LECTURE1 Flashcards
means that you allow an heterogeneous
Information System (IS) to communicate or integrate and share
information (or data) seamlessly with one another.
Systems integration
Systems integration is a key issue for an organization for its
growth
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are a major kind
of information system allowing organizations to integrate different
systems into one organization-wide application with an
integrated database management system.
●Silos are basically compartmentalized operating units
isolated from their environment.
● Classification of organizations into departments like Accounting and Human
Resources, reflects the breaking of complex tasks into smaller manageable
tasks that could be assigned to a group of people who could then be held
responsible.
●Horizontal Silos
● Organizations also divided roles in hierarchical layers from strategic
planning to management control and operation control.
●Vertical Silos
● CEOs and Presidents plan long-term strategy, midlevel management
focuses on tactical issues and on the execution of organizational policy
whereas the lower-level management task is to focus on the day-to-day
operations of the company.
●Vertical Silos
are a critical component of a
successful organization today.
●Information Systems
play a major role in primary and
secondary activities of an organization’s value chain.
●Information Systems
provide a high level of computer
automation to support business functions such as:
Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Customer Service,
Human Resource Management, Operations,
Manufacturing
●Information Systems
provide analytical and decision
making support for management, which is generally
categorized into three levels- Strategic, Middle, and
Operational.
●Information systems
●Over time, organizations created a hodgepodge of
independent nonintegrated systems ultimately creating
___________ and interfering with productivity.
bottlenecks
is inefficient, inaccurate, and
expensive.
● The system creates bottlenecks for everyone and information is not
available in real-time.
Silo Information System
can involve people
and resources from various functional departments
working together, sharing information at any level of
the organization.
●The cross-functional integration
breaks the functional
silos by opening up the informational flows from one department to
another.
● The cross-functional organizational structure
