Chapter 1 - Business Driven Technology

   What is IT ?IT is a simple word from a information technology. Information technology can be defined as a field concerned with the use of technology in managing and processing information.It is an important enabler of business success and innovation.In my own word, information technology is a ease of doing business because without information technology, we are difficult to communicate to the other people.

   Besides, the name of general business function is Management information systems (MIS). This is for application of people, technologies and procedures to solve business matter.It is also similar to Accounting, Finance, Operations and Human Resources.

   In Information Technology basics , we must understand about the data, information and business intelligence , secondly about IT resources and lastly about IT cultures.
   Firstly, data is raw facts that describe the characteristic of an event. The raw materials that is do not process again, people is actually get the materials that are fresh.For example the final result. The information is a data converted into meaningful and we can useful context. Business intelligence is applications and technologies that are used to support decision-making efforts. For example, we want to know how many people get A  in class.
  Secondly, IT resources.Three thing in IT Resources that are very important is People use,Information technology to work with and Information.
  Lastly is IT Cultures.It can be divided into four organization information that is information-functional culture,information-sharing culture,information-inquiring culture and information-discovery culture.Information-functional culture is an employees use information of exercising influence or power over others. For example,  a manager in sales refuses to share information with marketing. They do not want to share the information to the other people. Moreover, the Information-Sharing Culture is a employees across department trust each other to use information(especially about problems and failures).They is sharing the all of information that they get it. Information-inquiring culture is employees across departments search for information to better understand the future and align themselves with current trends and new directions. This is the thing that are do not have in systems , so that people should ask the department. Furthermore, the Information-Discovery Culture is employees across departments are open to new insights about crisis and radical changes and seek ways to create competitive advantages. There are not related but they try to find and spread the information.