Arden University COM7001: IS and Business Strategy Alignment

This presentation focuses on the alignment of Information Systems (IS) with business strategy. It begins by evaluating business strategy concepts and the degree of business transformation, emphasizing the shift towards user-centric strategies and the importance of an innovation culture. The presentation then explores long-term strategic needs, including predicting customer requirements, enhancing efficiency, and strategic acquisitions. It highlights the role of ICT in meeting these needs, particularly through the implementation of artificial intelligence to improve business processes. The presentation also identifies key issues in business, information, and management strategy development, such as uncertainty, globalization, innovation, and technology. Furthermore, it examines the factors influencing information system acceptance, including perceived usefulness and ease of use, as well as the impact of external variables. The presentation concludes by addressing ethical, social, and political issues related to information systems, such as information rights, property rights, system quality, and accountability.

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Transcript of presentation
I am here today to discuss about the information system and business strategy
alignment. The PowerPoint presentation has been created for providing the visual and concise
description of the assignment. In the 3rd slide, the evaluation of the business strategy to the
degree of business transformation has been discussed clearly. The main intention of
developing any business strategy is to allow the business to gain proper understanding and
knowledge regarding the future goals of any company. This topic has been discussed with
visual representation about business transformation to provide the viewers with illustrations.
In the 4th slide, the evaluation has been continued and it has been discovered that, as the
business is focussed on the user centric strategy, the efforts and resources are significantly
concentrated within the single cohesive. In the 5th slide, this topic has been concluded with
the consideration that the business transformation is achieved when the innovation culture
within the organisation is completely implemented.
The 6th slide discusses the long term strategic needs of the business where information
system is supposed to be implemented. It is considered the main long term strategic needs of
the business are effective prediction of the requirements of customers in the long run, major
emphasis on the efficiency, acquire the major competitors that would eliminate the
competition within the markets. These particular long terms needs of the business helps in
providing the required direction to the business. In the 7th slide, a brief discussion of the long
term needs of the business has been discussed. It has been discovered that the companies who
are extensively successful over long term are the forward looking enterprises where the
business owner is attempting to discover the changes in the customer requirements or desires.
In the 8th slide, the long term strategic needs of the business is discussed and concluded with
the statement that the The business intends to acquire the small competitors for allowing the
company to perform the expansion of the customer base and the geographic coverage and

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then reach the scale that allows the business to purchase goods in increased quantities and at
the lower prices.
In the 9th slide, the ICT requirements for implementing the business strategy has been
discussed and conclusion has been provided for this discussion. It is discovered that the major
gap among the ICT strategy and the business strategy can be filled using the focussed
activities of development. In the 10th slide, the ICT requirements within the business has been
further described and discussed. It is discovered that the introduction of artificial intelligence
is required for improving the business processes of the organisation.
In the 11th slide, the key issues of business, information as well as the management
strategy development for the organisation has been discussed briefly. It is discovered that
Some of the crucial issues of the business are uncertainty, globalisation, innovation,
government policy as well as the regulations and the technology. The uncertainty issues are
the uncertainty within the global economy, the uncertainty issues in the credit markets, the
uncertainty in the methods by which the new regulations would affect the business, the
uncertainty regarding the working of the competitors and the uncertainty regarding the
process by which the new technology would affect the business. The 12th slide continues the
discussion of the issues and it is discovered that the key issues in the information system
acceptance are mainly influenced by the two major factors that are the perceived usefulness
as well as the perceived ease of the use. The discovery is done in the 13th slide that the
external variables like the level of education of the users, the organisational and the gender
features like the job training might also impact significantly on the perceived usefulness as
well as the perceived ease of the use. The visual representation in this slide depicts the
ethical, social and the political issues connected with the information system within any
organisation. Some of the issues connected with the information system are the information

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rights along with the obligations, the property rights as well as the obligations, the system
quality as well as the accountability along with control.