International_IS_Development

International IS Development The development of international information systems requires many steps, processes, and a lot of planning on the part of the business and its employees to make the system work and be successful. A company must first develop the international infrastructure suitable for their strategy. The major dimensions for developing this infrastructure are the global environment, the corporate global strategies, and the structure of the organization, the management and business procedures, and finally the technology platform. The global environment or the global business drivers are mainly separated into two groups, general culture factors and specific business factors. The general cultural factors such as global communication and transportation technologies, which are necessary because most international companies aren’t centralized. The different departments of a company are broken down and dispersed among different countries for instance the marketing, accounting, and management may all be based in the United States while production is based in Mexico and distribution is based in many different countries. This calls for an integrated system that can communicate easily with all the different branches/departments of the company. For this to be possible the system must be designed and capable to be understood by the many company, firm, business, international, different, global, system, one, systems, sales, must, companies, because, world, production, needs, make, same, processes, own, now, information, goods, based, software, management, headquarters, hardware, done, divisions, countries, able, understood, run, process