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Student Guide In
Introduction to Information Systems
Prepared By Prof Dr
Abdul Hamid M RagabDept of Information Systems
College of Computing and Information TechnologyKing AbdulAziz University, Jeddah
Ref. Book : Introduction to Information Systems, 14e ,James A. O'Brien ,2008
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Learning Objectives
1. Understand the concept of a system and how it relates to information systems.
2. Explain why knowledge of information systems is important for business professionals and identify five areas of information systems knowledge they need.
3. Give examples to illustrate how the business applications of information systems can support a firm’s business processes, managerial decision making, and strategies for competitive advantage.
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Learning Objectives4. Provide examples of several major types of
information systems from your experiences with business organizations in the real world.
5. Identify several challenges that a business manager might face in managing the successful and ethical development and use of information technology in a business.
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Learning Objectives6. Provide examples of the components of real
world information systems. Illustrate that in an information system, people use hardware, software, data and networks as resources to perform input, processing, output, storage, and control activities that transform data resources into information products.
7. Demonstrate familiarity with the myriad of career opportunities in information systems.
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Case 1: Sew What? Inc.: The Role of IT in Small Business Success
• Sew What? provides custom theatrical draperies and fabrics for stages, concerts, fashion shows, and special events worldwide.
• After launching the company web site, they acquired clients from all over the world and their revenue has been growing more than 45% per year.
• Sew What? runs most of its business with Intuit’s Quick-Books Enterprise Solutions & Dell PowerEdge servers.
• Recently, the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) and Dell Inc. presented Sew What? “Small Business Excellence Award” in recognition of its innovative use of technology to improve its customers’ experience.
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Case Study Questions1. How do information technologies contribute to the business
success of Sew What? Give several examples from the case regarding the business value of information technology that demonstrate this conclusion.
2. If you were a management consultant to Sew What? Inc., what would you advise Megan Duckett to do at this point to be even more successful in her business? What role would information technology play in your proposals? Provide several specific recommendations.
3. How could the use of information technology help a small business you know be more successful? Provide several examples to support your answer.
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Real World Internet Activity1. Search the Internet to help you evaluate the business performance
of Sew What? Inc. and its competitors at the present time. – What conclusions can you draw from your research about Sew
What?’s prospects for the future?– Report your findings and recommendations for Sew What?’s
continued business success to the class.
2. Small businesses have been slower to integrate information technology into their operations than larger companies.– Discuss the reasons for this state of affairs, identifying several possible
IT solutions and their business benefits that could help small businesses be more successful.
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Why study Information Systems and Information Technology?
• Vital component of successful businesses• Helps businesses expand and compete• Businesses use IS and IT – To improve efficiency and effectiveness of business
processes– For managerial decision making– For workgroup collaboration
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What is a system?• A system – Is a set of interrelated components– With a clearly defined boundary– Working together to achieve a common set of
objectives
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What is an Information System?• An organized combination of – People– Hardware– Software– Communications networks– Data resources– Policies and procedures
• That stores, retrieves, transforms, and disseminates information in an organization
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Information System (IS) versus Information Technology (IT)
• IS is all the components and resources necessary to deliver information and functions to the organization
• IT is hardware, software, networking and data management
• In theory, IS could be paper based • But we will focus on Computer-Based
Information Systems (CBIS)
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IS Knowledge Framework for Business Professionals
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What should a Business Professional know about IS?
• Foundation Concepts: fundamental behavioral, technical, business and managerial concepts
• Information Technology: Hardware, software, networks, data management and Internet-based technology
• Business Applications: Major uses of the IS in the organization
• Development Processes: How to plan, develop and implement IS to meet business opportunities
• Management Challenges: The challenges of effectively and ethically managing IT
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Fundamental Roles of IS in Business
• Support of business processes and operations.• Support of decision making by employees and
managers.• Support of strategies for competitive
advantage.
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What does IS do for a business?
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Trends in Information Systems
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What is E-business?
• The use of Internet technologies – to work and empower business processes, electronic
commerce, and enterprise collaboration – within a company and with its customers, suppliers, and
other business stakeholders.
• An online exchange of value.
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How e-business is being used
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E-business use• Reengineer internal business processes• Enterprise collaboration systems: support
communications, coordination and collaboration among teams and work groups, e.g., virtual teams
• Electronic commerce: buying, selling, marketing and servicing of products and services over computer networks
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Types of IS
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Operations support systems• What are they?– Efficiently process business transactions– Control industrial processes– Support communications and collaboration– Update corporate databases
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Types of Operations Support Systems• Transaction Processing Systems– Record and process data from business transactions– Examples: sales processing, inventory systems,
accounting systems• Process Control Systems– Monitor and control physical processes– Example: in a petroleum refinery use sensors to monitor
chemical processes• Enterprise Collaboration Systems– Enhance team and work group communications– Examples: e-mail, videoconferencing
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Two ways to process transactions• Batch Processing:– Accumulate transactions over time and process
periodically– Example: a bank processes all checks received in a batch
at night
• Online Processing:– Process transactions immediately– Example: a bank processes an ATM withdrawal
immediately
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Management Support Systems• What are they?– Provide information and support for effective decision
making by managers
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Types of Management Support Systems
• Management Information Systems (MIS)– Provide reports and displays to managers– Example: daily sales analysis reports
• Decision Support Systems (DSS)– Provide interactive ad hoc support for decision making– Example: A what-if-analysis to determine where to
spend advertising dollars• Executive Information Systems (EIS)– Provide critical information for executives and managers– Example: easy access to actions of competitors
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Operational or Management Systems• Expert Systems– Provide expert advice– Example: credit application advisor
• Knowledge Management Systems– Support creation, organization and dissemination of
business knowledge throughout company– Example: Intranet access to best business practices
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Classifications of IS by scope• Functional business systems
– Focus on operational and managerial applications of basic business functions
– Examples: support accounting, finance or marketing• Strategic information systems
– Help get a strategic advantage over its customers– Examples: shipment tracking, e-commerce web systems
• Cross-functional information systems– Systems that are combinations of several types of information systems– Provide support for many functions
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Challenges and Opportunities of IT
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Measuring success of an IS• Efficiency– Minimize cost, time and use of information resources
• Effectiveness– Support business strategies– Enable business processes– Enhance organizational structure and culture – Increase the customer and business value
• What’s the difference between Efficiency and Effectiveness?
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Developing IS Solutions
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Ethical challenges of IT applications
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Ethical responsibilities• What uses of IT might be considered improper
or harmful to other individuals or society?• What is the proper business use of the
Internet or a company’s IT resources?• How can you protect yourself from computer
crime?
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Challenges of IT Careers• Outsourcing of basic programming to India, the
Middle-East and Asia-Pacific countries• Strong employment opportunities in other areas in
IS• Shortage of qualified IS personnel• Long-term job outlook positive and exciting
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Career Opportunities in IS
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Job growth• Among the fastest growing occupations through
2012– Systems Analyst,– Database administrators, – Other managerial-level positions– Network specialists– Information security
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IS Function represents• Major functional area of business• Important contributor to operational efficiency,
employee productivity, morale, customer service and satisfaction
• Major source of information and support for effective decision making
• Vital ingredient in developing competitive products and services in the global marketplace
• Dynamic and challenging career opportunity• Key component of today’s networked business
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Case 2: Autosystems: The Business Value of a Successful IT System for a small Manufacturer
• Autosystems is an automotive lighting designer and manufacturer located in Belleville, Ontario.
• A few years ago it installed the ActivEntry shop floor reporting system to move shop floor information into the manufacturing planning and control system.
• They now have the ability to capture labor, efficiency, production, scrap, etc., on time and by work center, for every cell, and are able to talk about that every day in their team meetings.
• Production managers can review information from all three plants.
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Case Study Questions• Why did Autosystems decide to install the
ActivEntry system? Why did the company feel it was necessary to integrate it with its TRANS4M system?
• Which three business benefits, of the many that resulted from the use of ActivEntry, gave the company the most business value? Defend your choices.
• What changes are already being planned to improve the use of ActivEntry? What other improvements should the company consider? Why?
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Real world activities1. Go to the Infor Global Solutions Web site,
www.infor.com, to find other stories that describe the business value of manufacturing planning and control systems.– Discover any common reasons for the success of these
companies with their systems? – Present your findings to the class.
2. Search the Internet for examples of problems that companies have had with manufacturing systems. – Discuss your findings and what solutions you can propose to
help companies avoid the problems you discovered.
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Real World Group Activity1. Search the Internet for examples of problems
that companies have had with manufacturing systems. – Discuss your findings and what solutions you can
propose to help companies avoid the problems you discovered.
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What is a system?• A system – Is a set of interrelated components– With a clearly defined boundary– Working together to achieve a common set of objectives– By accepting inputs and producing outputs in an organized
transformation process
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Systems have three basic functions:
• Input involves capturing and assembling elements that enter the system to be processed
• Processing involves transformation process that convert input into output
• Output involves transferring elements that have been produced by the transformation process to their ultimate destination
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Cybernetic system• All systems have input, processing and output• A cybernetic system, a self-monitoring, self-
regulating system, adds feedback and control:– Feedback is data about the performance of a system– Control involves monitoring and evaluating feedback to
determine whether a system is moving towards the achievement of its goal
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A Cybernetic system
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A business as a system
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Information systems model
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Components of an IS• People Resources– End users: the people who use the IS or the information
from the IS– IS specialists: the people who develop and operate IS
• Hardware Resources– All physical devices used in information processing– Machines, data media, peripherals
• Software Resources– All information processing instructions including
programs and procedures– System software, application software and procedures
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Components of an IS (cont.)• Data Resources– Facts about the business transactions– Processed and organized information– Databases of organized data
• Network Resources– Communications media– Network infrastructure: hardware and software– The Internet, intranets and extranets
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Data versus Information• Data are raw facts about physical phenomena or
business transactions• Information is data that has been converted into
meaningful and useful context for end users• Example:– Sales data is names, quantities and dollar amounts– Sales information is amount of sales by product type,
sales territory or salesperson
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IS Activities• Input of data resources– Data entry activities
• Processing of data into information– E.g., calculate, compare, sort, classify, summarize
• Output of information products– Messages, reports, forms and graphic images
• Storage of data resources– Data elements and databases
• Control of system performance– Monitoring and evaluating feedback
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Recognizing IS
• As a business professional, you should be able to look at an IS and identify– The people, hardware, software, data and network
resources they use– The type of information products they produce– The way they perform input, processing, output,
storage and control activities
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Case 3: Heidelberg, Honeywell and Eaton: Using IT to Build Smart Products and Services
• Today it will not be enough for a companies to offer valuable services for their products but they will have to provide “smart services.”
• To provide smart services, companies must use information technology to build “smart products,” products with awareness and connectivity into the products themselves.
• Typically, smart products can detect that a part is approaching failure and alert users, thus giving the company opportunity to provide maintenance services and enjoy the resulting benefits.
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Case Study Questions1. Why should manufacturing companies build smart products and
provide smart services? What business benefits can they gain? Provide several examples beyond those discussed in this case.
2. What information technologies are used by the companies in this case to build smart products and provide smart services? What other IT components might be used? Give examples of the capabilities they would provide.
3. What are some limitations of a smart products and smart services strategy? Give several examples of challenges that a business might encounter, and explain how it might overcome them.
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Real World Internet Activity1. Use the Internet to investigate how Heidelberg, Honeywell, and Eaton
are proceeding in their use of smart products and services. – Discover if they are expanding this approach and what benefits they are
claiming for this strategy.
2. Now expand your Internet investigation to other manufacturing companies to find several that are building smart products and offering smart services. – What business value are they claiming for themselves and their
customers? – If this search is fruitless, select several companies from your Internet
research and explain how and why they might employ a smart products and services strategy.
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Real World Group Activity
3. What security and privacy concerns might consumers have about Eaton’s Home Heartbeat service? – Discuss the rationale for these concerns, and consider
what could be done to reduce any threats to security and privacy posed by such services while also improving the value of this new use of information technology.
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