[管理学]管理信息系统 INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN BUSINESS TODAY.pptVIP

This slide is a recap of the previous four slides. You might ask students which business objective they believe to be most critical to the success of a business, or whether they all carry equal weight. * Emphasize that achieving any of the previous four business objectives represents the achievement of a competitive advantage as well. * Ask students if they can name any examples of companies that failed to survive due to unwillingness or inability to update their information systems. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that public firms keep all data, including e-mail, on record for 5 years. You could ask students if they appreciate why information systems would be useful towards meeting the standards imposed by this legislation. * The basic point of this graphic is that in order to achieve its business objectives, a firm will need a significant investment in IT. Going the other direction (from right to left), having a significant IT platform can lead to changes in business objectives and strategies. Emphasize the two-way nature of this relationship. Businesses rely on information systems to help them achieve their goals; a business without adequate information systems will inevitably fall short. But information systems are also products of the businesses that use them. Businesses shape their information systems and information systems shape businesses. * These are some basic background understandings needed for the course. A system refers to a set of components that work together (hopefully). Can students think of systems other than information systems? The point of an information system is to make sense out all the confusing data in the environment, and put the data into some kind of order. Information is an ordered set of data that you can understand and act on. If the students want to get a sense of raw data, show them a stock ticker on a Web financial site (or Yahoo/finance). Ask them to tell you what it means? Then show them the current value of the