i may not be the best, but i'm definitely not like the rest !

assalammualaikum .
hello guysssssss !! aku sebenarnya bukan la blogger so tak ada la idea nak cakap apa kat sini tapi aku try untuk membuat korang semua bahagia . okay first nama yang diberi Sharifah Fatimah Azzahra binti Syed Mohd Afandi Alkharid . tapi orang panggil aku shibab (jangan tanye kenapa aku sebab aku sendiri pun tak tahu) . aku dilahir dan dibesarkan di negeri Johor Darul Takzim . dah 19 tahun aku wujud dekat dunia ni, baru first time aku kenal dunia blog . aku buat blog ni pun bukan sebab minat tapi semata mata sbb assignment MGT 300 ni haa . so Madam sorry la kalau kurang memuaskan . heee . walaupun aku tak pandai sangat nak buat benda ni semua, aku bersyukur yg aku masih ada kawan nak membantu dan memberi tunjuk ajar dekat aku . sayang korang muah muah laa !!

CHAPTER 2 - IDENTIFYING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES

• To survive thrive an organization must create a competitive advantage

- Competitive advantages - A product or service that an organization's customers place a greater value on than similar offerings from a competitors.

- First-mover advantage - Occurs when an organization can significantly impact its market share by being first to market with a competitive advantage.

• Organizations watch their competition through environmental scanning

- Environmental scanning - the acquisition and analysis of events and trends in the environment external.

Five Forces Model

Buyer Power

- Its high when buyers have many choices of whom to buy from and low when their choices are few.

to reduce buyer power

1.  Loyalty program - Reward customers based on the amount of business they do.
2. Switching costs - Costs that can make customers reluctant to switch to another product or service.

Supplier Power

- Its high when buyer have few choices of whom to buy from and low when their choices are many. 

Organizations that are buying goods and service in the supply chain can create a competitive advantages.

Threat of Substitute Products or Service 

- Its high when there are many alternatives to a product or service and low when there are few alternatives.

1. Switching costs - costs that can make customers reluctant to switch to another product or service.

Treat of New Entrants

- Its high when it is easy for new competitors to enter a market and low when there are significant entry barriers to entering a market.

1. Entry barrier - a product or service feature that customers have come to expect from organization.

 Rivalry among Existing Competitors

- Its high when competition is fierce in a market and low when competition is more complacent. 

The three generic strategies

-Value Chain

- Value Creation

CHAPTER 1 - BUSINESS DRIVEN TECHNOLOGY

heyy guyss ! as what i have learn, information technology is a field concerned with the use of technology in managing and processing information which it is an important enabler of business success and innovation. Okay so today i would like to discuss a little bit about business driven technology. Business functions receiving the greatest benefits from information technology.

organizations typically operate by functional areas(interdependent) or functional silos.

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM(MIS)

• MIS is a general name for the business function.
• It is the procedures to help an organization to solve business problems.
• It is a business function similar to Accounting, Finance and Human Resources.

THINGS THAT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND IN IT

1. Data - raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event.

    Information - data converted into a meaningful and useful context.

    Business Intelligence - application used to support decision making efforts.

2. IT Resources where people use information technology to work with information.

3. IT Cultures include :

• information - functional culture
• information - sharing culture
• information - inquiring culture
• information - discovery culture