Managing+Digital+Firms

=__Managing the digital firm__= The digital firm must connect the functional area and each managment levels to another. Data input to the system in manufacturing must be made available to sales accounting and shipping. Managers in the human resources department must have access to appropriate information of its origin. Information integration is the key to the success of the digital firm. we can creat value by effective information system and suitable use, Integral and harmony in the organizations. we can putting knowledge to work through experiance. MIS system that will manage our information. Web 1 (Information) ............ To build meaning for knowledge.

Web 2(information and experiances) ..................that gives a good knowledge. MIS is important ......... Educational Philosophy 1- The responsibility to learn. 2-the principle of "learning by doing ". 3-Constructionist Methodology 4-Independent learner (Autonomy ). 5-Collaborative and interactive learning.
 * to keep with technology and to make descions.
 * To build knowledge
 * Proffesional life.
 * skills, IT,language,thinking, learning and self directed. and manage performance.

this mean To Construct meaning. Knowledge worker : people who use information technology to create knowledge and share. Production factors : working capital, land ,Equipement, Raw material , Human Resources , IT. System : a set of inter related intedrated elements to gether to achieve agoal. For any system we need technology and foundation of doing buisiness (it is important with out we cant manage its give a positive effective on productivity. When we have an effective information system ?  SDLC (system development life cycle ), there is a life cycle to construct system, we need investigation , analysis ,function requirement and then design for out put and input , development ,testing ,and implementation.  Information system need :   1-IT. 2-organization . 3- management. How can you creat value ? 1-Share prices , 2- market share, 3-profitability ratio There is a management functions and business function.
 * Interactive participation in meaning making**

**How many development them we will creat value**

** The strategic role of IT : ** *Revitalizing business process and operation. *Improving managerial decision making process. *Gaining and sustaining competitive advantage *Solving modern day business problems. * Maximum utilization of business opportunities.

**Information technology**(abbreviated IT) refers to all of the computer –based information systems used by organization and their underlying technologies.

The** internet ** is a global network of networks.

A **digital firm** is one in which nearly all of the organizations significant business relation ships with customers, suppliers, and employees are digitally enabled and mediated.

**Information system**  : a set of interrelated components that collect (or retrieve), process ,store, and distribute information to support decision making and control in an organization.

** Dimension of Information systems **

Organization  Information systems are an integral parts of organizations and for some companies such as credit reporting firms ,with out an information system, there would be no business. 

The key elements of an organization are its people ,structure, business process, politics and culture.

Management Management job is to make sense out of the many situations faced by organizations, make decisions, and formulate action plans to solve organizational problems.

Technology

Information technology is one of many tools managers use to cope with change. **Computer hardware** is the physical equipment used for input, processing, out put activities in an information system.

Computer software consists of the detailed preprogrammed instructions that control and coordinate the computer hardware components in an information system.

A network links two or more computers to share data or resources such as a printer.


 * Internet** : is an international network of net works that are both commercial and publicly owned.

Organization require many different of kinds of skills and people.

In addition to managers **, knowledge workers** (such as engineers ,architects, or scientists design product or services and create new knowledge.

**Contemporary approaches to information system**

Information system are socio technical system, thought they are composed of machines ,devices and "hard " physical technology , they require substantial social organizational ,and intellectual investment to make them work properly.

** Technical approach **

The disciplines that contribute to the technical approach are computer science, management science , and operation research.

** Behavioral approach ** The behavioral approach does not ignore technology, its contribute sociologists , Psychologists, Economics.