Monday, 15 February 2016

CHAPTER 6 - VALUING ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION



VALUING ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION


ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION

  • Information is everywhere in an organization
  • Employees must be able to obtain and analyze  the many different levels, formats, and granularities of organizational information to make decisions
  • Successfully collecting, compiling, sorting,and analyzing information can provide tremendous insight into how an organization is performing
  • Level, format, and granularities of organizational information 


THE VALUE OF TRANSACTIONAL AND ANALYTICAL INFORMATION
  • Transactional information verses analytical information
 
THE VALUE OF TIMELY INFORMATION
  • Timeline is an aspect of information that depends on the situation
          - Real - time information -immediate, up-to-date information
          - Real-time system -Provide real-time information in response to query request

THE VALUE OF QUALITY INFORMATION
  • Business decisions are only as good as the quality of the information used to make the decisions
  • You never want to find yourself using technology to help you make a bad decisions faster
THE VALUE OF QUALITY INFORMATION

Characteristics of high-quality information include
  • Accuracy
  • Completeness
  • Consistency
  • Uniqueness
  • Timeliness


Low quality information example



UNDERSTANDING THE COSTS OF POOR INFORMATION

The four primary sources of low quality information include :
  1.  Online customers intentionally enter inaccurate information to protect their privacy
  2. Information from different systems have different systems have entry standard and formats
  3. Call center operators enter abbreviated or erroneous information by accident or to save time
  4. Third party and external information contains inconsistencies, inaccuracies and errors
Potential business effects resulting from low quality information include
  • Inability to accurately track customers
  • Difficulty identifying valuable customers
  • Inability to identify selling opportunities
  • Marketing to nonexistent customers
  • Difficult tracking revenue due to inaccurate invoices
  • Inability to build strong customers relationships   
UNDERSTANDING THE BENEFITS OF GOOD INFORMATION
  • High quality information can significantly improve the chances of making a good decisions
  • Good decision can directly impact an organization's bottom line


 Hope you all can understand about this chapter :]

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