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Management Information Systems
Notes Introduction
Redesigning the organization is not a easy task no body can change the organization in a short
period every activity take some time to improvement. Redesigning the organization with the
help of information system also take some time. In this unit you read some aspects related to
information system those play important role in the organization change according to the
environment or condition.
13.1 Systems as Planned Organizational Change
The introduction of a new information system involves much more than new hardware and
software. It also includes change in jobs, skills, management, and organization. In the socio-
technical philosophy, one cannot install new information system, we are redesigning the
organization.
One important thing to know about building a new information system is that is process is one
kind of planned organizational change. System builders must understand how a system will
affect the organization as a whole, focusing particularly on organization conflict and change in
the locus of decision marking. Builders must also consider how the nature of work groups will
change under the new system. Systems can be technical successes but organizational failures
because of a failure in the social and political process of building the system. Analysts and
designers are responsible for ensuring that key member of the organization participate in the
design process and permitted to influence the system’s ultimate shape.
13.1.1 Linking Information Systems to the Business Plan
Deciding which new systems to be build an essential component of the organizational planning
process. Organization need to develop an information systems plan that supports their overall
business plan and that incorporates strategic systems into top-level planning. One specific project
have been selected within the overall context of a strategic plan for the nosiness and the systems
area, an information system plan can be developed. The plan serves as road map indicating the
direction of systems development, the rationale, the current situation, the management strategy,
the implementation plan, and the budget.
13.1.2 Establishing Organizational Information Requirements
In order to develop an effective information systems plan, the organization must have a clear
understanding of both its long-term and short-term information requirements. Two principal
methodologies for establishing the essential information requirements of the organization as
whole are enterprise analysis and success factors.
Enterprise Analysis (Business Systems Planning)
Enterprise analysis argues that the firm’s information requirements can only be understood by
looking at the entire organization units, functions, processes, and data elements. Enterprise
analysis can help identify the key entities and attributes of the organization’s data.
The central method used in the enterprise analysis approach is to take a large sample of managers
and ask them how they use information, where they get their information, what their
environments are like, what their objectives are, how they make decision, and what their data
needs are.
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