TABLE OF CONTENT
PROBLEM STATEMENT………………………………………………………………..3
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT………………………………………………………………..4
INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………..5
THE ORGANISATION…………………………………………………………………..6
PRINCIPLES OF ACTION………………………………………………………………7
THE LEVEL OF MANAGEMENT………………………………………………………8
THE ACTIVITIES OF ORGANIZATION…………………………………………..9&10
FRAMEWORK FOR IS……………………………………………………...11,12,13&14
IS AT MY ORGZANIZATION…………………………………………………………15
CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………………….16
BIBLIOGRAPHY………………………………………………………………………..16
PROBLEM STATEMENT
We are required to attempt the following questions:
Discuss the three levels of information needs found in your organization, which are operational, tactical and strategic. Include the types of information, the needs for such information, their uses and how the different department requires them for their own effectiveness.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
No book is written in a vacuum. Numerous professional and personal relationships contributed to the development of this product.
At Olympia College, the encouragement and support of Lecturer Mr.Rajaesh is sincerely appreciated. The assistance and suggestions of many graduate assistants and students provided an important student perspective in the development of the project and supporting package.
Finally, a special thank you is given to Ms.Mary Reggie for her efforts assisting on various other aspects of the project. Meeting deadlines is always tough in a long developmental process, and so thanks are in order to those that helped me prepare and deliver manuscript on time.
Finally, I could not have accomplished all that was expected without that special patience and understanding that only a family can give.
INTRODUCTION
The process of management involves planning, organizing, directing and controlling people and activities. At each level of management, the responsibilities for handling these tasks differ. Top-level managers are responsible for establishing organizational objectives. Middle-level managers organize and control the organization’s resources to achieve these objectives, whereas lower-level managers supervise day-to-day activities. Each of these three levels of management has distinct information systems needs. First line supervisors require feedback about day-to-day activities. Middle level managers need information that will enable them to reallocate resources to achieve objectives. Top-level managers use external information to identify new business opportunities and to establish goals for the firm.
This assignment helps us to understand information systems that support management decision-making at the operational, tactical and strategic planning levels.
THE ORGANISATION
Lafarge Supermix Concrete (M) Sdn Bhd was incorporated in Malaysia in January 1983 as a joint venture between Associated Pan Malaysia Cement Group (APMC) and two Japanese companies; UBE Industries Ltd and Yuasa Trading Co.Ltd. Malayan Cement Berhad (MCB) wholly owns APMC, a company listed on the Main Board of Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. Since the full acquisition of Kedah Cement Berhad, MCB now controls more than 50% of Malaysia’s current cement manufacturing capacity. On July 12,2001 Blue Circle Industries PLC, were acquired by Lafarge.
The Army Problem Solving Model was design to be use when time is not critical. The Army Problem solving model is a systematic way to arrive at the best solution. This system considers the risk and a detail analysis of each course of action to prepare an unbiased solution for the decision maker. In contrast with the Rapid Decision Makin and Synchronization Process (RDMS) was design to give the commander the ability make timely and effective decision without the expending too much time on processing or analyzing all the information.
In The Truman Show, directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Wiccol, a man named Truman Burbank is unknowingly the star of a reality TV show. The film’s audience finds this out before he does, and wants him to realize that nothing around him is real and that it would be best for him to leave Seahaven. As the reality that Christof created falls apart around Truman, the audience observes every moment and knows the truth and wants Truman to as well. The intimate relationship established with the audience in The Truman Show is scrutinized because of the surveillance that Truman is under and the constructed reality falling apart.
Throughout The Truman Show Peter Weir uses a wide range of techniques to draw in the audience interest. The Truman Show is a reality TV show produced and created by a powerful corporations in this TV show Truman Burbank is trapped in an artificial world called Seahaven without knowing it. The Truman Show follows Truman as he uncovers the truth of his world. Peter Weir choose to tell this story through the use of film to help engage the viewer in the story. In this essay I will discuss Illusion vs reality and the power of the corporation.
Neglect and painful insecurity tainted both Truman Capote and Perry Smith’s childhoods, resulting in common fears and experiences that Capote translates in his writing of In Cold Blood. Truman Capote lacked a stable childhood upbringing, internalizing a fear of abandonment, which he echoes through Perry Smith. Capote demonstrates an intense emotional attachment with one of the killers, Smith. Throughout the five years in which Capote worked on his project, he thoroughly examined Smith and ultimately befriended him because Smith’s troubled childhood that resembled his own. Capote’s parents, Lillie Mae and Arch, divorced at a young age, leaving Capote in the care of others, and as a result, he spent much of his childhood in Monroeville, Alabama (Truman Capote about the Author). This abandonment by his parents haunted Capote and allowed others to harass him for his effeminate ways. Although he found comfort in his lifelong friend Harper Lee, his relatives and friends in Alabama failed Capote by not providing the love and understanding of a mother and father (Truman Capote Biography). Smith’s youth, although more severe, paralleled Capote’s. In Smith’s childhood, “there was evidence of severe emotional deprivation…This deprivation may have involved prolonged or recurrent absence of one or both parents, a chaotic family life in which the parents were unknown, or an outright rejection of the child by one or both parents with the child being raised by others'" (Capote 191). Smith’s abandonment was due to his mother who “turned out to be a disgraceful drunkard” (Capote 78), and his father who deserted Smith after his separation. Because of his parents’ neglect, orphanages became the primary caretake...
Christof never views Truman as a rat trapped in a cage. To him, Seahaven is the perfect town filled with everything Truman could ever need or want. The guards in his ‘Moon’ studio wear t-shirts that say “Love him, Protect him”. To him Truman isn’t an animal to be exp...
In Seahaven, Truman was the star and safe any of the fears of the real world because everything was controlled. The Truman Show was not created for the benefit of Truman, it was created for the people watching the show. Society is represented in both the audience of the show and Truman. The Truman Show is an example of the false life media creates to entertain society. Society is obsessed with the commonly desired utopia created in the Truman show. Truman did not have any prior knowledge to truth and life to determine the difference of truth and a lie like society. Both society and Truman allows the world around them to change their perception of truth and convince them that the fake information is true. For society the fake world dis created through internet, television, and celebrity tabloids, from Truman is was the looks of the world around him and the people closest to him. They don’t challenge the truths told to them unless given hints that something else could be different because they accept the knowledge of life given to
Managing: Planning, recognising top priority, making decisions, facilitating change, and keeping the system functioning well. They all take effort to move toward its goals and vision
“With a sudden slash of his hand, he knocked both the sharpener and the cup of pencils from his desk”(Butler, 194). Kevin has recently returned to his home, nevertheless he seems to have acquired a temper, one similar Tom Weylin or Rufus. The one person he can talk about his experience is with Dana, which is a bit restrictive, but who’s to say that he will talk to her or instead he may treat her as a slave. In addition, after Kevin’s experience Dana is soon being sent back to save Rufus, yet Kevin makes no move to follow her. “He said something, but suddenly, there was too much noise for me to hear him-even if he had still been there”(Butler, 197). Dana wants Kevin to stay in California, instead of going to Maryland and possibly getting trapped. He has been through an experience no one should go through, but that is his wife’s life possibly on the line. Maybe Kevin does not love her anymore, as a result of being around people who hate black people. Kevin was surrounded by people for five years who treated other human beings so poorly, as a result, he possibly does not like Dana as a person. In
Next, the management information systems are business functions like accounting and human resources, which moves information about people, products, and processes across the company which facilitates decision making and problem solving (Baltzan, p.14) Electronic communications such as Facebook and Twitter have provided many new tools to ...
Ackoff identifies five assumptions commonly made by designers of management information systems (MIS). With these assumptions, Ackoff argues that these assumptions are in most cases not justified cases, and often lead to major deficiencies in the resulting systems, i.e. "Management Misinformation Systems." To overcome these assumptions and the deficiencies which result from them, Ackoff recommends that management information system should be imbedded in a management control system.
While the monster gains a feeling of hatred and a desire for revenge after he is abandoned and treated pitifully, Frankenstein continuing reinforces the suffering of his creation, and likewise the suffering of himself. Frankenstein is completely to blame for the misery that he endures. Victor creates a being only for his own fulfillment, and afterwards abandons the great responsibility that he bears for it. To make it worse, Frankenstein intentionally ruins the monster 's happiness and gives him the same horrendous treatment that the rest of mankind gives the monster. Victor 's selfish actions cost him his family, bring him to the brink of insanity, and make a terrible creature out of a loving and compassionate being. Victor Frankenstein is a true
Different organizational structures have also been taught in the class; There are three types of organizational structures in which the authority of the project manager
African-American woman have had to deal with being black and female, a double-edged sword. In her novel, The Color Purple, author Alice Walker introduces southern black female characters that not only faced slavery, but sexism, racism and oppression. Through a series of letters, mostly addressed to god, by the main character Celie, we travel through a span of thirty to forty years in the early nineteenth century. Throughout the novel, Walker not only describes the injustices against African-Americans, but forces us to become a member of an oppressed race as we struggle to hear the rhythm and sway of Celie's mind. The Color Purple is an extraordinary account of a black women's plight as she strives towards acceptance, freedom and independence.
Having won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983, and also the National Book Award for Fiction, Alice Walker will forever be noted in history for breaking the literary barrier in African American literature. She not only conveyed the importance of blacks, but also distinguished the necessity of African American women in America. “ No one has ever written a novel which so unequivocally posits that the lives and freedom of black women are of crucial importance and concern (insert 111)
One of the most popular works by Walker was, The Color Purple. In this Alice Walker story, the reader meets a girl named Celie. In this novel, Walker takes the reader on a journey through much of Celie’s life. While taking the reader through this tale, Walker draws attention to a number of social aspects during this time period. Through Cilie’s life, Walker brings to light the abuse and mistreatment of African American women from 1910 through the 1940’s. “Women were also regarded as less important than men-both Black and white Black women doubly disadvantage. Black women of the era were often treated as slaves or as property” (Tavormina page 2...