Information Systems

CS-507
Lecture 02
 Areas Covered
• Introduction to Organization
• Role of Information in
Organization, Management &
Strategy

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 What is an Organization?
• An organization is a structure
through which individuals
cooperate systematically to
conduct business or achieve
certain strategic objectives.

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 What is an Organization?

• Collection of people, working

under predefined rules and
regulations to obtain a set of
objectives.

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 What is an Organization?

It is a stable formal social

structure.

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 What is an Organization?

It takes resources from the

environment and process
them to produce outputs.

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 Need for Organization
As the volume of business
expands, the need for
disciplined approach to
managing operations is
required. This results in
formulation of organizational
structures.
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 Need for Organization
The organizational structures
are formulated in order to
efficiently manage the
business operations. This
makes the structures a relative
term to explain and define.

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 Need for Information
• In order to control the business
operations and make timely
decisions, the organization
needs a proper system for
recording, summarizing and
analyzing transactions.

• An existence of a system is
important to meet various
objectives through availability of
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 Quality of Information
• Data represents facts of any kind
• Information is a subset of data which adds to
the knowledge.
• Information should be relevant so that it is
valuable for the recipient.
• Irrelevant information has no value.

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Organization & Information
Requirements
Information requirements keep varying in
accordance with
• Size of organization
• Its structure
• The Culture it follows
• Decision Making Structures
• Interested parties both internal
and external

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Organization & Information
Requirements
An organization should
consider the above mentioned
requirements while devising a
system which tailors for
specific information needs.

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Information Systems
CS 507
Lecture 02

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