INFORMATION

SYSTEM & THE

CHANGE OF
WORK CULTURE
Gwee Jo-Ee CGA150100
Hasliza Hashim CGA150003

Outline
Technological Changes in Workplace
How IS Changes Work Design
How IS Create New Type of Jobs
Change of Communication and Collaboration Patterns
Challenges in Implementing IS in Workplace
Conclusion

Technological Changes In
Workplace

Conference device

Collaborative tools

Digital processing
and automation

Meet people globally in

dreams without having
to be physically
present.

Reduce meeting and

increase team
collaboration through
collaborative tools.

Making work,
information and
processes more and
more paperless.

Technological Changes In
Workplace

Big data

Cloud computing

Analyze real-time
data instead of using
historical data

Access and use

information stored
on cloud storage
instead of physical
storage

How IS Changes Work Design

Where?
What task
needs to be
performed

What is the
best way to
do it?

Who is going
to do it?

Automate the
task

How to make
it efficient?

How IS Create New

Type of Jobs
Cognitive computing engineer
or machine learning specialist
Blockchain engineer
GPU cluster engineer
Virtual reality engineer
Internet of things architect

Change of Communication and Collaboration

Patterns
Industrial
Era

Location
centric
Information
silos
Minimal
collaborati
on
Linear mind-

ICT Enhanced

Email
Office
Automation
Internet
Mobile Phone
Impact of ICT
Operational
Excellence

Telework

Working
remotely
Focuses on
workers
productivity
Emergence
of coworking

Work 2.0

Work more
distributed
(time &
location)
Online
collaboratio
n
High end

Smart Work

Independent
of time and
place
Networked
way of
working
Cloud-driven
Collaborativ

Challenges in Implementing IS in
Workplace

Difficulty in
Managing
New challenges
how workers are
supervised,
evaluated and
compensated

Technology
Resistance
Hardest part of
change not
physical
environment or

Time-zones &
Culture Barrier
Difficulty in
scheduling
meetings,
diversity of team
members

Learning
New
Technologie
s
Supporting
employees

Conclusion
IS changes work culture from being location centric to being
independent of time and place
This is made possible by the use of IS collaborative tools
More information flow, more collaborations, and more virtual
teams
With the change of work culture, work design changes and
this creates many new jobs in IT field
Implementation of new IS in workplace also comes with new
challenges in managing people

Cisco Collaborative Workplace

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