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- Dr. Walter Rewar -- EMBA 704
- College of Business – Department
of Information Systems
- Sept. 3, 2004
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- Global trends affecting organizations
- Globalization
- E-enablement and/or the internet economy
- Need for knowledge management
- Profound changes in the technology
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- External trends affecting organizations
- International Markets
- Decapitalization
- Faster Business Cycles
- Emergence of Business Ecosystems
- Demands for Greater Transparency and Accountability
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- Enterprise specific forces affecting operations:
- Demand-pull
- Customer centricity
- Self-service
- Real-time work
- Team-based work
- Anytime/anyplace information work
- Outsourcing and strategic
alliances
- Signs pointing to a demise of
hierarchy
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- New Work environment
- Leveraging knowledge globally
- Organizing for complexity
- Working electronically
- Handling continuous and discontinuous change.
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- Software Trends
- Software Development and improved methods to control costs
- Purchased software as a replacement for in-house development
- The emergence of decision support systems
- Integration and ERP
- The push towards Web Services and Portals
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- Data Trends
- From data files to database management systems
- From transaction Processing to Decision Support and Data Warehousing
- From data and metadata management to content management
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- Communication Trends
- Online connectivity, LAN, WAN, and ISP
- Internet-centricity in data communications
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- Improve performance of
- people and systems
- through the use of
- information technology
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- IT Doesn’t Matter (Carr)
- Does IT Matter? An HBR Debate (Stewart and others)
- Six IT Decisions your IT People Shouldn’t Make (Ross & Weill)
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