ABI begrippen Flashcards
IT
All the hardware and software that a firm needs to use in order to achieve its business objectives
Computer machine storage devices, software (windows), other computer programs
Bluetooth
Useful for creating a small personal area network (PAN’s). It links up to 8 devices within a 10 meter area, using low power, radio based communication.
Access Point
a box consisting of a radio receiver/transmitter and antennas that links to a wired network router of hub.
Hotspot
Locations with one or more access points providing wireless internet access and are often in public.
Data
Streams of raw facts representing events occurring in organisations before they have been organised and arranged into a form that people can understand and use it.
Information
Data that has been shaped into a form that is meaningful and useful for humans.
Information System (IS) Explanation
An important instrument for creating value to a firm. It can increase its revenue or decrease costs by providing information that helps managers making a better decision or that improves the execution of business processes. IS provides real economic value to a business.
Information System (IS) =
A set of interrelated components working together to collect, process, store, and distribute information to support decision making en control in a firm.
Input
Collect raw data from in the firm.
Processing
Converting raw data into a meaningful form.
Output
Transfer the processed data to the people who use it.
IS from a business perspective
Part of series value adding activities for acquiring, transforming and distributing information that managers can use to improve decision making and enhance the organisations performance and increase the profitability.
Computer literacy
Focuses primarily on knowledge of information technology.
Complementary Assets Explanation
Investing in IT does not automatically guarantee good returns, they have to be accompanied by complementary assets.
Those assets required to derive value from primary investments. In addition, research indicates that firms support their technology investments with investments in complementary assets.
Such as: new business models, organisational culture.
Complementary Assets =
Assets required to derive value from a primary investment.
Example: for a pomp station –> roads
What is the economic impact of information system organisations? Explanation + 4 examples
Online and interactive tools deeply involved in the daily operations and decision making of large organisations.
The economic impact:
- IT changes relative costs of capital investment and labor.
- IT effects the cost ad quality of information and changes economics of information.
- IT helps a firm expand in size because it can reduce costs (of participating markets).
-Outsourcing
6 challenges of information systems
- It required extensive organisational change, transition from one technical level to another (strategic transition = difficult)
- Not all strategic systems are profitable.
- Expensive to build.
- Easily copies by other firms + always a strategic advantage is not always sustainable.
- Difficult to align with the business objectives.
- People do no support (staff), do not try to understand the new technology.
Runways
Projects that far exceed the original schedule and budget and fail to perform (between 30-40%).
The user interface
Part of the system which end users interact.
Example: key board and mouse
Objectives project management + why essential in developing information systems? 3 examples
- There is high failure rate among IS
- It takes more time and money than anticipated.
- Good project management is essential for ensuring that systems are delivered on time.
7 Project management activities
- Planning the work
- Accessing the risk
- Acquiring recourses
- Organising work
- Directing
- Executing
- Analysing results
5 variables of information systems
- Scope: What work is or is not included in the project.
- Time: Amount of time required to complete the project.
- Cost: Based on the time to complete a project multiplied by cost of HR required to complete the project.
- Quality: How well the end result of a project satisfies the objectives specified by management
- Risk: Potential problems that would threaten the success of a project.
5 (+ explanation) consequences of poor management are:
- Cost overruns
- Time slippage
- Technical shortfalls impacting performance
- Failure to obtain anticipated benefits
–> without proper management a system development project takes longer to complete and most often exceed the allocated budget.
Project
A planned series of related activities for achieving a specific business objective.
Project management
Application of knowledge and skills to achieve a target within budget and time.
Scope
What work is or is not included in a project.
4 reasons why you should perform a strategy analysis?
- To better understand the strategy and value proposition.
- To get a clear picture of the current situation.
- To understand how each process contributes to the strategy.
- To define the most value adding processes that support the strategy and be able to measure their performance.
What is the role of the IS (department) function in a business? + 8 functions
The formal organisational unit responsible for IT services. This is responsible for maintaining the hardware, software, data storage, and networks that compromise the firms IT’s infrastructure.
- Programmers
- System Analysts
- IS managers
- CIO
- CSO
- CPO
- CKO
- CDO
Programmers
Technical specialist who write the software instructions for computers.
System analysts
Translates business problems and requirements into information requirements and systems.
Information systems managers
Leader of the teams of programmers and analysts, project managers enzovoorts.
CIO = Chief Information Officer
Head of ID departments, senior manager who oversees the use of IT in the firm.
CSO = Chief Security Officer
In charge of the overall security of data and prevents cyber.
CPO = Chief Privacy Officer
Responsible for ensuring that the company complies with existing data privacy laws.
CKO = Chief Knowledge Officer
Responsible for the knowledge of management programs of the firm. Helps design programs and systems.
CDO = Chief Data Officer
Responsible for utilisation of information to maximise the value the organisation can realise.
4 Information system strategies for dealing with competitive forces.
- Low cost leadership (Walmart): produce products and services at lower price than the competition.
- Product differentiation (Google, Nike, Apple): enable new products and services, greatly change customer convenience and mass experience (customisation).
- Focus on market niche (specialisation) (Hilton hotel system): Use IS to enable a focused strategy on a single market niche.
- Strengthen customer and supplier intimacy (Amazon, Starbucks): Use IS to develop strong ties and loyalty with customers and suppliers (increase switching costs)
Efficient customer response system
Directly links customers behaviour to distribution and supply chains.
Mass Customisation
The ability to offer individually tailored products and services using the same production recourses as mass production.
Switching costs
Costs switching from one product to a competing product.
Porters value chain
The value that is created and captured by a company is the profit margin.
- The more value the more profit
- When you provide value to your customers = competitive advantage.
Profit Margin
Value created and cost of creating that value.
Competitive Strategy
How to compete in the area the firm operates in. define how a firm creates a competitive advantage with respect to the competition.
Value Chain
A set of activities that a firm carries out to create value for it customers. Tool to make you understand sources of value for you company.
5 Primary activities + explanation
They relate to the physical creation, sale maintenance support of a product .
- Inbound logistics: Storing and distributing
- Operations: Change inputs into outputs that are sold to customers.
- Outbound logistics: Delivery of products to customers.
- Marketing and Sales: Persuade clients to make a purchase.
- Service: Activities related to maintain value.
4 Supporting activities
- Producement: Purchasing –> what the firm does to get the recourses needed and finding the best price.
- HR: recruits and hires.
- Technical development/ Technology: Managing and processing information and protecting companies knowledge base.
- Infrastructure: Support systems that allow it to maintain daily operations.
Benchmarking
Involves comparing the efficiency and effectiveness of your business processes against strict standards and then measuring performance against this standard.
Value web
Is a collection of independent firms that use IT to coordinate their value chains to a product or service.
Software Outsourcing
Enables a firm to contract custom software development.
SLA = Service Level Agreement
Contract between customers and service provider that defines responsibility and service expected.
Total Cost Ownership (228)
Actual cost of owning technology recourses –> analyse direct and indirect costs.
TCO = Total Cost Ownership
Purchase price + cost incurred during the useful life (direct and indirect costs together).
2 Ways to reduce TCO
- Having a centralised hardware platform
- Switch to cloud service.
Project Risk (3 influences)
- Project Size: The larger the project the greater the risk.
- Project structure: Undefined goals can result in higher risk.
- Experience technology: Project team has to have technical expertise.
KPI’s = Key Performance Indicators
Measure of performance over time for a specific objective.
Shaped by the industry
Goals
Knowledge Management
The set of processes developed in an organisation to create, gather, store, maintain, and disseminate the firms knowledge.
Tacit Knowledge
Knowledge residing in the minds of employees that has not been documented yet.
Explicit Knowledge
Knowledge that has been documented.
4 Important dimensions of knowledge
- Knowledge is a firm asset (intangible).
- Knowledge has different forms (knowing why, not only when).
- Knowledge has a location (hard to move).
- Knowledge is situational (know the procedure, related to context).
3 Reasons why IT flattens organisations
- By providing managers with information to supervise larger numbers of employees.
- By giving lower-level employees more decisions-making authority.
- Managers receive much more timely and accurate informations, they become faster at making decisions thus requiring less managers.
3 Types of decisions
- Structured: Are repetitive and routine, can be handled the same each time.
- Unstructured: Decisions without any routine, no procedure.
- Semi-structured: have elements of both structured and unstructured.
Data
Flow of events of transactions captured by an organisations system.
If a company wants to know which products are most popular and who is the most profitable customer, the answer lies in the data.
Big Data
These data sets have a volume so huge that they are beyond the ability of typical DBMS (data base management systems) to capture, store, and analyse.
- massive sets of unstructured/semi-structured data from web traffic, social media, sensors and so on.
- Can reveal more patterns and relationships but required new tools and technologies to manage and analyse.
Volume
Scale of data