MGMT6013: Impact of MIS on Aconex Ltd - Report and Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of Managing Information Systems (MIS) on Aconex Ltd, an Australian-based company. The study examines the influence of IS on the market and the resulting modifications in managerial roles, emphasizing competitive advantages. It explores MIS through various analytical approaches, evaluating its effect on Aconex's business process engineering. The report delves into the financial and operational viewpoints of information systems, discussing transaction cost theory, agency theory, and the flattening of business hierarchies. It also addresses the resistances to change introduced by IT implementation. The analysis includes the application of CRM, SE, and BI tools, and discusses the strategic implications for Aconex, considering its business processes and the integration of IT. The report also identifies key elements for forming an information technology strategy and vision for Aconex.

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Managing Information System
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Executive summary
MIS or managing information System is needed as the decision-makers feel the necessity the
information to undertake essential decisions. For this the case study of Aconex Ltd or ACX,
Australia s chosen. Besides, MIS can facilitate the various type of communication at all the
situations of Aconex. In this study, an assessment is made on the impact of the IS on market and
modifications occurring at the managerial roles of ACX having competitive benefits. Apart from
this, it can investigate the MIS with the help of different ranges of analytical type of approaches and
impact on the Aconex’s business process engineering. At last, the study refers to various elements
that are found to be assimilated to develop the strategy of information technology and the vision of
information for ACX.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:..........................................................................................................................................3
Impact of information systems:.............................................................................................................3
Evaluation of effect information systems on Aconex:......................................................................3
Changes due to managing information system to Aconex’s managerial roles:.................................8
Managing information system and its results on competitive advantage:.........................................8
Analyzing management information systems:.......................................................................................9
Evaluating the management of information system through various analytical approaches:............9
Managing information system and its effect on Aconex’s business process engineering:..............10
Determining elements combining for the information technology strategy and information vision for
any Aconex Limited:...........................................................................................................................11
Conclusion:..........................................................................................................................................14
References:..........................................................................................................................................15

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Introduction:
Managing information systems or MIS is required as the decision-makers require the data for
making effective decisions. Furthermore, it facilitates communications are every place of the
Aconex. Staffs within any Aconex Limited can access the data needed for daily activities. Besides, it
helps in record keeping where every business transaction takes place and deliver the reference point
for that task. The following report assesses the effect of information system on ACX and changes
that have happened to the managerial roles of business with competitive advantages for Aconex
Limited. It is a leading Australian public Aconex Ltd delivering web and mobile based collaboration
technologies for process management and project information. Moreover, it evaluates the MIS
through various range of analytical approaches and the effect on the Aconex’s business process
engineering. Ultimately, it helps in determining elements combining to create information
technology strategy and information vision for Aconex.
Impact of information systems:
Evaluation of effect information systems on Aconex:
From the financial viewpoint, the technology of information system is seen as the element
production. This can be substituted freely for labor and capital. Since, information system
technology can automate the process of creation, less amount of labor and capital are needed to
generate particular output. It is stated by Transaction Cost Theory that ACX is able to develop in
size since they are able to retrieve specific services and products from the inside (Laudon & Laudon,
2015). Through lowering expense of market participation or cost of transaction the technology of
information permits Aconex to gain services and services in more cheap way. This is done from

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external sources with internal processes. Thus information systems are helpful for Aconex to raise
the revenues through shrinking the overall size.
Figure 1: “”Transaction cost theory and effect of IT on Aconex”
(Source: van der Pas & Walczuch, 2018, pp. 774-788)
The business of ACX can be conventionally developing in size for decreasing the cost of
transaction. Here, information technology can potential can lower the price for any specific size,
changing the curve of transaction cost inwards. This opens the probability of the revenue growth
despite any rise in size and growth of revenue that is accompanied through shrink in size. Again,
agency theory sees ACX as the nexus of various contacts present under numerous self-interested
people carefully supervised. This is to assure that they can pursue Aconex’s interests (Pearlson,
Saunders & Galletta, 2016). Further, information technology is useful to reduce the cost of agency,
expenses to coordinate various tasks and people such that manager is able to oversee the number of
employees.

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Figure 2: “Agency cost theory of the effect of IT on Aconex”
(Source: Feng et al., 2016, pp. 751-770)
Since, the Aconex Limiteds are able to develop in complexity and size, conventionally they
are witnessing the rise in agency cost. Here, the IT is able to shift the curve of agency cost down and
to the right side. This enables ACX for rising the size while lowering the cost of agency (Fuller et
al., 2017). Moreover, behavioural researches are found to be theorizing that the IT can facilitate the
flattering of various type of hierarchies through widening the distributing of data. This is to empower
the employees of lower-level and raise the efficiency of management.

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Figure 3: “Flattening business sprocess of Aconex”
(Source: DeLone & McLean, 2016, pp. 1-116)
IT can be decreased at various levels in Aconex through delivering managers with the data to
data for supervising the more significant amount of workers and providing lower-level staffs with
more authority of decision-making. Apart from this, these postindustrial theories can also support the
concept that IT is able to flatten various hierarchies with permitting the professional to become self-
managing. This is through decentralizing the decision making and then encouraging the data of ad-
hoc, and different temporary kind of task-forces addressing particular activities (White, 2015).
Since, IT is able to change the strategy business process, culture and structure of ACX, there are
considerable amount of resistances that can be introduced. Under a single model demonstrating the
Aconex resistance, the method to bring the change is to modify the people, structure, tasks and
technology at the same time (Timm et al., 2016).

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Figure 4: “Resistance and mutually adjustment relationship of Aconex between their business
and technology”
(Source: Fedotov & Leonova, 2018, pp. 362-363)
Deploying IT has results for managing tasks, people and structures. As per this model, for
implementing the change, four components are there that must be altered simultaneously. The
WWW and Internet are facing the rise in distribution, storage and accessibility of the knowledge and
information of business of Aconex (Wager, Lee & Glaser, 2017). This drastically reduces the agency
and transaction costs. Moreover, the Aconex Limited can rapidly restructure some of the primary
Aconex’s business processes on the basis of Internet technology. For providing the actual benefits,
the IT should be creating clear understanding of the ACX that must be utilized and consider the
environment of the industry along with leadership, business, culture, structure and environment. This
also includes the primary groups of interests that have been found to be affected by the entire system
(Fedotov & Leonova, 2018).

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Changes due to managing information system to Aconex’s managerial roles:
Managing information system is helpful to satisfy various diverse necessities with multiple
methods. This involves the analysis system, query system, system of modelling and methods of
decision support. Here, managing of information system is useful for strategic planning, control of
management, operational controls and processing of transactions. Here, managing information
system is helpful under the clerical personal during transaction processing and response to the
queries on the information that pertains the transactions (Burrough et al., 2015). This also involves
the standard of specific reference and record on various documents. Again, the managing of
information system is useful for the personal junior management through delivering the operational
data. This can be done through control, scheduling and planning. This helps with decision-making at
various functional levels for correcting hazardous situations. Furthermore, managing information
system is useful for the mod-management as per short term planning, setting targets and managing
ACX’s activities. This can be supported by using the tools of management of control and planning.
Again, the managing information system is useful for the top-level management to set goals, plan
strategies and evolve Aconex’s plans and deployments (Bryson, 2016). Still, managing information
system is able to lay the role of data communication, creation, problem identification and useful for
processing decision-making. Therefore, managing information system has been playing important
role in operation, administration and management of the Aconex .
Managing information system and its results on competitive advantage:
There are many applications assisting the business of Aconex to gain competitive benefits.
The CRM applications are helpful to support the industry for managing and understanding the
clients. Again, the SE or Social Engagement Tools help to provide various types of negative and
positive sentiments from many comments. These are retrieved from Helopeter, Facebook ad Twitter
and many more. Here, the feedback is able to act on timeously and further capable to assist the

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decisions of strategic Aconex (Peppard & Ward, 2016). Again, the BI or Business Intelligence
Tools are able help the market to analyse the sales and primary information of ACX. This can be
done through reports and dashboards. Here, the financial data can be pulled out to the data
warehouse. This can be used and analysed throughout Aconex Ltd regarding strategic analysis and
planning (Laudy et al., 2017). Apart from this, HRIS applications are helpful to enable talent
management, metrics of HR and finish the HR solution.
Analyzing management information systems:
Evaluating the management of information system through various analytical approaches:
For this a conventional method can be adapted to measure the effect of information system
on the performance of Aconex Limited. This can done through utilizing the procedure of system
resource as the framework to measure ACX’s performance. Various direct measures can be selected
for the strategic execution of Aconex like return on sales, return on investments, rise in revenues,
sales as per overall resources, return on sales, rise in revenue and asset for booking the value
(Whyte, Stasis & Lindkvist, 2016). Apart from this, various measures of IS are determined that
involves the IS budgets according to the revenue percentage, valuation of the budget spent on
employees. It is a notable not included in the study, the researchers have alluded to the significance
of distinct attributes. There are various additional stems of researches focussing on particular
elements of IS and the relation with changes or performances related to different facts like IT
variables, MIS employee budget, IT activity MIS budget, Information contents, infrastructures, IS
capabilities and the flexibility (Kmetz, 2018). Here, the entire outcomes of researches have revealed
a strong relation to be present between the business and IS performance. Here, they are also seen to
be proving the moderating kind of various kinds of corporate infrastructures related to business
performance and information system.

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Managing information system and its effect on Aconex’s business process engineering:
The businessprocess reengineering displays the efficiency of information technology and
information system for making decisions. This s done through the information technology and
operation of the BPR in reaching the position. Hence, the success of BPR lies on the basis of IT and
IS. Thus it can be truly said that the role of IS in Aconex is to create strategy as per the business
requirements (Bueno & Gallego, 2017). Here, no such systems are able to alter the Aconex like
information system since IS can be put right on the suitable place. This is the doorway to the IS
measures of the performance and process of the business. Effective data can make smarter position
in any ACX. Through utilizing the strategy of customer of IS has been helpful to get the data out
ofbusines regarding how Aconex Limited’s products have been running across the market and
deploy the IS. This is to reduce the time towards marketing. Here, the IS has been able to view IT in
the future of Aconex (Goldstein & Frank, 2016). Apart from this, BPR is unable to adopt the system
and generate the systems affecting the overall business. Initially they have been concentrating on the
process of business and never on the data. Thus they are applicable to the tools of IT on the process.
For adopting the steps the experts of an information system are useful to deliver the analysis of
technology and data in the process of business reengineering. As the IT and IS can work effectively
the BPR is able to undertake efficient position of the Aconex Limited (Herath, Herath & D'Arcy,
2017).
Here, the relationship taking place between the information system and technology under the
ACX’s process reengineering has been to alter the identification and process. This also involves the
deployment and evaluation of various strategies of Aconex. As they are under the stagnant situation,
BPR’s role is to eradicate the limitation. It has been to overcome the limitation across the
information technology and information system since the IS system has been working poorly that the
organization is facing downward developments. Hence, the IS system has been effective than the

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Aconex remains in smart situation. To understand the way information system and technology to
perform better the Aconex Limited’s delivery system has been on the basis of IS system. Hence, as
the business can gather the data the customers regarding what they expect than the Aconex making
strategies as per the requirement of clients. Thus they can perform all the activities within IS systems
(Khan, Flanagan & Lu, 2016). Hence, it can be said that every element of information system’s
framework. Here, the IS systems are able to support the regeneration of process of Aconex and
investigate the current resources. Again, large amount of managers are able to adopt the BPR within
the IS/IT systems. This to gain competitive benefits and deliver the expected service to clients.
Further, IT/IS are to complex elements for the reengineering of ACX’s process. The systems are able
to cross various stages and determine issues and the way the prior systems have been working with
the present project. Thus they can gather data for the process of reengineering.
Determining elements combining for the information technology strategy and
information vision for any Aconex Limited:
As per widest terms, the vision of IT is the strategy approach towards controlling the IT
functions and departments under the Aconex’s environments. This is a wide view, however it comes
up with many problems. For understanding the cost to manage the vision, one must know the kind of
IT activity under ACX. The responsibilities of IT management are driven through internal
departments of the oragnization. Here, the Aconex is able to serve two type of activities. The
information technology sector on the other hand has been operating to serve the interests of ACX.
This maximises the investment of technology for fulfilling the Aconex’s objectives and goals.
Further, they are also able to fill-up the daily usage necessities for the different type of end-users.
They are the staffs of the Aconex as they undertake tasks assigned and are able to fulfil the
responsibilities assigned. It is able to make the end-users to be the front-line of the internal IT