Chapter 1 - Business Driven Technology

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chapter 1- Business Driven Technology

Learning outcome 

 1. Compare management information systems (MIS) and information technology (IT)

  2.  Describe the relationships among people, information technology, and information

  3.   Identify four different departments in a typical business and explain how technology

        helps them to work together

  4.  Compare the four different types of organizational information cultures and decide

        which culture applies to your school

Information Technology's Role In Business

•Information technology is everywhere in business

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) – 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

Information

•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 efforts

Data Information And BI

-data in excel spreadsheet

IT Resourse

it is means people use , information technology with, 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 information (especially about problems and failures) to improve performance.



         •Information-Inquiring Culture - Employees 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.

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