Information Systems and the Role of General Managers and Functional Managers

Manager

a trained knwoledge worker; in charge of team;qualified

general manager

in charge of entire organization or unit

functional

charge of functional area or team

must work with IT/IS professional

must focus on business need

balancing act

system priorities

development;maintenance

investment priorities

robust infrastructure

requirements for business

timing prioirities

delivering incremental benefit

IS Modern challenges

dispersed project teams

collaboration

cross-functinoal

increased complexity

product and service

exploding data volume

End user

direct contact with system

complete tasks with software

Functional and general differ from end users

understand role of IT in orgs

plann for effective use of IS

Identiify opportunities

manager orgs IS

CIOs

have full operational view

broad understanding oh how firm is positioned to execute strategy

key skills

develop IT team and organization

effectively manage change

achieve customer satisfaction

consistently improve business performance

It trends

IT is an enabler

strategy

initiatives

effective management

increase

processing power

storage capacity

battery life

decline of IT costs

improvement if user friendliness

data storage costs

networked devices

next

wearable technology

robots

effects on managerial significance

management relying on more tech for decision systems

communication

dealing with different located teams

capital expenditure to manager

huge increases

skills IT person

skills of managers complementary

communication

good relationship

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