Information Systems
Chapter 1
Information Systems backbone
Why is Information systems considered as company’s background?
This section of report is focused towards the primary goal of the research i.e. Why is information systems considered as a backbone of any organization. Secondary data is used to prove the primary aim of report.
Information systems perform three vital roles in any type of organization:
1. Support business operations
2. Support managerial decision making
3. Support strategic competitive advantage
Ref: http://csob.berry.edu/faculty/lleblanc//newpage31.htm
How information system is integrated in company
Figure taken from Kristin Wischow, Rob Ward, Ryan Odell, David Sjoquist, Rahul Shah() Systems and Information Systems Cited from (http://homepages.wmich.edu/~r4ward/Systems%20and%20Information%20Systems%20Project.htm) On Wall-mart store
All medium to large organisations depend on Information technology for their continued survival. Consider organisations like British Gas, British Telecom, the Power and Water companies having to manually calculate, millions of customer bills every month or quarter! Clearly the clerical effort involved would make it difficult if not impossible for the organisation to make a profit. Similar arguments apply to many other organisations such as the high street banks, central and local government. A recent article in the Daily Telegraph IT supplement suggested that many large organisations could last no longer than 24 hours without IT support! There should be little wonder that attitudes to the development of information systems have changed over the years from an ad hoc almost cavalier approach to a professionally managed, disciplined, planned, and engineering approach.
Ref: http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/staff/tdhutchings/chapter1.html
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