MGT300

 
 
CHAPTER 1 - BUSINESS DRIVEN TECHNOLOGY
 
Learning outcomes
- compare management information system (MIS) and information technologies (IT)
- describe the relationship among people, information technology, and information
- identify four different department in a typical business and explain how technology helps them to work     together.
- compare the four the different types of organizational information cultures and decide which cultures applies to your school.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY’S ROLE IN BUSINESS

 -Information technology is everywhere in business.
 

 
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY’S IMPACT ON BUSINESS OPERATION
 





 



INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BASICS
- Information technology (IT) - a field concerned with the use of technology in managing and processing information.
- Information technology is an important enabler of business 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 solves business problems.
- MIS is a business function, similar to Accounting, Finance, Operations, and Human Resources.
 - When beginning to learn about information technology is important to understand
     *Data, information, and business intelligence IT resources.
      *IT cultures.

INFORMATIONS
*Data-raw facts that describe the characteristic of an event.
Exp - number of student of UiTM MALACCA
*Information-data converted into a meaningful and useful context.
*Business intelligence-applications and technologies that are used to support decision making effort.

DATA, INFORMATION, AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
IT RESOURCES
-people use
-Information technology to work with
-Information

IT CULTURES
*Organizational information cultures include:
#Information Functional Culture - employees use information as a means of exercising influence of power over others. For example, a manager in sales refuses to shares information with marketing to need the sales manager’s input each time a new sales strategy is developed.
*Informational-Sharing Cultures-
Employees across departments trust each other to use information (especially about problem and failures) to improve performance.
*Information - Enquiring Cultures
Employees across department search for information to better understand the futures and align themselves with current trends and new directions.
*Information - Discovery Culture
Employees across department are open to new insight about crisis and radical changes and seek ways to create competitive advantages.
 
 
     









 
 
 
 

 
 
    
 
 

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