Business pressure, organizational responses, and IT support

The business environment is the combination of social, legal, economic, physical, and political factors that affect business activities. Changes in any of these factors are likely to create business pressure on organization.organisation respond to these pressure with activities supported   by IT.

There are three types of pressure that business face: market, technology, and societal pressure.

• Market pressure: 
• Global economy and strong competition

Global market makes pressure through the decrease of labor cost, especially in developed country. For example, when china copy everything and do it the same such as; macbook air. An example of strong computation is the restaurant which located in the same region.

•   The changing nature of the workforce

Like increasing numbers of women in the work comparing with past. Also, people with disabilities now work in all type of position.

•      Powerful customer

Customers nowadays are having knowledge to realize what’s the appropriate cost for certain kind of products and the quality of products and services.  

Technology pressure

•   Technological innovation and obsolescence

New technological are creates many substitutes for products and alternative services quality. These changes require business to keep up with consumer demands. Sometimes the brand is become popular then it absolute like floppy.So, company has to adopt the new technology.   

•  Information overload

Data are register daily so it becomes hard to track all of these information. Information technologies, such as search engines and data mining provide valuable support in these efforts.

Social/political/legal pressure

•   Social responsibility

Each company have to keep some money from there budget to society. As government force the company it become pressure especially  in terms of treated all people the same.

•  Compliance with government regulation and deregulation

Change government regulation and policies are makes big pressure for company. Like what happens nowadays in Oman.

Organizational responses

• Strategic systems

By adopting special technique that’s differentiate you from your competitors.

 Customer focus:

By take care of profitable customer.

3)      Make to order and mass customization:

Make to order by producing customized products and sevices.In mass customization you produces a large quantity of items, but it customize  them to fit the desire of each customer.