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INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATION 2
Introduction
Due to the drastic and continuous changes in the permeating connectivity, globalization,
deregulation, company managers are incessantly being defied with myriads of encounters. For
these managers to competently deal with the above challenges, they need to change from all
their traditional approaches and opt to having a more flexible company profile in terms of
organization. Even smart and competitive globally recognized companies have to make an
changing to the standards that can comply with the general evolving market demands. Chief
technologist to these various companies always have the desire to help these managers update
the organization infrastructure, which many a times becomes impossible to them as the
databases are always incompatible and the data itself is concurrently of low quality. The initial
ground on which the company’s IT was constructed, favouring the control of cost rather than
strategy, is another factor that is limiting the Technologist to help out; an indication of the
breach between the chief managers and the computer science managers which otherwise needs
to be resolved.
The article confirms that the delay between information technology capability and
strategy is the desire of most organizations to concurrently transform to new structures that can
enable them compete comfortably in the evolved world markets, which becomes a critical issue
due to the inflexibility of the general infrastructure slowing down the intended strategy.
Therefore, information infrastructure is the main thing that needs to be looked into for a flexible
ease in change which will subsequently solve the lag, henceforth making it possible for
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innovation and further research. The drastic change there after satisfies the costumer’s demand
and preferences.
According to Prahalad & Krishnan, (2002), a well organised companies have managed
to inaugurate e-business situates through closing the breech and leveraging information
technology to make them appealing to the eyes, attracting many customers, which, has not been
the case with the less established organizations. These few established companies, henceforth
have managed to make a great transformation in their interfaces making it possible to fill the
Actually, research has it that change is not just about establishment, but it is how
flexible the information interface has been designed. Taking the example of Amazon.com, a
very prosperous and effective company, which is just an online site that makes it possible for
other suppliers who cannot advertise their products to meet their customers.
The main thing that is complicating transformation of the large companies is the
inflexible structure that will entail a lot of cost for their change, which is an information from
From the explanations, there exists varied changes in the current state of information
Infrastructure business settings, the role that each and every member in a given company plays
towards each other and technologies involved are actually what are making the disconnection
between the directorial obligations and information substructure competences. This ought to
be thoroughly looked into otherwise a stagnation on the same will still be experienced.
rate which is not the case with the businesses, an indication of an imbalance in the near future.
For these companies to be able to meet the set standards, they have to step up and close the
breech that exists between their environments (internal and external) and the info sub-structure.
Otherwise their incompetency will never be solved and they will continue to lag behind and
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even come to more complicated situations which will entail getting aid from other companies,
From the article, the progress of technology have drastically changed over the past years
which is an indication that the various components of many companies have also undergone
some sort of evolution. The old methods have been dropped and new advanced ones have been
put into consideration for specific missions. The technologies have made it possible and easier
to change the information infrastructure to a more flexible one, which subsequently, can
undergo a lot of transformation, as per to the desires of the managing directors in respect to the
market demands.
A lot of inventions and innovations have emerged and their execution requires specific
transformation that henceforth will make their executions possible and this can only happen if
drastic changes to the information infrastructure is put in action to a more supple and
A company should take into consideration a lot of things before opting to adopt a certain
technology and a quick rush to one without intense research can lead to a negative results which
subsequently will indicate loss in terms of finances. Hence, an intense research will rescue the
company from risks that the given technology will come with, if the given technology meets
the intended operation and what changes it will really bring to the company.
For a company to conceptualise the jeopardies and inhibitions that can arise in the
course of the company’s livelihood, the overall company manager and the computer science
manager have to be in possession of a very clear and also similar charter. Still the same,
protection of primary data is very crucial for it is this given data that can be converted to a
language that the human brain can understand and put into practice.
For a clear framework to be perceived, the company have to put in place a constant
interface that satisfies the customer’s wants as it is said customer preference is the way out.
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User interface applications that keeps on changing is only applicable to online clients who of
course have got different preferences; and this is made so to meet all their wants.
Role in strategy; the managers in various companies have to make sure that any
application that they put in place meets the goals of the intended strategies and this can be in
relation to the litheness of the information structure. Hence, when efficiency and innovation
are put together, a competitive reality is achieved which means a smoothly running
organization.
Quality problems; All companies should carefully check the challenges that their
customers undergoes as most of the times, IT specialist only tend to rectify and solve to
problems which are within the companies. Various directing managers should therefor research
into the market and know the problems that clients experiences.
Sourcing of applications; before sourcing, the given company should carefully analyse
the risks that it might come with more so when the company have to assign it to a third party.
Sourcing should be done in stages where the first stage entails custom built system, second is
packages received from the enterprise and lastly, is when a third party can be involved . But
before anything is done under this sector, the directing manager have to do a SWOT analysis
Degree of change; any computer science department of each and every company that
have undergone transformation should intermittently check and categorize the given
application. The degree to which the application would have changed is hence the information
that the manager and the IT specialist will use to know the impacts that different business
strategies will have. The degree is always put on a scale of moderate, low and high.
Nature of data; to get a better grasp of the application structure, a company has to assess
the type and kind of data that it uses or that this given application runs. It should look whether
the data is public or trademarked and see which approach to handle it with. Application Service
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Provider is always applicable in the case of public data which is contrary to the case when the
categorized as stable or evolving. The stable category is direct to the point as it shows the
regular operations and the overall expectations of the clients. On the other hand, evolving
category, as it depicts shows the expectation of the future as this category is always known to
be in growth process. An example of stable category is the company’s payroll while those that
are online in the various company’s websites falls under the evolving category.
For the business managers to be in the light about the company’s operations, the line
manager and IT managers have to work together to give out a clear profile. The two, depends
on each other for information and data. The given portfolio can help in determining the
weaknesses that a given infrastructure have which can be used to solve the various challenges.
manager in knowing the investments that the company is making and hence planning on the
company’s expenditures.
to be made more so when it falls under the evolving sector, adjustments have to be made for
Both the IT manager and line managers can identify the urgency of flexibility in
information and advise the operating manager subsequently on the need of making a
transformation within the company. Depending on the type or category of the business,
flexibility is advocated for more so in fulfilling the market demand. A stable type is advocated
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for more so in the internal operations of the company while an evolving category is mainly
The gap between the flexibility and efficiency can only be merged if the company
understands the weaknesses in the infrastructure and applicable technologies which can only
The whole context is ideally relevant to the Indonesian companies as for a company to
have fruitful investments and at the same time satisfy the client’s wants, it has to undergo
various transformation on its applications. Both the manager, IT manager and line managers
have to jointly work together in the achievement of the company’s missions and agendas.
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Reference
Prahalad, C. K., & Krishnan, M. S. (2002). The dynamic synchronization of strategy and