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Business

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a formal organization whose aim is to produce products or provide services for a profit

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Strategic Choice

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determines your likely customers, the kinds of employees you will need, production methods and facilities needed, the marketing themes and many other choices

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ABBREV: Four basic business functions

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MSFH

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Four Basic Business Functions

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Manufacturing and Production
Sales and Marketing
Finance and accounting
Human Resources

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Manufacturing and Production business process

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Assembling the product
Checking for Quality
Producing bills of materials

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Sales and Marketing business process

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identifying customers
Making customers aware of the product
Selling the product

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Finance and Accounting business process

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Paying creditors
Creating financial statements
Managing cash accounts

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Human Resources business process

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Hiring employees
Evaluating employees’ job performance
Enrolling employees in benefits plan

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ABBREV: Five Basic Business Entities

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SCEIP

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Five Basic Business Entities

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Supplier
Customers
Employees
Invoices/payments
Products and services
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Business process

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logically related set of tasks that define how specific business tasks are performed

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Functional

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require coordination across departments

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Cross-functional

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interactions ex, fulfilling customer order

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Senior Management

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makes long-range strategic decisions about products and services as well as ensures financial performance of the firm

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Middle Management

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carries out the programs and plans of senior management

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Operational Management

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Responsible for monitoring the daily activities of the business

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Knowledge workers

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Designs products and services and create new knowledge for the firm

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Data Workers

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assists with administrative work at all levels of the firm

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Production or service workers

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actually produce the product and deliver the service

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ABBREV: Levels in a Firm

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SMO

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Levels in a Firm

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Senior Management
Middle Management (Scientists and knowledge workers)
Operational Management (Production and service workers, data workers)
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To stay in business, a firm must

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monitor changes in its environment of every business

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Businesses fail because

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they failed to respond adequately to changes in environments

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To be successful, an organization must constantly

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monitor and respond to developments in the environment

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ABBREV: Global Environmental factors

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TEPI

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Global Environmental Factors

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Technology and Science
Economy
Politics
International Change

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ABBREV: Immediate environment factors

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CSCRS

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Immediate environment factors

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Customers
Suppliers
Competitors
Regulations
Stockholders
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Systems for Management Decision Making and Business Intelligence

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Transaction Processing Systems

Systems for business intelligence

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Transaction Processing Systems (TPS) defintion

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a computerized system that performs and records the daily routine transactions necessary to conduct business

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Example of TPS

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payroll processing

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Business intelligence definition

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a contemporary term for data and software tools for organizing, analyzing, and providing access to data

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Systems for business intelligence

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focus on delivering information to support management decision making

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ABBREV: Types of Systems Business Intelligence

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MDE

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Types of Systems Business Intelligence

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Management Information Systems (MIS)
Decision Support System (DSS)
Executive Support System (ESS)

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Who does Management Information Systems (MIS) provide for?

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middle managers

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What does Management Information Systems do?

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Summarize and report on the company’s basic operations using data supplied by transaction processing systems

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Who does Decision Support Systems (DSS) provide for?

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Middle managers

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What does Decision Support Systems do?

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-support non-routine decision making

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Where does DSS use information from?

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TPS and MIS as well as external sources

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Model driven DSS

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Voyage-estimating systems

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Data driven DSS

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Intrawest’s marketing analysis systems

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Executive Support Systems(ESS) serve

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senior managers

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What does ESS do?

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  • address strategic issues and long-term trends

- provide generalized computing capacity that can be applied to changing array of problems

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Digital Dashboard is used in

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Executive Support Systems (ESS)

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Digital dashboard

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delivers comprehensive and accurate information for decision making often using a single screen

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Enterprise application

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systems that span functional area, focus on executing business processes across the firm, and include all levels of management

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How does Enterprise Application help businesses?

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become more flexible and productive by coordinating their business processes more closely and integrating groups of processes

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ABBREV: four major types of Enterprise Application

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Four Major Types of Enterprise Application

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Enterprise systems
Supply Chain Management
Customer relationship management systems
Knowledge management systems

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Enterprise Systems is also known as

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

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What does Enterprise systems do?

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  • integrate data into single system
  • speed communication
  • greater flexibility
  • enable managers to assemble overall view of operations
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What does Supply Chain Management (SCM) do?

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manage relationships with suppliers, purchasing firms, distributors, and logistics companies

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SCM is a type of __________ systems

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interorganizaitonal system

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Interorganizational system

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automating flow of information across organization boundaries

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What does Customer Relationship Management Systems do?

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help manage relationship with customers

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What are the goals of Customer Relationship Management Systems?

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OIII

  • Optimize revenue
  • Improve customer satisfaction
  • Increase customer retention
  • identify and retain most profitable customers
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What do knowledge management systems do?

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manage processes for capturing and applying knowledge and expertise

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Intranets and Extranets are

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technology platforms that increase integration and expedite the flow of information

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Intranets

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internal networks based on internet standards, often are private access in a company’s website

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Extranet

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company websites accessible only to authorized vendors and suppliers

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E-business

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use of digital technology and internet to drive major business processes

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E-commerce

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buying and selling goods and services through internet

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E-government

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using internet technology to deliver information and services to citizens, employees, and busineses

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Collaboration

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working with others to achieve shared and explicit goals

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ABBREV: growing importance of Collaboration

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Growing importance of Collaboration

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Changing nature of work
Growth of professional work
Changing organization of the firm
Changing scope of the firm
Emphasis on innovation
Changing culture of work and business
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Requirements for Collaboration

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Collaboration Capability & Collaboration Technology
Collaboration Quality
Firm Performance

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Same Place-Same Time

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face to face interactions

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Different Place - Same time

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Remote interactions

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Same place - different time

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continuous task

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Different Place - Different Time

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Communication + Coordination

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Time/Space Collaboration Tool Matrix

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whether they support interactions at the same or different time or place and whether these interactions are remote or co-located

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Information Systems department

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the formal organizational unit responsible for information technology services

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Information systems department responsible for

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maintaining the hardware, software, data storage, and networks that compromise the firm’s IT infrastructure

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Programmers

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highly trained technical specialist who write the software instructions for computers

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Systems Analysts

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constitute the principal liaisons between the information systems groups and the rest of the organization

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ABBREV: Senior managers of IT department

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Information Systems Managers

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leaders of teams

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Senior Managers

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Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Chief Security Officer (CSO)
Chief Privacy Officer (CPO)
Chief Knowledge Officer(CKO)

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CIO - Chief Information officer

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oversees the use of information technology in the firm

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CSO - Chief Security Officer

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in charge of information systems security for the firm and is responsible for enforcing the firm’s information security policy

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CPO - Chief Privacy Officer

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responsible for ensuring that the company complies with existing data privacy laws

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CKO - Chief Knowledge Officer

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responsible for the firm’s knowledge management program

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End Users

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representatives of departments outside of the information systems group for whom applications are developed

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