Tuesday, 6 August 2013

chapter six : VALUING ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION

hi. now i will proceed to chapter six. we will start with what is organizational information.

Information granularity  refers to the extent of detail within the information ( fine and detailed or coarse and abstract ). For example if employees are using a supply chain management system to make a decisions ,they might find that their suppliers send information in different formats and granularity.

level, formats, and granularities of organizational information.

THE VALUE OF TRANSACTIONAL AND ANALYTICAL INFORMATION

Transactional information
– encompasses all of the information contained within a single business process or unit of work, and its primary purpose is to support the performing of daily operational tasks

Analytical information 
– encompasses all organizational information, and its primary purpose is to support the performing of managerial analysis tasks.Organizations capture and store transactional information in databases and use it when performing operational tasks and repetitive decisions such as analyzing daily sales reports and production schedules


Transactional information 
·   examples include withdrawing cash from an ATM, making an airline reservation, purchasing stocks
·   Compile a list of additional transactional information examples
·   These could include daily sales, hourly employee payroll, product orders, shipping an order
Analytical information
·   includes transactional information
·   Analytical information also includes external organizational information such as market, industry, and economic conditions
·   Analytical information is used to make ad-hoc decisions
·   Analytical information examples include trends, sales, product statistics, and future growth projections
·   Compile a list of additional analytical information examples
·   These could include cost/benefit analysis, sales forecast, market trends, industry trends, and regulations
·   •Ask your students to compile a list of the different types of ad-hoc decisions a business might base on analytical information
·   These could include building a new plant, hiring or reducing workforces, introducing a new product
Poor Information
Poor information happened when some of the information are not completed or missing and this make the information are not accurate, inability to track customers. With the poor information, its difficult for the organizational to make a right decision because of poor information happened.


High Information
High quality of information can significantly improve the chances of making a good decision and directly increase an organization's bottom line. But if the organizational have high quality information, that's not guarantee that can make a good decision because obviously people ultimately make decisions. So, if the organizational have a high quality of information but the people in the organizational do not use the information accurately, it will be nothing.

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