Management Information Systems : Information In Business Systems Today

The Role of Information Systems in Business Today

How information systems are transforming business?

Information Systems are transforming our business culture, nowadays, by Increase in wireless technology use, such as Web sites, made an online/digital storage such as Cloud computing, because mobile digital platform allow more distributed work, decision-making, and collaboration.

There is also some Globalization opportunities from Information Systems. Internet has drastically reduced costs of operating on global scale, however, still Information Systems presents both challenges and opportunities.

We have alot of homework to do to made our Information Systems works, and business firms invest heavily in information systems to achieve six strategic business objectives:

1.Operational excellence

2.New products, services, and business models

3.Customer and supplier intimacy

4.Improved decision making

5.Competitive advantage

6.Survival

And also there are several perspective of Information Systems that we need to understand, in order to understand its dimension, such as :

1. Organizational Dimension,

•Separation of business functions 

•Unique business processes 

•Unique business culture 

•Organizational politics

2. Management Dimension,
Managers set organizational strategy for responding to business challenges

3. Technology Dimension,

Information technology is at the heart of information systems. While organization and management are important too, it’s the technology that enables the systems and the organizations and managers who use the technology.

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In Conclusion, the study of information systems deals with issues and insights contributed from technical and behavioral disciplines.