Analysis of Managing Information Systems and Strategic Solutions

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of managing information systems, encompassing its impact on business processes, managerial roles, and competitive advantage. It explores the economic perspective of information systems, analyzing their role in cost reduction and the flattening of organizational hierarchies. The report delves into ethical and social considerations for strategic solutions, including the development of information security policies and global perspectives. Furthermore, it examines the strengths and limitations of organizations, emphasizing the importance of aligning information vision and technology. The analysis covers the effect of information systems, ethical considerations, and strategic solutions. The report also analyzes the effect of information systems on business process engineering, and provides a detailed overview of the role of managing information systems and technological change on the management of information.

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Executive summary
The study demonstrates the ideas of managing information system. This is helpful to deal with
processing, storing data. Here, a policy proposal is developed to understand the impacts of
information systems. The study intends to demonstrate specific issues in policies. This is created in
response to various open and targeted calls that are expected for the proposal. The study outline the
common sector of study under which as the research on managing information systems fails, present
state of knowledge can be referred and continue further debates on the topic. Moreover, different
ethical and ethical considerations for business to solve strategic issues are also discussed here. Apart
from this different international perspective of the vital problems are also determined here. Further,
various limitations and strengths of organizations are analyzed in this study.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction:......................................................................................................................................3
2. Analyzing the effect of information system and consequent changes to managerial roles and
competitive advantage due to information system:...............................................................................3
2.1. Impact of information system:....................................................................................................3
2.2. Changes to business and managerial roles because of information systems:.............................5
2.3. Role of managing information system:.......................................................................................5
2.4. Impact of technological change on the management of information:......................................5
3. Analyzing management information systems through various analytical approaches:.....................6
3.1. Impact of management of information system on business process engineering:......................7
4. Ethical and social considerations for strategic solutions:..................................................................8
4.1. Discussion on social and ethical considerations:........................................................................8
4.2. Developing information security policies:..................................................................................8
4.3. Global perspectives for strategy:..............................................................................................10
5. Ethical and social considerations for strategic issues:.....................................................................11
6. Assumptions underpinning the analysis:.........................................................................................12
7. Analysis of an organization’s strengths and limitations:.................................................................13
7.1. Elements combining the form and information vision and technology for an organization:...13
7.2. Developing security policies to address threats, vulnerabilities for enhancing organizational
strengths and limits:.........................................................................................................................13
8. Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................15
9. References:......................................................................................................................................16

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1. Introduction:
Managing information system deals with business process, people, and technology for
recording, storing and processing information. This is helpful to produce regular decisions.
The following study is a policy research proposal. It is the approach towards understanding a
particular problem in policy. It is developed in response to an open and targeted call for proposals.
The proposal examines the effect of information systems. Then it discusses various social
and ethical considerations for strategic solutions. Next, diverse global perspectives for those
strategic issues are identified. Then multiple strengths and limitations of the organizations are
understood through this report.
2. Analyzing the effect of information system and consequent changes to
managerial roles and competitive advantage due to information system:
2.1. Impact of information system:
From an economic point of view, the information system is the factor of production. This is
freely substituted for labor and capital. It automates the process of creation, less labor and capital to
generate a particular outcome (Laudon & Laudon, 2016). For instance, transaction cost theory states
that companies grow in size since one is able to retrieve specific services or products internally at
less expense than through external ones in the market. Through lowering the expense of market
participation or transaction costs information technology permits organizations to retrieve services
and goods in a cheaper manner from eternal sources that through internal ways. Thus information
technology is helpful for firms to raise revenue through shrinking in size. The agency theory sees the
forms as the nexus of contracts among various self-interest individuals. They are supervising
carefully to assure that organizational interests are pursued (Reason, 2016). In this way, information

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technology is able to help in reducing agency costs. This is a cost to coordinate various people and
acts. In this way, every manager are able to oversee a massive number of staffs. Besides, behavioral
researchers have theorized that information technology has facilitated flattening of hierarchies. This
is widening distribution of information. This is to empower lower-level employees and raise the
efficiency of management.
As far as internal organizational entrepreneurship organizations have required to be
innovative, proactive and practice entrepreneurship. There is a rise in a number of new competitors
and a sense of distrust in conventional management practices, leaving experts and qualified people.
This is the reason organizations are needed to consider proper actions to overcome various
environmental issues needed by entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship (Boonstra, 2017). Next, various
submission processes and criteria are to be developed, and various selection and evaluation
committees are to be organized. Then they should be launching to communicate various aims and
create enthusiasm. Then various regular targeted communications are to be delivered for driving
momentum.
Creating a strategic framework for innovation and learning is also an effective way. For this
people need to go beyond thinking to meet the current world and business challenges. To understand
an effective innovation strategy, the knowledge of the issue with open innovation, platform
innovation and management innovation is to be developed along with emerging market innovation.
Long-term approaches are also learnt to be met. Through using theoretical insights, through-
provoking debates and cases of pioneering business with leading experts, the knowledge of
innovation are to be solidified (Galliers & Leidner, 2014).
Further, a comprehensive plan is developed to create for a learning organization. For this, a
learning culture can be developed by collecting organizational conventions, processes, practices and

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values. These conventions have organizations and employees to create competence and knowledge.
This should be encouraging constant learning and believe that that the systems are influencing each
other. As consistent learning elevates any distinct worker or person, it paves the way to establish to
transform continually for betterment.
2.2. Changes to business and managerial roles because of information systems:
First of all, there is the occurrence of cost reduction. The data as entered to the specific
system permits instant assessment and supporting of decision making. This never needs extra steps
related to acquiring and process. Further, there is quick access as the data can be delivered to the
manager very quickly. As far as interactivity is considered, users are able to develop various reports
and statements with data required to make an optimal decision. Moreover, the information system
can offer probabilities of a relatively easy addition of latest analytical applications, modules and
algorithms (Sahoo et al., 2016).
2.3. Role of managing information system:
The managements needs to overview the complete operation. The managers get feedback
about their performance. Besides, the companies must maximize the benefits from their investments.
Further, the managers are able to compare outcomes to planned performances through determining
benefits and drawbacks in plan and performances.
2.4. Impact of technological change on the management of information:
Particularly, three aspects of the organizations get affected due to this. Firstly, the amount of
the market uncertainty and competition will rise. They are requirements for more diversity and
greater quality of the organizational environment. These affects products and services. The
legislative reform and external politics also increases complexities. These changes provokes
reactions from the company in relationships and structure with customers and employees.

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3. Analyzing management information systems through various analytical
approaches:
The information systems can be analyzed through various approaches. Firstly, they should
come up with creative concepts towards the company’s problems. The business analysts should be
examining the creativity through its own idea. Instead of implementing the business can reach where
it needs to be. Next, they should be acting as change agents. The business analysts must act as the
change agent as any planned change in viable is assured. Besides, business analysts can incorporate
value through assuring that the projects never create much business value halted and identified such
the resources are diverted to external productive ventures (Pearlson, Saunders & Galletta, 2016).
Here, the business cases are helpful to identify and justify the launching of projects where the
outcomes can provide advantages of innovation. Then there is supporting of deployment of solutions
from ideas till initiation through providing information, managing stakeholders and engaging that in
every primary business analysis tasks. This needs to be finished to be deployed in the solution. Next,
the requirements are to be crafted that never curb the ability of designers for the developers for
innovating. Further, they should facilitate business sessions helping stakeholders to recognize scopes
for innovation. Besides, the stakeholders are to be encouraged to think “out of the box” and welcome
scopes for innovation.
Various primary steps to analyze the impacts of managing information system involve
assimilation of various skills needed to support the innovation process. It involves sills of
negotiations, influencing, communications and creativities. Besides, another primary attribute of
business analysis to make that possible to innovate in a successful manner is empathy. It is walking
the same path with stakeholders for understating precisely what the issue is and how to resolve them
in the best possible way (Rowley & Hartley, 2017).

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This analysis is not a narrow or rigid activity to done under specific boundaries. The
innovation irrespective of a size of a business is unable to make huge differences to the business.
Ideas originate from discussion from stakeholders as one personal experience as the process to be
improved. Ideas can be generated from any place. Here the most vital thing is to look for scopes such
that one never misses out make differences irrespective of the size of business. Hence, creative
thinking and innovation see essential in the analysis of business and must be utilized as the norm,
instead of expectation (Yu et al., 2018).
3.1. Impact of management of information system on business process engineering:
Under the context of the information system, as the effectiveness is calculated, the ability of
outputs of an information system is measured here. This is to fulfill the requirements of the
organization to gain the goals. At the similar IT context, effectively is the measurement of how
cheaply be can get things done. These variables are captured included customer satisfaction, income,
supplier and customer links, an image of organizatip0n, job interest of staffs, confidence of
stakeholders and various interoffice links (Timm et al., 2016). Furthermore, it is also seen that effect
of an information system on profits and incomes of organizations are found to be putting positive
effects. However, much other analysis has also shown that there can be a rise or fall in the different
qualitative factors as the information system is implemented. It can also be said that IT has a rise in
the company’s brand image. Employee’s job interest, confidence of stakeholders and various types
of interoffice link and so on.

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4. Ethical and social considerations for strategic solutions:
4.1. Discussion on social and ethical considerations:
The ethical considerations include consideration of morals or principles of wrong and right of
activities, previous to implement. This is done through considering whether or not this has been
under the standards or rules of proper conduct and practice particularly with standards of professions
(Li et al., 2014). On the other hand, social considerations refer to the meant factors concerned with
individual interest, societies, communities and groups as a whole. This must be done through
interventions to inherent economic mechanisms. The social problems are the issues to conflicts,
situations and trends in business. Including ethical considerations indicates that through using
standards of society constituting proper or improper behavior as the basis for business policies and
plans (Desouza & Hensgen, 2015).
Here, the framework of utilitarianism is an effective approach to undertake ethical decisions.
This is for understanding the outcomes concerning large groups of people in business. This ethical,
environmental activity generates the highest good and performs the least harm for who are impacted
in business.
4.2. Developing information security policies:
To develop effective information security policies, certain aspects must be kept in mind.
 The policy needs to be “end-to-end”.
 There must be scopes of updates and revisions
 Risk analysis of the company is to be included
 It must be enforceable and practical.

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While developing the information security policies, the objectives are to be defined at the
initial stage of the document. It should be including maintaining confidentiality, assuring availability
and maintaining integrity. Further, the scope of audiences for overall information security policies
are applicable is to be mentored clearly. This must define what is seen as out of scope. Next, there
should be asset clarification. This includes the how the assets are categorized, individual
responsibilities of a security team, asset owner, IT team. It must also include a finding of authorized
parties for approving asset classification. Then there is access control that provides for whether the
business has followed various mandatory access controls (Peltier, 2016). Moreover, this includes
who gets access to that, who grants that and reason behind the persimmon and so on. Then there is
incident management and change management. The change management should assure that every
change is documented and has been approved by administration. Besides, the incident management
must include whom to contact during an incident, how can the staffs recognize and report any event
and how that occurrence can be utilized as a lesson.
The information security should include clean desk policies. This must determine whether
the employees can leave the assets that are unsecured during office time and doe the assets require
physical locks. It also helps in deciding whether the organizations have issued the documents as per
their wish. Then there is information or data classification. Similar to asset classification, the
information also requires to be classified into various groups (Safa, Von Solms & Furnell, 2016).
They are public, confidential, secret and top secret. It is to be done to assure that the data and objects
have large clearance level that is not accessed by different subjects from levels of lower security.
Next, acceptable internal usage policy is to be deployed. This should define how the Internet is
restricted and what elements are needed to be regulated. Lastly, there should be antivirus
management and patch management included in the internet security policy.

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4.3. Global perspectives for strategy:
Foreign investments flows are driven through host capitals and attempts to possess know-
how and technology to access to at least markets. At present following financial integration policies
the governments have continued to deploy policies, strategies and actions of investments. This is to
assure that engine of actual economic development in the industry keeps working (Fatehian et al.,
2018). Further, technology transfer from different direct investments has been an undeniable role for
various developing countries. Besides, transfer of technology also develops developments of local
technical capacities. This also facilitates modernization.
Regional economic integration is another strategy from global perspectives. This indicates
cooperating between different countries of the specific region to create a specific sector. This also
consists of economic integration of different trading sectors of various nations. This is also known as
regional trade block, regional grouping and regional financial forces.
The international monetary system is another strategy that indicates various standards and
rules to facilitate global trades among various countries. This is helpful to reallocate the investment
and capital from nation to nation (Sayles, 2017). This is the international network for financial and
government institutions determining the rate of exchange of various currencies for international
trade. This is a governing body setting regulations and rules through which various countries
exchange currencies with others.
As far as international business is concerned, the competitive benefits happen as an
organization develops or acquires combination or attributes allowing that to outperform their
competitors. Here, the attributes are able to involve various accesses to natural resources like huge
grade ores and inexpensive powers to access to largely trained and skilled personnel human
resources. Various technologies like information technology and robotics have been included as the

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part of the product to assist the making of that. Information technology is a prominent part of current
day business word (Carnall, 2018). This has also been contributing to competitive benefit by
outperforming various competitors regarding the presence of the Internet. In order to gain
competitive benefits, revenue and costs are to be controlled at the same time. Here, innovation and
efficiency are also vital. The reason is that innovations occur in various parts of the business. The
selective decisions are made here apart from various centralizing and decentralizing resources.
5. Ethical and social considerations for strategic issues:
Various risks are to be considered in this organizational context. Firstly, there us reputational
damage. Then there is communication failure. Besides, there is compliance with new legislation,
generation of malware, Ransomware and cyberattacks. The legal issues consists of disgruntled
employees, harassment or discrimination cases, immigration audits, patent and copyright issues and
dissatisfied customers. The cultural problems includes maintaining organizational culture,
reinforcing them every time and including all team members. Then there is privacy and technology
concerns, travel ethics, employee favoritism and poor behavior of leadership.
The business has trustworthiness and promise keeping strategies. The ethical executives must
be candid and forthcoming to supply important information and then to correct misapprehensions of
facts. Thus various reasonable efforts can be made to fulfill the spirit of their commitments and
promises. This never interpret agreements in unreasonably legalistic and technical ways to
rationalize non-compliance and create justifications to escape their commitments. Again the ethical
executives must be loyalty and demonstrate fidelity and loyalty to institutions and persons through
friendships in devotion, support and adversity towards duty (Skilton, Wiseman & Glick, 2018).
Moreover, it should be securing the ability to make independent professional judgments. This must
be done through scrupulously avoiding various undue effects and different conflicts of interests.