Lecture and Reading Implication for Chapter 5
a. Implication(s) of the Lecture and readings for this course –
In this chapter we study about the role of IS and how IS can enable or impede
business change. IS enables change by providing both the tools to implement the
change and the tools on which the change is based? To understand the role IS plays in
business transformation, one must take a business process, rather than a functional,
perspective. Business processes are a well defined, ordered set of tasks characterized
by a beginning and an end, a set of associated metrics, and cross-functional
boundaries. We study about the Disadvantages of functional perspective and the
Hierarchy of an Organization. We further talk about the process perspective and what
does a workflow mean in a business process. We study about the cross-functional
