Saturday, 16 July 2016

CHAPTER 6 – VALUING ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION


ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION

·         Information is everywhere in an organization
·          Employees must be able to obtain and analyze the many different levels, formats and granularity of organizational information to make decisions
·          Successfully collecting, compiling, sorting and analyzing information can provide tremendous insight into how an organization is performing
·         Levels, formats and granularity of organizational information




The Value of Transnational And Analytically Information
·       Transaction information verses analytically information



     

THE VALUE OF QUALITY INFORMATION

-    Business decisions are only as good as the quality of the information used to make the decisions
-   You never want to find yourself using technology to help you make a bad decision faster
-   Characteristics of high-quality information include;



-   Low quality information example;



UNDERSTANDING THE COSTS OF POOR INFORMATION

-   The four primary sources of low quality information include;
- Online customers intentionally enter inaccurate information to protect their privacy
- Information from different systems have different entry standards and formats
- Call center operators enter abbreviated or erroneous information by accident or to save time
- Third party and external information contains inconsistencies, inaccuracies and errors
-   Potential business effects resulting from low quality information include;
- Inability to accurately track customers
- Difficulty identifying valuable customers
- Inability to identify selling opportunities
- Marketing to nonexistent customers
- Difficulty tracking revenue due to inaccurate invoices
- Inability to build strong customer relationships

UNDERSTANDING THE BENEFITS OF GOOD INFORMATION

-   High quality information can significantly improve the chances of making a good decision
-   Good decisions can directly impact an organization’s bottom line

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