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Thursday, 21 September 2017

CHAPTER 1

Business Driven Technology Overview


THE IT BASICS

➤What is Information Technology (IT) ?

   -🔽A field concerned with the use of technology in managing and processing information. Furthermore, Information Technology is an important enabler of business success and innovation. In business, IT's role is everywhere.

➤Management Information System (MIS)


   -🔽A general name for the business function n academic discipline covering the application of people,technologies n procedures to solve business problem.

  -🔽(MIS) is a business function, similar to Accounting, Finance, Operations and Human Resources.




➤Information Technology’s Impact on Business Operations

   -🔽Organization typically operate by functional areas or functional silos
   -🔽Functional areas are interdependent







➤Information, Data and Business Intelligence

       🔽Data- raw facts that describe the characteristics 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




➤IT Resources

1. People use
2. Information technology to work with

3. 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 manager’s input each time a new sales strategy is developed.

🔽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 insight about crisis and radical changes and seek ways to create competitive advantages.

🔽Information-Sharing Culture – Employees across departments trust each other to use information (especially about problems and failures) to improve performance.

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