FAB0025 Introduction to Business & Information Systems

FAB0025 Introduction to Business & Information Systems January 2011

What will you learn in this course?

How technologies nowadays can support various business initiatives and objectives

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Learning Outcomes
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Compare management information systems (MIS) and information technology (IT) Describe the relationships among people, information technology, and information

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Learning Outcomes
1.3

Identify four different departments in a typical business and explain how technology helps them to work together

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Compare the four different types of organizational information cultures

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Information Technology (IT) basics

what
Use of technology in managing & processing info As enabler Leverage existing talents Everywhere in the organization
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how

where

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Management Information Systems (MIS)

People
Technologies

Procedures

Solve business problems

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Information Technologys Impact on Business Operations

Describe types of IT services each business function might be receiving from IT

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Information Technologys Impact on Business Operations

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Information Technologys Impact on Business Operations

Organizations typically operate by functional areas or functional silos Functional areas are interdependent

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Information Technology Basics

When beginning to learn about information technology it is important to understand
Data, information, and business intelligence IT resources IT cultures

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Data, Information, and BI

Data - raw facts that describe the characteristic of an event Information - data converted into a meaningful and useful context

Business intelligence applications and technologies that are used to support FAB0025 to Business decision-making efforts Introduction January 2011& Information Systems

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Data, Information, and BI

Data in an Excel Spreadsheet

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Data, Information, and BI

Data turned into information

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Data, Information, and BI

Information turned into Business Intelligence

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IT Resources
If one fails, they all fail

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IT Cultures
What ? Will influence the way people use info Organizational information cultures include:
Information-functional culture Information-sharing culture Information-inquiring culture Information-discovery culture

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IT Cultures
Information-functional culture
Use info as a means to exercise influence or power over others.

Information-sharing culture
Trust each other to use info

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IT Cultures
Information-inquiring culture
Employees across depts search for info to better understand the future and align themselves with current trends and new directions.

Information-discovery culture
Employees are open to new insights about crises and radical changes and seek ways to create competitive advantages.

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Mini assignment (handwritten, to be submitted by 11th Feb 2011 before 5pm)

Apple-Merging Technology, Business, and Entertainment
1. Explain how Apple achieved business success through the use of information, information technology, and people Describe the types of information employees at an Apple store require and compare it to the types of information the executives at Apples corporate headquarters require. Are there any links between these two types of information?

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Identify the type of information culture that would have the greatest negative impact on Apples operations

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