In Class Notes Information Systems 7/11/16

• How Do You Get a Competitive Advantage?
• Do something better than any of your competitors, or do something that none of your competitors can do.
• You don't want to be easily substituted
• Competitive Strategies
• Industry Wide Competitive Strategies
• Cost
• Lowest cost across the industry
• Differtiation
• Better product/service across the industry
• Focused Competitive Strategies
• Cost
• Lowest cost within an industry segment
• Differentiation 
• Better product/service within an industry segment
• What an You Do Better?
• Lower Cost
• Better Service
• Value Chain Structure
• Support Activities
• Management Supplier Relationships
• Investigate New Designs
• Hire and Support Employees
• Manage Company Resources
• Primary Activities
• Inbound Logistics
• Acquire Inputs
• Operations/Manufacturing
• Outbound Logistics
• Output outputs
• Sales and Marketing
• Customer Service
• What is Margin?
• Value-Cost
• What is Total Margin?
• Margin of Primary Activities + Margin of Supporting Activities
• Business Processes
• Figuring out how to get the competitive advantage over your opponents.
• It is how you actual have competitive advantage. 
• Every organization has its own unique businesses processes.
• Rule of Information Systems
• Always supports business processing 
• No matter how good your IS is, if your business model sucks, it does you no good. 

Information Systems Chapter 2 In Class Notes

• Bad Communication
• Bad communication leads to problems between groups of people.
• How to Be A Good Person
• Don't be a jerk
• Don't ignore the people around you
• How the World is Changing
• The world is becoming more integrated.
• Collaboration Tools
• Microsoft Sharepoint
• Job Security
• Having a unique skill is pant-amount to job security.
• If you cannot be replaced, then you have job security.
• Difference Between Cooperation and Collaboration
• Collaboration
• To revise your work based on the feedback of your team, and continually form new work, get more feedback, and revise
• People collaborate to make better 
• Cooperation
•  To divide work, and each member of the team completes one part of the work.
• People cooperate to work faster.
• What are the important characteristics of a collaborator?
• Be enthusiastic, open minded, and curious about a subject
• Speaks their mind
• Willing to enter difficult conversations
• Skillful at giving/receiving negative feedback
• Willing to put forward unpopular ideas
• Thinks differently and brings forward different perspectives
•  Least Important Characteristics for an Effective Collaborator
• Well organized
• Someone you immediately liked
• Essentially any characteristic that makes someone look good on the surface, but doesn't really say much about the actual person.
• How to be a good team member
• Be specific
• Offer suggestions
• Avoid Personal Comments
• Strive for balance
• Question your emotions
• Do not dominate
• Demonstrate a commitment to the group
• Don't use over-generalizations
• How do you manage projects?
• Starting
• Planning
• Doing
• Finalizing
• Who are the Actors?
• Hardware
• People
• What are the Instructors?
• Software
• Procedures
• What Bridges the Actors?
• Data
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