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Temilola Blessing Akinsilo wrote a new post on the site Information Systems in Organizations – Fall 2014 10 years, 1 month ago
These articles discusses different ways to use IS to give yourself (company) a competitive advantage over others.
A few questions to think about
1) Do you think it is possible for companies to implement IS strategies wrongly? How?
2)Can companies still have a competitive advantage without using IS?
3)Which strategy do you think is most implemented effectively with businesses? Which is not?
Here is another article in regards to companies losing their competitive advantage.
Hope you enjoy the reading!
Excellent article, Temilola! This article sums up so much of the chapter. Your questions are great too. I’ll give you an example tonight about companies that can implement a new information system inefficiently. So yes, it can happen and I have seen it happen!
This is a great quote: “Information systems can augment jobs and free up staff members to focus on core competencies.”
Looking forward to what you guys think as you delve deeper into the world of MIS.
1. Without to much knowledge on what systems are implemented in the business I would absolutely say that systems could be wrong for a company. A hypothetical example would be having a system implemented that no one in the company can figure out how to use. At that point the system would be absolutely pointless.
2. Companies can still have a competitive advantage on their competition for reason other than technology such as a better product or service. However they will never gain a competitive advantage with technology without IS.
3. I don’t think that the question is as simple as what is most effective and what is least effective. Every company is different which means their needs and skills are different from another company. This means some systems will work extremely well, while other systems in the same company could be a complete disaster.