ITM 102 Lecture Notes - Global Workforce, Natural Disaster, Electronic Data Interchange

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 102
• Professor: Sam Lampropoulos

Document Summary

International information systems architecture consists of the basic information systems required by organizations to coordinate worldwide trade and other activities. Business driver is a force in the environment to which businesses must respond and that influence the direction of the business: negative factors create management challenges factors that could scuttle the development of a global business. Global culture created by television, the internet, and other globally shared media such as movies now permits different cultures and peoples to develop common expectations about right and wrong. Specific business factors: global markets, global production and operations, Global coordination, global workforce, global economies of scale. General cultural factors: global communication and transportation technologies, development of global culture, emergence of global social norms, political stability, global knowledge base. These general cultural factors leading toward internationalization result in specific business globalization factors that affect most industries.