What is Business Driven Technology?

Information technology is everywhere in business. Most of working process are related with technology in order to fulfill their goals.

Information technology's impact on business operations in common departments in and organization :

1. Accounting
2. Finance
3. Human Resources
4. Sales
5. Marketing
6. Production Management
7. Operations Management
8. Management Information Systems

Organizations typically operate by functional areas or functional silos. In other words, they are working together. Functional areas are interdependent.

Information technology (IT) - a field concerned with the use of technology in managing and processing information. It is also important for business success and innovation.

Management information systems (MIS) - a general name for the business function and academic discipline covering the application of people, technology and procedures to solve business problems. MIS is a business function, similar to accounting, finance, operations and human resources.

Data - raw facts that describe the characteristic of an event.

Information - data converted into a meaningful and useful context.

Business intelligence - applications and technologies that are used to support decision-making efforts.

People use this IT resources in their working process. This information technology to work with other people and to gain or spread the information.

IT Cultures such as :

1. Information functional cultures - employees use information as a means of exercising influence or power over others. For example, a manager in sales refuses to share information with marketing. This causes marketing to need the sales managers input each time a new sales sales strategy is developed
2. Information sharing cultures - employees across departments trust each other to use information to improves performance.
3. Information inquiring cultures - employees across departments search for information to better understand the future and themselves with current trends and new directions.
4. Information discovery cultures - employees across departments are open to new insights about crisis and radical changes and seek ways to create competitive advantages.