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System
Information System, Organization, and
strategy
Question
Organization
Mediating Factors
1. Environment
2. Culture
3. Structure
4. Business Process
5. Politics
6. Managing
Decisions
Information
Technology
Organization
(Capital, labour)
Production Process
What is an organization?
Environmental resources
Emphasises:
Group relationships;
Values and strategies
Structure
Hierarchy
Divison of labour
Rules, procedures
Business Process
Culture
Process
Rights/Obligations
Privileges/responsibilities
Values
Norms
People
Environmental outputs
Features of Organizations
1. Routine and Business Process
2. Organizational Politics
3. Organizational Culture
4. Organizational Environment
5. Organizational structure
6. Other Organization features : goals &
Leaderships
Agency Theory
Owner (Principal) Employee ( Agent)
Reduces internal management cost
Cont.
Behavioural Impacts
Information Technology will flatten the
organization
Post Industrial Organization (Self Manage
Teams)
Understanding Organizational Resistance to
change
Organizational
structure
People
Resistance
to change
Information
Technology
Job Tasks
1.Traditional Competitors
2.New Market Entrants
3.Substitute Products and Services
4.Customers (Buyers)
5.Suppliers
6.Complimentary Products
INTEACTIVE SESSIONS
PAGE 129:
TECHNOLOGY HELPS
STARBUCKS FIND NEW WAYS
TO COMPETE
Value Chain
Value Web
1.Promoting Synergy
2.Enhances Core
Competencies.
Synergies(collaboration)
Core Competencies
Network-Based Strategies
Network-Based Strategies
1.Network of economics
2.Virtual company model
3.Business ecosystems
Network Economies
Business Ecosystems:
Interdependent network of
suppliers, distributors,
outsourcing firms, transportation
services etc.. Uses the same idea
as value web.
Summary
Case study
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