INFORMATION SYSTEM STRATEGY AND DESIGN

Information System Strategy And Design Within Multi-National Corporations

Information System Strategy And Design Within Multi-National Corporations

Task 1

Accordingly, a system is considered as a set of elements which are connected or interrelated with each other. In analysing the element of a system, such as Information System, the modes of enquiry are used. Basically, modes of Enquiry is divided into three categories, the simple (inductive-consensual and analytic deductive), complex (dialectic and multiple realities) and innovative (unbounded systems thinking).  These modes enable us to break a certain system down into smaller sub-system and focus on how each of these sub-systems became an important factor for achieving the goal of the system. Base on a real world scenario each modes of enquiry system will be analysed in terms of their strengths and weaknesses. As mentioned, modes of enquiry includes inductive consensual, analytic deductive, dialectic, multiple realities and unbounded systems thinking. (Atkinson CJ 2000, 65-78)

Inductive-Consensual

Inductive-Consensual mode of enquiry is an approach that enables us to have an outcome based on a limited set of observations. With these formulated observations, only one conclusion must be considered. In this method, there are three kinds of analysis that may be used: analogous, historical or multiple independently sourced. Herein, the decision maker must first formulate a problem, after which, a set of observations or plausible solutions can be provided.

In decision making process inductive-consensual may be useful in many ways. One of the optimistic attributes of this mode of enquiry is it enables the decision maker to determine a concise observations relevant to the given situation or problems. With these observations, the management or the decision maker may be able to concentrate on the formulated observations. In addition, by merely evaluating each observation, the decision-maker can easily identify which observation will definitely topped the other. Furthermore, inductive-consensual is also a tool which can easily be used because of its simple approach for decision-making process. With this, the most effective solution or observation can easily be noticed and the management can decide easily. (Atkinson CJ 2000, 65-78)

Although, inductive-consensual has many advantages, there are also some characteristics of this mode of enquiry which can consider as its weakness. Since, the observations are limited only to the decision-maker perceptions; other factors might not be included to be assessed or evaluated. Hence, this can be seen as one of the failure of inductive-consensual approach. In addition, another disadvantage of using this mode of enquiry is that, the decision-maker may have a tendency to choose a certain observation without any justifications. In this manner, this may result to create bigger and complicated problems. This only implies, that the use of inductive-consensual will not be successful if the decision-maker will not be able to gather as much evidences needed to justify each observations. (Atkinson CJ 2000, 65-78)

Analytic-Deductive

Analytic-Deductive is one a mode of enquiry which views the world as formula. This enquiry often highlights logical consistency. This method believed that everything leads only to one answer, ...