Management Information Systems: Managing The Digital Firm -- Student Value Edition (16th Edition)
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Chapter 15, Problem 1RQ
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Dimensions for developing international
- The first main dimension for developing international information system infrastructure is the global environment and their business drivers and challenges.
- These are the forces within the environment which business must respond in order to drive the business positively.
- The second dimension includes corporate global strategy.
- These are the ones which are at a top level in order to accommodate local as well as regional issues...
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Cultural factors
- The general cultural factors include cultural particularism issues, development of a global culture within a firm, emergence of global social norms, political stability and global knowledge base.
- The cultural particularism factors include the language differences.
- By developing a global culture, the relationship between countries and divisions can be difficult to achieve.
- Emergence of global social norms includes work schedules, time to do business from a distance and so on.
- Political stability is difficult to achieve if a firm wants to expand in a country.
- Global knowledge base is an information system that requires time and effort to build that have positive effects for the firm.
Business factors
- The main business factors include global markets, global production and operations, global coordination and global workforce.
- Global market includes the patterns of consumption of goods which are becoming similar around the world.
- Global production and operations include production facilities which are coordinated at central headquarters thousands of miles away...
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Challenges for developing global systems
- The main challenges include cultural particularism, social expectations and political laws.
- Cultural particularism includes regionalism, nationalism, language differences, and different standards for electronic data interchange, email, and telecommunications...
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Reason for some firms not planning developing international systems
- The competition has not been powerful enough yet to drive them toward developing international systems for some companies.
- Some other companies lack the global strategy needed for such development, or they have inherited a patchwork of international systems built with outdated technologies and standards...
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