Management Information Systems
MANAGING THE DIGITAL FIRM, 12TH EDITION, GLOBAL EDITION
Chapter 2
GLOBAL E-BUSINESS AND
COLLABORATION
VIDEO CASES
Case 1: How FedEx Works: Enterprise Systems
Case 2: Oracle's Austin Data Center Instructional Video 1: FedEx Improves
Customer Experience with Integrated Mapping and Location Data
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Learning Objectives
• Define and describe business processes and their
relationship to information systems.
• Evaluate the role played by systems serving the
various levels of management in a business and
their relationship to each other.
• Explain how enterprise applications improve
organizational performance.
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Learning Objectives (cont.)
• Explain the importance of collaboration and
teamwork in business and how they are
supported by technology.
• Assess the role of the information systems
function in a business.
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America’s Cup 2010: USA Wins with Information Technology
• Problem: Using IT to win the America’s Cup race
• Solutions: New technology for physical engineering of
boat; sensor network to monitor conditions and data
analysis to improve the performance of sails and more.
• IBM Oracle Database 11g data management software
provided real time analysis of boat’s sensor data.
• Demonstrates IT’s role in fostering innovation and
improving performance.
• Illustrates the benefits of using data analysis and IT
to improve products
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Business Processes and Information Systems
• Business processes:
– Workflows of material, information,
knowledge
– Sets of activities, steps
– May be tied to functional area or be cross-
functional
• Businesses: Can be seen as collection of
business processes
• Business processes may be assets or
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Business Processes and Information Systems
• Examples of functional business processes
– Manufacturing and production
• Assembling the product
– Sales and marketing
• Identifying customers
– Finance and accounting
• Creating financial statements
– Human resources
• Hiring employees
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Business Processes and Information Systems
The Order Fulfillment Process
FIGURE Fulfilling a customer order involves a complex set of steps that requires the close coordination of the
2-1 sales, accounting, and manufacturing functions.
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Business Processes and Information Systems
• Information technology enhances
business processes in two main ways:
1. Increasing efficiency of existing processes
• Automating steps that were manual
2. Enabling entirely new processes that are
capable of transforming the businesses
• Change flow of information
• Replace sequential steps with parallel
steps
• Eliminate delays in decision making
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Types of Information Systems
• Transaction processing systems
– Perform and record daily routine transactions
necessary to conduct business
• Examples: sales order entry, payroll,
shipping
– Allow managers to monitor status of
operations and relations with external
environment
– Serve operational levels
– Serve predefined, structured goals and
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A Payroll TPS
A TPS for payroll
processing captures
employee payment
transaction data (such
as a time card). System
outputs include online
and hard-copy reports
for management and
employee paychecks.
FIGURE 2-2
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Types of Information Systems
• Management information systems
– Serve middle management
– Provide reports on firm’s current
performance, based on data from TPS
– Provide answers to routine questions
with predefined procedure for
answering them
– Typically have little analytic capability
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How Management Information Systems Obtain Their Data from the Organization’s TPS
FIGURE In the system illustrated by this diagram, three TPS supply summarized transaction data to the MIS
2-3 reporting system at the end of the time period. Managers gain access to the organizational data
through the MIS, which provides them with the appropriate reports.
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Sample MIS Report
FIGURE This report, showing summarized annual sales data, was produced by the MIS in Figure 2-3.
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• Decision support systems
– Serve middle management
– Support non-routine decision making
• Example: What is impact on production schedule if
December sales doubled?
– Often use external information as well from TPS
and MIS
– Model driven DSS
• Voyage-estimating systems
– Data driven DSS
• Intrawest’s marketing analysis systems
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Voyage-Estimating Decision Support System
FIGURE This DSS operates on a powerful PC. It is used daily by managers who must develop bids on shipping
2-5 contracts.
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• Business intelligence
– Class of software applications
– Analyze current and historical data to find
patterns and trends and aid decision-
making
– Used in systems that support middle and
senior management
• Data-driven DSS
• Executive support systems (ESS)
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• Executive support systems
– Support senior management
– Address non-routine decisions
• Requiring judgment, evaluation, and insight
– Incorporate data about external events (e.g. new
tax laws or competitors) as well as summarized
information from internal MIS and DSS
– Example: Digital dashboard with real-time view of
firm’s financial performance: working capital,
accounts receivable, accounts payable, cash flow,
and inventory
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• Systems from a constituency
perspective
– Transaction processing systems:
supporting operational level employees
– Management information systems and
decision-support systems: supporting
managers
– Executive support systems: supporting
executives
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• Relationship of systems to one
another
– TPS: Major source of data for other
systems
– ESS: Recipient of data from lower-level
systems
– Data may be exchanged between
systems
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– In reality, most businesses’ systems are
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ROCKETTHEME: THRIVING ON THE WEB
Read the Interactive Session and discuss the following questions
• Describe RocketTheme’s business model and
business strategy. What challenges is it facing?
• What systems have the company used or planned
to use to overcome these challenge? What types
of systems are they? What role will each play in
helping RocketTheme overcome these challenges?
• What other types of system could help
RocketTheme overcome its challenges?
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• Enterprise applications
– Systems for linking the enterprise
– Span functional areas
– Execute business processes across firm
– Include all levels of management
– Four major applications:
• Enterprise systems
• Supply chain management systems
• Customer relationship management systems
• Knowledge management systems
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Enterprise
Application
Architecture
Enterprise
applications automate
processes that span
multiple business
functions and
organizational levels
and may extend
outside the
organization.
FIGURE 2-6
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• Enterprise systems
– Collects data from different firm functions and
stores data in single central data repository
– Resolves problem of fragmented, redundant data
sets and systems
– Enable:
• Coordination of daily activities
• Efficient response to customer orders (production,
inventory)
• Provide valuable information for improving
management decision making
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• Supply chain management (SCM)
systems
– Manage firm’s relationships with
suppliers
– Share information about
• Orders, production, inventory levels,
delivery of products and services
– Goal:
• Right amount of products to destination
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• Customer relationship management
systems:
– Provide information to coordinate all of the
business processes that deal with customers
in sales, marketing, and service to optimize
revenue, customer satisfaction, and
customer retention
– Integrate firm’s customer-related processes
and consolidate customer information from
multiple communication channels
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• Knowledge management systems (KMS)
– Support processes for acquiring, creating,
storing, distributing, applying, integrating
knowledge
• How to create, produce, distribute
products and services
– Collect internal knowledge and experience
within firm and make it available to employees
– Link to external sources of knowledge
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• Alternative tools that increase
integration and expedite the flow of
information
– Intranets:
• Internal company Web sites accessible only
by employees
– Extranets:
• Company Web sites accessible externally
only to vendors and suppliers
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Types of Information Systems
• E-business
– Use of digital technology and Internet to drive
major business processes
• E-commerce
– Subset of e-business
– Buying and selling goods and services through
Internet
• E-government:
– Using Internet technology to deliver information
and services to citizens, employees, and
businesses
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Systems for Collaboration and Teamwork
• Collaboration:
– Short-lived or long-term
– Informal or formal (teams)
• Growing importance of collaboration:
– Changing nature of work
– Growth of professional work – “interaction jobs”
– Changing organization of the firm
– Changing scope of the firm
– Emphasis on innovation
– Changing culture of work
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Systems for Collaboration and Teamwork
• Business benefits of collaboration and teamwork
– Investments in collaboration technology can
produce organizational improvements returning
high ROI
– Benefits:
• Productivity
• Quality
• Innovation
• Customer service
• Financial performance
– Profitability, sales, sales growth
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Requirements for Collaboration
FIGURE Successful collaboration requires an appropriate organizational structure and culture, along with
2-7 appropriate collaboration technology.
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Systems for Collaboration and Teamwork
• Building a collaborative culture and business
processes
– “Command and control” organizations
• No value placed on teamwork or lower-level
participation in decisions
– Collaborative business culture
• Senior managers rely on teams of employees
• Policies, products, designs, processes, systems
rely on teams
• Managers purpose is to build teams
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Systems for Collaboration and Teamwork
• Technology for collaboration and teamwork
– 15 categories of collaborative software tools
Email and instant messagingWhite boarding
Collaborative writing Web presenting
Collaborative reviewing Work scheduling
Event scheduling Document sharing /wikis
File sharing Mind mapping
Screen sharingLarge audience Webinars
Audio conferencing Co-browsing
Video conferencing
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• Technology for collaboration and teamwork
(cont.)
– Social Networking
– Wikis
– Virtual Worlds
– Internet-Based Collaboration Environments
• Virtual meeting systems (telepresence)
• Google Apps/Google sites
• Microsoft SharePoint
• Lotus Notes
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VIRTUAL MEETINGS: SMART MANAGEMENT
Read the Interactive Session and discuss the following questions
• What are the advantages of using
videoconferencing technologies? What are the
disadvantages?
• What is telepresence and what sorts of
companies are best suited to use it as a
communications tool?
• What kinds of companies could benefit from
using videoconferencing? Are there any
companies that might not derive any benefits
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• Two dimensions of collaboration technologies
– Space (or location) – remote or colocated
– Time – synchronous or asynchronous
• Six steps in evaluating software tools
1. What are your firm’s collaboration challenges?
2. What kinds of solutions are available?
3. Analyze available products’ cost and benefits
4. Evaluate security risks
5. Consult users for implementation and training issues
6. Evaluate product vendors
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The Time/Space Collaboration Tool Matrix
FIGURE Collaboration technologies can be classified in terms of whether they support interactions at the same
2-8 or different time or place whether these interactions are remote or co-located.
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The Information Systems Function in Business
• Information systems department:
• Formal organizational unit responsible for
information technology services
• Often headed by chief information officer (CIO)
• Other senior positions include chief security
officer (CSO), chief knowledge officer (CKO), chief
privacy officer (CPO)
• Programmers
• Systems analysts
• Information systems managers
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The Information Systems Function in Business
• End users
• Representatives of other departments for
whom applications are developed
• Increasing role in system design, development
• IT Governance:
• Strategies and policies for using IT in the
organization
• Decision rights
• Accountability
• Organization of information systems function
• Centralized, decentralized, etc.
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