Monday, 6 July 2015


CHAPTER 2 : IDENTIFYING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE


COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
- a product or service that customers service place a greater value on the similar offerings from a competitor.

FIRST MOVER ADVANTAGE
- occurs when an organization can significantly impact its market share by being first to market with competitive advantage.

Organization watch their competition through environmental scanning.

Environmental scanning is the acquisition and analysis of event and trends.It have external and internal environment.

Internal

P - Politics
E - Economy
S - Social
T - Technology
E - Environment
L - Law

PORTER'S FIVE FORCES MODEL

1. Buyer Power
- HIGH  when buyers have many choices.
- Loyalty programs and Switching cost are the way to reduce buyer power.

2. Supplier Power
- HIGH when buyers have few choices of whom to buy from.
- supply chain is consists of all parties involved in the procurement of a produc.
-2 types of B2B ( business to business ) whcih is private exchange and reverse auction.

3. Threat of substitute products or service
-HIGH when there are many alternatives to a product.
-switching cost can make customer reluctant to change service.

4. Threat of new entrants
- HIGH when its easy for new competitor to enter the market.

5. Rivalry among the existing competitor
- HIGH when the competition is fierce in a market.

THE GENERIC STRATERGIES

- Focused stratergy

- Cost leadership

- Diffentation

Value Creation

Tools to choose stratergy
- Business Process ( processing customer's order )
- Value Chain ( views organization as a series of processes )



 CHAPTER 1 : BUSINESS DRIVEN TECHNOLOGY


THE ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN BUSINESS

- IT is everywhere in business
- Business organization operate by functional areas or functional silos.
- Functional areas are interpendent.

IT BASICS

IT is a field concerned with the use of technology in managing and processing information.Its an important enabler of business success and innovation.

Management Information System ( MIS ) is a general name for the business function and academic discipline covering the application of people,tech and procedures to solve business problems.

MIS is a business function.

DATA , INFORMATION AND BI

Data - Raw facts that describes the characteristics of an event.

Information - Data converted into a meaningful and useful content 

Business Intelligent (BI) - Applications and technologies that areused to support decision-making effort such as Microsoft Excel.

IT RESOURCES

1. People use 
2. Information technology to work with
3. Information

IT CULTURES

Informational Functional Cultures

Employes use information as a means of exercising influence or powers of others.

Information Sharing Cultures

Employees across departments trust each other to use information to improve performance.

Information Inquiring Cultures

Employees across departments search for information to better understand the future and align themselves with current trends and new direction.

Information Discovery Cultures

Employees across departments are open to new insights about crisis and radical changes and seek ways to create competitive advantages.