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Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Organizations and Information Systems
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Organizations and Information Systems
The Two-way
Relationship
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Chapter 1 Foundations of Information Systems in Business 4
A Business as a System
Organizations and Information Systems
• What is an organization?
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Organizations and Information Systems
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Organizations and Information Systems
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Organizations and Information Systems
• Features of organizations
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Organizations and Information Systems
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Organizational influences
• Organizational politics
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Organizational influences
• Organizational culture:
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Organizational influences
• Organizational environments:
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Organizational influences
• Disruptive technologies
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Organizations and Information Systems
• Five basic kinds of organizational structure according to IS
design
• Entrepreneurial:
▪ Small start-up business
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
How Information Systems Impact
Organizations and Business Firms
Economic impacts
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
How Information Systems Impact
Organizations and Business Firms
• Transaction cost theory
• Firms seek to economize on transaction costs (the costs of
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
How Information Systems Impact
Organizations and Business Firms
• Agency theory:
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
How Information Systems Impact
Organizations and Business Firms
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
How Information Systems Impact
Organizations and Business Firms
Figure 3-8
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
How Information Systems Impact
Organizations and Business Firms
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
How Information Systems Impact
Organizations and Business Firms
Organizational
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
How Information Systems Impact
Organizations and Business Firms
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
How Information Systems Impact
Organizations and Business Firms
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Using Information Systems to Achieve
Competitive Advantage
▪ Traditional competitors
▪ New market entrants
▪ Substitute products and services
▪ Customers
▪ Suppliers
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Using Information Systems to Achieve
Competitive Advantage
Porter’s Competitive Forces Model
• Traditional competitors
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Using Information Systems to Achieve
Competitive Advantage
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Using Information Systems to Achieve
Competitive Advantage
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Using Information Systems to Achieve
Competitive Advantage
• Low-cost leadership
• Product differentiation
• Enable new products or services, greatly change customer
convenience and experience
• Examples: Google, Nike, Apple
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Using Information Systems to Achieve
Competitive Advantage
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Using Information Systems to Achieve
Competitive Advantage
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Using Information Systems to Achieve
Competitive Advantage
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Using Information Systems to Achieve
Competitive Advantage
Figure 3-11
This figure provides
examples of systems for
both primary and support
activities of a firm and of
its value partners that
can add a margin of
value to a firm’s products
or services.
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Using Information Systems to Achieve
Competitive Advantage
• Value web:
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Using Information Systems to Achieve
Competitive Advantage
The Value Web
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Using Information Systems to Achieve
Competitive Advantage
• Network-based strategies
▪ Network economics
▪ Virtual company model
▪ Business ecosystems
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Using Information Systems to Achieve
Competitive Advantage
• Network economics:
• Marginal cost of adding new participant almost zero, with much
greater marginal gain
• Value of community grows with size
• Value of software grows as installed customer base grows
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Using Information Systems to Achieve
Competitive Advantage
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Using Information Systems to Achieve
Competitive Advantage
• Business ecosystems
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
Using Information Systems for
Competitive Advantage: Management
Issues
• Sustaining competitive advantage
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12e Authors: Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon