Systems Development (MIS) Project 2: Toyota's Business Strategies

This MIS project analyzes Toyota's business strategies, examining its presence in social media, use of the internet, and alignment with IR 4.0. It explores agile approaches to MIS deployment, including an operational plan and key performance indicators. The project further investigates the impact of information systems on society, including ethical considerations, privacy, security, and CSR. Additionally, it assesses Toyota's integration of business intelligence and potential applications of artificial intelligence. The conclusion summarizes the key findings and emphasizes the importance of understanding management information systems in a real-world organizational context, referencing the company's social media presence, internet usage, IR 4.0 practices, agile MIS approaches, ethical impact, and business intelligence integration to provide a comprehensive understanding of MIS principles. The project includes references to academic sources supporting the analysis.

Systems development
(MIS) Project 2

Table of Contents

Task 1: Networking Issues (Social Networks / Web 2.0 / IR 4.0)...................................................1
Review of the Toyota’s presence in social networks and media............................................1
Review of the Toyota’s use of the Internet for business purposes.........................................1
Review of the Toyota’s practices aligned towards IR 4.0......................................................1
Task 2: Agile Approach to MIS.......................................................................................................1
Overview of agile approaches in the deployment of MIS......................................................1
Introduction of an operational plan for transforming current practices.................................1
Description of measurable key performance indicators for the agile MIS approach.............2
Task 3: Impact of Information Systems on Society (ethics / privacy / security / CSR)..................2
Reflection on the ethical impact of the Toyota’s operations..................................................2
Evaluation of the Toyota’s current practices towards privacy / security / safety...................2
Assessment of the Toyota’s credo in relation to CSR............................................................2
Task 4: Intelligence and MIS (BI / AI / IE).....................................................................................3
Evaluation of the Toyota’s maturity to integrate Business Intelligence.................................3
Assessment of any opportunities for application of Artificial Intelligence solutions............3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

Task 1: Networking Issues (Social Networks / Web 2.0 / IR 4.0)
Review of the Toyota’s presence in social networks and media
Toyota has a global presence in social media because its marketing strategies are
impressive in order to attract not only the target customers but also the customers who were not
targeted. They various social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and many
more for more and better expansion of the business and for the creation of the awareness of the
products and services.
Review of the Toyota’s use of the Internet for business purposes
Toyota uses internet in a large manner for online promotion of its products because they
know that now a day’s people are more switching to the online investigation of the product and
they are more interested in the recent trends which appear in a digitalised manner and therefore,
the company’s presence over the networks and the internet are in a wider form (Hassan and
Mathiassen, 2018).
Review of the Toyota’s practices aligned towards IR 4.0
Toyota has used Industrial revolution 4.0 in manufacturing its products as it contains the
advanced technology technical raw materials which furnishes the product functionality at a good
and bread level of production of the products. Its industrial revolution practices have aligned its
sales and revenue generations in an increased manner with a good net profit per annum.
Task 2: Agile Approach to MIS
Overview of agile approaches in the deployment of MIS
Agile approach in management information system development defines as the stages of
the software development which requires the continuous improvement of the software at each
and every stage of the system. This reduces the chances of bugs and errors in a software because
it is being prepared under the continuous guidance of the client for better perfection and
deployment of the whole integrated system of management information system (Jenkin, Chan
and Sabherwal, 2019).
Introduction of an operational plan for transforming current practices
Operational plan of the company for transforming the current practices is the basic
change management plan by the leaders and managers in an organization. Change such as
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employee benefits strategies for proper retention of the, marketing strategies for more sales
generations, operations like total quality management, just in time approach or inventory
management are all essential for the necessary transformation of the current practices in the
company (Uğur and Hamit Turan, 2019).
Description of measurable key performance indicators for the agile MIS approach
Key performance indicators for the agile MIS approach in an organization are such as
smooth functioning of the software, working speed of the software, effectiveness of each and
every feature of the software without any bugs or errors and the most important key performance
indicator is the user friendly software and less energy consuming with an appropriate
sustainability of the system.
Task 3: Impact of Information Systems on Society (ethics / privacy / security /
CSR)
Reflection on the ethical impact of the Toyota’s operations
In some cases, there are positive impact of ethics in an organization and in some cases
negative impact as well. Management information system should not provide any data pr
information which can spoil the company’s image or reputation and if in case it is available then
it must be accessible to some authorised person only because this can affect the ethics of the
company’s operations.
Evaluation of the Toyota’s current practices towards privacy / security / safety
Company has used the biometrics system in its management information system software
so that authentication can be maintained in a proper way and moreover passwords are also kept
strong as per the needs and requirements of the level of privacy needed by the system and the
company as well (Usman and Ogwueleka, 2018).
Assessment of the Toyota’s credo in relation to CSR
Corporate social responsibility in association with the company has followed in a practical
manner specially in terms of sustainability related to the green computing in the management
information system. For example, eco-friendly production, savage of energy, recycling and
reusing of technical devices and many more.
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Task 4: Intelligence and MIS (BI / AI / IE)
Evaluation of the Toyota’s maturity to integrate Business Intelligence
Company has used the business intelligence concept in a very efficient manner with better
integration process, they adopted the process of hiring the skilled people in this field so that their
mind creativity would help them to execute the planning.
Assessment of any opportunities for application of Artificial Intelligence solutions
Company can overtake the opportunities in artificial intelligence in a digitalised manner because
such technology has proved beneficial for most of the companies and can give advantage to the
Toyota itself in making their production and services in an artificial intelligence way (Hadidi and
Power, 2019).
CONCLUSION
It is concluded that management information system is an important concept to study in
order to manage the databases in an organization in an effective and efficient manner. Therefore,
in order to apply such learnings in a real time organization, it is important to analyse the
Toyota’s presence in social networks and media, it is essential to examine the Toyota’s use of the
Internet for business purposes, it is necessary to determine the Toyota’s practices aligned
towards IR 4.0, it is significant to understand the agile approaches in the deployment of MIS, it is
crucial to gain the knowledge about the operational plan for transforming current practices, it is
required to study about the key performance indicators for the agile MIS approach, it is needed
to learn the ethical impact of the Toyota’s operations, it is imperative to investigate the Toyota’s
current practices towards privacy / security / safety, it is important to analyse the Toyota’s credo
in relation to CSR, it is essential to examine the Toyota’s maturity to integrate Business
Intelligence and it is significant to determine the opportunities for application of Artificial
Intelligence solutions. Hence, this report covers all such areas to better understand the
conception of the management information system.
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REFERENCES
Books and journal
Hadidi, R. and Power, D., 2019. Management Information Systems (MIS) Curricula
Development, Management, and Delivery-Possible Sharing Economy Solutions. Journal
of the Midwest Association for Information Systems| Vol, 2019(1), p.1.
Hassan, N.R. and Mathiassen, L., 2018. Distilling a body of knowledge for information systems
development. Information Systems Journal. 28(1). pp.175-226.
Jenkin, T.A., Chan, Y.E. and Sabherwal, R., 2019. Mutual understanding in information systems
development: Changes within and across projects. MIS Quarterly. 43(2).
Uğur, N.G. and Hamit Turan, A., 2019. Critical professional skills of MIS graduates: Practitioner
vs. Academician perspectives. Journal of Education for Business. 94(4). pp.251-258.
Usman, A.V. and Ogwueleka, F.N., 2018. SDLC Models as Tools in the Development of MIS: A
Study. IUP Journal of Information Technology. 14(4). pp.52-59.
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