Chapter 1 : Business Driven Technology

Information Technology Basic

Information Technology is a field concerned with the used of technology in managing and pcocessing information.

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.
• Management Information Systems (MIS) is a business function for marketing, finance, operations and human resources to collecting information and solve business problems.
• Basically, this MIS is business function and academic discipline covering the application of people, technologies and procedures. 
• There are three important elements of MIS and the first important elements are data, information and business intelligence. 

• Before it gathers as information, raw facts such as date, item number, item description, quantity ordered, customer name, shipping details are characteristics of an event and after that, the data will converted into meaningful and useful context. 
• The information will be analyze and making efforts to support the decision. 
• This way helps companies gain a more comprehensive knowledge of the factors affecting their business.

It is important to learn about:

Data, information, and business intelligence IT resources.
 IT cultures


IT RESOURCES

1. people use
2. information technology to work with
3. information

There are  organizational information cultures.Which are:

• Information functional culture. 

It means everyone has their own function. Sales department refuse to share information about their sales income with finance department. So, manager of finance department need the sales income information each time new sales income and strategy is developed.

• Information

sharing culture which means every different department trust and share with each other.

• Information-inquiring culture.

 It means that every department in the business organization search for information they need that will lead them to latest trend and new direction.

• Information-discovery culture.

It's about employees in all department are open to new insight and goal about the challenges and find initiative to create competitive advantage. 


It Cultures
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-Inquiring Culture

Employees across departments search for information to better understand the future and align themselves with current trends and new directions.

Information-Sharing Culture

 Employees across departments trust each other to use information (especially about problems and failures) to improve performance.


Information-Discovery Culture

Employees across departments are open to new insights about crisis and radical changes and seek ways to create competitive advantages.

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 TECHNOLOGY'S IMPACT ON BUSINESS OPERATION