Information systems, organization and strategy
Impacts of IS on organizations
How do Porter's competitive forces model, the value chain model, synergies, core competences and network economics help companies develop competitive strategies?
Challenges posed by strategic IS and how they should be addressed
Organization
Stable, formal social structure that makes resources from the environment and processes them to produce outputs
Structure
Hierarchy
Division of labor
Rules, procedures
Business Processes
Culture
Process
Rights/Obligations
Privileges/Responsabilities
Values
Norms
People
Features of organization
Routines and Business Processes
Organizational Politics
Organizational culture
Organizational environments
Organizational structure
Divisionalized bureocracy
Machine bureucracy
Professional bureocracy
Entreperneurial structure
Adhocracy
Economic Impacts
Organizational and behavioral impacts
Lower cost of market participation
Increase of investments
Reducement of transaction costs (Transaction cost theory)
Reducement of internal management costs
Reducing costs of acquiring and analyzing information
IT flattens organizations
Postindustrial organizations
Understanding organizational resistance to change
The internet and organizations
Implications for the design and understanding of IS
The environment in which the organization must function
The structure of the organization
The organization's culture and politics
The type of organization and its style of leadership
The principal interest groups affected by the system and the attitudes of workers who will be using the system
The kind of tasks, decisions and business processes
Porter's competitive forces model
Suppliers
Traditional competitors
New market entrants
Customers
Substitute products and services
Competitive strategies for dealing with competitive forces
Low-cost leadership
Product differentiation
Focus on market niche
Strengthen customer an supplier intimacy
Internet's impact on competitive advantage
Substitute products or services
Customers' bargaining power
Suppliers' bargaining power
Threat of new entrants
Positioning and rivalry among existing companies
Business value chain model
Extending value chain: The value web
Make it easy for suppliers to display goods and open stores on the Amazon site
Make it easy for customers to pay for goods
Develop systems that coordinate the shipment of goods to customers
Develop shipment tracking system for customers
Synergies, core competences and networking based strategies
Synergies
Enhancing core competencies
Network-based strategies
Sustaining competitive advantage
Aligning IT with business objectives: Management checklist
What is the structure of the industry in which the firm is located?
What are business, firm an industry value chains for this particular firm?
Managing strategic transitions