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Question: What are some challenges posed by strategic information systems and provide one specific example of how you think they can be addressed?

Student response

First identify th challenges created by strategic information systems and then find ways that management these issues.

Challenges:

Change in business goals.

Change in relationship with customers and suppliers.

Change in business processes.

In order to implement strategic information systems, changes must be made that affect the social and technical elements of organization, otherwise know as strategic transitions.

Priblems with strategic transitions:

Strategic transitions are not easy because they require spending money from one systems to another which, in turn , could lead to poor company performance. Also, not all employees are willing to transition from a system that they are comfortable with using. Implementing a new system will take time and patiences from all aspects of the company.

Ways to address the challenges:

Suppliers and customers have to cooperate more and share overlapping responsibilities. Managers have to come up with new and effective processes for organizing their company's activies with the activies of the customers, suppliers, and other organizations.