BPR and Information Technology: Contemporary Approaches To MIS
BPR and Information Technology: Contemporary Approaches To MIS
BPR and Information Technology: Contemporary Approaches To MIS
Business Process Re-engineering has rapidly developed towards a new management philosophy. The
inherent business process orientation changes the perspective of international management from a
structural to that of a process view. The re-engineering of business processes is only one aspect of the
management of business processes. In particular, the re-engineering of international business processes
needs special attention, because the multi-faceted structure of multinational corporations increases the
complexity of business processes, there by influencing the options for redesign. Business Process Reengineering has rapidly developed towards a new management philosophy based upon predecessors like
Total Quality Management, Overhead Value Analysis, Kanban or Just-In-Time-Management. Business
processes can be re-engineered by redesigning the steps, by changing the logical and temporal sequence
of the steps, or by changing any other characteristics of the process. The role of IT is discussed in
contradictory way. Advocates of information systems favor the view that the new technology is an enabler
of process re-engineering. IT has to be monitored constantly to determine whether it can generate new
process designs or contribute to the performance of a business process. The breakthrough of BPR is
closely connected with IT, which opens new dimensions of process reorganization. Moreover, those who
take the initiative in process improvement/redesign, influence the role of IT. If the data processing
department initiates the process change, then IT will have more of a generator function for new process
redesigns. If on the other hand, the top management sets off the change process, then the process will be
first restructured and later optimized through IT.
Ans.-2.
Contemporary
approaches
to
MIS
Based
b)
Physical
Technical
on
the
technology
mathematical
forms
the
Approach
and
back
the
bone
of
normative
such
an
models.
approach.
c) Such an approach mainly finds much needed contributions from the disciplines
like
computer
science,
2.
management
The
science,
operations
Behavioral
research
etc.
Approach
a) Based on the impact of the behavior and also on the response of the people in
the
organization.
The
Socio
Technical
Approach
a) In the beginning, this approach was finding it hard to survive but now it is
being accepted worldwide and is also being implemented at a very large scale.
b) Involves key involvement of both of the above explained approaches.
c) Improves the performance of the information system as a whole.
Porter
Millar
postulates
Porter and Millar were the ones, who explained the affect of the information
technology on the competition. According to them information technology is
affecting
competition
in
the
following
ways:
a) Causes changes in the structure of the industry and as a result of this, rule of
competitions
are
altered.
b) Spawning of the whole new business takes place, and in much of the cases it
is
caused
from
within
the
companys
existing
operations.
Business modelling,
Computer science,
Operations research
Ans-3.
Q.
What are the benefits & limitations of the relational database model for business application today?
Why is the object-orienteddatabase model gaining acceptance for developing application and
managing the hypermedia database at the business website?
A.
Relational Database Model is based on tables and for management purposes. This model was
invented by Edgar F. Codd in 1969.Edgar at that time was working at IBM. In the relational model of a
database, all data is represented in terms of tuples & grouped into relations. A database organized
in terms of the relational model is a relational database.