INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT

Information and Technology Management



Information and Technology Management

Introduction

Information Systems (IS) and Information Technology (IT) have changed the way organizations operate today. Through use significant improvements are achieved, then automate business processes, provide a platform for information needed for decision making and, most importantly, its implementation achieves competitive advantage or reduce the advantage of rivals. The company is Apple incorporation to be studied in this paper. As a consultant, the decision making levels would be explained, followed by the information system currently followed and then end with a few recommendations or highlights.

As prices of computing equipment are becoming down, capacity is increasing, and, becoming easy to use, IT is used in new and varied forms. In Apple, its applications are diverse. Today, most medium and large enterprises (with more and more small and micro-enterprises) use IT to manage almost all aspects of the business, especially the management of financial records and transactional organizations, records employees, billing, collection, payment and shopping (Cusumano 2009, 25).

IT is defined as the set of complex knowledge, means and know-how based on technological developments arising from the interaction between the fields of computing, microelectronics and telecommunications develop innovations in the processes of production, transmission, manipulation and presentation of data, all within the scope of activities related to communication, numeracy data processing and control. The firmware in strategy business intelligence, commonly known as Business Intelligence, aims to develop professionals' business intelligence strategy that will be operational in all spheres of business.

Business Intelligence is designed to improve strategic decision making of managers by allowing them to exploit more effectively the various data sources to obtain a better understanding of their organization and their competitive environment. To do this, this emerging science is based on strategic analysis, information technology, statistics, data warehouses and drilling to access external and internal sources of data and then analyze them to produce information to guide strategic decision making.

An information system performs four basic activities: input, storage, processing and output of information.

Data Entry: The process whereby the information system takes the data it needs to process information. Entries can be manual or automatic. The manuals are those that are provided directly by the user, while the automatic data or information are derived or are taken from other systems or modules. The latter interface is referred to as automatic.

Typical units of input to computers are terminals, magnetic tape, diskette drives, bar codes, scanners, voice, monitors touch, the keyboard and mouse, among others.

Information Storage: Storage is one of the most important activities or skills that you have a computer, because through this property the system can recall the information stored in the previous section or process. This information is usually stored in structures called data files. The typical unit of storage is magnetic disks or hard disks, floppy disks or diskettes and compact discs (CD-ROM).

Information Processing: The capacity of the information system to perform calculations according to a sequence of operations preset. These calculations can be made with data recently ...