By Dinesh Bajracharya Nepal Strategic roles of Information system

Information system enables organization to implement different strategies by enabling organizations to understand the problem situation, variables involved in problem and provides information pertinent to the situation and also solutions to the problems.

Strategies at different levels Business level strategy Firm level strategy Industry level strategy Business is a single firm producing different related products and services Firm is a collection of different business firms Industry is a collection of firms

Business level strategy Becoming low cost producers Differentiating product or service Finding niche market Efficient customer response system

Firm level strategy Information system helps to improve overall performance of the organization by integrating different business units of the organization. In the firm level, organizations can use following strategies Promoting synergies Promoting core competencies

Industry level strategy In the industry level, strategies are used to know answer to the question “How and when should organization compete with as opposed to cooperate with others in the industry?” The strategies that can be used in the industry level borrows idea from following concepts: Information partnership Competitive force model Business ecosystem and network economies