• Transforming Business Through Information

System
• New in Management Information System (MIS)
• The Emerging Digital Firm
• Strategic Business Objectives of Information
System
• Brief Introduction to Information Systems
• Dimensions of Information System
• Academic Disciplines Used to Study
Information Systems
➢How Information System (IS) transforming Businesses?
❑Changes in Technology
✓ Smartphones
✓ Tablet Computers
❑ New, Innovative Business Models

✓ The use of social network

Smartphones Social Networking Texting

Emailing Webinar
❑ New, Innovative Business Models
✓dot-com internet sites
❑ Information System
✓ changes businesses in a way that businesses are
now able to sense and respond to rapidly changing
customer demand, reduce inventories to the lowest
possible levels, and achieve higher levels of
operational efficiency.
❑Supply chains have become more fast-paced
❑ Global e-commerce and Internet advertising
continue to expand.
Five Changes are of paramount
importance :

• IT Innovation
• New Business Models
• E-commerce Expanding
• Management Changes
• Changes in Firm and Organization
Digital Firm
is one which nearly all of the organization’s
significant business relationships with customers,
supplier, and digitally enabled and mediated.

Business Process
refer to the set logically related tasks and
behaviors that organizations develop over time
to produce specific business results and the
organized are organized and coordinated.
Key Corporation Assets
➢ are managed through digital means.

Examples:
✓ intellectual property
✓ core competencies, and
✓ financial and human asset

Time Shifting
➢ refers to business being conducted continuously, 24/7,
rather than in narrow “work day” time bands of 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m.

Space Shifting
➢ means that work takes place in a global workshop as
well as within national boundaries.
 Figure 1.2
The Interdependence Between Organizations and Information System
Strategic Business Objectives of
Information System:

• Operational
• New products, Service, and Business Models;
• Customers and Supplier Intimacy;
• Improved Decisions Making ;
• Competitive Advantage;

Business Objectives:
✓ Operational Excellence
✓ New Products, Services, and Business
Models;
✓ Customers / Supplier Intimacy;
✓ Improved Decision Making;

• Survival
➢ Information Technology (IT)
consisting of all the “hardware” and “software”
that a firm needs to use in order to achieve its
business objectives.

➢ Information System
- can be defined technically as a set of interrelated
components that collect ( or retrieve ), process,
store, and distribute information to support
decision making and control in an organization.
- Information systems contain information about
significant people, places, and things within the
organization or in the environment surrounding
it.
❑ By information we mean data
that have been shaped into a
form that is meaningful and
useful to human beings
❑ Data, in contrast, are streams of
raw facts representing events
occurring in organizations or the
physical environment before they
have been organized and
arranged into a form that people
can understand and use.
 Figure 1.3
Data and Information
Three Activities in an Information
System:
1.INPUT captures or collects raw data from
within the organization or from its external
environment.
2.PROCESSING converts this raw input into
a meaningful form.
3. OUTPUT transfer the processed
information to the people who will use it or
to the activities for which it will be used.
 Figure 1.4
Functions of an Information System
Information Technology
(IT)
consists of all the
“hardware” and “software” that
a firm needs to use in order to
achieve its business objectives.
 Figure 1.5
Information System are more than Computers
 Figure 1.6
Levels in Firm
 Table 1.2 Major Business Functions
Function Purpose Function Purpose

Sales and marketing Selling the organization’s

Computer hardware
is the physical equipment used for input, processing,
and output activities in an information system
Computer software
consists of the detailed, preprogrammed instructions
that control and coordinate the computer hardware
components in an information system.
Data management technology
consists of the software governing the organization of
data on physical storage media.
Networking and telecommunications technology
consisting of both physical storage devices and
software, links the various pieces of hardware and transfer
data from one physical location to another.
❑ The world’s largest and most widely used network is the INTERNET.
The internet is a “network of networks” that uses universal
standards (described in Chapter 7) to connect millions of networks
in more than 230 countries around the world.
❑ Internal corporate networks based on internet technology are
called intranets.
❑ Private intranets extended to authorized users outside the
organization are called extranets, and firms use such networks to
coordinate their activities with other firms for making purchases,
collaborating on design, and other inter organizational work.
❑ The World Wide Web is a service provided by the internet that
uses universally accepted standards for storing, retrieving,
formatting, and displaying information in a page format on the
Internet.
❑ The IT infrastructure provides the foundation, of platform in
which the firm can build its specific information system..
 Contemporary Approaches to Information Systems

The Study of information system deals with issues and insights contributed from
technical and behavioral disciplines.
JEAN MARY APOSTOL
JUDY JORDA
JUSMINE ORANGA
JACKIE NATAL