Business Driven Technology

  Learning Outcomes:
  • Compare to management information system (MIS) and information technology (IT).
  • Describe the relationships among people, information technology, and information
  • Identify four different departments in a typical business and explain how technology helps them to work together
  • Compare to the four different types of organizational information cultures and decide which culture applies to your school
  Information Technology's Role in Business:
      
       - Information technology is everywhere in business


  Information Technology's Impact on Business Operation:
    
      Customer Service- 70%
      Finance- 51%
      Sales and Marketing- 42%
      IT Operations- 39%
      Operations Management- 31%
      HR- 17%
      Security- 17%




  • Organizations typically operate by functional areas or functional silos
  • Functional areas are interdependent

Information Technology Basis:
   * Information technology (IT) - afield concerned with the use of technology in managing and processing information
   *Information technology is an important enabler of busiess success and innovation
   *Management information system (MIS) -a general name for the business function and academic discipline covering the application of people, technologies, and procedures to solve business problem.
    *MIS is a businesss function(department), similar to Finance, Accounting ,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

Data,Information, and BI:
  • Data - raw facts that describe the characteristic of an event
  • Information - data converted ino a meaningful and useful context
  • Business Intelligence - applicantions and technologies that are used to suport decision-making effort
IT Resources:
  • People use
  • Information technology to work with
  • Information
IT Cultures:
  • Organizational information cultures include:
          -Information-functional culture 
          -Information-sharing culture
          -Information-inquiring culture 
          -Information-discovery culture.  





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