Assignment No. 3

Assignment Three- Executive Information System

Ahmed Alghamdi

Students

Dr . Yair Levy

Professor

Date

Table of Contents

Project Rational and Summary

Executive Information System 3

Problem 3

Executive Information System Objectives and Benefits 4

Key Stakeholders 5

The Organization

History 5

Organizational Chart 5

Organizational Culture and Influence on Performance 6

Influence of Power and Politics 6

Executive Information System Proposal

How Executive Information System will Aid the Decision Processes 7

Where are the Executive Information Systems Most Helpful 7

Influence

Diagrams 8

Recommended Executive Information System 8

Conclusions and Recommendations

Problem Summary 8

Proposed Executive Information System 9

Benefit Summary 9

References 10

Certificate of Authorship 11

Project Rational and Summary

Executive Information System

An EIS is a special type of DSS designed to support decision making at the top level of an organization . An EIS may help a CEO to get an accurate picture of overall operations , and a summary of what competitors are doing . Theses system is generally easy to operate and present information in ways easy to quickly absorb (Chap .6p .2

Problem

While today 's new technology the mangers decision processes yield results , the financial returns have been nominal and the company 's growth has been negligible . This can mainly be attributed to the existing manual decision processes that take months to complete and are restricted by satisfying strategies (Marakas ,

. 59 ) that have evolved over the past several years . In addition , management is bound by a developed set of heuristics (Marakas ,

. 62 ) that also impedes decision effectiveness . Much of the problem lies with the extensive effort involved with manually reviewing all the data . As a result simplified areas of information are selected for review in an attempt to reduce the complexity and move the decision processes along more rapidly . Consequently the same risk characteristics continually get evaluated while other

Potentially critical risk characteristics are ignored . Furthermore because of the inadequacies in the decision processes , the Bani LLC Company continually struggles to properly price most risk characteristics . Therefore the challenge is to maintain profitability while concurrently increasing

Market share . To accomplish this Assignment Bani LLC Company must do a better job of identifying profitable versus non-profitable risk characteristics . In turn , these risk characteristics must also be priced to achieve the correct blend of profitability and growth

Executive Information System Objectives and Benefits

Bani LLC Goals and objectives describe what an organization is trying to accomplish and serve as the backbone of any successful performance management deployment . To improve performance , goals should be interactive , get updated frequently , and be explicitly tied to operations (Pilot software , 2006

The EIS of Bani LLC will be the back-end layer where the traditional data processing will occur in an organization , which includes the databases , mainframe and ERP applications . The firm 's call center workstations and predictive dialing software will be used in a wide variety of industries , including finance , telecom and cable , publishing and market research (Garland 2005

With the four components of EIS , for hardware we will...