The

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The Integrated Enterprise System
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T.I.E.S

• The Integrated Enterprise System
• Synthesizes multiple business discipline theories
  and concepts into a unified and cohesive approach
  to assist tomorrows business leaders to learn
  creative problem identification and solution
  skills
• Multi-disciplinary
• Based on a tripartite model of business

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The Overall Model
Business Ecosystem
Extended Enterprise
Core Business
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• Component 1
• The Basic Ecosystem

• Business Ecosystem
• External
• Holistic
• Global
• Opportunities
• Threats

Social-cultural Environment
Economic Environment
Competitive Environment
Technological Environment
Political-Legal-Ethical Environment
Core Business
Extended Enterprise
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The Business Ecosystem

• This view of the firm encompasses an
  understanding of the various external
  environments in which the firm conducts
  operations and the threats thereto. Examples of
  material incorporated in this view include
• Economics Environment Macro economic
  environments and variables and their impact on
  the firm such as an understanding of world money
  and stock markets, capital generation and
  retention, foreign exchange markets
• Political-Legal- Ethical Environments
  Government, legal system, regulatory system, and
  ethics
• Competitive Environments Threats and
  Opportunities
• Technological Environments Information access
  processing efficiencies
• Social-Cultural Environments Customer needs and
  trends, natural environmental Issues

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• Component 2
• Extended Enterprise

• Immediate Interactions between the firm and
• Stockholders
• Investors/creditors
• Distributors
• Retailers
• Financial Institutions
• Suppliers
• Community
• Customers
• Government and Regulatory Agencies

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The Extended Enterprise

• This view of the firm encompasses an
  understanding of the various intermediate
  relationships that a firm must develop in its
  dealings with its external stakeholders. This is
  really a link between the business itself and the
  ecosystem in which it operates. Examples of
  material incorporated into this view from a
  financial point of view
• Customers product liability, branding,
  disclosure (e.g., truth in advertising)
• Stockholders/Investors corporate governance,
  disclosure
• Human Resources demographics, outsourcing, plant
  closing decisions
• Government and Regulatory Agencies EPA, EEOC,
  OSHA, FTC, SEC, DoJ, CPSC, FDA, Judiciary,
  Political system
• Community Corporate social responsibility,
  environmental quality management, outsourcing and
  plant closing decisions
• Competitors antitrust

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Component 3 Intra-Firm Interactions
Accounting
Information systems
Economics
Intra-firm Interactions
Law Ethics
Logistics
Finance
Marketing
Management and Operations
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The Core Business Business and Its Environment

• Accounting and Finance
• Economics
• Law and Ethics
• Corporate social responsibility
• Business ethics
• Politics and lobbying
• Constitutional law
• Regulation and compliance
• Antitrust
• International law
• Environmental policy and managing environmental
  quality
• Consumerism
• Labor issues supply, diversity, etc.
• Corporate governance
• Management, Operations, Information Systems,
  Logistics
• Marketing

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Conceptual Integration

• Course content is presented within an Integrated
  System
• Course content is linked to the three
  operational views
• Course approach is interdisciplinary
• Learning focuses on course structural knowledge
  content AND on development of integrated
  understanding

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Specific Course Work and Development Business
and Its Environment (BADM 762)

• Business Ecosystem
• International trade
• Governmental forces
• Cultural pressures and opportunities
• Extended Enterprise
• Corporate social responsibility
• Lobbying
• MNC/LDC relations
• Regulatory compliance
• Core Business
• Environmental quality management
• Civil rights, human resources, and workplace
  issues
• Governance and compensation

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Intra Firm Interactions

• There are several opportunities within each core
  MBA course to illustrate the multiple intra-firm
  interactions. For example,
• A new product development decision linked to
  human resource recruiting, environmental issues,
  and intellectual property protection
• The impact of a companys operational decisions
  on the regulatory compliance program of a firm
• The impact of laws and ethics on new product
  decision/service design decisions
• Inventory and purchasing decisions are linked to
  budgeting and cash flow situations in accounting
  and finance, as well as contract law
• The importance of cultural due diligence during
  mergers/acquisitions
• Importance of ethics and corporate responsibility
  to outsourcing to plant closing decisions

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The rest of the story

• Integration will be discussed during the semester
  in BADM 762 (Business and Its Environment)
• You will also be hearing about integration in
  most of your core MBA classes Quantitative
  Analysis, Marketing, Accounting, Economics,
  Strategy, Finance, etc.
• Please contribute personal experiences that come
  to mind when we discuss these topics
• Please provide feedback with respect to the tools
  that we use throughout the MBA curriculum to
  teach integration