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Chapter 2 IT Supports Organizational Performance in Turbulent Business Environments Information Technology for Management Improving Performance in the Digital Economy 7th edition

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Chapter 2

Information Technologies:Concepts, Types and IT Support

Information Technology for ManagementImproving Performance in the Digital Economy

7th editionJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Slides contributed by Dr. Sandra ReidChair, Graduate School of Business & Professor, Technology

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Chapter Outline

• 2.1 Information Systems: Concepts and Definitions

• 2.2 Classification and Types of Information Systems

• 2.3 How IT Supports People

• 2.4 How IT Supports Supply Chains and Business Processes

• 2.5 Information Systems Infrastructure, Architecture, and Emerging Computing Environments

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Chapter Outline cont’d

• 2.6 Innovative and Futuristic Information Systems

• 2.7 Managerial Issues

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Learning Objectives

1. Define information systems and describe various types of information systems and categorize specific systems you observe.

2. Relate and contrast transaction processing and functional information systems.

3. Identify the major enterprise internal support systems and relate them to managerial functions.

4. Analyze the support IT provides people in different roles in the organization.

5. Describe the support IT provides to business processes and the supply chain.

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Learning Objectives cont’d

6. Explain information infrastructure and different types of information architectures.

7. Distinguish the major types of Web-based information systems and understand their functionalities.

8. Describe emerging information technologies.

9. Analyze innovative and futuristic IT systems and applications.

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Figure IT 7eU The Business Performance Management Cycle and IT Model

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Mary Kay – cont’d

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Mary Kay Advances BSM Strategy/ITIL Adoption With BMC Remedy IT Service Management

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2.1 Information Systems: Concepts and Definitions

Figure 2.1

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The relationship among data, information, & knowledge.

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2.2 Classification and Types of Information Systems

Figure 2.2

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Table 2.1

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Figure 2.3 – Functional information systems.

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Figure 2.4

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Sales forecast by region, generated by marketing MIS.

Functional / Enterprise Systems

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SPSS Predictive Analytics Helps State of Texas Recover $400 Million in Unpaid Taxes

Predictive Analytics with Micro Strategy

US Military Utilizes High Tech Training Practices

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Forterra to Integrate Tech with Army Training

Virtual Worlds: The Future of Military Training

Is the Army's Virtual World Already Here?

NDIA - Soldiers Learn Hazards Of War in Virtual Reality

Halo 3 Meets Second Life

Virtual training prepares soldiers for real-life operations

Figure 2.5 – Business processes across & beyond the enterprise.

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Figure 2.6

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Departmental, enterprise, and interorganizational information systems.

Table 2.2

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Dashboards – cont’d

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BrightPoint's Google Finance Dashboard

Click for interactive version of dashboard

Figure 2.7 Sample of a performance dashboard.

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Source: Dundas Software (demos1.dundas.com/DundasGauge/MarketingDashboard/Summary.aspx)

Figure 2.8

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Interrelated support systems. The TPS collects information that is used to build the MIS and the data warehouse. These feed the BI and other enterprise systems.

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2.3 How IT Supports People

Table 2.3

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Figure 2.9 – The information systems support of people in organizations.

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Figure 2.10

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Representative questions in the financial services industry.

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2.4 How IT Supports Supply Chains and Business Processes

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2.5 Information Systems Infrastructure, Architecture, and Emerging Computing Environments

What’s Up with Wireless?

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Cities Go Wireless

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2.6 Innovative and Futuristic Information Systems

Virtualization – Friend or Foe?

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Virtualization….What’s the Big Deal?

Virtualization demo

What is Server Virtualization

Storage Virtualization

Interview: Stephen Jenvey on Virtualization

Interview: Arun Taneja on Storage Virtualization

Security – is it real?

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Security Software Top Ten Surprises

The Duhs of Security

What's your Information Security Quotient?

Computer Security 101

Figure 2.11Features of information systems in 2010.

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Source: Nakamoto, H., and M. Komeichi, “IT Roadmap toward 2010,” Nomura Research Institute, March 1, 2006, Figure 5, p. 7. nri.co.jp/english/opinion/papers/2006/pdf/np2006102.pdf

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2.7 Managerial Issues

Managerial Issues

• Transition to digital enterprise may be lengthy & with lots of opposition to the needed change.

• How to deal with outsourcing & utility computing trends.

• Ethical issues.

• Risk of introducing new technologies.

• Importance of supply chain management.

• Importance of business intelligence.

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