REVIEW CHAPTER 1 : INFORMATION SYSTEM IN GLOBAL BUSINESS TODAY

     REVIEW 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.