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CHAPTER ONE

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words

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Data

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Facts that are recorded and can be accessed

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Why is data recorded and kept?

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because it is considered to be of use to an intended user

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data formats

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text, numbers, figures, graphics, images, audio/video

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Raw data

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time consuming to read

difficult to understand

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Information

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refers to the data that is accessed by a user for some particular purpose

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information is?

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data that has a meaning within a context

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Getting the nedded info from a collection of data requires what?

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preforming an activity, such as searching through, processing or manipulating the data in some form or fashion

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manipulated (processed) data does what?

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provides useful information

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IS- Information System

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a computer based system that collects stores and manipulates data

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IS components

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Hardware resources
software resources
networks 
data and info
people resources
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people resources include

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IS team- manage and maintain IS, communicate with the users
User- various types, depending on the areas and levels of difficulty
Trend- IT professionals and business users are becoming less separated as groups. people with both backgrounds are essential

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Fact

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the confirmation or validation of an event or object

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Information Age

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the present time during which infinite quantities of facts are widely available to anyone who can use a computer

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IT- information technology

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a field concerned with the use of technology in managing and processing information

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IT is an important what?

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enabler of business success and innnovatoin

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Information technology basics

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people use
information technology to work with
information

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IT requires what to be useful?

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the right people who know how to use and manage it efficiently and effectively

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what is linked and if one fails they all fail?

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people, information and information technology

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what is the most important asset in an organization?

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information- primary way that people get info is through information technology

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what is time consuming or impossible without information technology?

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fathering, correlating and analyzing information

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Management information systems- MIS

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a general name for the business function and academic discipline covering the application of people, technologies, and procedures- collectively called information systems - to solve business problems

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an organization must?

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  1. determine what info it requires
  2. acquire that info
  3. organize the info in a meaningful fashion
  4. assure the info’s quality
  5. provide software tools so that employees throughout the organization can access the info they require in a easy manner
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datebase

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maintains info about various types of objects (inventory), events (transactions), people (employees), places (stores)

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database management system- DBMS

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software through which users and application programs interact with a database
DBMS = database
word = document
excel = spreadsheet

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users obtain info from a database by?

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  1. direct user interaction

2. indirect user interaction

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Data

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raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event

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information

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data converted into a meaningful and useful context

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business intelligence

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applications and technologies that are used to gather, provide access to, and analyze data and info to support decision making efforts

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organizations typically operate by functional area or silos

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functional areas are interdependent

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common departments working independently

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human resources - maintains policies, plans, and procedures for the effective management of employees
sales - preforms the function of selling goods and services
marketing- supports sales by planning, pricing, and promoting goods or services
accounting - records, measures and reports monetary transactions

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common departments working interdependently

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accounting - monetary data
finance- monetary data
human resources - employee data
marketing - transactional data
operations management - production data
sales - transactional data 
all equal business decisions
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management information systems (MIS)

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a business function, like accounting and human resources which moves information about people products and processes across the company to facilitate decision making and problem solving

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system

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collection of parts that link to achieve a common place

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system thinking

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a way of monitoring an entire system by viewing multiple inputs and then their outputs

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CHAPTER TWO

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words

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competitive advantage

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a product or service that an organization’s customers place a greater value on than a similar offerings from a competitor. to survive and thrive a organization must have this. these are also usually temporary because competitors duplicate them

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first mover advantage

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occurs when an organization can significantly impact its market share by being first to market with a competitive advantage. not always an advantage.
Ex- mosaic web browser vs internet explorer

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competitive intelligence

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the process of gathering info about the competitive environment to improve the company’s ability to succeed

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environment scanning (example of competitive intelligence)

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the acquisition and analysis of data about events and trends in the environment external to an organization
(mccafe)

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common tools for analyzing competitive intelligence and developing competitive advantage include?

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porters five forces model

porters three generic strategies

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organizations use porters five forces model to determine the relative attractiveness of an industry

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threat of substitute products or services
buying power
threat of new entrants
rivalry amongst existing competitors
supplier power
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buyer power(customer power)

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the ability of buyers to affect the price of an item. high when buyers have many choices of whom to buy from and low when their choices are few (walmart and vlassic pickles)

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loyalty programs

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reward customers based on the amount of business they do with a particular organization. loyalty programs reduce buyer power

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switching cost

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cost to customers of switching to another product/service. Ex- comcast to at&t

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supplier power

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the suppliers’ ability to influence the prices they charge for supplies. high when buyers have few choices of whom to buy from and low when their choices are many.

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supply chain (example of supplier power)

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consists of all parties involved in the procurement of a product or raw material

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threat of new entrants

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high when it is easy for new competitors to enter a market and low when there are significant entry barriers.

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entry barrier (example of threat of new entrants)

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a feature of a product or service that customers have come to expect and entering competitors must offer the same for survival

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threat of substitute products or services

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high when there are many alternatives to a product or service and low when there are few alternatives
ex- blockbuster vs netflix
borders books, barnes and noble and amazon

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rivalry among existing competitors

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high when competition is fierce in a market and low when competitors are more complacent.

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product differentiation (example of rivalry among existing competitors)

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occurs when a company develops unique differences in its products or services with the intent to influence demand.
ex- grocery stores in chicago

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The three generic strategies

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low cost/ broad market
high cost / broad market
low & high / narrow market

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low cost/ broad market

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Southwest Airlines

walmart

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high cost/ broad market

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virgin airlines

neiman marcus

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low and high cost / narrow market

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singapore airlines

payless shoes vs tiffiany and co

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CHAPTER 3

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words

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organizations can undertake high profile strategic initiatives including?

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supply chain management
customer relationship management
business process reengineering
enterprise resource planning

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supply chain management (SCM)

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involves the management of info flows between and among stages in a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness and profitability

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four basic components of supply chain management include?

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supply chain strategy
supply chain partner
supply chain operations
supply chain logistics

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supply chain strategy

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strategy for managing all resources to meet customer demand all products and services
ex- walmart (cost minimization), zara (speed and flexibility)

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supply chain partner

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partners throughout the supply chain that deliver finished products, raw materials, and services including pricing, delivery, and payment processes along with partner relationship monitoring metrics
ex- suppliers, suppliers suppliers, shopping partners

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supply chain operation

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schedule for production activities including testing, packaging, and preparation for delivery

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supply chain logistics

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product delivery processes and elements including orders, warehouses, carriers, defective product returns, and invoicing

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customer relationship management (CRM)

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involves managing all aspects of a customer’s relationship with an organization to increase customer loyalty and retention and an organization’s profitability. CRM systems hep organizations understand and manage their customers

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CRM is?

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not just a technology but a strategy, process and business goal that an organization must embrace on an enterprise-wide level

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CRM can enable an organization to?

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identify types of customers
design individual customer marketing campaigns
treat each customer as an individual
understand customer buying behaviors

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business process

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a standardized set of activities that accomplish a specific task, such as processing a customer’s order

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business process reengineering (BPR)

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the analysis and redesign of workflow within and between enterprises. it is about finding opportunity for improvement. the purpose is to make all business processes as good as possible. have to create diagram of the “as is” and then “to be process

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finding opportunity using BPR

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an individual can improve the way he/she ravels the roads by moving from foot to horse and then horse to car. BPR looking at taking a different path such as an airplane which ignore the road completely.

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A true BPR effort does more for a company than simply improve it by performing a process better, faster and cheaper.

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an organization can achieve the different types of change, along with the magnitude of change and the potential business benefit:

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Automate
streamline
BPR
Strategic reengineering

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automate

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automating what you do

ex- answering phones with computer

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streamline

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remove redundant (duplicate) or unnecessary jobs (steps) in the process, use a different tool to preform the same task

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BPR

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the analysis and redesign of processes

ex- taking an airplane over route B, instead of a bike, horse or car

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Strategic reengineering

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taking BPR to the level where you redefine an entire industry
ex- progressive insurance method adopted by much of insurenace industry

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Enterprise resource planning (ERP)

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integrates all departments and functions throughout an organization into a single pre made IT system so that employees can make decisions by viewing enterprise wide info on all business operations

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EPR is one of the ways to achieve an

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integrated enterprise wide information system

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The goal of integrated enterprise wide information systems (including EPR system)

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every department or functional area work together sharing common information and not be a silo. Because functional areas are interdependent not independent.

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Enterprise resource planning

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erp systems (and other integrated enterprise wide info systems) collected data from across an organization and correlates the data generating an enterprise wide view

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large ERP vendors include

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SAP

ORace (following the peoplesoft)

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most ERP solutions include SCM and CRM components

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however vendors that focus on just SCM (like i2) or just CRM (like siebel) tend to be the best vendors in those markets
purchasing dilemma:
best of breed software (BOB) vs ERP

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Key performance indicators (KPIs)

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measures that are tied to business drivers. quantifiable measures, agreed to beforehand, that reflect the critical success factors of an organization. They differ depending on the organization. whatever KPIs are selected they must reflect the organization’s goal they must be key to its success and they must be quantifiable.

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metrics

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are detailed measures that feed KPIs. performance metrics require input from both IT and business professionals

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Efficiency IT metric

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measures the performance of the IT system itself

“ doing things right”

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effectiveness IT metric

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measures the impact IT has on business processes and activities “doing the right things”

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benchmark

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baseline values the system seeks to attain

ex- modern commercial wed site availability benchmark is higher than 99.9%

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benchmarking

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a process of continuously measuring system results, comparing those results to optimal system performance (benchmark values) and identifying steps and procedures to improve system performance “what gets measured, gets done”

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efficiency IT metrics focus on technology an include:

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throughput
transaction speed
system availability
information accuracy 
response time
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throughput

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the amount of info that can travel through a system at any point (website crashing)

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transaction speed

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the amount of time a system takes to perform a transaction (websites create user accounts)

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system availability

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the number of hours a system is available for users (system crash- too many users)

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information accuracy

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the extend to which a system generates the correct results when executing the same transaction numerous times (ventra card users)

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response time

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the time it takes to respond to user interactions such as a mouse click

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effectiveness IT metrics focus on a organization’s goals, strategies, and objectives that include:

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usability
customer satisfaction
conversion rates
financial

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usability

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the ease with which people perform transactions and/or find information
ex- degrees of freedom, which measures the number of clicks required to find desired information, surveys

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customer satisfaction

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the number of customers an organization touches for the first time and persuades to purchase its products or services

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financial

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ex- ROI and break even analysis

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website metrics example

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abandoned registrations
abandoned shopping carts
click through
conversion rate
cost per thousand 
page exposures 
total hits
unique visitors
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click through

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count of the number of people who visit a site, click on an ad and are taken to the site of the advertiser

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conversion rate

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percentage of potential customers visit a site and actually buy something

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cost per thousand (CPM)

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sales dollars generated per dollar of advertising, commonly used to make the case for spending money to appear on a search engine

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page exposures

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average number of page exposures to an individual visitor

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total hits

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number of visits to a website, many which may be the same visitor

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unique visitors

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number of unique visitors to a site in a given time

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supply chain management metrics examples

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back order
customer order promised cycle time
customer order actual cycle time 
inventory the replenishment cycle time
inventory turns (inventory turnover)
107
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back order

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an unfilled customer order. a back order is demand (immediate or past due) against an item whose current stock level is insufficient to satisfy demand

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customer order promised cycle time

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the anticipated or agreed upon cycle time of a purchase order. it is a gap between the purchase order creation date and the requested delivery date

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customer order actual cycle time

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the average time it takes to actually fill a customer’s purchase order

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inventory replenishment cycle time

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measure of the manufacturing cycle time plus the time included to deploy the product to the appropriate distribution center

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inventory turns (inventory turnover)

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the number of times that a company’s inventory turns over per year

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management metrics examples

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sales metrics
service metrics
marketing metrics

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sales metrics

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ex- number of prospective customers, new customers, retained customers, open leas, sales calls, sales call per lead, proposals given, amount of new revenue, recurring revenue

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service metrics

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number of cases closed same day, cased handled by agent, service calls, average number of service requests by type, average time to resolution, average number of service calls per day, percentage of service renewals, customer satisfactory

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marketing metrics

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customer retention rates, number of marketing campaigns, responses by marketing campaign, purchases by marketing campaign, new leads by products, new customers acquired by marketing campaign

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BPR and ERP metrics examples

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the balanced scorecard enables organizations to measure and manage strategic initiatives. uses a balanced set of metrics (expanding managements view beyond the financial metrics) to measure the health of a business

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Chapter five

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words

118
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information technology is a relatively new functional area, having only been around formally for around 40 years.

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119
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recent IT-related strategic positions

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chief info officer
chief tech officer
chief security officer
chief privacy officer

120
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chief information officer (CIO)

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overseas all uses of IT and ensures that strategic alignment of IT with business goals and objectives. successful CIOs must have strong business skills and strong IT skills.

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CIO functions include

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manager- ensuring the delivery of all IT projects on time and within budget
leader- ensuring the strategic vision of IT is in line with the strategic vision of the organization
communicator- building and maintaining strong executive relationships

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Chief technology officer (CTO)

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responsible for ensuring the throughput, speed, accuracy, avaiablity and reliability of IT

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Chief Security officer (CSO)

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responsible for enduring the security of IT systems

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Chief privacy officer (CPO)

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responsible for ensuring the ethical and legal use of information

125
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The gap between business Personnel and IT personnel

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Business personnel possess expertise in functional areas such as marketing, accounting and sales. IT personnel have technological expertise. This typically causes a communications gap between teh business personnel and IT personnel

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Improving communications

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Business personnel must seek to increase their understanding of IT. IT personnel must seek to increase their understanding of that business. It is the responsibility of the CIO to ensure effective communication between business personnel and IT personnel.

127
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organizational fundamentals ethics and security

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ethics and security are two fundamental building blocks that organizations must base their businesses on to be successful

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Ethics

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the principal and standards that guide our behavior toward other people

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privacy

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the right to be left alone when you want to be, to have control over your own personal possessions and not to be observed without your consent

130
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Ethics - issues affected by technology advances

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intellectual property (intangible work)
copyright (legal protection)
fair use doctrine
pirated software
counterfiet software
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protecting intellectual assets

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organizational info is intellectual capital - it must be protected

132
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information security

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the protection of information from accidental or intentional misuse of persons inside or outside an organization

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feedback

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info that returns to its original transmitter and modifies the transmitters actions

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