Strategic Information System

Strategic Information System involves having a long-term vision, define business

objectives, setting goals, and taking steps to reach those goals and address
organizational issues. Strategic Information System keeps the organization focused on
its vision and organizational transformation. It is used to provide information about
the current situation of an individual, group or organization. It is a conceptual system
that helps in understanding the present and the future environment in which an
individual or organization operates. A strategic information system (SIS) is a business
information system (BIS) with the features Systematic approach to collecting, storing,
and retrieving data; Integration with other systems. It is essential for your company to
have a clear vision, business plan, strategy and organisation structure. It’s important
that your employees are aligned with these strategies, so that everyone has the same
goals in mind.
Systems management is the process of planning, implementing, and monitoring of information
systems that support the mission, goals, and objectives of an organization. They offer
competitive information, help you improve organisational structure, allows you to tackle
competitive forces and prepare you the environmental changes. The features of a strategic
information system are:
1. Information Security
2. Data Integrity
3. Data Security
This is the process of aligning your brand with the different channels you’re using. Each channel
has its own audience, and as a brand owner, you need to know who your audience is and what
they want. New markets keep on emerging which give rise to new products, thus requiring a new
and better competitive strategy to success.

Importance and advantages of Strategic information system

Strategic information system provides a connection between demands of organization

and latest information technology. This tactic helps an organization to get hold of the
market by utilizing Information tech to meet its challenging requirements to the
continuous variation in the corporate environment. Helps them evolve their business
strategy, helps with knowledge management and operations management.
Information system strategy is a critical aspect of an organization’s management
decision for its growth, expansion and supply chain management. Information
technology and competitive intelligence can work wonders for a business. The
integration of the data system and its function within the organization can be handled
easily by enabling open access and use of management systems. Besides that, it also
enables the classification of different opportunities for the use of information systems
for different strategies. It gives the surety that only useful resources or the use of
resources which are less are allocated to the applications and to use the scarce
resources in a sustainable way and have a better impact factor. With the System
Information Strategy, it ensures that the Information system functions accordingly and
supports the business goals and objectives of the organization at the different levels.
There are several instances of strategic planning which have helped the organizations
to help create and sustain the resources in this competitive market over the past years
and has allocated several effective benefits and simply continued to provide for the
survival of these organizations which have used these systems. These systems are
often termed as ‘strategic concepts of the organization.’ To give the maximum
performance

Strategic Role of Information Systems in an organization.

Information Systems (IS)
Information Systems is systems comprising of people, processes and technology to
process data into meaningful and interpretable information. This system aims at
assisting management and business operations in making business decisions and
support business processes.
There are various types of information systems, for example: transaction
processing systems, decision support systems, knowledge management systems,
learning management systems, database management systems, and office information
systems. Critical to most information systems are information technologies, which are
typically designed to enable humans to perform tasks for which the human brain is not
well suited, such as: handling large amounts of information, performing complex
calculations, and controlling many simultaneous processes.

The traditional view of information system based on the hierarchy of an organization

is based on the requirement of specific information and data at each level of an
organization to perform roles specific to that level. Organizational Hierarchy

The components of information systems can be broadly categorized into: Hardware,

Software, Data,
Procedures, People and feedback.
Executive
Information System
Decision Support
System
Managment
Information System
Transaction
Processing System

Strategic Importance of Information Systems.

In current world and business scenario right information, at the right time and with the
right person can be the difference between survival and extinction of an organization.
A strategic IS helps an organization gain a competitive advantage through its
contribution to the strategic goals of an organization and its ability to significantly
increase performance and productivity
Information system can help strategize an organizations business model or enhance
existing ones to give it an edge over its competitors.
The different thoughts currently in the market for

THE VALUE CHAIN

Business Process Reengineering?

Business process reengineering is the act of recreating a core business process with the goal of
improving product output, quality, or reducing costs.
challenges posed by strategic information systems

1. Sustaining Competitive Advantage

The competitive advantages that strategic systems confer do not necessarily last long enough
to ensure long-term profitability. Because competitors can retaliate and copy strategic systems,
competitive advantage is not always sustainable. Markets, customer expectations, and
technology change; globalization has made these changes even more rapid and unpredictable.
The Internet can make competitive advantages disappear very quickly because virtually all
companies can use this technology. Classic strategic systems, such as American Airlines’s
SABRE computerized reservation system, Citibank’s ATM system, and FedEx’s package
tracking system, benefited by being the first in their industries. Then rival systems emerged.
Amazon was an e-commerce leader but now faces competition from eBay, Walmart, and
Google. Information systems alone cannot provide an enduring business advantage. Systems
originally intended to be strategic frequently become tools for survival, required by every firm to
stay in business, or they may inhibit organizations from making the strategic changes essential
for future success.

2. Aligning IT with Business Objectives

The research on IT and business performance has found that (a) the more successfully a firm
can align information technology with its business goals, the more profitable it will be, and (b)
only one-quarter of firms achieve alignment of IT with the business. About half of a business
firm’s profits can be explained by alignment of IT with business (Luftman, 2003).

Most businesses get it wrong: Information technology takes on a life of its own and does not
serve management and shareholder interests very well. Instead of businesspeople taking an
active role in shaping IT to the enterprise, they ignore it, claim not to understand IT, and tolerate
failure in the IT area as just a nuisance to work around. Such firms pay a hefty price in poor
performance. Successful firms and managers understand what IT can do and how it works, take
an active role in shaping its use, and measure its impact on revenues and profits.

Management Checklist: Performing a Strategic Systems Analysis

To align IT with the business and use information systems effectively for competitive advantage,
managers need to perform a strategic systems analysis. To identify the types of systems that
provide a strategic advantage to their firms

Intranet
An intranet is a closed online communications network. Think of it as being an
internal website accessible only to your employees or selected clients and customers.
It’s where staff go to get stuff done.
 What Is Intranet Software?
Intranet software is the computer program used to create your intranet and the tools
and modules you want it to feature.
How will implementing intranet software help my business? Well, that’s a good
question so let’s turn our attention to looking at the purpose of an intranet.

What Purpose Does An Intranet Serve?

Quite simply, an intranet will bring organizational efficiencies to any business. Using
the intranet’s tools and modules, staff members will be able to get on with the job
more efficiently and effectively.
The intranet encompasses a wide range of information and services and can include
the following:
 File and document management and sharing
 News feeds and blogs on a company-wide or team basis
 Corporate calendars featuring key events or milestones
 Automated business processes such as online forms
 Project workspaces in which staff can collaborate and work together on organization-
wide projects and issues
 Staff directories with biographies and expertise highlighted
 Quizzes and surveys
 Social intranet features including individual and site activity walls.
Intranet software enables you to create a platform that has all the tools staff need to be
more effective in their roles and complete tasks and business processes faster and
more accurately.
Intranet Advantages
The motivation for deploying intranet software varies from company to company. It
could be a need to streamline daily business processes, or wanting to organize people
and data more effectively. The intranet is also a great enabler of communications and
so often the primary motivation is a desire to improve internal communications. Other
drivers include needing to increase employee engagement or break down internal
information silos and enhance collaboration and team working.
Whatever the case may be, the intranet’s flexible and comprehensive offering means
that most businesses quickly find their company intranet becomes an essential
workplace tool.
What is Extranet?

An extranet is an organization’s private network and its available only for

selected users. It’s a way to connect to third parties like vendors, customers,
and partners in a secure and controlled way. The users typically have a login
mechanism such as username and password to access the network. Extranet in
simple terms provides a secure network for an organization to share information
with relevant people outside the organization. It is part of an organization’s
intranet divided via a firewall. 
Examples:   
1. An e-commerce site exchanges information with its retailers, a supplier’s
through an extranet network.
2. Multinational organizations handle their project information, clients and
communicate with another organization over an extranet network.
3. University provides an e-learning platform for their students over the extranet
network.

collaboration system?

A collaboration system uses software and technology to enable humans to communicate

and share documents in a digital space. Companies use collaboration systems to solve

work-related problems such as chaotic communication, paper-heavy processes, or

inability to offer workers telecommuting opportunities.

goal of a collaboration system?

The goal of collaboration systems is to make collaboration easier for humans in the

workplace.

Employees need to work together to accomplish common goals. That means they need

to cooperate, communicate, coordinate, share, debate, brainstorm, and solve problems.

In short, they need to collaborate.

Collaboration systems help workers collaborate. Their goal is to make collaboration

faster, easier, more enjoyable, smoother, minimize miscommunication, and provide

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