Pmaina-paraphrasing

   According to the textbook, information management is among the most critical functions of business success

In current world, business are very competitive and you need to stay ahead in the game to bring new features/products/services to the market & to the customers, failing will impact creditability of your brand, having high quality and timely data are very crucial and it is a critical business asset, Well designed Information management helps to get this data to make the right decisions at the right decisions at the right time, enabling a faster response to changes in your business environment at less cost, with fewer mistakes and leading to better business performance.

Information management has traditionally been the job of the IT department, but the responsiveness required of business operations these days makes it imperative that top management takes responsibility for information quality from the business viewpoint rather than seeing it as a solely technological exercise. It is the management’s task to define what information it needs to run the business successfully, when the information is needed and what its quality criteria should be.

2.        Evaluate the level of impact of IT / enterprise architecture on information management (e.g., the flow of information throughout the company / organization, etc.) within a company or industry of your choice.

Information technology (IT)  is dramatically changing the business landscape. Although organization cultures and business strategies shape the use of IT in organizations, more often the influence is stronger the other way round. IT significantly affects strategic options and creates opportunities and issues that managers need to address in many aspects of their business.

During my stint as IT developer with Large cooking ware products company (direct selling), the business team solely depended on IT shop, all offers, service catalogs, promotions were enabled and simplified by IT, it established open flow of information allows everyone within the organization to understand the way that Direct selling via Sales portal works.

3.        Next, determine at least one (1) obstacle or challenge that the IT organizational leader would face in order to support organizational information within the company or organization that you have chosen 

One of the challenge we had with our Organization business users, adaptability of the changes, our business users were very used to maintain the offer, promotions in manual way, store as excel sheets in their work station, With our IT architecture of maintaining templates in a central place and auto populate the current offer, promotions triggered Resistance to the change from business users, we overcome by extensive training by uplifting technical skills of business users and conducting awareness sessions on online sales, B2B, B2C concepts.

4.        According to the textbook, “at no time will a specific target architecture ever be achieved”. State the main reasons why the authors make this assertion and decide whether or not you agree with this assertion. Justify your response.

Which is very true, simple web site development /design gone through severe architecture change over last 20 years, it needs to be constantly changing to bring features to the customer needs.

•             EARLY 1990S – TEXT BASED SITES AND MOSAIC

•             MID-1990S – TABLE BASED GRAPHICS AND ONLINE SITE BUILDERS

•             LATE 1990S – THE AGE OF FLASH

•             2000 – CASCADING STYLE SHEETS

•             MID-2000S – JAVASCRIPT AND SEMANTICS

•             LATE 2013 – WEB 2.0 AND BEYOND

•             CURRENT HTML 5 DESIGN, RWD OF SINGLE CODE FOR ALL DEVICES