Introduction to Modern Information Systems

1. Topic 1 Introduction to Modern Information Systems Text Materials Chapter 1 – The Information Age in Which You Live

2. Quotes “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.” “Make your own products obsolete. Otherwise somebody else will do it.”

3. Opportunities http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

6. Creativity Exercises

7. The Value Chain • The set of integrated internal processes that combine to deliver value to customers.

8. The Supply Chain • A set of business processes that allow multiple independent entities (suppliers, manufacturers, retailers, and so on) to function as one “virtual” organization.

9. The Big Picture

10. IT Adoption – Why? • Reduce Costs • Improve Efficiency • Improve Decision Making • Innovate • Gain Competitive Advantage • Survival Suppliers Your Company Customers Value Chain Supply Chain http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/nyy/ticketing/seating_pricing.jsp

15. Huge Investments are Being Made • $3+ trillion estimated in 2009 (WW) • a lot in consulting and services

16. The gross domestic product (GDP) or gross domestic income (GDI) is a basic measure of a country's economic performance and is the market value of all final goods and services made within the borders of a country in a year . It is a fundamental measurement of production and is very often positively correlated with the standard of living, [1] though its use as a stand-in for measuring progress in increasing the standard of living has come under increasing criticism and many countries are actively exploring alternative measures.[2] [3] GDP can be defined in three ways, all of which are conceptually identical. First, it is equal to the total expenditures for all final goods and services produced within the country in a stipulated period of time (usually a 365-day year). Second, it is equal to the sum of the value added at every stage of production (the intermediate stages) by all the industries within a country, plus taxes less subsidies on products, in the period. Third, it is equal to the sum of the income generated by production in the country in the period—that is, compensation of employees, taxes on production and imports less subsidies, and gross operating surplus (or profits).[4][5]

17. 2009 WW IT Spent $3T

21. Some Ramifications • Major growth for package movement organizations. • Wireless growth. • Purchasing moving to the Internet. • Newspaper readership decline. Blog readership rise. • Internet advertising growth. • Growth of digital information storage. • Changes in jobs and careers.

22. Example - Walmart Sales per square foot

23. Example – JC Penny and TAL Apparel

24. An Information System is . . . a (hopefully) interrelated set of components that collect, process, store, and distribute information to support decision making and control in an organization.

25. Data and Information

26. System Software and Application Software Preprogrammed instructions that control and coordinate the computer hardware components in an information system. Computer Hardware System Software Windows, ZOS, Linux,Oracle RDBMS, Unix Application Software Excel, SAP, CRM, O/E, Web Browser User

27. Some Common Browsers

28. Some Common Browsers

29. Some Common Browsers Marketshare.hitslink.com

30. The Mainframe Era 1940’s-1950’s 1960’s • Vacuum Tube Computer • Big • Government, DOD • Universities • Research • Hot • Unreliable • Transistor Computer • Bell Labs • Made large-scale modern • computing practical • Small, reliable

31. The PC Era • 1976 • PC (served individual) • Apple 1 (April 1st) • Easy to use, out of the box • Apple was the PC industry • leader • General purpose device • 1981 • IBM PC • MS-DOS • Intel Processor • Open Spec’s • 1984 • Apple Macintosh • Windows/GUI • Easy to use • Everything integrated • Elegant design • Proprietary

32. The PC Era • 1985+

33. The Internet Era • 1993+