INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN
GLOBAL BUSINESS TODAY
By: Zeeshan A. Bhatti
London2012 Olympics
The Olympics 2012
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www.London2012.com became the most popular sports
website in the world. It had 38.3 billion page views,
peaking at 96,871 page views per second
Some 1.2 PetaBytes of data were transferred over the
website, with a peak of rate of 22.8 Gbits/s.
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On the busiest day there were 13.1million unique visitors
More tweets in one single day of London2012 than
entire tweets of Beijing2008
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During the Games, the Olympic network which connects
94 locations (including 34 competition venues) carried
961 TerraBytes of information
The BBC saw 12 million requests for video on mobile
across the whole of the Games
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Daily video traffic over BT’s (British Telecom) retail
broadband network increased on average by 19%
Around 13.2 million minutes (or 220,000 hours) of BT
Wi-fi were used across the Olympic Park venues
So How IS are transforming Business
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Massive spending by companies
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CellPhones, Smartphones, PCs, Tablets
More cellular connections than Landlines
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58% of Americans use cell phone for activities other than voice call
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Credit cards, Debit cards, Google Wallet etc.
Shipping Companies
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e.g., Maps, Texting, Facebook, Camera, Video etcc.
Online Shopping
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Specially in developing countries, Why??
UPS (United Parcel Services) moved 3.7 Billion packages across the globe due to their
online system
How about Newspaper?? …. Ipad?? VIDEO
IT Capital Investment
A look at the Modern College Student
What’s new in MIS?
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Its not just about Personal Computing…
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In this course we will talk about How Organizations make use of IT to get
benefits
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Marketing
HR
Finance
Decision Making
ERPs etc.
In the technology area there are three interrelated changes:
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the emerging mobile digital platform,
the growth of online software as a service, and
the growth in cloud computing where more and more business software runs
over the Internet.
What’s new in MIS
A Flattened World?
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Internet and global communications had greatly reduced the
economic and cultural advantages of developed countries
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This “globalization” presents both challenges and opportunities for
business firms
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In 2010, more than 33 percent of the U.S. economy resulted from
foreign trade, both imports and exports. In Europe and Asia, the number
exceeded 50 percent
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Not just the goods move across the border but JOBS as well – Offshoring Jobs
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Pros/ Cons??
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What does globalization have to do with
management information systems?
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Communication between a factory floor in Shanghai and a
distribution center in Rapid Falls, South Dakota, is now
instant and virtually free
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Customers now can shop in a worldwide-marketplace,
obtaining price and quality information reliably 24 hours a
day.
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Companies like Google and EBay can replicate their business
models in multiple countries with no cost
The Digital Firm
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A digital firm is one in which nearly all of the
organization’s significant business relationships with
customers, suppliers, and employees are digitally
enabled and mediated
Business processes refer to the set of logically
related tasks and behaviors that organizations
develop over time to produce specific business
results and the unique manner in which these
activities are organized and coordinated
The Digital Firm (Cont’d..)
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Key corporate assets—
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intellectual property, core competencies, and financial and human
assets — are managed through digital means
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available at any time and anywhere in the firm
In Digital Firm, Space Shifting and Time Shifting are norms
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Time shifting refers to business being conducted continuously, 24/7,
rather than in narrow “work day” time bands of 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.
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Space shifting means that work takes place in a global workshop,
as well as within national boundaries.