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Includes personnel, material, machines and money
Physical resource flow
Includes data, information, and information in the form of decisions
Virtual resource flow
Firm’s control mechanism include
Performance standards to meet of the firm wants to achieve overall objectives
Firm’s management
Information processor that transform data into information
Composed of the virtual resource
Feedback loop
Organizations and individuals that exist outside the firm and have a direct or indirect influence on it
Environmental elements
Organizations and individuals that exist outside the firm and have a direct or indirect influence on it
Global community
Eight environmental elements
Government Global community Customers Competitors Stockholders or owners Labor unions Suppliers Financial community
Information flows from customers
Often
Material flow to customers
Often
Money flow to stockholders
Often
Raw materials flow from suppliers
Often
Money flow from government
Less often
Material flow to suppliers
Less often
Personnel flow to competitors
Less often
Pathway that facilitates the flow of physical resources from suppliers to the firm then to the customers
Supply chain
Manages the resources through supply chain to ensure timely and efficient flow
Supply chain management
Supply chain management activities
Scheduling production Ordering replenishment stock from suppliers Managing inventory Forecasting customer demand Establishing transportation networks Receiving stock from suppliers Executing production Transporting resources to customers Tracking the flow pf resources from suppliers, through the fir, and to customers
Can be used to perform the supply chain activities
Firm’s information systems
Provide the ability to frack the flow of the resources as it occurs
Electronic systems
Is a crucial aspect of a firm’s ERP system
Supply chain management
Refers to the use of information to gain leverage in the marketplace
Competitive advantage
Uses virtual as well as physical resources
Competitive advantage
Is used to meet the strategic objectives of the firm
Competitive advantage
Created to achieve competitive advantage
Value chain
Creator of Value Chain
Michael E. Porter
Consists of the primary and support activities that contribute to margin
Value chain
Value of the firm’s products and services minus their costs as perceived by the firm’s customers
Margin
Objective of the value chain
Increased marging
Porter’s Value activities
Primary value activities
Support value activities
Manage the flow of physical resources through the firm
Primary value actvities
Include the firm’s infrastructure
Support value activities
Each value activity includes
Purchased inputs
Human resources and technology
Expanding the scope of the value chain
Inter-organizational Information system
Business partners
Value system
Is the linking of the firm’s value chain to those of other organizations
IOS
Participating firms in the IOS
Business partners
Linking of the firm’s value chain with those of its distribution channel members
Value system
Dimensions of Competitive Advantage
Strategic advantage
Tactical advantage
Operational advantage
Has a fundamental effect in shaping the firm’s operations
Strategic advantage
When the firm implements a strategy better than its competitors
Tactical advantage
Deals with everyday transactions and processes
Operational advantage
Firm that operates across products, markets, nations and cultures
Multinational corporation (MNC)
It consists of a parent company and its subsidiaries
Multinational corporation
It is crucial to minimize uncertainty
Information processing
It is key to achieving competitive advantage globally
Coordination
Advantages of coordination include:
Flexibility in responding
Ability to respond market by market
Reduce overall costs of operation
Ability to keep abreast of market needs globally
Describes an information system that consists of networks that cross national boundaries
GIS
Challenges of GIS
Politically imposed constraints
Cultural and communications barriers
Consist of hardware, software, information specialists, users, facilities, databases, and information
Information resources
KM
Knowledge management
Acquiring data, processing data, into information, using and communicating information in the most effective way, and discarding information at the proper time
KM
Dimensions of Information
Relevancy
Accuracy
Timeliness
Completeness
Pertains to the problem at hand
Relevancy
Strive for 100%
Accuracy
Should be available for decision making before a crisis situations develop or opportunities are lost
Timeliness
Correct amount of aggregation and supports all areas of the decision being made
Completeness
Having too much information
Information overload
Earlier systems software and hardware that are incompatible with current information technology
Legacy information systems
Produce primarily historical information
Legacy information systems
Data may not be available in digital format
Legacy information systems
CIO
Chief Information Officer
CTO
Chief Technology Officer
Strategic planning
Enterprise
Business Areas
Executive committee
Enterprise
Resources for human, information, financial, marketing, and manufacturing
Business areas
Reflects Future demands for systems support
IS plan
Refers to a business transaction that uses network access, computer-based systems and a Web browser interface
Electronic Commerce (E-commerce)
Refers to transactions between a business and the final consumer of the product
Business-to-consumer (B2C)
Refers to transactions between business in which neither one is the final consumer
Business to business (B2B)
Refers to transactions between a government agency and typically a citizen
Electronic government (E-gov)
Main benefits to firms:
Improved customer service before, during, and after the sale
Improved relationships with suppliers and the financial community
Increased economic return on stockholders and owner investments
Main constraints to firms
High costs
Security concerns
Immature or unavailable software
Source of E-Commerce
Www. Census.gov
Link to E-stats web page
BI
Business Intelligence
Activity of gathering information about the elements in the environment that interacts with the firm
BI
General systems model of the firm
Physical resource flow
Virtual resource flow
Commercial databases that usually for a fee, provided information and analyses on virtually any subject
External databases
Firms use these databases to gather BI because it is faster and less expensive than trying to research a wide array of information sources
External databses
Offer a wide range of topics for researchers in many fields
Government databases
Special computer program that asks a user for a word or group of words to be found
Search engine
Strategy in which a firm is linked with transmissions of electric data with other firms so that all of the firms work together as a coordinated unit, achieving benefits that each could not achieve alone
IOS
Participating IOS FIRMS
Trading partners
Business parners
Business alliance
Fundamental to IOSs
E-commerce
EDI
Electronica data Interchange
Means for achieving an IOS, a subset
EDI
Another alternative
Extranets
IOS benefits
Comparative efficiency
Internal efficiency
Inter-organizational efficiency
Obtained by the IOS because the trading partners can produce their goods and services with greater efficiency and provide their goods and services at lower costs to their customers
Computer Efficiency
Price advantage over competitors.
Comparative efficiency
Gather and analyze data quickly
Make decisions faster
Internal efficiency
Within the firm’s own operations
Internal efficiency
Gained by working with other firms
Inter-organizational efficiency
Offer more products and services
Serve more customers
Shift certain work to suppliers or customers
Gather environmental data more easily
Inter-organizational efficiency
Ability of a firm to receive disagreements with its suppliers and customers to its own advantage
Bargaining power
Consists of direct computer-computer transmissions of data in a machine-readable structured format
EDI
Older technology but majority of B2B commerce use
EDI
Enables data to be transmitted without rekeying
EDI
Enable the sharing of sensitive computer- based information with other firms using information technology over the internet.
Extranet
Used in collaboration with trusted suppliers and large customers
Extranet
Security and privacy are serious concerns so extranets are generally secured behind a firewall and use encyption such as PGP
Extranet
PGP
Pretty Good Privacy
Direct benefits
Reduced data entry errors
Lower costs
Increased operational efficiency
Indirect benefits
Increased ability to complete
Improved relationships with trading partners
Better customer service
Important to understand B2C strategies
More products and services available for digital delivery
More customers overcoming reluctance to purchase using WEB
Higher communication speed in Home
Fear information theft replaced by acceptance
Digital products
Entertainment
Computer programs and updates
Services
Songs, albums, movies
Entertainment
Virus protection software. Tax software
Computer programs and updates
Incur a substantial cost of the transaction in terms of computer cost, online connection fees, storage media and so on
Purchases
Physical products
Items must be transported to the consumer
Shipment has to be arranged
Traditional methods are slow
Faster delivery time options are costly
Mail shipping companies allow more informations and control over delivery
Those made by a firm that does not operate a physical storefront
Virtual sales
Occur when firms have both a physical storefront and a Web site where customers can purchase products
Hybrid sales
Virtual vs Hybrid sales
Customers can’t enter and purchase the product
Brick and click operations
Use of cellphone and PDA to engage in wireless e-commerce
Mobile commerce (m-commerce) Personal digital assistants
Data capable wireless technologies
Third generation (3G) Telecommunications
Created using a wired connection (for high communications speed) and then broadcast via a wireless access point to an area approx 100 m
Wireless Internet Hot spots
Provide fast wireless communication everywhere over the same communication carrier as cell phones
Business-class wireless computing
The origin of the internet can be traced in _ when the US government established a network called _
1969
ARPANET
Efforts began in __ when _ came up with am idea for physicists to communicate
WWW (World Wide Web)
1989
Tim-Berners Lee
Electronic documents that are linked together
Hypertext
They would be able to click on words or phrases displayed on their computer screens and retrieve hypertext
Physicists
Became a reality in __
Hypertext
1992
Transmission of multimedia consisting of text, graphics, audio and video over the WWW
Hypermedia
Information accessible via the Internet whereby hypermedia documents (computer files) are stored and the. Retrieved by means of a unique addressing scheme
WWW (Web)
Collection of Web pages
Web site
Pointer (text or a graphic) used to access hypertext store at a Website
Hypertext link
Hypermedia file stored at a unique Web site address
Web page
First page of a Web site
Home page
Software designed to find and read files on the Internet written in HTTP
Browser
Hypertext Markup Language
Unique address of a Web page
URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
Set of standards that given communication of data (HTTP, FTP, URL)
Protocol
Address of the website where a Web page is stored
Domain name
Certain directory/subdirectory and file at the Web Site
Path
Users can copy files onto their computers from any Web site
FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
Global communications network that connects millions of computers
Internet
Provides the network architecture
Internet
Collection of computers acting as content servers that host documents formatted to enable viewing of text, graphics, and audio as well as allowing linkages to other documents on the Web
Web
Provides the method for storing and retrieving its documents
Web
Society that had become a slave to technology
Cyberspace
Describes a positive force that gives everyone access to the wealth of information that exists in modern society
Information Superhighway
Promotes commercial Internet use
Internet Society (1992)
Responsible for Internet Standards
IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
Responsible for Web standards
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
Suggestions for successful Internet Use
Make sure your Web site is robyst Make sure your browser and database structure are bothe flexible and intuitive Emphasize content Update often Look beyond customers Target content to specific users' needs Make the interface intuitive Be in the right Web location Create a sense of community Got help if you need it