...DISCUSS HOW THE BUSINESS STRATEGY AFFECTS INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND ORGANIZATIONAL DECISIONS AT ROCHE AND HOW INFORMATION SYSTEMS SUPPORT ROCHE’S BUSINESS STRATEGY? Business strategy with information systems strategy and organizational strategy can form a Triangle. This triangle is known as the information systems strategy triangle and highlights the alignment necessary between decisions of business strategy, information systems, and organizational design. This means any adjustment to one of them will affect the other two. Organizational strategy, information strategy and business strategy must complement each other and they must be designed so that they support, rather than hinder each other. In successful companies the business strategy is the most important element in the “Triangle”. But to be a real success a firm must balance these three strategies: business, organizational, and information systems (Pearlson & Saunders, 2013). Business Strategy Organizational Strategy Information Strategy The Information Systems Strategy Triangle Business strategy should drive information system decision making, and changes in business strategy should entail reassessments of information systems. Moreover changes in information systems potential should trigger reassessments of business strategy. If a decision is made to change business strategy of the “triangle”, it is necessary to evaluate...
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...Introduction A strategy is a plan or policy line of action that is designed to achieve larger purpose. It is a simple framework for understanding the impact of information system (IS) on organisations. The Information Systems Strategy Triangle is a simple framework for understanding the impact of IS on organizations. Strategy it is also defined as the relationship among business strategy, organizational strategy, and information strategy. Business strategy A business strategy is the means by which it sets out to accomplish its desired end (objectives).it can simply be described as a long term planning. Business strategy may cover a period of about 2-5 years (sometimes even longer. A Business Strategy is a well-articulated vision of where the business seeks to go and how it expects to get there. It is the form by which a business communicates its goals Organisational strategy The organizational strategy is a strategy whereby choices are made, as well as the choices it makes to define, set up, coordinate, and control its work processes. The way a business is organized either supports the implementation of its business strategy or it gets in the way. Organizational and Information Strategy are then dependent upon the Business Strategy, they must counterpart each other. Organizational strategy is a clear definition of how the organization needs to change over time in order to be able to deliver the strategy of the enterprise and an actionable plan of how to make the transformation...
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...Week 1 - Information Systems Strategy Triangle |Business Strategy Elements |Organizational Strategy Elements |Information Strategy Elements | |Short merchandise production cycle |Vertical integration |Strategic i.t investments, minimum i.t use with | | | |guaranteed profit | |Short display lifespan of products in stores |Ordering merchandise every two weeks |the customer opinions influence information | | | |gathering done by simple PDAs and POS systems | |Identifying fashion trends through consumer |Heavily relying on systematic managers |There is no fixed inventory of merchandise | |interactions | | | |No advertising |Chain of decision made by locals, information |Relatively minimal online marketing | | |gathered by stores from customers | | |In house and near-by...
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...Angelica Acevedo Week 1 - Information Systems Strategy Triangle Step 1: Create lists of case details that fit each side of the triangle. Step 2: Then look at each item and think about how that item affects the other sides of the triangle. Step 3: Take a look at the industry. Make a list of triangle attributes you find. Compare the industry items with the case company items. Step 1: Create lists of case details that fit each side of the triangle. Step 2: Then look at each item and think about how that item affects the other sides of the triangle. Step 3: Take a look at the industry. Make a list of triangle attributes you find. Compare the industry items with the case company items. Information Strategy Information Strategy Organizational Strategy Organizational Strategy Business Strategy Business Strategy Business Strategy Elements | Organizational Strategy Elements | Information Strategy Elements | New collection at start of each season | Changes color, cut, fabrics and other details throughout season | POS terminals not connected store to store or to headquarters | Less IT spending | Tries to understand, through its network of stores, not just what people are buying, but also, what they want to buy. | Use dial up modems to send daily sales and inventory orders | Introduce 11,000 new garments per year | Lead time from inception to delivery, of garment, can be as short as 3 weeks | IT staff of 50 – less than .5% of revenue | | No advertising – used...
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...treatment can be prioritised. Such prioritisation can only occur when risks are rated and prioritised based on an international standard that utilises consequence for determining risk ratings. While the crime triangle allows for the rating of risk, it does not take consequence into consideration as ISO31000 does. Where the organisation is able to understand how they will be adversely affected by negative risks, there will be a higher level of co-operation to assign resources. Where the consequence is only portrayed in a technical manner and not in line with the organisations strategy and business objective, there will more reluctance to support risk treatment. Organisations must utilise an Enterprise Risk Model that allows for scalability and organisational wide understanding and co-operation. Such a model should be developed enterprise wide and further more adapted for the identification of different types of risks, such as security risks. ISO31000 better suits such a requirement in comparison to the crime triangle that specifics risks as crime. It is imperative to understand that risks are not always perceived as crimes and utilise a model that allows for this. Risks are often guided by uncertainty and it is imperative for organisation to utilise as much information relating to the risk as possible as too much uncertainty pollutes the risk and its consequence. Organisations must use a model that provides some form of certainty and utilises historical data where as many...
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...MASTERS-MPA PROPOSED TOPIC THE IMPACT OF STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEM PLANNING AND IT’S ALIGNMENT WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN OF THE ORGANIZATION A CASE STUDY: PARLIAMENT OF SIERRA LEONE (STRATEGIC PLAN 2009-2013) SUBMITTED TO: THE DEAN OF POSTGRADUATES STUDIES SUBMITTED BY: JOSEPH CONTEH INTRODUCTION Strategic information system planning (SISP) is consistently identified as the most critical issue facing the Organization. Leaderer and Sethi define strategic information systems planning as the process of identifying a portfolio of computer-based applications to assist an organization in executing its business plans and realizing its business goals. Strategic information systems planning also include the search for applications with a high impact and the ability to create- an advantage over competitors. The use of Information Technology associated with proper planning would increase business success within the organization. SISP is considered to be the best mechanism that would support the organization to assure that IT activities are attuned with those of the rest of the organizational needs. The paper will focus on such factors that will assist the organizations to success in the strategic information systems planning. Background Information to the Research area Over the years, some organizations have made technology decisions and acquisitions in Sierra Leone that impact organizational information systems (IS) positively and negatively on the basis of what...
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...DISCUSS HOW THE BUSINESS STRATEGY AFFECTS INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND ORGANIZATIONAL DECISIONS AT ROCHE AND HOW INFORMATION SYSTEMS SUPPORT ROCHE’S BUSINESS STRATEGY? Business strategy with information systems strategy and organizational strategy can form a Triangle. This triangle is known as the information systems strategy triangle and highlights the alignment necessary between decisions of business strategy, information systems, and organizational design. This means any adjustment to one of them will affect the other two. Organizational strategy, information strategy and business strategy must complement each other and they must be designed so that they support, rather than hinder each other. In successful companies the business strategy is the most important element in the “Triangle”. But to be a real success a firm must balance these three strategies: business, organizational, and information systems (Pearlson & Saunders, 2013). Business Strategy Organizational Strategy Information Strategy The Information Systems Strategy Triangle Business strategy should drive information system decision making, and changes in business strategy should entail reassessments of information systems. Moreover changes in information systems potential should trigger reassessments of business strategy. If a decision is made to change business strategy of the “triangle”, it is necessary to...
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...WestJet Airlines – IT Governance & Corporate Strategy 1. Assessment of the IT situation at WestJet - Cheryl Smith focused on performance measures to carry out a study to compare companies within the transportation industry. The objective of the study was to compare WestJet’s IT cost, its resources and its budget to the overall industry standards. With the results, Cheryl was able to conclude that the IT department of the company was competent and worked according to the “WestJet IT Way”. She acknowledged that the IT organization at WestJet was structured according to the IT group’s conventional internal functions of planning, building, organizing, maintaining and governing. To top it off Cheryl found that IT department at WestJet had relatively different skill set compared to the IT sector at other companies1. Further she stated that more than half the systems, procedures and systems were industry-standard. WestJet’s IT department had invented its own operations structured around the company’s needs which were not compliant with other related industries. The study concluded that there was a mismatch in the number of employers as compared to the industry benchmark numbers. 2. WestJet’s assessment and Issues faced - Cheryl Smith was informed that WestJet had undergone an analysis with IBM and they had recommended a solution to its IT concerns. However, Cheryl requested to stop and place a hold on the PMO deal that was suggested by IBM. Instead, the first task...
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...Assignment 5: Marketing Strategies MKT 500 September 8, 2013 1. Write an executive summary of your marketing plan. This business plan is for Reek’s Bistro, a new medium-sized restaurant located in the Triangle area of North Carolina. The Triangle is made up of three primary cities of the Research Triangle metropolitan region, Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. Reek’s Bistro will focus on Mediterranean cuisine in an American style restaurant environment. An emphasis will be on natural foods that taste good and are good for you. The restaurant will procure locally grown produce, while offering additional services and products, such as catering and Reek’s Bistro brand items sold in grocery stores. Reek’s Bistro offers Triangle residents a trendy fun place to have great food in a social environment. The menu contains a large variety of ethnic ingredients and recipes that will bring the Mediterranean culture to the Triangle. Reek’s Bistro forecasts that the majority of purchases will be Greek gyros and salads. The ethnic recipes will be used to provide customers with a diverse menu that offers the usual and the unusual tastes of the Mediterranean. Reek’s Bistro will emphasize healthy dishes, recognizing the trend within the restaurant industry increasing demand for healthy and organic cuisine. Reek’s Bistro will target various segments of the Triangle. Hungry college students will be the first group targeted as prospective customers. Raleigh alone has over 100,000 university...
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...The Information Strategy Triangle: The information strategy triangle represents the relationships between business strategy, organizational strategy and information strategy. The business strategy of an organization drives its organizational and information strategy. The organizational strategy includes components like organizational structure, HR policies, and vendor policies. The Information strategy includes decisions made about the software, applications, hardware etc. (Pearlson & Saunders,2013). In the case of FBI, the three components of the Information Systems triangle, viz., business strategy, organizational strategy and information strategy were misaligned and did not support each other. Organizations in which these three components are misaligned rarely succeed to achieve to their stated missions and objectives. “Business” Strategy of FBI: The FBI is a government, not-for-profit organization with a serious mission. To achieve its mission, the FBI engages in “a number of important operational pursuits that are tantamount to enterprise business objectives, even though those operational pursuits do not have profit-making goals” ( McGroddy & Lin...
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...1) Create lists of case details that fit each side of the triangle. Brief Synopsis The case recounts a tale of how the health-care company CareGroup’s leading state-of-the-art information technology systems had abruptly collapsed for three and a half days, what actions they took to recover, and the invaluable lessons learned through them. Background and Analysis On October 1, 1996 three prominent hospitals in eastern Massachusetts merged together to form CareGroup. CareGroup was a group of health-care professionals that offered community-based primary care and a broad spectrum of specialty services. Merging hospitals had the opportunity to develop integrated services that could greatly improve the quality of health care as well as drive down costs. An unforeseen achievement had been the development of an integrated IT system that linked the entire organization together. CareGroup became a leading innovator in IT not only recognized as the best in health care, but the finest in any industry. 2) Then look at each item and think about how that item affects the other sides of the triangle. From a birds eye view the CareGroup IT systems were not only strong, but also the most advanced in the nation. The company enjoyed the best e-mail system, voice and wireless, data center and web-based infrastructure in healthcare. Their IT systems had handled 900,000 patient records dating back to 1977 and 3,000 physicians and 200 staff personnel processed 40 terabytes...
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...Mini Case: Cisco Systems 1. How does the business strategy affect information systems and organizational systems decisions? The information system strategy triangle shows the alignment between business strategy, information system strategy, and organizational strategy. Most successful companies have business strategy that drives both organizational strategy and IS strategy. (Pearlson & Saunders, 2012) Cisco’s website states that “Having a strategy discipline is more important than ever now as we grow and drive the business to a larger scale” (Cisco, n.d.). According to this mini case, Cisco is one of these grown companies that uses a business strategy of acquiring companies to respond to rapidly customer expectations change, the acquisitions provided Cisco with immediate infrastructure, technology, and smart people. “Cisco's growth strategy is based on identifying and driving market transitions. Corporate Development focuses on acquisitions that help Cisco capture these market transitions” (Cisco, n.d.). Cisco uses the information system strategy triangle, its business strategy has been to build the ultimate model of an efficient net company, which aligns with both its organizational strategy to use the Internet for connecting to customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders, and its IS strategy by sending order received from customers to suppliers who manufacture some of the products for Cisco. The suppliers, in turn, are able to provide exactly what Cisco's customers...
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...Canyon Ranch 1.Using the IS Triangle, describe Canyon Ranc’s business, organizational, and information technology strategies. The business strategy that the Canyon Ranch follows was somewhat difficult to identify because they really don’t follow one particular model. The closest perhaps is Porter’s competitive strategies model which include differentiation, focus and overall cost leadership. Canyon Ranch attains two of the three criteria noted by Porter. Canyon Ranch has differentiated themselves by combining the traditional spa services with a healthily lifestyle. Their mission was to create “a place where people would be inspired and motivated to translate their healthiest thoughts in to action. Canyon Ranch achieves this differentiation by offering traditional spa/resort activities such as golf, whirlpools, massage and beauty salons but by adding nutrition classes, cardiac stress tests and water aerobics for pain management. Their focus is on specific, upper middle class women who will not com promise on getting the best in a destination resort. Customers who want to pamper themselves initially but to incorporate healthier living in their daily routine. Organizationally, Canyon Ranch foll ows more of a business diamond strategy. They focus on business processes, tasks and structures and how well they support the company’s values and beliefs. These are all supported by management and systems. Until recently IS wasn’t much of a consideration. Recently, Canyon Ranch has...
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...Epidemiology is defined as “the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations and the applications of the study to control of health problems” (Scutchfiled & Keck, 2009, p. 780). Thus making epidemiology the study of how disease effects populations and is the study of how to prevent the disease from spreading. In this paper we are going to take a closer look at how one can use epidemiology in people who are homeless and suffer from diabetes type two. By using the epidemiological concept along with the epidemiological triangle we will look at how likely homeless persons have diabetes type two, how frequently the disease is present, as well as if location has a part of...
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...STRATEGIC CHOICES 13 V. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 14 List of figure Figure | Name | page | 1 | The Lenovo history timeline | 4 | 2 | Lenovo vision statement | 5 | 3 | Porter’s Diamond model | 6 | 4 | Lenovo Porter’s Diamond model | 7 | 5 | Strength in Lenovo’s structure | 10 | 6 | Lenovo CAGE framework | 11 | 7 | Lenovo strategic implementation | 13 | 8 | strategic triangle | 14 | I. INTRODUCTION Thomas L.Friedman reminded to the term "Flat world" as the way to describe to an era of new World economy. Which including the globalization, intense competition, a big market without borders, the variety and combination of cultures in the World (Thomas L. Friedman, 2005; Victor K. Fung, el, at 2007; Ronald Aronica and Mtetwa Ramdoo, 2006). In fact, The change, updates, innovation and competition in technology industry are taking a level higher, because it happening every days, every hours (Jeffrey T. Macher, David C. Mowery; 2004). Factors impact to success of the company including external factors and internal factors. It closely related to the strategies in pathway of company development. Some things bring opportunities, some things bring challenges, or even make the company go to fail. This essay will provide a insight and explicitly analysis and discussion about internal factors and external factors of Lenovo case study....
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