Critical Issues in Managing Information Systems in Organisations

Instant messaging allows several employees to communicate by having live conversations and private chats online. Instant messaging offers voice, video chat or written instant messages. The employees have the option of making a list of people to chat with. Whenever someone on the list logs into chat a ring tone goes off to let everyone on the list know someone on their list has logged online. Dirt Bikes can use instant message to draw business, it helps with customer service because the customer can chat with

RATIONALE: The reason for never misusing or using emails for personal use should be clear in the workplace, electronic communications are owned by the company. Never sharing information, especially passwords is a breach of privacy and security and could result in legal action. The use of personal cell phones in the workplace especially when working is unethical. In this outline, the employer has provided the incidental personal use guidelines and I feel they are fair since employees will use their own personal cell

With the advent of computers and related technologies of communication, the nature of communication has changed drastically. There are some positive highlights to this change as well as negative highlights to this change based on my experience. In my younger years, the only form of communication was one on one communication or writing through snail mail. However, this is not the case today. Today, I make use of emails, social media, and other chatting forums to communicate both professionally and personally to family, friends, and relatives. I have found this change to have its advantages as well as disadvantages. In this paper, I will discuss how computer-mediated communication has aided my communication as well as how it compares to the type of communication that was available during my younger years. In addition, I will give a comparison between computer-mediated communication and person-to-person communication.

Information Management System (IMS) refers to a database that integrates financial and other information in organizations from different levels of management and produces regular reports. Starbucks is one of the firms that have implemented IMS. This paper describes IMS for Starbucks, its impact on competitive edge and how it helps to coordinate supply chain partners and to monitor inventory levels. The paper also explains why managing information is better than moving products.

Nowadays, the communications with others are different from the traditional ways and normal rules. People take advantage of new technology to communicate instead of face to face. Although the email and text message make people easy to communicate, the society

In customer service, the telephone is the second most important link (Lucus, 2015). Modern business use telephones in their day-to-day operations and to communicate with both internal and external customers (Lucus, 2015). Traveling to meet with customers and vendors face to face can be expensive and time-consuming (Lucus, 2015). With the technology of today, you can dial a telephone number or type a text into a cell phone and connect to a customer or vendor half-way around the world almost instantaneously (Lucus, 2015). With fax machines and computer modems, documents and information can be sent in a matter of minutes to customers and vendors miles away (Lucus, 2015). With all those tools, readily available more companies have set up both inbound and outbound telephone staffs (Lucus, 2015). Companies are expanding their customer contacts and are more likely to reach total customers satisfaction through those types of trained specialist (Lucus, 2015).

text messages or even r video calling for over the world conferences using skype. Technology makes it easier for HR to communicate with the workforce.

The using of technologies for communications will help closing the gaps between staffs and management and with the business stakeholders. By using of emails, video conferencing, webinar and social networks it helps to make the connections between staffs, whether they work in the same building, in different states or across the country. On the other hands, electronic messages and other ways of technologies based communications are always replaced for interactions that can be better suitable for personal interactions. This is can be worked as very effective when different opinions between a lot of staffs exists or when the exchanges of idea and message can be impacted by body languages and non-verbal information during

E-mail has rapidly become a staple of the modern office. Currently, two-thirds of employees in medium and large companies in the United States now have Internet access, compared with fifteen percent only two years ago. The availability of e-mail allows for messages to be widely and rapidly distributed, improving efficiency and reducing cost. In addition to being one of the components of the new workplace, e-mail is also the center of a hot privacy debate. Part of this is because, unlike regular mail, which is difficult to monitor, e-mail can be scanned with ease, allowing employers to engage in monitoring at an unprecedented rate, and raising the specter of a workplace free of privacy. As this relatively new technology gains ever increasing prevalence, certain questions

How you communicate with others not only reflects on you as an individual but also on us as an organization. We value your ability to communicate with colleagues, clients/customers and business contacts, and we delegate a large budget to information technology and communications systems which enable you to work more efficiently. We trust you to use them professionally and responsibly at all times.

To communicate effectively in the organization between customers; e-mails, chats (WhatsApp/BlackBerry/Skype) and direct phone calls are most useful. E-mails are used as formal communication tool between different customers and can be archived for future need but it can be a reason to delay the response either by the user or by telecommunications’

In this article titled “As Workplace Communication Evolves, Email May Not Prevail,” CIO Network talks about how email has been the most significant force of business communication for more than two decades. However, they explain why Email may someday become old-fashioned. The author thinks are not an effective collaboration tool. Since most of the time we receive many pointless emails: coupons, promotions, and let not to mention spam. Also, he talks about how the newest generation is entering the workforce, the Generation Z which clearly prefer social media, texting rather than sending emails. The CIO Network stated, “In 2012 Pew study found that, while 95% of teens had an active online and 81% regularly used social media, just 6% of them sent

Recently a growing form of communication for organisations. It is time efficient way of sending information to a large number of reciepntants. It is cost effective and more likely to reach the receipatnt as they are likely to check their mobile telephone several times throughout the day. Unfortanaley text messages can be open for interpretation of tone or mood. It can also be inappropriate for some organistation communication.

Office workers and businesses are not limited to phone calls, meetings or mail to communicate with each other anymore. Electronic email can be used and not interrupt the recipient. The

Business to employee is an e-commerce model in which an organization delivers services, information, or products to its individual employees. The B2E category is a subset of the intrabusiness network, therefore it provides conducive and confidential working environment (team members/individuals) employees of an organization. M&S maximizes the use of the EC initiative by setting up a security system that tracks down fraudulent activities within the organization, and generates reports that are instantly conveyed to the security department. As a way of strengthening the security, M&S implemented a quick notification of fraudulent activities through short text messages (SMS) via mobile