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CHAPTER 2
STRATEGIC
DECISION
MAKING

Opening Case
Revving Up Sales
at Harley-Davidson
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Chapter Two Overview
SECTION 2.1 - DECISION-MAKING SYSTEMS
Decision Making
Transaction Processing Systems
Decision Support Systems
Executive Information Systems

SECTION 2.2 - ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
Enterprise Systems
Supply Chain Management
Customer Relationship Management
Business Process Reengineering
Enterprise Resource Planning
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Chapter Two Overview
Decision-enabling, problem-solving, and
opportunity-seizing systems
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SECTION 2.1
DECISION-
MAKING
SYSTEMS
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Explain the difference between transactional
information and analytical information. Be sure
to provide an example of each

2. Define TPS, DSS, and EIS and explain how
an organization can use these systems to
make decisions and gain competitive
advantages

3. Describe the three quantitative models
typically used by decision support systems

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LEARNING OUTCOMES
4. Describe the relationship between digital
dashboards and executive information
systems

5. Identify the four types of artificial
intelligence systems

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DECISION MAKING
Reasons for the growth of decision-making
information systems
People need to analyze large amounts of
information
People must make decisions quickly
People must apply sophisticated analysis
techniques, such as modeling and forecasting, to
make good decisions
People must protect the corporate asset of
organizational information
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DECISION MAKING
Model a simplified representation or
abstraction of reality

IT systems in
an enterprise


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TRANSACTION PROCESSING
SYSTEMS
Moving up through the organizational pyramid users move
from requiring transactional information to analytical
information

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TRANSACTION PROCESSING
SYSTEMS
Transaction processing system (TPS) - the basic business
system that serves the operational level (analysts) in an
organization

Online transaction processing (OLTP) the capturing of
transaction and event information using technology to (1)
process the information according to defined business rules,
(2) store the information, (3) update existing information to
reflect the new information

Online analytical processing (OLAP) the manipulation of
information to create business intelligence in support of
strategic decision making

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DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
Decision support system (DSS) models information to
support managers and business professionals during the
decision-making process

Three quantitative models used by DSSs include:
1. Sensitivity analysis the study of the impact that
changes in one (or more) parts of the model have on
other parts of the model
2. What-if analysis checks the impact of a change in
an assumption on the proposed solution
3. Goal-seeking analysis finds the inputs necessary
to achieve a goal such as a desired level of output

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DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
What-if analysis

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DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
Goal-seeking analysis

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DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
Interaction between a TPS and a DSS

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EXECUTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Executive information system (EIS) a
specialized DSS that supports senior level
executives within the organization

Most EISs offering the following capabilities:
Consolidation involves the aggregation of
information and features simple roll-ups to complex
groupings of interrelated information
Drill-down enables users to get details, and
details of details, of information
Slice-and-dice looks at information from different
perspectives
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EXECUTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Interaction between a TPS and an EIS


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Digital Dashboards
Digital dashboard integrates information
from multiple components and presents it in a
unified display

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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Intelligent system various commercial
applications of artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) simulates
human intelligence such as the ability to
reason and learn
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The ultimate goal of AI is the ability to build a
system that can mimic human intelligence


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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Four most common categories of AI include:
1. Expert system computerized advisory
programs that imitate the reasoning processes
of experts in solving difficult problems
2. Neural Network attempts to emulate the way
the human brain works
Fuzzy logic a mathematical method of handling
imprecise or subjective information
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Four most common categories of AI include:
3. Genetic algorithm an artificial intelligent
system that mimics the evolutionary, survival-of-
the-fittest process to generate increasingly
better solutions to a problem
4. Intelligent agent special-purposed
knowledge-based information system that
accomplishes specific tasks on behalf of its
users
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Data Mining
Data-mining systems sift instantly through
information to uncover patterns and
relationships

Data-mining systems include many forms
of AI such as neural networks and expert
systems
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OPENING CASE QUESTIONS
Revving Up Sales at Harley-Davidson

1. How does Talon help Harley-Davidson
employees improve their decision-making
capabilities?

2. Identify a few key metrics a Harley-Davidson
marketing executive might want to monitor on
a digital dashboard

3. How can Harley-Davidson benefit from using
decision support systems in its business



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SECTION 2.2
ENTERPRISE
SYSTEMS
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
6. Describe the four basic components of supply
chain management

7. Explain customer relationship management
and the benefits it can provide an organization

8. Define enterprise resource planning and
explain its importance to an organization

9. Identify how an organization can use business
process reengineering to improve its business



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ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
Organizations can undertake high-profile
strategic initiatives including:
Supply chain management (SCM)
Customer relationship management (CRM)
Business process reengineering (BPR)
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Supply Chain Management (SCM)
involves the management of information
flows between and among stages in a
supply chain to maximize total supply
chain effectiveness and profitability
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Four basic components of supply chain
management include:
1. Supply chain strategy strategy for managing all
resources to meet customer demand
2. Supply chain partner partners throughout the
supply chain that deliver finished products, raw
materials, and services.
3. Supply chain operation schedule for production
activities
4. Supply chain logistics product delivery process
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble (P&G) SCM


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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Effective and efficient SCM systems can
enable an organization to:
Decrease the power of its buyers
Increase its own supplier power
Increase switching costs to reduce the threat of
substitute products or services
Create entry barriers thereby reducing the threat
of new entrants
Increase efficiencies while seeking a competitive
advantage through cost leadership
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Effective and efficient SCM systems effect
on Porters Five Forces
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CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
MANAGEMENT
Customer relationship management
(CRM) involves managing all aspects of a
customers relationship with an organization
to increase customer loyalty and retention
and an organization's profitability

Many organizations, such as Charles
Schwab and Kaiser Permanente, have
obtained great success through the
implementation of CRM systems
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CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
MANAGEMENT
CRM is not just technology, but a strategy,
process, and business goal that an organization
must embrace on an enterprisewide level

CRM can enable an organization to:
Identify types of customers
Design individual customer marketing campaigns
Treat each customer as an individual
Understand customer buying behaviors
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CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
MANAGEMENT
CRM
overview
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BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING
Business process a standardized set of
activities that accomplish a specific task, such
as processing a customers order

Business process reengineering (BPR) the
analysis and redesign of workflow within and
between enterprises
The purpose of BPR is to make all business
processes best-in-class
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BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING
Reengineering the Corporation by Michael Hammer and
James Champy - recommends seven BPR principles

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Finding Opportunity Using BPR
A company can improve
the way it travels the road
by moving from foot to
horse and then horse to
car

BPR looks at taking a
different path, such as an
airplane which ignore the
road completely

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Finding Opportunity Using BPR
Progressive Insurance mobile claims process

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Finding Opportunity Using BPR
Types of
change an
organization can
achieve, along
with the
magnitudes of
change and the
potential
business benefit

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ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
integrates all departments and functions
throughout an organization into a single IT
system so that employees can make
decisions by viewing enterprisewide
information on all business operations

Keyword in ERP is enterprise
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ERP SOFTWARE
ERP functions offered by all ERP vendors
include:
Finance, accounting, sales, marketing, human
resources, operations, and logistics

ERP vendors differentiate themselves by
offering unique components including:
CRM, SCM, and BI

According to Gartner, the average failure rate
for an ERP project is 66 percent


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Finding The Right ERP Solution
Successful ERP projects share 3 attributes
1. Overall fit
Off the rack
Off the rack and tailored to fit
Custom made
2. Proper business analysis
Successful companies spend up to 10 percent of the
project budget on a business analysis
3. Solid implementation plans
A plan is needed to monitor the quality, objectives,
and timelines
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OPENING CASE QUESTIONS
Revving Up Sales at Harley-Davidson

4. Evaluate the HOG CRM strategy and
recommend an additional benefit Harley-
Davidson could provide to its HOG members
to increase customer satisfaction

5. Describe how Harley-Davidsons SCM
system, Manugistics, could improve its
business operations

6. Provide an illustration of Harley-Davidsons
SCM system including all upstream and
downstream participants
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CLOSING CASE ONE
Consolidating Touchpoints for Saab
1. How has implementing a CRM system
enabled Saab to gain a competitive
advantage?

2. Estimate the potential impact to Saabs
business if it had not implemented a CRM
system

3. What additional benefits could Saab receive
from implementing a supply chain
management system?
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CLOSING CASE ONE
Consolidating Touchpoints for Saab
4. Model Saabs supply chain

5. How is Saabs CRM implementation
going to influence its SCM practices?
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CLOSING CASE TWO
Made-to-Order Businesses
1. What role does supply chain management and
customer relationship management play in a
mass customization business strategy?

2. How can Lands End use its CRM system to
improve its business?

3. How can Nike use a CRM system to improve its
customer relations?

4. Why is Nikes supply chain management system
critical to its Nike iD order fulfillment process?

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CLOSING CASE TWO
Made-to-Order Businesses
5. Choose one of the examples above and explain
how an ERP system could help facilitate the mass
customization effort

6. Choose one of the examples above and explain
how the company is attempting to gain a
competitive advantage with mass customization

7. Identify one other business that could benefit from
the use of mass customization. Explain why this
business would need customer relationship
management and supply chain management
systems to implement a mass customization
business strategy

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CLOSING CASE THREE
Delta Airlines Plays Catch-Up
1. What business risks would Delta be taking if it
decided not to catch up with industry leaders in
using IT to gain a competitive advantage?

2. What competitive advantages can an airline gain
by using DSS and EIS?

3. What other industries could potentially benefit
from the use of yield management systems?
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CLOSING CASE THREE
Delta Airlines Plays Catch-Up
4. How can American and United use
customer information to gain a
competitive?

5. What types of metrics would Delta
executives want to see in a digital
dashboard?

6. How could Delta use supply chain
management to improve its operations?