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Ms .Sareeta Pradhan

IITTM ,Bhubaneswar

Email: sareetabrm@gmail.com

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Recommended Text :

Information Technology For Management by

,Mclean ,Turban Wertherbe ,Wiley publications

Information Technology For Management ,by

H.C.Lucas ,Tata Mc GrawHill

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Learning Objectives of the Subject

Learning Tools

Internal Assessment

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How modern information technologies are relevant to managerial

activities and decision making today, and how this has changed

over time.

The marketplace for IT - products, major vendors, factors

affecting major IT-related decisions

Technical and management challenges relevant to contemporary

business computing The business strategies that IT enables, and environmental

constraints that affect the use of IT.

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Text Books

Power Point Lectures

Reading

Assignments & Presentations

Case studies

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Internal Assessment -50Components Weightage Week Attendance 10 All

Test I 10 4th Test II (Practical) 10 8th

Test III 10 end

Presentation & Assignment*10

*As and when asked

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Total 50

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Introduction ToInformation Technology

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Example Old New

Buying and selling text book Visit the bookstore Visit web site forpublishers andretailers

Registering for classes Walk around campusto Departments,Registrars office, etc.

Access campusweb site

Photography Buy film, use camera,take picture, take itfor processing

Use digital camera

Paying for Gasoline Fill up your car, goinside, pay cash orcredit card

Use speed passtoken wave overthe sensor and go

Paying the Transportation Pay cash, metaltokens

Metro cardselectronic cards

Paying for goods Visit store, take theitem, pay , go

Use self servicekiosks

Supplying commercial photos Use newspapers,

paper, catalog or online

Use hub-like

supply chain withdigitized picture

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Topics to be covered Introduction to Information technology

Components Advantages

Scope

Digital Age

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IntroductionTo

Information Technology

Definition - refers to both the hardware and software that areused to store, retrieve, and manipulate information.

OrTechnology That Permits Us To Capture, Validate, Store,

Retrieve, Analyze, Present, Disseminate, And ArchiveInformation

Computer-based information systems to convert,store, protect, process, transmit and retrieveinformation.

An Umbrella comprising a suite of technologies , toolsand techniques along with ethical issues and human

factors

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The Components

Information Technology

Participants

Business Process

andLegal and

ethical issues

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Dimension of Information for

Knowledge workers (work &produce information )

Time Dimensions

- Having access to information when you need it- Having information that describes the time period

you are considering

Location Dimension

- Access to information where ever you are

Form Dimension- Audio , Video ,Text

- Free from errors

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Organization dimensions of

information For any business firm you work or run

you have to know the various

dimension of information

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They are : What Information Flows

What information describes

Information Granularity

How information flows .

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Information Flows

Current state

Strategies,Goals Between Functional

Units and Employees

Customer ,Suppliers andpartners

InformationGranularity

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Organization dimensions of information-

in terms of what describes Internal informationOperational

aspects

External Information Information ofthe surrounding

Objective quantifiable

Subjectiveinformation that is notknown

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Technology

I/O devices

Storage devices

CPU

RAM

Telecommunication Devices Connecting devices

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Major ObjectivesTo allow interactivity ,atime and labor saving procedure for tasks

formerly rendered by human operators

Enhancing Efficiency

Reduce wastage

Ensure better coordination

Flexibility in production along with adaptation of

quantity and quality of products of market trends.

A weapon to maintain orenhance competitiveness

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Scope

Transport Sector

Military

Electronic Library

Government

Education Finance

Manufacturing

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Use of IT for Managers

Achieving operational excellence

Developing new products and services

Improving decision making

Achieving competitive advantage

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Information/Digital/Wireless Age/Knowledge is power

Know your competition

Know your customersCRM

Work Closely with business partnersSCM

Know how each & every part oforganization works together to provideproducts and servicesERP

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DIGITAL-NOW ECONOMY

The digital economy is an economy based on digitaltechnologies, including communication networks (theInternet, intranets, and extranets), computers, software,and other related technologies.

Also called the Internet economy, the new economy, orthe Webeconomy.

Digital infrastructures provides a global platform overwhich people and organizations interact, communicate,collaborate, and search for information.

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The Global Platform of the New Economy

A huge number of digitizable products; that isproducts that can be converted to digitalformat. Most common are: books, movies,

magazines, TV and radio programming,electronic games, music CDs and computersoftware.

Consumers and firm conducting financial

transaction digitally. Physical goods such as home appliances and

automobiles that contain embeddedcomputer chips and connectivity capabilities.

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Why digital economy

Business Pressures:Market Pressures

Business is now transacted within a global economy- stronger competition Changing nature of the workforce Both genders Differently abled Upcoming mass retirement of baby boomers Powerful customers

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R l d G l f I f i

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Roles and Goals of Information

TechnologyIncrease productivity ofemployee

OLTP TPS CIS Reduce time ,errors ,costs,handle own transactions

Enhance decision making OLAP DSS GIS EIS AI Dataware houses

Generate Alternative s

Recommend solutions

Mining of data

Improve team collaboration Collaboration systemsGroupware Mange knowledge withinorganization, supportgeographically dispersed teams,facilitate communications

,Develop applications quickly

Create business partnershipsand alliances

EDI Manage supply chains ,shareexpertise and intellect

Online transaction

Enable global reach Internet ,Translationphones

Take advantage of cheaper/larger work force

Facilitate organizationaltransformation

Just about any technologyyou can name ,dependingon its use

Stay competitive ,new customerinterfaces ,Enter new markets

Roles /Goals IT tools Advantages

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CASE STUDY

A written record of the events thatoccurred at a particular company or

within a particular industry over anumber of years.

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The details included in a case study

may include:

Information about a company, industry,or project

Objectives, strategies, and challengesestablished and encountered

Responses, results, and

recommendations

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The Benefits of Case StudyAnalysis

Provides experience with illustration

Opportunity to learn types of problems that

many companies and industries encounter. Helps to analyze the steps other managers

have taken to correct specific problems andconcerns.

Enhance the ability of solving skills

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How to Analyze a Case

Study Clear understanding of the issues that

the company or industry faced.

Read the case thoroughly before youstart. Take notes as you read and whenyou have finished, consider re-readingthe case just to make sure you haventmissed anything.

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Guidelines

Cover PageAssignment-I

Topic :

Submitted by : Name

Programme : PDGM(TT/IB)

Semester :

Subject :