Chapter 3, Problem 4RQ

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Describing the management challenges posed by strategic information systems:

• Information system closely twist with organization’s culture, structure, and business processes.
• New systems impacts on established patterns of work and power relationships, so there is often considerable resistance to them when they are introduced.
  • Implementing strategic systems requires extensive organizational change and transition sometimes...

Explanation of Solution

Strategic system analysis:

• To perform strategic system analysis Managers should as the following questions to identify the types of system that may provide them with advantage.
  • What is the structure of in which the firm is located?
    • Analysing the competitive forces at work in the industry.
    • Determine the competition in difference basis.
    • Determine the nature and direction of change within the industry.
    • Analysing the new information technology currently used in industry.
  • What are business, firm and industry value chains for this particular firm?
    • Making decisions based on how the company creates value for its customers...