S/B/345. Effectiveness of IT applications in business operations

The paper examines the applications of Information Technology (IT) in business reviewing the ways of raising effectiveness of business operations through the use of IT and conducting a study of IT application in selling greeting cards.

C/B/973. Role of IS in modern business: introduction to Hard and Soft systems

The paper examines the role of system analysis in today's businesses reviewing definitions of the term 'systems', outlining the benefits of information systems (IS) in management and accounting, the difficulties in implementing IS, open and closed IS, hard and soft IS, etc.

S/B/319. Information technology in business

The paper examines the opportunities of using IT for business purposes discussing the application of information systems in modern businesses and describing emerging technologies.

C/B/889. Business Information Systems and Multimedia

The paper examines information systems (IS) assessing the importance of IS in today's global business environment, discussing the impact of IS on supply chain management and customer relationship management, describing managerial roles that IS can support and considering how a new system will potentially transform an organisation.

C/M/669. Strategic Management and Information Systems

The paper examines the use of IT and other information system networks in strategic management and business. Several aspects of IT use and business management are discussed including communication systems, the role of e-content, the need for upgraded ERP or enterprise resource planning and the importance of knowledge management and knowledge based systems.

C/B/838. Information Systems development as effective tool for decision making in organizations

The paper looks at Information Systems (IS) describing the need of evolutionary approach to their development in organisations with changing environments. The modern IS co-evolution with business is discussed highlighting the limitations of seeing IS as a panacea to all organisational problems.

C/B/842. Strategic Planning and Information Systems

The paper examines the topic of strategic planning and information systems critically discussing a number of models, frameworks and approaches to strategic planning and aligning business objectives with IS/IT. The applications of IS/IT in strategic planning are illustrated with the case studies of Tesco, easyJet and Coca Cola.

C/B/739. Managing Information Systems

The presented paper answers a wide range of questions related to managing information systems. The issues of concerns are the following: challenges of establishing centralised information system, e-procurement and its benefits, introduction of server/client architecture and stages required for developing a web-site. Additionally, the paper addresses the importance of ethical issues and privacy concerns.

S/M/305. IT and organisational change

The paper offers a collection of critiques on the problems of organisational change and the challenges of IT solutions, IT outsourcing, and the problem of IT integration during mergers and acquisitions.

S/B/233. Strategic role of Enterprise Resource Planning

The paper examines the challenges of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) outlining the opportunities, benefits and weaknesses of ERP systems, identifying the tools of Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM), and discussing the role of IT systems within different businesses.

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