MIS Flashcards
Taxonomy of IT
McAfee (2006)
FIT,NIT,EIT
IT selection, IT adoption, IT exploitation
IT influence on Organization
Chen & Kamal
ICT
- complexity of ICT (internal coordination)
- codefiability of process (external coordination)
Gurbaxani & Wang
- roles of IT (5)
- external coordination costs
- internal coordination costs
- Economies of scale
- size of the firm
Fashion/Hottest IT
Swanson (innovation wave)
- innovation wave machine stages
- innovation wave complex
–> Mindlessness vs Mindfulness of Managers
Wang (Hottest IT)
- reputation of the company
- organisational leader compensation
- adoption versus implementation influence on performance
IT influence on employement
McAfee & Brynjolfsson: (Horses)
- human wants (compared to horses)
–> social interaction - human advantages in physical & metal tasks
- mitigation suggestions for job loss
Frey & Osborne: (computerisation)
technical revolution 21st century
- routine tasks vs non-routine tasks
- non routine cognitive vs manual tasks
-bottlenecks of computerisation
(Waves of computerisation)
Shackleton (Passimists)
- Policy suggestions
- opinion on computerisation
Resource based view
Mata et al. (Sustainable competitive advantage)
- Create-capture-keep paradigm
- Valuable, Heterogeneity, Immobility
(Role of history, causal ambiguity, social complexity) - Attributes of IT (for sustained competitive advantage)
–> IT as competitive advantage?
IT as a Strategy?
Carr (IT doesn’t matter)
- Proprietary technology versus Infrastructural technology
- commoditisation of IT (build out phase)
- Form offence to defence
Chae (IT and performance)
- IT capabilities
- present versus past findings
- Change of value through commoditisation
–> limitations of findings
McAfee and Brynjolfsson (competition)
- change of competition (Turbulence, Concentration, performance spread)
- CEO Mantra (Deployment, Innovation, Propagation)
–> decision making rights - Return on talent (superstar effect)
ERP systems
Davenport (Enterprise not the system)
- Allure of ERPs
- Impact on organisation (Decision rights, MNEs)
- System versus Strategy (Assumptions of system, role of management)
Luo & Strong (ERP customisation)
- Issues of ERP
- Technical customisation (Module, table, and code modification)
- Process customisation (No, incremental & radical change)
- Technical & Process Change capabilities (understanding, redesign, implementation skills)
Urgin et al. (early vs late adopters)
- Up to adoption
- Post-adoption
–> institutional theory (coercive fact, conformity to norms facet, mimetic facet)
Warehousing
Watson
- characteristics (Subject oriented, integrated, time variant, non volatile)
- ETL /Architecture (Data Source, ETL software, Data stores, users)
- Data mart strategy (start small think big)
- Enterprise data warehouse approach
- Meta Data
- Datamining
Outcomes of IT
Petter et al. (Success)
- Eras
- Change over time
- Action possibilities
Keil (Escalation)
- Project escalation (mum & Deaf effect)
- Frequency & Comparison escalation vs non-escalation & Distinguishing with theory
- Theories of escalation (self-justification, prospect, agency, approach avoidance)
–> best discriminator?
Cloud computing
Marston et al. (Cloud)
- Advantages
- Core concepts (Visualisation, Multitenancy, web service)
- models of cloud computing (SaaS PaaS IaaS)
- SWOT Analysis
- Stakeholders
Winkler & Benlian (Mantras Bayer)
- Mantras
(1. cost 2. Implementation 3. Customisation 4. Security 5. Core competencies 6. Internal IT (dependency)) - Inhibitors
(1. Processes 2. Regulation 3. IT ownership 4. Scope 5. Legacy systems 6. Business specifity 7. Industry focus)
Outsourcing
Aron et al. (Just right outsourcing)
- Forms of risks (Strategic (Operational, Intrinsic risk of atrophy, intrinsic risk of location)
- Opportunistic renegotiation, Poaching, Shirking
Managing Strategic risk (Vertical and horizontal chunkification)
Shared economies
Constantiou (Four Models)
- Boundary fluidity (organisational and market coordination mechanism)
- Four models (Franchiser, Chaperone, Principal, Gardener)
–> examples - possible action for incumbent
Machine Learning
Lee (ML)
- Types (AI, Machine learning (Un/supervised) & Deep learning)
- Applications (Clustering, classification & prediction)
- accuracy versus interpretation
- Challenges (Ethical, Engineers, Data quality, Cost/benefit)
IoT/Wearables
Robson & Kiezmann (Wearables)
- Source User Grid (Awareness)
-Purpose Interaction matrix (Amplification, Attenuation ) - 5E framework (Eliminate, Enrich & expand, Extend, elevate)
IT influence on Employees
Sarker et al. (WLB)
- Benefits and costs of mobile technologies
- perspective of work life balance
- Strategies
Sundermeier (Digital Workspace)
- Phases (Inertia, Experimented Repatterning, Leveraging Causation planning, Calibration)
- digital toolset
- cultural assets impact
- physical space impact
