS staff
 Reducing size of backlog
 Satisfying users
 Adopting new technologies

18. Senior IS Management Issues
 Improving data and IT planning, especially
linking IS to the business
 Gaining business value through IT
 Facilitating organizational learning about
and through IT
 Refining the IS unit’s role and position
 Guiding systems development by business
managers
 Managing organizational data as an asset
 Measuring IS effectiveness
 Integrating information technologies
 Developing systems personnel

19. Campus Overview
907/A Uvarshad,
Gandhinagar
Highway, Ahmedabad
– 382422.
Ahmedabad Kolkata
Infinity Benchmark,
10th Floor, Plot G1,
Block EP & GP,
Sector V, Salt-Lake,
Kolkata – 700091.
Mumbai
Goldline Business
Centre Linkway
Estate,
Next to Chincholi Fire
Brigade, Malad (West),
Mumbai – 400 064.