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C3 Information Systems, Organizations, and Strategy

C3 Information Systems, Organizations, and Strategy. Understand organizations to build/use IS Use Porter’s model and IS for strategy Value chain and value web to identify opportunities IS to use synergies, core competencies, and network-based strategies Challenges posed by IS.

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C3 Information Systems, Organizations, and Strategy

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  1. C3 Information Systems, Organizations, and Strategy Understand organizations to build/use IS Use Porter’s model and IS for strategy Value chain and value web to identify opportunities IS to use synergies, core competencies, and network-based strategies Challenges posed by IS

  2. AT&T Vs. Verizon | Grameen Phone Vs. XXX? Competitive Advantage Vs. Technology!

  3. IS and the Org. influences each other • Benefit from new technologies! • IT changes Org. • rights, responsibilities • who owns information • who has access to and can update information • who makes decisions about whom, what, when and how

  4. Understanding Organizations Features Difference Size and types large, small firms Environments government, competitors, customers, financial institutions Organizational culture set of fundamental assumptions about what products organization should produce • Routines and business processes • Organizational politics • Organizational culture • Organizational environments • Organizational structure how they might be changed or replaced by using IT to achieve greater efficiency

  5. IS Impact • Economic impacts • Transaction costs, agency costs • Organizational and behavioural impacts • IT flattens organizations • Post-industrial organizations • Organizational resistance to change • The Internet and organizations • Implications for the design and understanding of information systems 3-11

  6. More and more effort supervising and managing employees as transaction costs decrease, firm size shrink • Organizational Resistance • cultural assumptions • strains on culture, politics and people Balance all 4! IT Makes an Organization Flat! 3-13

  7. Internet changed IS Impact Of The Internet On Competitive Forces And Industry Structure Businesses are rapidly rebuilding some of their key business processes based on Internet technology and making this technology a key component of their IT infrastructures.

  8. IS for Competitive Advantage Porter’s competitive forces model

  9. Four Basic Competitive Strategies

  10. Value chain model highlights specific activities in the business where competitive strategies can best be applied. 3-19

  11. The value web • The value web is a networked system that can synchronize the value chains of business partners within an industry to respond rapidly to changes in supply and demand. Develop industry-wide standards for exchanging information or business transactions electronically Figure 3-13 3-25

  12. IS for Competitive Advantage … • Synergies • Mergers! • Enhancing core competencies • P&Gs InnovationNet (a KMS) • Network-based strategies • Network Economics • The social network effect! • Virtual Company Model • Hong Kong-based Li & Fung • Business Ecosystems: Keystone and Niche Firms 3-26

  13. The digital firm era requires a more dynamic view of the boundaries among industries, firms, customers and suppliers with competition occurring among industry sets in a business ecosystem. In the ecosystem model, multiple industries work together to deliver value to the customer.IT plays an important role in enabling a dense network of interactions among the participating firms.

  14. Management Issues • Sustaining Competitive Advantage • Aligning IT With Business Objectives • Management Checklist • Details in the textbook • Managing Strategic Transitions

  15. IS and business strategy Firm Level Strategy • firm as collection of businesses • IT to improve each business unit • synergies • core competencies Industry Level Strategy • firms together --> industry • information partnerships: eg Air Canada, CIBC (Aeroplan)

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  18. IT resistance • New technology puts strains on culture, politics and people • if IT change threatens commonly held --> resistance

  19. Figure 3-5 3-11

  20. Implications For The Design And UnderstandingOf Information Systems • The environment in which the organization must function • The structure of the organization: hierarchy, specialization, routines, and business processes • The organization’s culture and politics • The type of organization and its style of leadership • The principal interest groups affected by the system and the attitudes of workers who will be using the system • The kinds of tasks, decisions, and business processes that the information system is designed to assist

  21. Characteristics of IT • They are flexible and provide many options for handling data and evaluating information • They are capable of supporting a variety of management styles, skills, and knowledge • They are sensitive to the organization’s bureaucratic and political requirements Keep in mind when designing systems:

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