Challanges and Opportunities of Information System

Now that, even if we boast of how much IS has made life easier for us in dealing with information, it is no easy task to maintain a huge system as an IS. Now that almost all organizations rely on IS, they should know what are the challenges that might come their way when dealing with IS. So here are some challenges and opportunities for a firm of using Information systems.


Challenges of IS

• Cost: Maintaining an Information system could be costly and you need separate specialized staff to handle it.

• Information Overload: This is a big challenge to IS because having to manage large chunks of information in an orderly way to make it easier to retrieve data quickly can be a complex task.

• Employee mistrust: When dealing with very important and secretive information, it’s always hard to appoint trustworthy employees (who will not leak out any kind of information) to have access to the system.

• Difficult to build: It is actually difficult to organize and understand a complex information system. It might look confusing at first for those who are supposed to use it.

• Security: It’s nearly impossible to guarantee the security of all the important information entered in the system. A simple crash down in the system will mean a big loss to the company.

Opportunities of IS

• Enhanced global competitiveness: when a company starts using IS, it gets far ahead to compete globally. IS increase competition among companies worldwide.

• Supports corporate strategy: IS makes it easier for higher authorities in a company to make plans to achieve major goals in groups.

• Improve the quality of goods and services: IS can be used to identify the customer demands as guide to improving the quality of goods or services and can also simplify the product and the production process.

• Capture market opportunities: IS can be used to keep an update of how the market revolves so that it can detect and predict good opportunities for the company for the situation it is in.

• Enhance worker productivity: IS makes sure that there’s no time wasted in looking for information. By being able to locate and manage information easily, employees in an organization find more time to do more important tasks for the organization.

So here are some challenges and opportunities for an organization when it comes to handling IS. As the opportunities of the IS exceed the challenges, we can say that IS is something that’s definitely good for an organization that will help the organization to move forward much faster.