CHAPTER1: Business Driven Technology

Role Information Technology in Business

Technology has positive affects on global business. The Internet makes it possible for people to communicate easily with associates in other countries. E commerce makes it possible for consumers to purchase almost anything from almost anywhere. And the flow of information is fast and often free once you have paid for Internet access. 

Information Technology's Impact on Business

Information technology also helps a business operation to improve their effectiveness and efficiency to run out the business and expand it into bigger type industries.

Information Technology Basic

  

•             Information technology (IT) – a field concerned with the use of technology in managing and processing  information                           
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•             Information technology is an important enabler of business success and innovation
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•            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
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•            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 in IT

•          Data - raw facts that describe the characteristic of an event
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•          Information - data converted into a meaningful and useful context
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•          Business intelligence – applications and technologies that are used to support  decision-making efforts

Data, Information and BI

Example data in excel spreadsheet when it turn into a information and BI in a business process.

IT Resources

                    In a organization people use information technology (IT) to work with information. All the information that been recorded are being keep as data for any other use for other department. This is how a business process being run by a organization using information technology.

IT Culture

Organizational information cultures include:

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