Information Systems in Organizations: A Case Study of Barclays

Information System In Organization

Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................3
LO1 understand information needs within different function areas of organization:................4
P1.1: Evaluate the information needs of the different functional areas of the organization:.4
LO2 Be able to compare information system:...........................................................................6
P 2.1 Describe different types of information system:...........................................................6
P 2.2 Investigate the current trends in using Information system applications to solve
business problems:...............................................................................................................10
P 2.3 Evaluate the suitability systems for different functional areas of an organization:....11
LO3 Be able to use information system to produce management information:......................13
P 3.1 Use an information system to generate valid, accurate and useful information for a
given problem:.....................................................................................................................13
P 3.2 Evaluate alternative methods of solving the problem:................................................14
Conclusion:..............................................................................................................................16
References:...............................................................................................................................17

Introduction:
The information system in the organization is a collection of the software, hardware,
information, networks, processes, communication and different HR processes. I select the
organization from the United Kingdom is Barclays. It is a banking and financial organization
of UK. The further report of the information system in the organization includes the complete
research about the organization including its needs in different functional areas.
The first part of the report will include the functional areas of the organization. These
functional areas will discuss in brief in the second part with the types of the information
system. The solving methods of the issues of the organization will also part of this section.
Evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of the information system will discuss in this
section. The last part will contain the solutions to different problems with the use of
alternative methods.

LO1 understand information needs within different functional areas
of the organization:
P1.1: Evaluate the information needs of the different functional areas of the
organization:
Evaluation the information of an organization includes different fields of the organization.
Here I select Barclay organization for the evaluation in the current project. It is a financial
service company based in the United Kingdom. It was founded 327 years ago in the year
1690 and the headquarter of the company is in London, UK. It is the largest banking and
financial service company in the world that has more than one lakh members in over 40
countries. Barclays Company also has a part in the field of retail banking with investment
banking and wealth management. The Barclays bank started the joint stock with the name of
Barclays and Co. The company invest in US and Qatar and listed in the stock exchange in
those countries. The company revenue in 2017 is more than £21 billion and the total equity is
more than £66 billion. The Barclays has three main divisions as Barclaycard, Balclay
Investment Bank and Barclays Wealth. In the year of 2007, the Barclay Bank announced the
largest bank of Netherlands. The Barclay has more than 4500 branches in 55 countries that
also provide the banking service through the post office. The current CEO of the company is
Jes Staley. We need to discuss four major points of the organization for creating the complete
report. These are:
Manufacturing and Production: these two points are the main factor of the company that
also includes the relationship with the employees and specialist. The company involves in
every field of life from food to drinks, electrical, machinery, chemical and others, as in the
role of corporate manufacturing bank. The company focus on the risk of the supply chain,
sustainability and manufacturing of high value. These points are completely suitable
according to the current environment. The manufacturing clients of the company take the
advantages like the opportunity of the regular networking; grow the sector of finance and
others. The Barclay also offers the manufacturer in the field of asset finance, cash
management, corporate lending and working capital (Barclayscorporate, 2018).
The production of the organization contains the fields of cash management, finance, risk
solution and trade solution. Each of production field contains different areas of production of
the Barclay. The production of risk solution includes the Bank corporate with the interest rate
and foreign exchange. The production of the Barclay is also in the area of digital baking
service, that contain the internet banking, service of virtual account management, iPortal of
Barclay and the file gateway (Barclayscorporate, 2018).
Sales and Marketing: the sales department interact with the client to develop the business
with the skills of employees and understand the products according to the market. The
Barclay also fund in launch a store of Ducati in Manchester and Preston. On the basis of
customer experience, sales report, the range of criteria and appearance of branches, Barclay
has awarded as the best bank in Portugal. The marketing team create the relationship with the