Managing Information Systems: Data Integrity, Ethics, and Legal Considerations

Managing Information Systems
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
1. Describe how the data/info is managed across Manufacturing, Finance, Marketing, and
HR. 4
2. How do you ensure that data integrity is maintained at all times? Why is it important
from a legal perspective (e.g. reporting correct, true and fair, financial data to the stock
market?.......................................................................................................................................7
3. Why is it critical to have an ethical perspective on data collection and handling?............8
Conclusion................................................................................................................................10
References................................................................................................................................11
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Introduction
The reported study is mainly aimed at analysing of different uses of data integrity across
various areas such as human resource, marketing, and many others. The implication of data
integrity in such areas has been identified in this assignment. Moreover, the enabling of data
integrity from the legal perspective is also assessed in this report study. Also, the comparison
of an information system is made in the report. In the end, the critical analysis in the context
of ethical perspective is also studied in respect of data collection and data handling. The
conclusion is also stated at the end which highlights over the summary of overall report
study.
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1. Describe how the data/info is managed across Manufacturing, Finance,
Marketing, and HR.
There are various functions in an organisation. Due to the increasing operational activities in
the organisation, it is very important for the organisations to manage the data and information
available so as to identify the data and analyse it easily and quickly. The different functions
in the organisations affect the operational activities of the company (Laudon and Laudon,
2016). These activities contain very useful data and information about the company’s
operations. Every company focus on securing and managing the information across the
various functions of an organisation.
The selected organisation for this report is one of the huge retail departmental stores of UK,
namely, John Lewis. The company is a huge departmental store of UK operates in various
functions and departments. There are various departments in which it is dealing. The various
functional departments provide the opportunity for the development and growth of the
business but in the case of properly managed business functions and their information.
The functions at John Lewis are managed by the effective use of management of information
systems in Business functions. The business functions get the support from enterprise
information. Some of the basic and important functions of this organisation are Marketing
and sales, Production, Finance and Human resources (Laudon and Laudon, 2016). The
information systems are supported by various support systems in an organisation. The
Management support system, decision support system, executive support system, transaction
support system, professional support system and Office information system are the
foundation of the Management of the information system in an organisation. The John Lewis
works upon all of the above information systems according to the requirement.
The John Lewis operates the functions of the Marketing Information systems for taking the
decisions which are related to the marketing Mix (Valacich and Schneider, 2015). The
marketing mix includes majorly four elements which are Product, Price, Place, and
Promotion. The Marketing Mix of the company, John Lewis has some marketing Mix sub-
systems which are based on-
Product sub-system- In Product Sub-system includes some information systems to manage
the information and data of the product and to take the decisions regarding the new products.
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