Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Business Fundamentals

This section includes all notes will be delivered during this sessoin. Please put any comments/questions regarding any issues related to Business Fundamentals under this section. This section will be updated with more notes in future.


  1. Learning Objectives
  2. Why? - Business Fundamentals
  3. Management Opportunities, Guidelines and Solutions
  4. Road Map

Contents

  1. Nature of a Business
  2. The Organization of a Business
  3. How IS Impacts on Organizations and Businesses
  4. Basic Business Information Processing
  5. Information Systems and Businesses

Review Questions

  1. Review Questions

4 comments:

pasan said...

sir,
can we describe an organization by following definition

"an organization is a structure which was established to achieve set of specific goals"

Indrajith said...

pasan,
When we give a definition to a certain term (such as organization in this case) we must make sure the definition should comply with the given context. Also it should describe the term sufficiently for that context. That's why during this session I have given two definitions (Technical Microeconomic and Behavioral) on organization which both are correct on different context. But when you have been asked for behavioral definition, giving microeconomic definition is wrong though they both are definitions for organization. Because then you miss the context.
So the final conclusion is this. The definition given by you may be correct if it describes the organization sufficiently for that specific context. But this is not sufficiently describes the organization in our context (Under the Business Fundamentals).
So you can understand the answer is quite subjective. But that is how it is.

என்றும் அன்புடன், சாரதாஞ்சலி-ம said...

sir,
we are finding it difficult to get the printouts even at the ifs lab.
is it possible for you to give us or mail the soft copy of the presentation?

regards,
anjali

என்றும் அன்புடன், சாரதாஞ்சலி-ம said...

sir,
i was able to downloadthe notes.
sorry for bothering you.