ITM 102 Lecture : ITM CH 3.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 102
• Professor: Franklyn Prescod

Document Summary

Organization: a stable formal social structure that takes resources from the environment and processes them to produce outputs. All organizations, including business firms, become very efficient over time because individuals in the firm develop routines for producing goods and services. All organization are composed of individual routines and behaviors, a. Transforms the inputs into products and services in a production function collection of which make up a business process: a collection of business processes make up the business firm. Organizational politics: political resistance is one of the great difficulties of bringing about organizational change, especially the development of new information systems. Organizational environments: organizations reside in environment from which they draw resources and to which they supply goods and services. Environments shape what organizations can do, but organization can. Example, typewriter replaced word processor influence their environments and decide to change environments altogether. Disruptive technologies: are substitute products that perform as well as or better than anything currently produced.