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Information System in Business Processes

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Remarks By reading and discussing with our fellow students about these articles, we get to know the power, as well as the importance of IT in today’s business. We also had chance to delve into what really can IT does to empower the business processes. Additionally, in our opinions, these articles also illustrate very well how IT initiates, facilicates, and enables business processes by using many examples. It makes these technical texts much easier to understand and to digest. Here is the summary of Article 2 and 3 (we couldn’t get in touch with the member who is responsible for Article 1) 1. Article 2 – Information Technology in Business Processes - Rengineering Business Process Re-engineering- fundamental rethinking and radical …show more content…

Degree of collaboration -- frequency and intensity of information exchange which can range from none (low level degree of collaboration) to extensive (higher level degree of collaboration) Information exchange in a process IT diminish the degree of mediation and increase the degree of collaboration 2. Article 3 – Information Technology in Business Processes IT has always been playing a significant role in most of the everyday operations of today’s business world. At the very first place, IT had been considered a supporting player. However, with the successes IT has been bringing to business world, IT is now taking crucial roles in business processes; and can lead to “broader shifts in products, markets, and society as a whole”. This paper discusses the framework of the roles of IT as an initiator, a facilitator, or an enabler in details; and review the impact of IT on specific business processes, and on organizations and management The proposed framework can be broken down into * 3 dimensions: * Why? – Initiator * What? – Facilitator * How? – Enabler * 3 views: * Logical view: the Why - What - How * Physical view: the Functions - Operations – Procedures * Conceptual view: the Need – Product - Process Roles of IT: * Initiator: acts as an agent of changes. It means new requirements are imposed and need to be resolved by the usage of certain existing IT,

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