Category: One Minute Papers

The subject of the video is Enhancing Business Processes Using Enterprise Information Systems by Dr. David Costa.

The lecture started with what are functional perspective versus business process prospective.

It is good to see the systems in the organization as pyramid with 3 major level types:

1. Executive information systems (ESS): Strategic Level Systems.
2. Management Information Systems (MIS): Management Level Systems.
3. Transaction Processing Systems (TPS): Operational Level Systems which called Functional Areas.

It is straight forward explaining the two processing types, online processing and batch processing with very clear examples.

The lecture gave many challenges questions to think of related to the Enterprise Information Systems like: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems, Customer Relations Management (CRM) Systems and Supply Chain Management (SCM) Systems and how to integrate all the systems together which is not an easy task.

I really was wonder of the examples set in the lecture about big companies failed in implementing enterprise information systems.

The subject of the video is Social Media by Dr. David Kreps (May 2016).

The presentation is very good and it focus on the social media, it is good to know the following facts: 1. Facebook has 1.5 billion active users per month. 2. YouTube has over a billion users per day. 3. Twitter has 1 billion registered users in which 100 million tweeters per day. 4. Flicker has 11 billion photos.

In 10 years period the usage of the internet increased from 1996 (45 million users) to 2006 (1 billion users).

In June 2017, internet users become 3.89 billion from 7.52 billion world population around 51.68% (Internetworldstats.com, 2017).

The instructor gave more statistics data (7:06) about the social internet revolution which all shows the trends of using the internet and smart phones are increasing over the period.

Some example about companies using social media creatively, like Dell, Blendtec, Toyota and others.

Using blogs as a tool of communications between customers and employees. It is very important to know that one message on social media will be distributed across other social media channels (blogs, you tube, twitter, and Facebook) which allow to be viewed with many people which they will share with many other people.

The most interesting information to me is the versions of web: Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 vs. Web 3.0 and how the progress over the period.

References:

Internetworldstats.com. (2017). World Internet Users Statistics and 2017 World Population Stats. [online] Available at: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm [Accessed 12 Oct. 2017].

The subject of the video is Introduction to Information Systems by Dr. David Kreps (May 2016).

The presentation is very good and it is introduction to information systems which is to the point and covers the basics of what is information, the value and characteristics of information, lifecycle and processes of information. Plus, Information Systems as an Academic Discipline with several types of academic research. Legal issues arise from the use of information for protecting and privacy.  Information Management Strategy is in place to outline the vision and objectives as well as specify the policies and responsibility within the organization. Business Process Modeling which includes the diagram to show the process of information. Challenges were pointed for the organizations in terms of changing to business and changing information systems and information technology used in the organization.

The most interesting part to me is ‘Business Process Modeling’ which should be used in all organizations to clarify the processes in each department.