Slide 1 Tomorrow’s Technology and You Chapter 12 Computers in Business © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide 2 Chapter 12 Objectives Explain what we can learn from Andy Grove Explore the information flow in traditional Business Systems, and the pros and cons of the changes resulting from ERP, SCM, EDI and MIS. Discuss possible dangers of automating information management and what we can do about them © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide 3 What can we learn from Andy Grove? (p ) Who is he? What three principles does he believe in? How well has he succeeded? What can we learn from “Grove’s law”? © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide 4 Information Systems in Business - Traditional (p ) © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Government Banks What inputs come from each element in the environment of a business? What outputs go to each element? What is a TPS?

Slide 5 Information Systems in Business - Emerging (p ) © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Government Banks What is ERP? Who is the largest ERP vendor? What are EDI, SCM? What are the pros and cons?

Slide 6 USE OF IS FOR COMPETETIVE ADVANTAGE Laudon Management Information Systems, Second Canadian Edition. Pearson/Prentice Hall

Slide 7 Information Technology and Management (p ) How do each of the following serve management? (what level of management, what service do they provide, what are pros and cons) MIS DSS GDSS EIS © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide 8 Issues related to Information Systems in Business (p ) Actions must be both legal and ethical What’s the difference? Where can ethical guidelines come from? Examples of ethical dilemmas? What is ‘the triple bottom line’? What code of ethics guides IT professionals? Why are you interested in this code? Virtualization and globalization of IT What does this mean? What are the pros and cons? © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.