CHAPTER 1 : BUSINESS DRIVEN TECHNOLOGY 


INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ROLE IN BUSINESS

• Information technology is everywhere in business
• Anyone involved in business must understand technology

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 TURN INTO INFORMATION

DATA INFORMATION AND BI 

INFORMATION TURNED INTO BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

IT RESOURCES

• People use
• Information technology to work with
• Information

IT CULTURES

Organizational information culture include ;

• Information-Functional Culture - employees use information as a means of exercising influence or power over others.
• 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.
• Information-Sharing Culture - employees across departments trust each other to use information (especially about problems and failures) to improve performance.

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