ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION

ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION

Information is everywhere in an organization.

Employees must be able to obtain and analyse the many different levels, formats, and granularities of organizational information to make decision.

Successfully collecting, compiling, sorting, and analysing information can provide tremendous insight into how an organization is performing.

TYPES OF INFORMATION FOUND IN ORGANIZATION

INFORMATION LEVELS	INFORMATION FORMATS	INFORMATION GRANULARITIES
It is for individual, Department, Enterprise	For example like Document, Presentation, Spreadsheet, Database	Refers to the extent of detail within the information. For example Detail, Summary, Aggregate
Individual Knowledge, goals, and strategies Departmental goals revenues, expenses, processes, and strategies Enterprise revenues, expenses, processes, and strategies	*Product, strategy, process, Financial, Customer, and competitor *Sales, Marketing, Industry, Financial, Customer, and order spread sheets. *Customer, Employee, Sales, Order, Supplier, and Manufacturer databases	*Reports for each salesperson, product *Reports for all sales personnel, all products, and all parts *Reports across departments, organizations, and companies

TRANSACTIONAL VS ANALYTICAL

THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TRANSACTIONAL AND ANALYTICAL INFORMATION

TRANSACTIONAL INFORMATION	ANALYTICAL INFORMATION
The information contained within a single business process.	The information encompasses all the organization information.
PRIMARY PURPOSE Support the performing of daily operational tasks	PRIMARY PURPOSE Support the performing of managerial analysis tasks
Examples :- Withdrawing cash from ATM, making airline reservation, purchasing stocks product order, shipping order	Examples :- Analysing daily sales report and production schedules.

Analytical Information includes Transactional Information

 * Analytical also includes external information such as industry, market, and economic conditions

 

* Analytical used to make ad-hoc decisions