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Business Driven
Technology
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Learning Outcomes
1.3 Identify four different departments in a
typical business and explain how
technology helps them to work together
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Information Technologys Role in
Business
Information technology is everywhere in business
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Information Technologys Impact on
Business Operations
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Information Technologys Impact on
Business Operations
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Information Technologys Impact on
Business Operations
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Information Technologys Impact on
Business Operations
Organizations
typically operate by
functional areas or
functional silos
Functional areas
are interdependent
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Information Technology Basics
Information technology (IT) a field
concerned with the use of technology in
managing and processing information
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Information Technology Basics
Management information systems (MIS) a
general name for the business function and
academic discipline covering the application of
people, technologies, and procedures to solve
business problems
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Information Technology Basics
When beginning to learn about
information technology it is important to
understand
Data, information, and business intelligence
IT resources
IT cultures
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Information
Data - raw facts that describe the
characteristic of an event
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Data, Information, and BI
Data turned into information
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Data, Information, and BI
Information turned into Business Intelligence
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IT Resources
People use
Information
technology to
work with
Information
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IT Cultures
Organizational information cultures
include:
Information-Functional Culture - Employees
use information as a means of exercising
influence or power over others. For example, a
manager in sales refuses to share information
with marketing. This causes marketing to need
the sales managers input each time a new
sales strategy is developed.
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IT Cultures
Information-Sharing Culture -
Employees across departments trust each
other to use information (especially about
problems and failures) to improve
performance.
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IT Cultures
Information-Inquiring Culture -
Employees across departments search for
information to better understand the future
and align themselves with current trends
and new directions.
Information-Discovery Culture -
Employees across departments are open
to new insights about crisis and radical
changes and seek ways to create
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