Information Technology

Chapter 1

* Three interrelated changes in technology area:

*emerging mobile digital platform

*growth of online software as a software

*growth in cloud-computing

* Emerging Mobile Digital Platform

*managers use mobile devices to coordinate work, communicate with employee And provide information for decision making.

* Web 2.0

*technology like social networking , collaboration tools and wikis in order to make better, faster decisions.

* Telework:

*internet, notebook,iPads,iPhones and blackberry makes it possible for growing number of people to work away from a traditional office.

* Co-creation of business value:

*sources of business value shift from product to solution and experiences and from internal source to network of suppliers and collaboration with customers. Supply chain and product development are more global and collaborative with customers.

* Cloud computing

*a flexible collection of computers on the internet begins to perform task traditionally performed on corporate computers.

* industrial revolution (by Columbus)

*world-wide phenomenon energized by expansion of trades among nations.

* Flat (Thomas Friedman 2005)

*internet and global communications had greatly reduced the economic and cultural advantages of developed countries.

* AMD (Advanced Micro Design)

* Software application for social networking and sales force management (CRM)makes these devices even more versatile business tools.

* JIT(Just In Time)(D.W. Morgan)

*retailers and manufacture maintain almost no excess on-hand inventory, relying on suppliers to deliver the products.

* Digital firm

*is one in which nearly all the organization’s significant business relationships with customers, suppliers and employees are digitally enable and mediated.

* Core business process

*is accomplished through digital network spanning the entire organization or linking multiple organization.

* Business processes

*refers to set of logical...