INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR ORGANIZATIONS

Information Systems for Organizations



Information Systems for Organizations

Information system (IS) is the backbone for productive managerial decision-making. Intervention of Information Technology (IT) for effective decision-making is quite appreciated by many. However, perception of effective management of information through IT has proved non-remunerative for many organizations where proper care has not been taken to map the deliverables of IS vis-à-vis the organization's goals. In the event of organization's growth, demand on IS grows and becomes more complex (Clifton 1994 54). If information systems are not aligned to the processes of the organization properly, the result may be destructive and at this point reversal of the decision to invest on IT becomes infeasible.

Quite often, it is experienced that there is a tendency to ignore such an attempt for alignment. Management of Information Systems (MIS) is therefore, a critical issue before strategic decision-makers to create an ambience for IS-IT alignment in the organization. Though an IS manager has specific role in the process of IT intervention, other managers have equal or more responsibility of understanding the intrinsic issues of such interventions for the improvement of a process. Given the fact that IS in development organizations are no less complex when compared with that of business oriented organizations, it is imperative to approach systematically to IT acquisition. If ignored, many organizational shocks are bound to come.

Information systems area guidelines remain targeted at increasing operational efficiency through cost reduction and new computer applications to facilitate commercial operations, pursuant to which a series of projects were developed, particularly including: Under the “SIG Programme” (CGD Information System), the coming into service of the new SGOA (Loans Management System) encompassing almost all of CGD's credit offer (corporate, mortgage and consumer credit) on new operations; in the case of Base Banca, accounts and cheques, transfers, credits and collections modules; SGOE (Foreign Loans Management System) cash letters for exports and imports and issue of cheques, orders issued and received; SGMP (Payment Media Management), implementation of new products and functionalities, notably, on a level of Caixazul and Caixa Fã deferred debit cards. Indispensable changes have been made to the current production modules for the management of Programme Leader in addition to the introduction of new functionalities (McGee 2008 1233).

This report will try to investigate intranet and its impact on the use of data in associations, as well as what activities an association might take to make the most productive use of it.2. What is intranet? A allotment of definitions have been granted about the meaning of intranet. Non-technical management defines it as “anything that runs on the internal network”, while software engineers (developers) define it as “a client-server application developed using Web tools that runs in an internal network (Madnick 2009 13).

Initially the intranet was used basically for distributing information such as principles, methods and forms. However, the next intranet lifetime conceives a collaborative intermediate that supplies users quick, comprehensive access to everything their occupations require documents, programs, and people, both interior and out-of-doors the ...