INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Information Systems and their affect on Business Productivity

Table of Contents

Introduction3

Discussion4

Information Systems: Global Management Strategies and Technologies- Wal-Mart4

Decision Support Systems5

Organizational Social Activities and Risk Management6

MIS In Employee Training7

Production Planning, New Technologies and Control System7

PPC Systems of Wal-Mart8

Material Requirement Planning Of Wal-Mart9

Effective and Efficient Inventory System9

Considerable Organisational Resistance to the Introduction of Information Systems10

Productivity Paradox10

Conclusion11

References12

Information Systems and their affect on Business Productivity

Introduction

Company in a free market economy is constantly looking for ideas which will help the company to grow their profitability and progress by increasing their profits and revenue through the maximization of sales. Most of the companies take help and support of the technology and technology oriented systems to enhance and improve their productivity. Almost all the companies today run their operations through different information systems. The implementation of the management information systems (MIS) helps an organization to reduce its costs and increase its value chain for the progress and betterment of that particular organization. In order to make the information systems totally dominant over the organizations, full charge should be given to the information systems to make the organizational operations flourish and expand the business of the organization.

However, there are many such managers of different organizations, who are not able to understand the proper implementation of the information systems in an organization. It is said that the culture of the organization and the processes of an organization are interdependent m therefore, there is no effect as such on the culture of the organization (Sutherland, 2008, p. 43). This cultural fallout could have a significant impact and lasting impact on organizational performance. The aim of this particular study will be to show the impact of the information systems and the reasons why there is considerable organizational resistance to them. Moreover, this article will focus on information systems used in business (for example, Wal-Mart) and the impact of information systems on organizational performance.

Discussion

Information technology is one of the direct and in great demand in this era of technology. Since this technology has become very frequently usable, it has dominated by many organizations and companies that lend themselves to efficient operation. Before I dive into the depths of this technology to the organization, it is important to first get an idea of ??brief information technology really is. Information technology in basically all things related to technology and science of computer systems and telecommunications.

Information technology is associated with the development of technologies to be more fruitful. Information technology includes both rational and technological elements. On the other hand, the technological elements are part of the information technology environment necessary for the logical structure of the system. In other words, we can say that information technology includes both hardware and software, such as voice equipment, telecommunications, multimedia, etc. Thus, information technology is useful for inserting, extracting or processing information. It should be clear to all that information technology is not limited to areas oriented team, but is also useful in the departments of telecommunications, micro-graphics, some companies and other support ...