Tutorial notes Level 7 in Strategic Management and Leadership Unit 7004 These notes are designed to help you through your assignment. They will do this by: • Task Review - providing some helpful pointers for the tasks • Checklist – last minute checklist before submitting your assignment • Additional reading information – this section may contain articles‚ or website references which will extend your knowledge on the subject areas. Your tutor will be happy to help you by answering any
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Information Systems used to Support the Business Process Some of the business processes that Time Warner Cable uses are a Virtual Call Center‚ and outsourcing of jobs to Costa Rica and the Philippines. With both of these processes Time Warner Cable can save money and better assist the customer. Virtual Call Center Time Warner Cable started using a Virtual call in 2007. In Wisconsin Time Warner Cable had two divisions Northeast Wisconsin‚ which was the Green Bay‚ Fox Cities‚ Marinette‚ and Northern
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Make or buy decision Definition of ’Make-Or-Buy Decision’ The act of choosing between manufacturing a product in-house or purchasing it from an external supplier. In a make-or-buy decision‚ the two most important factors to consider are cost and availability of production capacity. An enterprise may decide to purchase the product rather than producing it‚ if is cheaper to buy than make or if it does not have sufficient production capacity to produce it in-house. With the phenomenal surge in global
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TACTICAL AND STRATEGIC DECISIONS Investment decisions may be tactical or strategic. A tactical investment decision generally involves a relatively small amount of funds and does not constitute a major departure from what the firm has been doing in the past. The consideration of a new machine tool by a motor manufacturing company is a tactical decision‚ as is a buy-or-lease decision made by an oil company. Strategic investment decisions involve large sums of money and may also result in a major
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Journal of Strategic Information Systems 19 (2010) 3–16 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Strategic Information Systems journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jsis Strategic information systems research: An archival analysis Guy Gable Information Systems Discipline‚ Faculty of Science and Technology‚ Queensland University of Technology‚ GPO Box 2434‚ Brisbane 4001‚ Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Accepted 11 February 2010 Keywords:
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Objectives Strategic Decision Making What is strategic management? Why study global strategic management? Fundamental issues General Approach Current competitive landscape Chapter 1 Strategic Management Full set of commitments‚ decisions‚ and actions required to achieve strategic competitiveness and earn sustainable competitive advantage Why study Strategic Management? Expertise in global strategy is highly sought after Preparation for international assignments Needed for advancing to
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. INTRODUCTION Corporate strategic decisions are usually based on the methods through which an organization could leverage its existing competitive advantage in promoting value and ensuring growth (Lynch‚ 2009)‚ while sustainable competitive advantage depends largely on how well a company performs these actions (Porter‚ 2008). The need for companies to grow and expand has been known to drive product and marketing innovation‚ which in turn prompts them into adopting different organisational strategies
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ee Business Information Systems TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1 & 2………………………………………………………………………… Purpose and Scope of TPS‚ MIS‚ DSS‚ ESS and ERP Page 3………………………………………………………………………………… Business Value of a DSS Use of ERP to Major Corporation Page 4 & 5…………………………………………………………………………………. How ESS Supports Managerial Decision Making Components of Information System Reference Purpose and Scope
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manual to automation of their business processes‚ procedures and activities. As a result‚ organisations are being driven towards the technological frontier in the opportunity to acquire more new customers and attain a competitive advantage over their competitors. In this modern era‚ the use of Information Systems (IS) have played a major role for Organisations to transform society‚ creating innovative and easier ways of managing their business operations. Information systems (IS) can be defined as
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Management System 2 2.4 Wal-Mart – Point-of-Sale System 2 2.5 Lesson Learned and Success Factors 2 3. Discussion 2 4. Conclusion 2 1. Introduction Given the rise of competition in the modern business industry‚ it is essential for firms to apply strategic use of information system (IS) to achieve competitive advantage (CA). In the recent years‚ top management of firms have little interest in the relationship between IS functions and corporate strategy leading to many problems
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