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Saudi Electronic University
College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
E-commerce Department
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Course Title: Management Information System
Course Code: MIS201
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The effect of IT infrastructure
in the World Trade
Organization
Table of Contents
Executive Summary ……………………………………………………………….. 3
Organizational Profile
Background …………………………………………………………………………. 4
Organization Details ……………………………………………………….…….. 4-5
Purpose ……………………………………………………………………………… 5
Organizational Structure …………………………………………………….………. 5
Strategies …………………………………………………………………………… 6
Technology Involved ……………………………….……………………………… 7
PART 1
Executive Summary
Information technology infrastructure gives a huge role in the operation of each organization. It serves to monitor the system and the condition wherein the main purpose is to manage the enterprise environment. Without this, it will be hard to monitor the networks’ movement as it tends to increase the productivity level of every employee. As the World Trade Organization is well known worldwide, the usage of IT is really a big aid for them to quickly collect the data in every transaction that occurs on their everyday deal.
The top priority of every business is having an uninterrupted access to their performance as to avoid the error while managing the entire complication. Clearly, a wide company needs to be efficient all the time that is why having poor entry will interfere and might cause big trouble for the market. Information technology infrastructures are now seen as a highly digital one that possesses a potential of performing the collecting of statistic- owing to the fact that the methods are provided automatically inside the system. A speed setting is a reason why some organization finds everything easy to manipulate. According to the University of Boras,
the capability of the organizations’ IT is to realized and increase the critical part of the business which its service is important as it deploys the process of the business on its market development, totally an effective way to ensure the lifetime of the establishment (Radhakrishnan, 2011).
Indeed, the aim of this study is to find evidence with regards to the infrastructure of IT’s effect on one of the larger organizations in the world “World Trade Organization”. Figuring out how the business handles the condition for the implications that prevail while doing the task. Investigating on how the second data supports the qualitative collection that has been generated through the software and data management or through any information technology’s components.
Organizational Profile
Background
The World Trade Organization was just a fruit of the 1947 GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) which soon became ITO (International Trade Organization) until it reached as WTO at the year of 1995. By these days the organization became popular in the world as influential people keep in touch with them through negotiating and trading different transactions. Over years of establishment, WTO found an easy solution to track their data and further information right away by using the components of Information Technology. With just one click they access the crucial data that they need in just a few seconds. This company is so much connected with the use of software, networking, and services which are the main in demand to make the entity grow well.
Having a bunch of employees, it became difficult for them to monitor each movement and every production that arise. However, as they continue to use the modern technology that has been invented- everything became easy knowing that there are persons that were assigned to insert the data in the hardware and there’s a software who will generate the entire information so that it will not be difficult for the laborers to find the where something went wrong with what they have done. Yet for this specific organization, they gain more benefits in using the IT when they will check for their profit, communicate will their co-associate, and to observe the service of their employees.
Organization Details
WTO has many rules to maintain their productivity and to maintain the trust of their traders. Their prime stand is to get a multilateral trading system, act for negotiating trade agreements, and settle the dispute trades that may happen in a long run. The manes indicated with their organizational charts are the ones who could have a right to construct a decision or suggestion for the next step that they will take. They also have a ministerial conference every 2 years to ensure the stability of their business and lastly, they attain to become partners of estimating 20 counties.
Purpose
The intention of the WTO is to open a great trade industry that will make people benefit for. Below are the purposes of this firm:
To help the producers of goods deliver their items
It always makes sure that the function of their trade is smoothly and satisfactory for their customers.
Trade flow freely
An assurance that the products will be delivered or trade on time with no damage and further miscalculation.
Ensure the safety of the parcels
To attain this kind of system they always track the location of parcels and the delivery guy that they have is trustful enough to take the important documents/items into care.
Organizational Structure
As many suppliers trust their service they make sure to stick to their protocols for them not to fail their partners and to not lose the reliance on them. The rules that they follow are to provide a firm basis on their subsequent trades, to gain lots of customers, to avoid doing massive errors, perform an import/export smoothly, and to create a resolution for the trade disputes. Overall, they make sure that as long as possible they will not violate any rules that were stated above. Those orders make their company’s big and productive, in addition, many individuals still inquire with them as they have good and excellent feedback came from their customers. If ever that they might not able to follow the policy, then it may somehow leave a bad impact on their reviews.
Strategies
There are different types of strategies for the competitive advantage and the succeeding are:
Cost leadership
This one is part of marketing strategy that the mission is to attain a lowest-cost producer but not to the point that the company will not produce goods anymore. It is just a way to set a lower price to compensate with the customers for having a reason that another company has the same product/service as what they are performing and offers.
Differentiation
This one refers to goods/service that is far different from their competitors. A more innovative or much quality one that will surely catch the eyes of the buyers. This type of strategy is to avoid the comparability of the two products/services that came from different firms. The main objective of this action is to increase the competitive advantage of the organization among others.
Focus
This one is like a combination of the two above strategies. It targets the market segment where the organization will conduct a cost-focus and a differentiate-focus. The total point of this strategy is to expand the relationship with their target buyers and to develop a market tactic that is much better than others.
Most appropriate strategy
Considering the selected organization, the researchers assumed that the strategy that outstands the most which will perfectly fit with the WTO is the focus strategy. Doing a cost and differentiate focus will make the company more attractive for their customers as they would be able to lower their labor cost and by making a unique style of trading.
Technology Involvement
The organization’s setup in terms of its IT infrastructure is an exhilarating one. Almost every movement of the company is based on the ability that the technology provides to them. They used hardware like desktop computers, switches, servers, facilities, and routers to properly indicate the information inside the software files and to enable the machines that they have functionate.
As they insert the important information in the desktop, they also use the software to access it and to monitor the statistical movement of it. The examples that they usually apply are the operating/content management systems, Enterprise resource planning, and web servers. Hence they also use this to communicate with their customers especially answering the queries that were held to them.
Next is telecommunication, which the one that they use to properly communicate with their customers, publicizing the new idea that they produce, and to transmitted different information with each other.
In addition, this company also performed networking as they have to gain lots of customers and to further introduce to the world the service and satisfaction that they can provide.
Lastly, the information security as per knowing that the scope of their popularity was much bigger compared then. They have to secure their personal information especially their secret portion that makes their organization reach this level.
References:
World Trade Organization. (2021). World Trade Organization. Retrieved October 15, 2021, from https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/fact1_e.htm
IT infrastructure. (2020). IBM. Retrieved October 15, 2021, from https://www.ibm.com/topics/infrastructure
Resolution of trade dispute. (2018). Britannica. Retrieved October 15, 2021, from https://www.britannica.com/topic/World-Trade-Organization/Resolution-of-trade-disputes
Competitive Advantage. (2015). CFI. Retrieved October 15, 2021, from https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/strategy/competitive-advantage/