CHAPTER ONE
MANAGEMENT
INFORMATION
SYSTEMS
BUSINESS DRIVEN
MIS
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CHAPTER ONE OVERVIEW
 SECTION 1.1 – BUSINESS DRIVEN MIS
• Competing in the Information Age
• The Challenge of Departmental Companies and the MIS
Solution
 SECTION 1.2 – BUSINESS STRATEGY
• Identifying Competitive Advantages
• The Five Forces Model – Evaluating Industry
Attractiveness
• The Three Generic Strategies – Choosing a Business
Focus
• Value Chain Analysis – Executing Business Strategies
SECTION 1.1
BUSINESS
DRIVEN MIS
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Describe the information age and the
differences between data, information,
business intelligence, and knowledge
2. Explain systems thinking and how
management information systems enable
business communications
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COMPETING IN THE
INFORMATION AGE
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during the Super Bowl
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COMPETING IN THE
INFORMATION AGE
 Fact - The confirmation or validation
of an event or object
 Information age - The present time,
during which infinite quantities of facts
are widely available to anyone who
can use a computer
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COMPETING IN THE
INFORMATION AGE
 Examples of the power of business
and technology
• Amazon – Not a technology company;
primary business focus is selling books
• Netflix – Not a technology company;
primary business focus is renting videos
• Zappos – Not a technology company;
primary business focus is selling shoes
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COMPETING IN THE
INFORMATION AGE
 The core drivers of the information age
• Data
• Information
• Business intelligence
• Knowledge
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Data
 Data - Raw facts that describe the characteristics
of an event or object
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Information
 Information - Data converted into a meaningful
and useful context
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Business Intelligence
 Business intelligence Information collected from
multiple sources such as
suppliers, customers,
competitors, partners, and
industries that analyzes
patterns, trends, and
relationships for strategic
decision making
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Knowledge
 Knowledge - Skills, experience,
and expertise coupled with
information and intelligence that
creates a person’s intellectual
resources
 Knowledge worker – Individual
valued for their ability to interpret
and analyze information
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THE CHALLENGE:
DEPARTMENTAL COMPANIES
Common Departments Working Independently
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THE MIS SOLUTION
Common Departments Working Interdependently
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THE MIS SOLUTION
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THE MIS SOLUTION
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SYSTEMS THINKING
 Systems thinking – A way of monitoring the entire
system by viewing multiple inputs being processed
or transformed to produce outputs while
continuously gathering feedback on each part
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SYSTEMS THINKING
 Management Information Systems (MIS) –
A business function, like accounting and human
resources, which moves information about
people, products, and processes across the
company to facilitate decision-making and
problem-solving
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MIS Department
Roles and Responsibilities
 Chief information officer (CIO) – Oversees all
uses of IT and ensures the strategic alignment
of IT with business goals and objectives
 Chief knowledge officer (CKO) - Responsible
for collecting, maintaining, and distributing the
organization’s knowledge
 Chief privacy officer (CPO) – Responsible for
ensuring the ethical and legal use of
information
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MIS Department
Roles and Responsibilities
 Chief security officer (CSO) –
Responsible for ensuring the security of IT
systems
 Chief technology officer (CTO) –
Responsible for ensuring the throughput,
speed, accuracy, availability, and
reliability of IT
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MIS Department
Roles and Responsibilities
SECTION 1.2
BUSINESS
STRATEGY
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
3. Explain why competitive advantages are
temporary
4. Identify the four key areas of a SWOT analysis
5. Describe Porter’s Five Forces Model and
explain each of the five forces
6. Compare Porter’s three generic strategies
7. Demonstrate how a company can add value
by using Porter’s value chain analysis
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IDENTIFYING COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGES
 Business strategy – A leadership plan that
achieves a specific set of goals or objectives
such as

Developing new products or services

Entering new markets

Increasing customer loyalty

Attracting new customers

Increasing sales
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IDENTIFYING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES
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IDENTIFYING COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGES
 Competitive advantage – A product or service
that an organization’s customers place a greater
value on than similar offerings from a competitor
 First-mover advantage – Occurs when an
organization can significantly impact its market
share by being first to market with a competitive
advantage
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IDENTIFYING COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGES
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SWOT ANALYSIS
 A SWOT analysis evaluates an organization’s
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and
threats to identify significant influences that
work for or against business strategies
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THE FIVE FORCES MODEL –
EVALUATING INDUSTRY ATTRACTIVENESS
Porter’s Five
Forces Model
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Buyer Power
 Buyer power – The ability of
buyers to affect the price of an item
• Switching cost – Manipulating costs
that make customers reluctant to
switch to another product
• Loyalty program – Rewards
customers based on the amount of
business they do with a particular
organization
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Supplier Power
 Supplier power – The suppliers’ ability to
influence the prices they charge for supplies
• Supply chain – Consists of all parties involved in
the procurement of a product or raw material
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Threat of Substitute
Products or Services
 Threat of substitute
products or services – High
when there are many
alternatives to a product or
service and low when there
are few alternatives
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Threat of New Entrants
 Threat of new entrants – High when it is
easy for new competitors to enter a market
and low when there are significant entry
barriers
• Entry barrier – A feature of a product or service
that customers have come to expect and
entering competitors must offer the same for
survival
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Rivalry Among
Existing Competitors
 Rivalry among existing competitors –
High when competition is fierce in a
market and low when competitors are
more complacent
• Product differentiation – Occurs when a
company develops unique differences in its
products or services with the intent to
influence demand
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Analyzing the Airline Industry
 Perform a Porter’s Five Forces analysis of each of
the following for a company entering the
commercial airline industry
• Buyer power
• Supplier power
• Threat of substitute products/services
• Threat of new entrants
• Rivalry among competitors
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THE THREE GENERIC STRATEGIES
CHOOSING A BUSINESS FOCUS
Porter’s Three Generic Strategies
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THE THREE GENERIC STRATEGIES
CHOOSING A BUSINESS FOCUS
Porter’s Three Generic Strategies
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VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS –
EXECUTING BUSINESS STRATEGIES
 Business process – A
standardized set of activities that
accomplish a specific task, such as
a specific process
 Value chain analysis – Views a
firm as a series of business
processes that each add value to
the product or service
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VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS –
EXECUTING BUSINESS STRATEGIES
 Primary value activities
• Inbound logistics - Acquires raw materials and
resources, and distributes
• Operations - Transforms raw materials or inputs into
goods and services
• Outbound logistics - Distributes goods and services to
customers
• Marketing and sales - Promotes, prices, and sells
products to customers
• Service - Provides customer support
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VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS –
EXECUTING BUSINESS STRATEGIES
 Support value activities
• Firm infrastructure – Includes the company format or
departmental structures, environment, and systems
• Human resource management – Provides employee
training, hiring, and compensation
• Technology development – Applies MIS to processes
to add value
• Procurement – Purchases inputs such as raw materials,
resources, equipment, and supplies
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VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS –
EXECUTING BUSINESS STRATEGIES
Porter’s Value Chain
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VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS –
EXECUTING BUSINESS STRATEGIES
Value Chain and Porter’s Five Forces Model