Study on SriLanka Telecom Mobitel Business Management ICBT College Colombo,SriLanka

1. HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
STUDY ON MOBITEL- INFORMATION SYSTEMS
International College of Business & Technology
BHNC4106 Managing information in business

2. I have selected Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd for this Presentation.
A business process can be described simply by a flow of business activities.
Well-established business organizations can be categorized into following industries
Introduction

3. Motivation Behind Selection of Telecommunication Industry
Telecommunication industry is a good example of oligopoly
market model, Telecom companies have been undergoing
immense of structural changes with the advent of newer
technologies and huge popularity of Mobile phone and mobile
internet services.

4. Mobitel was one of the foremost mobile service providers in Sri Lanka,
Commencing operations in 1993.
Mobitel became a fully-owned subsidiary of Sri Lanka Telecom, in 2002
October.
Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd is a National mobile service
provider.
Mobitel is the first mobile operator to launch super 3.5G HSPA
technology in South Asia.
Mobitel has steadily grown into a leader in the field of ICT, taking the
industry towards transforming Sri Lanka into the ‘Wonder of Asia’.

5. Currently standing with a customer base of over 5 million.
Mobitel was awarded with the prestigious ISO 27001:2005
certification for the company’s solid and reliable Information Security
Management System (ISMS) for securing information within the
organization and ensuring safety and reliability to customers.
Mobitel offers a variety of value added services, Mobile Money, Closed
user group services, Banking, e-channeling.

6. Organizational Structure of Mobitel

7. An organization's IS must be organized in such a way as to meet the
information needs of these various levels of management.
The levels of Management can be classified in three broad categories :-
Strategic (Top management)
Tactical (Middle management)
Operational (line management)
Information is the lifeblood of any organization .

8. Department Strategic Tactical Operational
Marketing
•Monitor competitors
•New products
•New markets
•Determine pricing
•Promotional campaigns
•Select marketing media
•Customer Promotion
•Survey customers
•Monitor promotion
Accounting •International taxes •Finance short/long term •Produce reports
•Assign expenses
IS •supports decision
making for managers
and employees
•making strategic
decision for competitive
advantage
•making better decisions
•operational excellence
•improved decision
making
•new services
•creating new services
and products and new
business models
•monitor
Identification of Information in Strategic, Tactical nd
Operational Level

9. Internal Sources
Customer Call Details (CDR)
Customer Transactions
Customer Database
Statistics and directories of the company
Employee Database
Documents related to the divisions.
External Sources
Corporate Web Site
Annual Reports
Financial Report

10. The Necessity of Moving From Manual Working Processes to A
Systematic Working Processes
Large Customer Base
Mobitel have the customer base more than 5 million
Large Employee Bas
Mobitel have the employees around 1500
Speed up the Business Process
To achieve the highest KPI (Key Performance Index)

11. Evaluation and Findings About the Level of Usage, Level of
Acceptance and Level of Contribution
Mobitel uses in-house build information system tools and purchased
solutions from leading vendors with the highly accepted international
standards depend on the level of employee and application. Such as..
- Outlook mail server
- Oracle Database
- Queue Management System
- Purchasing and Ordering System
- Inventory Management System
- Visitor Management system and Access control system.
Level of contribution is full to revenue calculation and project the
overall productivity. These data is used to do strategic analysis and
projections.

12. ERP System (Enterprise Resource Planning)
ERP is currently been implemented. ERP is using for finance section to
automate all the transactions.
CRM system (Customer Relation Management)
CRM is to replace the current legacy customer management system and
to integrate all the legacy backend systems to common platform.
KMS (Knowledge management system)
KMS focus is to offer businesses the proper solutions to their
communication needs.
New Information System Applications in Mobitel

13. SAP
SAP is a ERP tool (software)
SAP is software to implement ERP
SAP is currently being implemented.
Mobitel E-commerce
Mobitel M-Cash Mobile money
Mobitel Powers mydeal.lk & mystore.lk
New Information System Applications in Mobitel

14. manual communications – Memos.
Business memos are formal documents used for internal
communication between executives and subordinates or between the
officers of the same level of an organization. Which can be exchange
electronically and manually.
Systematic communications - Email
Verbal Communications – Phone Calls, Skype for Business
Communication Process Within the Organization

15. Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd is using some extent of technology in order
to communicate
Managers: Mobile communication, video conferencing
Employees: E-mails, Mobile communication.
Managing director: E-mail, mobile communication
Board of directors: Power point presentations, Reports
Distributors: Mobile communication, e-mail
Customers: Websites, Advertisements (Facebook , YouTube ,TV,ect…)
Modern communication trends, tools and techniques introduced to the
organization in recent times

16. All the information collected via Websites, customers and employee .And those details are
computerized by the responsible persons.
The existing system is very fast and efficient in processing data and information and very
convenient to access.
In this Organization the knowledge regarding this respective field is also typically stored
in the form of documents, reports and databases.
Information is shared among the employees and subordinates in the form of policies,
procedure and guidelines of the company.
This Organization is using some technology based systems where everyone can add and
edit information. It includes programs and databases on the company's intranet.
In that the knowledge regarding every unit of the company is organized, so that everyone
can access them .

17. The Information System Infrastructure in the organization
Software
Today are many more sources for obtaining software and many more
capabilities for users to create their own customized software applications.
Cloud- Based Software Tools and Services Such as Microsoft Word or Adobe
Hardware
The exploding power of computer hardware and networking technology has
dramatically changed how business organize their computing power, putting
more of this power on networks. We look at this trends:
1. The emerging mobile digital platform
2. Cloud computing
Network
provides data, voice, and video connectivity to employees, costumers, and
suppliers.

18. 1. Culture
Culture is way of doing this . each companies culture may be same
between them. Only 70% percent of the culture is similar. But 30% is different
Compared to other companies .When we compare information System Culture have a ethical
manner on running their business. Now competitive
Advantage. Information systems save times. It helps the business to reduce
costs and increase efficiency and gives advantages over competitors.
2. Growth
The information used by the company such as ERP will assist in the growth
Of the company write two advantage used by your companies information system.
The role of information systems play within the business

19. 2. Decision making
It helps the business to take long term decision by Strategic management
And information system leads to quicker decision making and which makes the
the works
4. Communication
Communication with a large user group is not possible with
manual process. So that the systems are used to communicate the address
this user group. Then Online communicating system, such as videoconferencing
With trading partners. Phone calls and E-mails to communicate with employees
and department.
The role of information systems play within the business

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