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CE 00879-3 Information Systems in Industry

CE 00879-3 Information Systems in Industry. Lecture 2 What is Industry? Delivered by Dave Thomas, K235 e: d.t.thomas@staffs.ac.uk w: www.fcet.staffs.ac.uk/dtt1. Today’s content. What we will cover. The bits that didn’t work yesterday Industry? Types of Enterprise

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CE 00879-3 Information Systems in Industry

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  1. CE 00879-3Information Systems in Industry Lecture 2 What is Industry? Delivered by Dave Thomas, K235 e: d.t.thomas@staffs.ac.uk w: www.fcet.staffs.ac.uk/dtt1

  2. Today’s content

  3. What we will cover • The bits that didn’t work yesterday • Industry? • Types of Enterprise • Definitions and characteristics • The ‘and finally’ slide

  4. The bits that didn’t work yesterday • The module ‘Learning Plan’ • The assignment • Your ‘Learning Contract’

  5. What is Industry? • Wikipedia says this • Chambers says “Systemic economic activity” • I say “ An organisation engaged in activity yielding short, medium and long term profit” (Thomas, 2008) • Subject to Porter’s Five Forces of Competition (or even Six!) • Better defined as ‘Enterprise’

  6. Enterprises: • Make money • For their shareholders • For their members • For the common good • Spend money • To make more profit • For the common good • Make a splash • To publicise themselves • To publicise a cause

  7. Categorisations of Enterprises • By: • Type • Size • Market Sector • Culture • . . . . .

  8. Types of Enterprises • Public sector • Make the most of the money they are given by the government to provide goods and services to people who are not paying for them directly • Private sector • Make most profit from the money they have by selling things or services directly to the people who pay for them directly • Charities • Make the most of the money they are given by donors to provide goods and services to people who are not paying for them directly

  9. Size • Micro • One (and\or) two person bands • Includes self employed people • SMEs • Up to 200 employees • Employed 58% of people in the UK (in 1991) • Large • 200 and more employees • Can be very big indeed • National • European • Global

  10. Market Sector • SIC Code categories • Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing • Mining • Remember this? • Construction • Manufacturing • Remember this? • Transportation, communication, electric, gas and sanitary services • Wholesale • Retail • Finance, insurance and real estate • Services

  11. Organisational Culture • “The attitudes, experiences, beliefs and values of an organisation” • Different models: • Strong/weak cultures • Classification schemes • Geert Hofstede • Deal and Kennedy • Charles Handy • Edgar Schein • Arthur F Carmazzi • All good ‘ole ‘management styles’

  12. Tutorial Exercise • Working in pairs, use the grids you have to categorise the following Enterprises • Nike • G and T Meats • Staffordshire University • The Morris Man • The National Health Service • Asda • Oxfam • The Church of England • High Lane Oatcakes • Barclays Bank • More information on each of these enterprises is available on the information sheets

  13. And finally • We have covered: • Definitions of Industry • And Enterprise • Categorisations of Enterprises • Next time – tutorial ‘Enterprise features’ • Next lecture – Components and M’gement • It is up to you to relate these things • Any questions?

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