The information system is vital for any organization be it for survival or to keep up with the competition or to even get ahead of it in the current age. We can find a small family-owned restaurant to a fitness gym all making use of the information system in some way for their business (Wallace, 2015). Bigger cooperation makes use of such technologies to bring innovation and get ahead of the competition. Decision making, operational management, customer interaction, collaboration on teams, strategic initiatives, and individual productivity are the six major roles of information systems in an organization (Wallace, 2015). The the following discussion post looks into two of those roles relating to Often Serious Technologies.
Information System (IS) helps in the decision-making process by providing business intelligence which can be used to analyze and understand the current trend, user habits and a lot more. This also helps counter the decision-making pattern of managers and executives based on their gut feeling alone. IS helps make informed decision and strategies for better success rate (Powell & Dent-Micallef, 1997). Relating this scenario to my current working environment, the organization I’m with heavily uses IS for decision making purpose. The use of data generated by the information system in place is used as a medium to get the knowledge and warn general people along with the government about the risk level of water in rivers. The system analyzes the level of water to do so. Also, rather than playing a guessing game on the amount of rainfall, the organization has placed stations around Nepal and in other country offices on the amount of rainfall on a particular day in collaboration with its partners. That helps analyze the information and make concentrated strategies for agriculture (crop harvest cycle). Aside from that, there is a magnitude of usage within the organization for decision making including for formulating web and social media strategies by analyzing user pattern, identifying the need of a new project/initiative, GIS analysis and much more.
Information System has opened a whole new world by enabling people and organization to collaborate with teams from any part of the world. With tools like Skype, Office365, TeamViewer and even the power of self-developed systems, teams can now communicate and collaborate on projects while discussing, sharing files, remotely access the desktop to name few actions from anywhere. Again relating this point to the organization I’m at. The organization has its head office in Nepal but presence in some way in other country offices. Many staffs are often on travel thus the collaboration aspect becomes significant. Skype is often used to have a meeting and discussion with remote staff or when someone is on travel and need to discuss something. Along with that, SharePoint platform is used to build the intranet which houses most of the organization information that is to be shared internally. Office365 is used for collaboration while editing documents. This is of significance as anything going out of the organization need to go through an editing process to ensure quality. Going back and forth on the document via email or in-person is tedious and time-consuming so rather a system is built such that the editor and the writer can seat together virtually to ensure that the quality is met. So, the information system enables collaboration between teams to ensure that the organization can conduct meetings, share document, interact virtually and even work remotely to ensure that the crucial organization function can be performed from anywhere and anytime.
References
Powell, T., & Dent-Micallef, A. (1997). Information technology as competitive advantage: the role of human, business, and technology resources. Strategic Management Journal, 18(5), 375-380.
Wallace, P. (2015). Introduction to information systems (2nd ed., pp. 2-4). Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson.
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The information system is vital for any organization be it for survival or to keep up with the competition or to even get ahead of it in the current age. We can find a small family-owned restaurant to a fitness gym all making use of the information system in some way for their business (Wallace, 2015). Bigger cooperation makes use of such technologies to bring innovation and get ahead of the competition. Decision making, operational management, customer interaction, collaboration on teams, strategic initiatives, and individual productivity are the six major roles of information systems in an organization (Wallace, 2015). The the following discussion post looks into two of those roles relating to Often Serious Technologies.
Information System (IS) helps in the decision-making process by providing business intelligence which can be used to analyze and understand the current trend, user habits and a lot more. This also helps counter the decision-making pattern of managers and executives based on their gut feeling alone. IS helps make informed decision and strategies for better success rate (Powell & Dent-Micallef, 1997). Relating this scenario to my current working environment, the organization I’m with heavily uses IS for decision making purpose. The use of data generated by the information system in place is used as a medium to get the knowledge and warn general people along with the government about the risk level of water in rivers. The system analyzes the level of water to do so. Also, rather than playing a guessing game on the amount of rainfall, the organization has placed stations around Nepal and in other country offices on the amount of rainfall on a particular day in collaboration with its partners. That helps analyze the information and make concentrated strategies for agriculture (crop harvest cycle). Aside from that, there is a magnitude of usage within the organization for decision making including for formulating web and social media strategies by analyzing user pattern, identifying the need of a new project/initiative, GIS analysis and much more.
Information System has opened a whole new world by enabling people and organization to collaborate with teams from any part of the world. With tools like Skype, Office365, TeamViewer and even the power of self-developed systems, teams can now communicate and collaborate on projects while discussing, sharing files, remotely access the desktop to name few actions from anywhere. Again relating this point to the organization I’m at. The organization has its head office in Nepal but presence in some way in other country offices. Many staffs are often on travel thus the collaboration aspect becomes significant. Skype is often used to have a meeting and discussion with remote staff or when someone is on travel and need to discuss something. Along with that, SharePoint platform is used to build the intranet which houses most of the organization information that is to be shared internally. Office365 is used for collaboration while editing documents. This is of significance as anything going out of the organization need to go through an editing process to ensure quality. Going back and forth on the document via email or in-person is tedious and time-consuming so rather a system is built such that the editor and the writer can seat together virtually to ensure that the quality is met. So, the information system enables collaboration between teams to ensure that the organization can conduct meetings, share document, interact virtually and even work remotely to ensure that the crucial organization function can be performed from anywhere and anytime.
References
Powell, T., & Dent-Micallef, A. (1997). Information technology as competitive advantage: the role of human, business, and technology resources. Strategic Management Journal, 18(5), 375-380.
Wallace, P. (2015). Introduction to information systems (2nd ed., pp. 2-4). Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson.