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Tuesday, 18 August 2015

Chapter 6 : VALUING ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION

ORGANIZATION 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. 
  • Levels, formats and granularities of organization information.          



The value of transactional and analytical information

- Transactional information verses analytical information. 



- Timeliness is an aspect of information that depends on the situation :
    i) Real-time information : immediate, up-to-date information
    ii) Real-time system : provides real-time information in respond 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 decision faster


  Characteristics of high-quality information include:


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 entry 
         standards 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 error 

- Potential business effects resulting from low quality information include:

                                                        I.            Inability to accurately track customers

                                                      II.            Difficulty identifying valuable customers

                                                    III.            Inability to identify selling opportunities

                                                    IV.            Marketing to nonexistent customers

Understanding the Benefits of Good Information


          High quality information can significantly improve the chances of making a good decision 

          Good decisions can directly impact an organization's bottom line


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