Description: In this assignment you are to start identifying with the kinds of decisions that are made at different levels of management with respect to information systems.

Scenario:

You are a manager making a decision as to which option to select for the use of information systems.

Here are the options:

1. Develop a new information systems product. For instance, online banking was once considered a new Information systems product.
2. Develop a new capacity into an existing information systems that enables managers to quickly reroute materials to different manufacturing facilities.
3. Replace the information systems that provide support of online ordering. This will speed up the time it takes process an order by ten fold and increase throughput.

Deliverables:

While the scenarios are simple at this point, you want to start exploring the different options.

Your task is to determine what else you need to know about the options. What information do you think will improve your ability to make an effective decision? What do you need to know? (list no more than and no less than 3). Hint:you will want your decision to be based on quantifiable information at some point in the future. For now you want to explore what you need to know.