chapter 1: Business Driven Technology

BUSINESS DRIVEN TECHNOLOGY

Learning Outcomes
  • compare management information system (MIS) and information technology (IT)
  • describe the relationship among people, information technology, and information
  • identify four different departments in a typical business and explain how technology helps them to work together
  • compare the four different types of organizational information cultures and decide which culture appilies to your school


Information Technology's Role in Business
  • information technology is everywhere in business
Information Technology's Impact on Business Operations





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Mis impact of information technology on business

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 problem
    • 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
  • 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

MGT300 - Business Driven Technology
  • Date turned into information
  • Information turned into Business Intelligence
CHAPTER ONE - BUSINESS DRIVEN TECHNOLOGY | MGT300

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 advantanges





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