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1.6. Decide if the following statements are true or false, using the
text:
A. MBI models are applied only for organizations which use IT ser-
vices.
B. MBI models help only with general IT management issues.
C. MBI models directly help to improve the overall business perfor-
mance.
D. MBI models monitor IT investment profitability.
E. MBI models do not consider legal aspects.
F. MBI models use several different metrics systems.
G. MBI models can be used for different types of organizations.
H. MBI models are difficult to upgrade.
I. You can use an MBI model only as a whole.
1.7. Answer the following questions on the text:
A. What kind of methods do MBI models use?
B. When does this model use best practice solutions?
C. What features characterize performance of IT systems?
D. Can we learn about an employee’s duties with the help of these
models?
E. What does the model’s metrics system assess?
F. Why is it more efficient to deal only with some problematic areas?
G. Why is it important that the model can be used in smaller busi-
nesses as well?
1.8. Summarize the main ideas of the text using the questions
from activity 1.7 as a plan.
Management of Business Informatics Model
The primary objective of the MBI model is to provide a support for IT
management activities in companies that figure as users of IT services. The
MBI model provides a consistent and flexible business informatics man-
agement methodology that incorporates the best practice guidelines for
specific industry domains. The model helps IT practitioners to:
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- document and analyze an existing system of business informatics
management,
- design and implement a new (improved) management system,
- obtain an advice and best practice solutions for specific IT man-
agement issues such as:
How to develop an information strategy? How to prepare IT budg-
et? What is the concrete structure and content of SLA (Service
Level
Agreement) for application services delivered in the form of Software
as a Service? The MBI model helps organizations to improve the per-
formance of enterprise IT systems more specifically the quality, availa-
bility, security and effectiveness of IT services, and indirectly the over-
all business performance.
To address such requirements, the following key principles of the
MBI model were defined:
1. The model supports an organization’s business strategy in defin-
ing strategic applications of business informatics as well as in monitor-
ing IT investment profitability.
2. The model allows a control of all key features of enterprise in-
formation system:
- Required functionality inclusion
- Availability, Timeliness, Accuracy and Trustworthiness of re-
quired
functions and information
- Compliance with legislations
- Reliability
- User-friendliness
- Security
- Flexibility
- Openness
- Integrity
- Standardization
- Performance
- Effectiveness
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3. The model records all responsibilities and authorities within an
organization in the context of business informatics.
4. Business informatics management is based on a coherent system
of metrics that evaluate
all important IT services, IT processes and IT
resources.
5. The model provides various levels of detail (granularity) of
management tasks and metrics that correspond to the requirements of
different organization types.
6. The model rapidly responds to changing
needs of business in-
formatics, its content and functionality is easily extendable and up-
gradable.
7. The application of MBI model in practice offers a high flexibil-
ity. Implementation of individual model components (tasks) is support-
ed without having to implement the entire model. Considering a signifi-
cant effort involved in a comprehensive business informatics system
implementation, it is often more effective to address only those areas
identified as the most problematic, or with
the highest impact on an
enterprise performance and its success.
8. The model is effectively deployable in organizations of a differ-
ent size and operating in different industry sectors. Model implementa-
tion respects specific conditions under which an organization operates
including its financial and human resources allowing a successful ap-
plication of the model in small businesses
that typically have limited
financial and human resources.
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