INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN BUSINESS

  CHAPTER 1

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IMPACT ON BUSINESS OPERATION

- operate by functional areas or functional silos it means areas are interdependent.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BASICS

Information technology- concerned with the use of technology in managing and processing information.

Management information system- general name for the business  function and academic discipline covering the application of people, technologies and procedures to solve business problem.

-in information  technology it is important to understand 

1) DATA, INFORMATION AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

DATA- raw facts that describe the characteristic of an event

INFORMATION- data converted into a meaningful and useful context

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE- application and technologies that are used to support decision-making efforts or system to make decision based on data.

in summary,

2) IT RESOURCES

people use information technology to work, making research and enable to collect the information more reliability

3) IT CULTURES

4 CATEGORIES OF IT CULTURES

a) information-functional cultures

employees use information as a means of exercising influence or power over other.

for example, a manger 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.

b) information-sharing culture

employees across department trust each other to use information to improve the perfomance

c) information-inquiring culture

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

d) information- discovery culture

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

find information from outside to identify the weakness of others company