management information system chapter three part two

School of Business
Department of Management Information Systems
BMIS300 – Management Information Systems
Chapter 3 – Part 2

Information Systems, Organizations
and Strategy


Fall 2020 - 2021

BMIS300 - Chapter 1

, 2.2 Organizational & Behavioral Impacts

• Organizational and behavioral impacts
– IT flattens organizations
• Decision making is pushed to lower levels.
• Large bureaucracies are inefficient
• Fewer managers are needed (IT enables faster decision making
and increases span of control).

– Postindustrial organizations
• Organizations flatten because authority increasingly relies on
knowledge and competence rather than formal positions.
• Information technology may encourage task force-networked
organizations