Saturday, January 31, 2009

CNY Assignment

External Organizational Environment(EOE) means the environment outside the organization but have the influence on the organization. The EOE including new digital economy, Globalisation, The Idea Economy, Deregulation, and Fatser Business Cycles.Each of the element would impact the organization's MIS, as the external environment change, the headquaters of the organization should come out new ideas to adapt the new environment so that the organization can grow well.

An organizaion's internal environment is composed of the elements within the orgnization, including current employees, management, and especially corporate culture, which defines employee behavior[1]. The processes of the organization are all based on employees' efforts, so the interrelationship among staff is very important to the organization. And now many organization using outsourcing during the operating, this is need the corporation between people inside and outside the organization.

Nowadays, the work is quite differ from old days, it becomes something new. The work is more complexity and need highly interconnections, and becoming electroniclly such as workflow system and GDSS, and the manage of the organization is change. As these developments of the work, people should more sensetive with the new work environment, they should improve themselves to adapt to the new environment.

The technology environment including hardware, software and data trends. As the hardware shows that batch processing predominant, online system emerged, and the development of Client-Server computing. The developmemts on software has improved the productivity of in-house programmers, endusers also can develop their own system. The purchasing of software becoming viable alternative to ih-house development. The data trends show the more developed file management, database management and how an organization manage its data. And its also include how the data transfer and knowledge management.

In my opinion, all these environment elements would impact on the MIS, and some may emerge the improvements on the organization's MIS. When the external environment changes, some of the prats in the MIS may out-of-date and can not adapt to the new elements. And the manager in the organization must come out the new ideas that can well corporate with the new developed outside environment. As the cooperation is becoming more and more important in today's work routine, employees in the organization should have the sense that they must work together. Not like 10 or 20 years ago, people do things alone. Now the work is more about coop. The tighter the work team, the more successful they would be. The business is not only in one place, it's gloally, so when
people go on work ,they must realise it. With the high developed technology, the work process is now electroniclly and the way is much different from traditional way. So people must catch up the step that the new technology develops.

Highly developed computer science make the organization's technology environment quite different. From the first computer till now, the hardware has experienced a great evolution,
nowadays, most of the jobs rely on computers. Today, most of the organization has its own website that help its process. The development on software allow more and more programmers doing in-house job, they can just stay at home and do their job. And the software trends also create new jobs for people who are good at programming, becos the endusers also can develop their own system.
Now,many programmers just stay at home, search the internet and find people who wnat to develop the system, and do the systems for those who need, make money in this way. The data trends show the information management of the organization,espeiclly the database management. The database now is becoming more and more important in the organization, and it is also developed in a high speed. Data warehousing, data mining, database distribution are some hot issues and these make the information management much easier.

In a word, the organizational and technology environment will give influece on the organization's MIS, and also would change some style of the current work routine.

Reference:
[1] The Internal Environment, retrieved Jan 31, from the world wide website: http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/CliffsReviewTopic/The-Internal-Environment.topicArticleId-8944,articleId-8860.html

1 comment:

Ms-Sha said...

You mentioned GDSS - what is GDSS?

A very good elaboration on the change in the way we work in organisations. But its relation with "MIS" is not very clear. Is the MIS the current technology you tried to point out?

Overall, good try.