Business Driven Technology

As we know IT has play an important role in our life as technology have become more advance and most of people in the world depend on their gadget as part of their daily routine. Upon this advancement people in business world had taken this opportunity to develop and expand their business using the internet which will give a greater impact toward their business. As for this, a lot of effort need to be taken in order to make the process to run smoothly.

In chapter one of Information Technology in Business we will learn about how to compare between management information systems ( MIS ) and information technology ( IT ), we will also describe the relationships among people, information technology and information. Other than that we will identify four different department in a typical business and explain how technology helps them to work together. Lastly, we will touch about the comparison between four different types of organizational information cultures and decide which culture and decide which culture applies to your school.

Information technology or IT is a field concerned with the use of technology in managing and processing information. information technology is an important enabler and one of the key to the success of one business and innovation as it will give enough or a sufficient amount of information for the company to run their business. While Management information systems or MIS is a general name for the business function and academic discipline covering the application of people, technologies and procedures to solve business problems. This business function are similar to account, finance, operation and Human Resources.

It is important for us to fully understand about data,information, business intelligent, IT resources and IT cultures. As it will give us a depth understanding about what we will be doing. Here are the definition of  data, information, business intelligence.

• Data - raw facts that describe the characteristic of an event
• Information - data converted into meaningful and useful context
• Business Intelligent - applications and technologies that are used to support decision-making efforts 

while here are some example as to what is data, information and Business Intelligence :

• Data in an Excel Spreadsheet

• Data turned into information

• Information turned into Business Intelligence

• IT Resources

• IT Cultures

There are four culture that is information-functional culture, information-sharing culture, information-inquiring culture and lastly information-discovery culture. For Information-Functional Culture the employees use the information as a means of exercising influence or power over others. As an example the sales manager does not want to share the information that they had with marketing department, As a results the marketing department need the sales manager's information each time a new sales strategies is developed. Next, Information-Sharing Culture the employees across departments trust each other to use information  especially about problem and failures in order to improve the company performance. Then, for Information-Inquiring Culture the employees across the departments search for information to better understand the future and align themselves with current trends and new direction. Lastly, Information-Discovery Culture the employees across the departments are open to new insights about crisis and radical changes and ways to create competitive advantages.