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Management Information Systems,Management Information Systems, Second Canadian Edition Second Canadian Edition
Chapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the WorldChapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the World
• What exactly is an information system? What exactly is an information system?
• How are information systems transforming How are information systems transforming organizations and management? organizations and management?
• How have the Internet and Internet How have the Internet and Internet technology transformed business?technology transformed business?
• What are the major management challenges What are the major management challenges to building and using information systems?to building and using information systems?
Management Information Systems,Management Information Systems, Second Canadian Edition Second Canadian Edition
Chapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the WorldChapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the World
Information System:Information System:• Interrelated components working together Interrelated components working together
to collect, process, store, and disseminate to collect, process, store, and disseminate information to support decision making, information to support decision making, control, and analysis in an organizationcontrol, and analysis in an organization
Management Information Systems,Management Information Systems, Second Canadian Edition Second Canadian Edition
Chapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the WorldChapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the World
• Data:Data: Raw facts representing events Raw facts representing events occurring in organizations or their occurring in organizations or their environmentenvironment
• Information:Information: Data that have been shaped Data that have been shaped into a form that is meaningful and useful into a form that is meaningful and useful to human beingsto human beings
Management Information Systems,Management Information Systems, Second Canadian Edition Second Canadian Edition
Chapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the WorldChapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the World
• What exactly is an information system? What exactly is an information system?
• How are information systems transforming How are information systems transforming organizations and management? organizations and management?
• How have the Internet and Internet How have the Internet and Internet technology transformed business?technology transformed business?
• What are the major management challenges What are the major management challenges to building and using information systems?to building and using information systems?
Management Information Systems,Management Information Systems, Second Canadian Edition Second Canadian Edition
Chapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the WorldChapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the World
Key Elements of IS LiteracyKey Elements of IS Literacy
• Operating Procedures:Operating Procedures: Standard operating Standard operating procedures (SOP, rules for action)procedures (SOP, rules for action)
• People:People: Managers, knowledge workers, data Managers, knowledge workers, data
workers, production or service workersworkers, production or service workers
• Culture:Culture: Assumptions, values and ways of Assumptions, values and ways of doing thingsdoing things
Organizations1.3 HOW ARE IS’s TRANSFORMING ORGANISATIONS?
Management Information Systems,Management Information Systems, Second Canadian Edition Second Canadian Edition
Chapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the WorldChapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the World
The Changing Management The Changing Management ProcessProcess
• Separating work from locationSeparating work from location• Reorganizing work-flowsReorganizing work-flows• Increasing flexibilityIncreasing flexibility
– eg ‘mass customization’
• Increasing collaborative work Increasing collaborative work • ““Flattening” the organizationFlattening” the organization
Management Information Systems,Management Information Systems, Second Canadian Edition Second Canadian Edition
Chapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the WorldChapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the World
Emergence of the Digital FirmEmergence of the Digital Firm• Digitally-enabled relationships with Digitally-enabled relationships with
customers, suppliers, and employeescustomers, suppliers, and employees
• Nearly all significant business Nearly all significant business processes processes (the unique ways in which (the unique ways in which organizations coordinate activities and organizations coordinate activities and information to produce a product or information to produce a product or service)service) are computerized are computerized
Management Information Systems,Management Information Systems, Second Canadian Edition Second Canadian Edition
Chapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the WorldChapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the World
• What exactly is an information system? What exactly is an information system?
• How are information systems transforming How are information systems transforming organizations and management? organizations and management?
• How have the Internet and Internet technology How have the Internet and Internet technology transformed business?transformed business?
• What are the major management challenges to What are the major management challenges to building and using information systems?building and using information systems?
Management Information Systems,Management Information Systems, Second Canadian Edition Second Canadian Edition
Chapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the WorldChapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the World
• What exactly is an information system? What exactly is an information system?
• How are information systems transforming How are information systems transforming organizations and management? organizations and management?
• How have the Internet and Internet How have the Internet and Internet technology transformed business?technology transformed business?
• What are the major management challenges What are the major management challenges to building and using information systems?to building and using information systems?
Management Information Systems,Management Information Systems, Second Canadian Edition Second Canadian Edition
Chapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the WorldChapter 1: Managing the Digital Firm: Canada and the World
• What exactly is an information system? What exactly is an information system?
• How are information systems transforming How are information systems transforming organizations and management? organizations and management?
• How have the Internet and Internet How have the Internet and Internet technology transformed business?technology transformed business?
• What are the major management challenges What are the major management challenges to building and using information systems?to building and using information systems?