1. Introduction
Managing Information
Systems
Lee SCHLENKER – EMLYON
Newcastle Business School
April 17th, 2012
2. Dr. Lee Harris SCHLENKER
puts enterprise IT to work in supporting your customers’
success stories
• Focuses today on use scenarios of how innovative forms of IT
can help management engage business differently
• Has directed missions for firms including Apple, Ernst & Young,
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP in the manufacturing,
telecommunications, public works and service industries
• Author of three books, several dozen articles, has facilitated fifty
corporate workshops and conferences throughout Europe
• Chair of Emerging Economies and Technologies at EMLYON
• Managing Director of LHST sarl
http://leeschlenker.com
www.lhstech.com • Visiting Professor at the University of Newcastle
www.emlyon.com
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8. IT Doesn’t Matter
• Nicolas Carr compares IT to previous tech revolutions such as
railroads and electricity. In what ways is IT different?
• What proof can you offer that information technology in
business no longer provides competitive advantage?
• Does the pervasiveness of IT mean there will be less innovation
now?
• Hasn't competitive advantage come from unique use of the
technology, not just from the technology itself? What examples
can you give?
• Do recent advances in Cloud Computing and Mobile
Applications confirm or contradict Nicolas Carr's claims?
Objectives Problem IS Information Internet
12. Evaluation
• One group and one individual
assignment
• A group mashup highlighting the
conflicts, aptitudes, roadmap and
metrics of using IT in a professional
setting – 30 percent
• An original case study presenting your
analysis of how information technology
has impacted organizational
performance – 70 percent
Objectives Problem IS Information Internet
17. Commoditisation
• Over the last 70 years we have
repeatly seen proof of innovation in
IT : the spreadsheet, the ERP
system, Social Network
Applications
• In the early days, companies
created their own legacy systems
to put these ideas into practice
• As the technologies matured,
companies editors standardized
these applications in the form of
Simon Wardley, "Cloud Computing - Why IT Matters"
products.
• Inevitably these products become
simple commodities