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CHAPTER 1 : INFORMATION SYSTEM IN GLOBAL BUSINESS TODAY
Nowadays, Information system is more
important especially in global business. Organization are trying to become more
competitive and efficient by digital that enable their core business process
and evolving into digital firms. What makes management information system the
most exciting topic in business is the continual change in technology. As we
can see, day after day there are new technology will move toward. Management
use of the technology and the bearing on business success. New business and
industries perform, old ones decline, and successful firms are those who learn
how to use the new technologies.
In the technology range there are three unified
changes the first was the emerging mobile digital platform, second the growth
of online software as a service and now is the growth in “cloud computing”
where further and more business software runs over the internet. IPhones,
iPads, BlackBerrys, and Web-surfing netbooks are not just gadgets or
entertainment outlets. They represent new emerging computing platforms based on
an array of new hardware and software technologies. Major
business applications are now delivered online as an internet service rather
than as boxed software or custom system. This is the one changes in technology
growth in software as a service. Manager
in business regularly use technologies to matched, measured his business and
also connecting employees functioning on teams and project.
An information system can be defined
technically as a set of interrelated components that collect, process, store ,
and allocate information to support decision making and control in an
Organization.Information system contain information about significant people,
places and things within the organization or in the environment surrounding it.
In many industries, survival
and
the ability to achieve strategic business goals are difficult without extensive
use of information technology. Businesses today use information systems to
achieve six major objectives operational fineness ; operational excellence new
products, services, and business models ; customer or supplier intimacy ;
improved decision making ; competitive advantage. As we can see that from a
business perspective, and information system is an main instrument for creating
value to the firm. Information system enable the firm to increase its revenue
or decrease its cost by providing information that helps managers make well
decisions or that improves the business process.
From a technical perspective, an
information system collects, stores, and disseminates information from an
organization’s environment and internal operations to support organizational
functions and decision making, communication, coordination, control, analysis,
and visualization. Information through three basic activities : input,
processing, and output. From a business perspective, an information system
provides a solution to a problem or challenge facing a firm and represents a
combination of management, organization, and technology elements.
The management dimension of information
systems involves issues such as leadership, strategy, and management behavior.
The technology dimension consists of computer hardware, software, data management
technology, and networking telecommunications technology (together with the
Internet).The organization dimension of information systems involves issues
such as the organization’s hierarchy, functional specialties, business
processes, culture, and political interest groups.
The study of information system deals
with issues and insights contributed from technical and behavioural diciplines.
The disciplines that contribute to the technical approach fixing on the design,
execution management , and business impact of system are psychology, sociology
and economics. A sociotechnical outlook of systems considers both technical and
social structures of systems and solutions.
The study of management information
systems (MIS) are to focus on the use of computer-based information systems in
business firms and government agencies. MIS combines the work of computer
science, management science, and operations exploration with a practical
orientation toward evolving system solutions to real-world problems and
managing information technology resources. It is also concerned with
behavioural issues surrounding the development, use, and impact of information
systems, which are typically discussed in the fields of sociology, economics,
and psychology.
In order to obtain meaningful value from
information systems, organizations must support their technology investments
with appropriate complementary investments in organizations and management.
These complementary assets include new business models and business processes, supportive
organizational culture and management behavior, appropriate technology
standards,regulations, and laws. New information technology investments are
unlikely to produce high returns unless businesses make the appropriate
managerial and organizational changes to support the technology.
