Extra Credit- Steve Jobs

Zack Swan

Professor Fleury-Lawson

Extra credit/ Steve Jobs

My views along with many other citizens and business people that admired Steve Jobs was that he was a great American inventor and he was also drawn to business. Steve Jobs first started off his career by co-founding what is known today as Apple Inc. When Steve was still apart of Apple, before the fall out of his position there, he covered the roles of chairman and chief executive officer for Apple. Jobs is greatly acknowledge for his attributions and hard work that he put in to help create the Apple Company. After Jobs parted ways from Apple he quickly once again became co- founder of another company. This company became known as Pixar Animation Studios, where jobs covered the same roles in Pixar that he did Apple as chief executive officer. After the Pixar by Disney was released, in 2006 Jobs was a member on the board of directors for the Walt Disney Company. Once Jobs was now officially part of the Walt Disney he was viewed for his wonderful ability to create such a good animation studios. His Pixar Studio got great recognition from the great animation that it created for Walt Disney moves.

There were many things that Jobs touched upon in the management information system with his type of leadership. Jobs one great attribute that he will be known for is his that he a tremendous communicator. Steve Jobs was different from other on his level of most CEO’s which was to produce high profits. Job’s was inspired by a purpose that was beyond making money. One of his greatest impact on his workers and leadership team is that he tough them how to be visionary and creative. This was a different approach in MIS because of the feedback on their views and thought from workers and team members.

There are quite a few lessons that we can learn from Steve Jobs great performance in the business work. But there are two lesson which were the most important to take from his career. The fist was that he always stated that people/ customer didn’t know what they wanted. He stated that they didn’t know what they wanted until you showed them. This is due to the interaction with the customer to give them feedback, facts and reviews on a product or service such as the IPod. Jobs also preached about maintaining obsessive security. Jobs liked to maintain the secrecy of products until its prevailing. This was where Jobs took his time to make sure everything was secure and ready for prevailing. This insured him that nothing could be wrong from all the carful steps Jobs took to make sure the product was ready. Job’s was a great role and asset in the business process management of both Pixar and Apple. He “managed techniques that include methods and tools to support the design, analysis, implementation, management, and optimization of business process”. (Rainer, Cegielski. Introduction to Information Systems. Third edition. Page9.)