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    This document contains slides from a MIT Sloan School of Management class on information technology as an integrating force in manufacturing. The slides discuss how IT impacts an organization's value proposition through information, process, and material value. They present frameworks for business processes and IT architecture, from the hardware layer to software coordination activities. Examples are given of computer programs, enterprise networking diagrams, and a historical case study of a medical supply company.

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    15.

    566

    Information Technology as an Integrating

    Force in Manufacturing

    Session 5 of 24

    MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY


    Sloan School of Management
    Class Slides

    Prof. Brian Subirana

    Prof. Brian Subirana, MIT Sloan School of Management


    THE MIT VIEW OF THE FIRM

    ORGANIZATION’S VALUE PROPOSITION


    INFORMATION
    INFORMATION PROCESS
    PROCESS MATERIAL
    MATERIAL
    VALUE
    VALUE VALUE
    VALUE VALUE
    VALUE

    ORGANIZATION’S ARCHITECTURE

    DEEP STRUCTURE
    OF
    BUSINESS PROCESSES

    DESIGN
    COMPUTER BUY MAKE SELL
    HUMAN
    ACTIVITIES MANAGE
    ACTIVITIES

    TECHNOLOGY

    MACHINES & MATERIALS PEOPLE


    (Prof. Brian Subirana
    and Prof. Thomas
    Malone, 2002.)
    ENVIRONMENT
    Prof. Brian Subirana, MIT Sloan School of Management
    PROGRAM PROCESS
    Read label length Get # parts

    X=label length X=# parts

    Read character Assemble next


    Append to string part

    X=x-1 X=x-1

    X=0? X=0?

    Print string label Print label and


    Ship assembled product

    Prof. Brian Subirana, MIT Sloan School of Management


    GENERIC IT ARCHITECTURE ABSTRACTION STACK

    SOFTWARE
    Coordination activities
    FRAMEWORK
    PROCESS MANAGEMENT
    WORKFLOW

    Base activities
    PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
    APPLICATION & SERVICE
    PROTOCOL
    DATA
    OPERATING SYSTEM

    HARDWARE
    NETWORK
    MACHINE
    COMPONENT

    Prof. Brian Subirana, MIT Sloan School of Management


    ENVIRONMENT
    A “Real” Computer Architecture

    Keyboard Clock

    Mouse
    CPU
    001
    Instructi on
    Counter

    0101

    1101

    Registers

    Monitor Memory

    Laser printer

    Prof. Brian Subirana, MIT Sloan School of Management


    Enterprise Networking Architecture

    See: Laudon & Laudon, Management Information Systems:

    Organization and Technology, Prentice Hall, 1998

    Prof. Brian Subirana, MIT Sloan School of Management


    Baxter 1996 spin-off

    • 20,000 people
    • $4,5B sales 1995
    • up to 80% of hospital supply needs
    • American leading provider of “healthcare products and cost management systems”
    • Relationships with hospitals saved up to 20% per surgical procedure

    1999(*)
    • Also in the laboratory segment and other non-hospital segments with special fees for value
    added services and delivery options
    • built 6 supercenters (NY, Texas, Illinois, Georgia and California)
    • 50 other facilities
    • Through valuelink, 60 percent of deliveries were low unit (even to hospitals)

    (*) Source: Interview with Larry Rohrer, Allegiance

    vice president, Medicaldistribution.com 1999

    Prof. Brian Subirana, MIT Sloan School of Management

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