Bim Summary Essay

1.1     * Implement Porter’s strategy
  * Use customization
  * Do electronic Commerce
  * Add green IT initiatives
  * Go to virtual world

  * Implement Porter’s strategy
  * Use customization
  * Do electronic Commerce
  * Add green IT initiatives
  * Go to virtual world

  * -Become a digital enterprise
  * -Do social computing
  * It will be competetive weapon

  * -Become a digital enterprise
  * -Do social computing
  * It will be competetive weapon

  * infrastructure
  * Real time applications
  * Integration

  * infrastructure
  * Real time applications
  * Integration

Doing business in the digital economy
  * IT strategy for business support
  * How to go Green?
  * How to implement social networking
  * How to develop business models

  * IT strategy for business support
  * How to go Green?
  * How to implement social networking
  * How to develop business models

  * Install an IT performance management
  * Compare performance to industry

  * Install an IT performance management
  * Compare performance to industry

focus of chapter on environment. business pressures that are impacting org. performance, and IT which can serve as a counter actor to these environmental pressures.
IT -> refers to the collection of computing systems in an org.

IT PERFORMANCE MODEL: (to be elaborated upon later in 1.3,   see 4 BPM steps)

Toyota example: scion
using WEB 2.0 marketing, by being present on social networks and virtual worlds (facebook and second life), and other online communities (virtual nightclubs with each level being called after a scion car model) ect. have had tremendous success...

Digital economy:
- economy based on digital technologies and whose members are better informed and ale to communicate because of IT
- convergence of computing and telecomuniation via the internet, results: e-commerce, online tranactions, org changes.
200 mil internet users in USA,...