Week 7

Value

Determined by the stakeholders

Exchange Value

Use Value (diamond vs. water)

Utility

Marginal Utility (diminishing return)

Broad scope products/services

Differentiation

Cost leadership

Narrow customer segment

Focused Differentiation

Cost Focus

Value Chain

  1. Capturing value 2. Creating Value 3. Defining Value 4. Sustaining Value

Inbound logistics

Operations

Outbound logistics

Marketing and Sales

Service

Challenges

Global competition

Vast knowledge (signals and noises)

Faster pace of business events

Computer-based MIS systems

Operation Support

Support for management and knowledge work

Support of business transformation and competition

Ubiquitous Computing

Digital Transformation

Make, Buy, Rent, Share, Use

On or off premise

Outsourcing or Insourcing

Iaas, PaaS, SaaS

Week 6

Components of IS

Value

Hardware

Software

Databases

Human resources

Procedures

Types of IS

Transaction Processing Systems (TPS)

Management Reporting Systems (MIS)

Decision Support Systems (DDS)

Executive Information Systems (ESS) Executive Support System

Office Information Systems (Tools)

Professional Support Systems (BI/BA)

Business Intelligence Business Intelligence vs Analytics

Data capture and validation

Transaction dependent processing steps

Database maintenance

Transaction documents

Query responses

Reports

  1. Scheduled
  2. Exception
  3. Demand (Ad hoc)

Transaction logs

Error reports

Detail reports

Summary reports

Electronic Data Interchange

Transaction standards

Industry standard for product identification

Translation software

Telecommunication systems

Online analytical processing (OLAP)

Reporting and querying

Digital or visual dashboards

Integration

Intelligence

Design

Choice

Implementation

Limitations

cannot work with large databases

difficult to use for construction of complex models

live updated worksheet for everyone involved

Functions

Data access systems

Data analysis systems

Forecast-oriented data analysis

accounting models

representation models

Optimization models

Suggestion models

Knowledge management Knowledge Management

Content and document management

Lessons learned databases

Groupware

Artificial Intelligence

Collaboration software

Communication

Conferencing

Coordination

Intelligence

Market

Economic

Government

Investment

Industry

Technology

Quality

Ease of use

predicting the future

effectiveness oriented

flexible

support unstructured decisions

Internal and external data sources

use by most senior management levels

Business stages for MIS Nolan's 6 stages

no MIS

  1. Demand-driven MIS planning
  1. Methodological MIS planning
  1. Organization-wide MIS planning
  1. MIS and business strategy interaction
  1. Integrated methodologies, strategy, frameworks, incorporation of "extended enterprise"