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Speaker                            Mrs Halinah Atan

Dated                                April 9th, 2003

Time                                 11.00 am

 

Start of with Fortran & Cobol.

Information System

Information Technology

Information and Communication Technology

Information and Organisation

Information Management

Information System

  • - facts, told, heard or discussed about something or somebody

  • - data organized to have meaning and value to recipient

  • - process of collecting data, process, store, analyze, disseminate information for specific purpose

  • Organisation Information System (Chart 1)

    - operation - accounting

    - distribution - production

    - technology - supplier

    - complient - market

     

    Computer-Based Information System

  • - information system that uses computer technology to perform some or all work

  • Basic Components of Information System

  • - hardware ~ set of devices, processor, monitor, keyboard, and printer

  • - software ~ set of program enable hardware to process data

  • - database ~ collection of related files, tables, relations, that store data

  • - network ~ connecting system that permits the sharing of resources between    computers

  •  procedure ~ set of instructions about how to combine the above components

  • - people ~ individuals who work with the system or use its output

  • Initially information system is to save money but now is to make money

    Techno-babble ~ ERP, e-business, B2B, B2C, marketplaces, CRM, data, warehousing, biz intellingence, WAP, GPRS & 3G, Blue Tooth, Wi-Fi, Convergence, Content management, HTML, XML, WML, Java, PDAs, ASP, MP3, SMS & MMS, iSync & iCalc, Grid Computing

     

    Managerial issues

    How can we recognize

    What about ethics and social issues

    What about globalization

    How can organization transform itself to the digital economy

    “If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in – Bradley’s Bromide “

    Organizational Framework (Chart 2)

    Organization Major Responses

    - -          strategic systems for competitive advantange

    - -          continuous improvement efforts

    - -          business process reengineering

    - -          business alliances

    - -          electronic commerce

    Characteristics of Information System

    - Several different information systems exist in one organization

    - Particular information may be composed

    - Connected by networks

    - Involve information flow in two or more

    - Enterprise wide system or inter-organizational system

    Classification of Information System

    Can be classified to organizational are support, system architecture and support functional

    Classification by Organizational Structure

    - departmental information systems

    - enterprise informational system

    - inter-organizational systems

    Classification by Functional Area

    - accounting information system

    - finance information system

    - manufacturing (operations/production) information system

    - market information systems

    - human resources management information systems

    Classification by support provided

    - transaction processing system

    - management information system

    - knowledge management system

    - office automated system

    - decision

    Classification by System Architecture

    - mainframe based system

    - stand-alone personal computer

    - distributed or a network computing system

    Classification by Activity Support

    - operational

    - managerial

    - strategic

    New Strategic Systems

    - electronic commerce

    Information Infrastructure

    - network, personnel, software, hardware, database and the people

    Information Architecture

    - decentralized – human resource, computer architecture, uses computing architecture, systems architecture

    - centralized

    Information Supply Chain

    Success of An Information System

    - existence of relevant information whose distribution is in the interest of the enterprise

    - user’s desire to want to retrieve this information

    Managerial Issues

    - transition to network computing

    - legacy systems

    - role of Information System Department (ISD)

    - how much infrastructure

    - role of end users

    - ethical issues

     

    Speaker                              Mrs Halinah Atan

    Dated                                 April 10th, 2003

    Time                                   9.00 am

    Technology is a business problem

    “Most managers still believe they need IT specialist but information systems specialist are providers of tools”

    Managers are at Output Level, IT Specialist are at Process Level (provider of the tools), analyse and assess the need of customer,

    Why bother ? ……it can be costly to your organization and to your career

    Case Study – Singapore …..Is it an intelligent island ?

    Singapore NITP – 1st Phase

    - people training

    - creating an IT culture

    - enhancing communications infrastructure

    - generating and supporting IT applications

    - supporting an indigenous IT industry

    - pioneering new IT applications thru R & D

    Shining examples of Singapore IT Success

    - Trade Net

    - automated civil service

    - CT/2 Phone system

    - Streaming line of public sector

    - Singapore telecommunication

    Singapore NITP - 2nd Phase

    - transforming commerce and society to create Intelligent island

    - IT 2000 plan

    - Putting functions together, video conferencing, artificial intelligence, multimedia, robotics, networking into unified whole

    Competitive Advantage of Nations

    Firm Strategy, Structure and Royalty

    Demand and Conditions

    Related and Supporting Activities

    Factor Conditions

     

    Demise of Era 1 IT Strategic Plan

    Era I : IT Strategic Plan

    Era II : Continous Learning

    IT Strategy – Step 1

    How does technology drive business ? how can technology help business goal ?

    How does business drive technology ?

     

    Created on 04/10/03 and last edited on 04/11/2003 by Pengendali Laman. Copyright@2003