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Information Systems,
Organizations,
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. What do managers need to know about
organizations in order to build and use
information systems successfully?
. What impact do information systems
have on organizations?
. How do information systems support the
activities of managers in organizations?
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4. How can businesses use information
systems for competitive advantage?
5. Why is it so difficult to build
successful information systems,
including systems that promote
competitive advantage?
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1. Sustainability of competitive
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2. Fitting technology to the
organization
(or vice versa).
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Technical Definition
٠ Stable, formal social structure that takes
resources from the environment and
processes them to produce outputs
Behavioral Definition
* Acollection of rights, privileges,
obligations, and responsibilities that are
delicately balanced over a period of time
through conflict and conflict resolution
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Structural Characteristics of All
Organizations
* Clear division of labor
° Hierarchy
° Explicit rules and procedures
¢ Impartial judgments
* Technical qualifications for positions
¢ Maximum organizational efficiency
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Additional Features of Organizations
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs): Precise
procedures to cope with all expected situations
* Organizational Politics: Struggle to resolve
divergent viewpoints within the organization
* Organizational Culture: Fundamental
assumptions about what products the
organization should produce
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Organizational Types
¢ Entrepreneurial: Start up business
* Machine bureaucracy: Midsize
manufacturing firm
* Divisionalized bureaucracy: Fortune 500
firms
* Professional bureaucracy: Law firms,
hospitals, school systems
¢ Adhocracy: Consulting firm
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All organizations have different:
Organizational type Function
Environments Leadership
Goals Tasks
Power Technology
Constituencies Business processes
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E-Commerce French and German
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What organizational factors explain
why France and Germany have had
such different experiences adopting e-
commerce?
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Information Services Department
Past: Consisted primarily of programmers,
building own software and managing
own computing facilities
Today: A growing proportion of
specialists, with department acting as
powerful change agent in the
organization
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Economic Theories
* Information system technology is a factor
of production, freely substituted for
capital and labor
* Transaction cost theory: Information
technology can help lower the cost of
market participation
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Economic Theories - The Agency
Theory
* Agents (employees) need supervision
* As firm grows, agency and coordination
costs rise
* Information technology reduces agency
costs because it becomes easier for
managers to oversee more employees
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Behavioral Theories
¢ IT could change hierarchy of decision making
by lowering costs of information acquisition
and distribution
* Organization shape could “flatten” as decision
making becomes more decentralized
* Growth of “virtual organizations”
« Information systems seen as outcome of
political competition between subgroups
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٠ The Internet is capable of dramatically
reducing transaction and agency costs
* Businesses are rapidly rebuilding some
key business processes based on Internet
technology
٠ Internet technology becoming a key
component of IT infrastructure
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Classical Model:
Five Functions of Managers
» Planning
۰ Organizing
* Coordinating
* Deciding
* Controlling
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Behavioral Models:
Five Attributes of Managers
Perform much work at non-stop pace
Fragmented activities
Prefer speculation, hearsay, current
and ad-hoc information
Prefer oral communication
Maintain diverse web of contacts as
informal information system.
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Managerial Role Categories
Interpersonal: Figurehead, leader, liaison
Informational: Nerve center,
disseminator, spokesperson
Decisional: Entrepreneur, disturbance
handler, resource allocator, negotiator
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Decision Making
Classified by Organizational Level
Strategic: determines long-term objectives,
resources, policies
Management control: monitors effective
usage of resources, performance
Operational control: determines how to
perform tasks and ways to distribute
information
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Decisions are classified as:
Unstructured: Nonroutine, decision
maker provides judgment, evaluation,
and insights into problem definition, no
agreed-upon procedure for decision
making
Structured: Repetitive, routine, handled
using a definite procedure
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Stages of Decision Making
Intelligence: Collect information, identify
problem
Design: Conceive alternative solution to a
problem
Choice: Select among the alternative solutions
Implementation: Put decision into effect and
provide report on the progress of solution
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Models of Decision Making
Rational model: people engage in consistent,
rational decision making. Individuals rank all
alternatives and select the one that most
contributes to their goal
Critics point out that individuals can’t rank all
possible alternatives; tend to select first viable
alternative
Built-in biases, frame of reference, distort
decision making
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Models of Decision Making
Cognitive style: Describes underlying
personality dispositions toward
decision making
Systematic decision makers
Intuitive decision makers
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Models of Decision Making
* Organizational models
¢ Bureaucratic models
* Political models
* “Garbage can” model
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Why War Games Can’t Always
Simulate the Battlefield
How useful are war games in simulating
combat scenarios and predicting
outcomes?
How would the models of decision making
described here explain how they are
designed and performed?
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Organizational Factors in Planning
New Systems
Organization’s environment
Structure of organization
Organization’s culture and politics
Type of organization and leadership style
Principle interest groups and attitudes of workers
Kinds of tasks, decisions, processes system will
assist
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Optimal Information Systems:
Flexible; provide many options for
handling and evaluating data
Support a variety of styles, skills,
knowledge; keep track of many
alternatives
Sensitive to organization’s bureaucratic
and political requirements
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Computer system at any level of an
organization
Changes goals, operations, products,
services, or environmental relationships
Helps organization gain a competitive
advantage
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Business Competitive Strategies
¢ Become the low-cost producer
¢ Differentiate product or service
* Change scope of competition by
enlarging or narrowing market
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Value Chain Model
Firm seen as series or “chain” of activities that
add a margin of value to firm’s products or
services
Highlights activities in business where
competitive strategies are best applied
Primary or support activities
Firm’s value chain linked to value chains of
other partners
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Value Web
Value chain extended by Internet technology that
connects all the firm’s suppliers, partners, and
customers
Collection of independent firms using IT to
coordinate value chains to collectively produce a
product or service
More customer-driven, less linear than value chain
Flexible, adaptive to changes in supply and demand.
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Product Differentiation
Strategy for creating brand loyalty by
developing new and unique products
and services not easily duplicated by
competitors
Information systems used to create new
information technology-based products
and services
Examples: ATMs, computerized
reservation services
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Focused Differentiation
Strategy for developing new market niches
for specialized products and services
Information systems used to produce data
for sales and marketing; analyze customer
behavior
Examples: One-to-one and customized
marketing
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Efficient Customer Response Systems
Links consumer behavior back to
distribution, production, and supply chains
Information systems used to link
customer’s value chain to firm’s value
chain
Reduce inventory costs; deliver product or
service more quickly to customer
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Switching Costs
Cost of switching to competitive product;
higher switching costs discourage
customers going to competitors
Information systems offer convenience,
ease of use, raise switching costs
Stockless inventory systems
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At firm level, information technology
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Promote synergies between
business units, pool resources
Tie together operations of
disparate business units
Improve core competencies
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Industry-Level Strategies:
Information partnerships
Competitive forces model; e.g.,
developing industry standards
Network economics: cost of adding
new participant negligible, but adds
great marginal gain
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Impact of Internet on Competitive Forces
٠ Reduces barriers to entry
٠ Enables new substitute products and services
٠ Shifts bargaining power to customer
٠ Raises firm’s bargaining power over suppliers
٠ Suppliers benefit from reduced barriers to entry
and from elimination of intermediaries
* Widens geographic market, increases number of
competitors, reduces differentiation among
competitors
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Strategic Transitions
A movement from one level of
sociotechnical system to another
Often required when adopting
strategic systems that demand
changes in the social and technical
elements of an organization
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Analyze GM by using the value chain
and competitive forces models.
Describe the relationship between GM’s
organization and its information
technology infrastructure. What
management, organization, and
technology factors influenced this
relationship?
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in response to its competitive environment.
What is the role of information systems in that
strategy? How do they provide value for GM?
How successful have GM’s strategy and use of
information systems been in addressing the
company’s problems? What kind of problems
can they solve? What are some of the problems
that they cannot address?
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