Management Information System

Description

– Your paper MUST include a minimum of 3 references in addition to the textbook. – The purpose of this paper is to begin exploring how information systems are used to improve operational efficiency. This paper will include the following 5 sections addressing the initial phases of understanding the problem and how the organization’s environment will shape possible solutions. -Select an organization that you feel could benefit from an improvement in some area of its operations or delivery of its services. -Define the basic characteristics of the organization (size, industry, annual revenues and profit, competitors, and any relevant regulatory issues). -State the inefficiency/deficiency you seek to improve. -Characterize the problem in a quantifiable manner. This means that you should be able to describe the impairment in terms of production inefficiencies in units, number of customers served in each period, amount of revenue lost or unrealized etc. -Describe your proposed solution. Your description should be in sufficient detail that the reader doesn’t have to ask, “how are you going to do that”. For each portion of the proposed solution you should describe the changes to the organization and the existing process that will need to be made.

Describe each of the underlying technologies your proposed solution will require. As an example, if you were solving a supply chain issue and trying to speed up a receiving process, you may use bar code scanners and/or RIFD transmitters/receivers to more quickly ingress the received items into inventory. You would also need to discuss the technologies that would allow the data to be stored, retrieved, and the physical infrastructure and network elements that would allow this to happen. Provide a conclusion that summarizes the previous 3 sections. The conclusion should recap the company, problem, and the proposed solution ending with a quantifiable benefit as the result of the proposed solution. This benefit should be in terms of not only production/service metrics, but also extrapolated into a revenue/profit  increase. Based upon the solution presented in your midterm paper (above sections) , characterize the revisions to the process flow. In both narrative and flowchart/pert chart format, present a representation of the current process and the proposed revision. For this section you should have 2 APA level 2 subsections (one for the existing situation/process and one for the revised situation/process). Each section should contain a detailed narrative of how the process works/will work, and an accompanying flowchart/pert chart. SPECIFICALLY identify each of the technological components of your solution. This section is designed to convey the exact technology components that will be used in your proposed solution. While you don’t need to provide pricing, you do need to be specific. -How will you implement the new solution? (direct cutover, trial group, etc?) -Provide a detailed schedule for the implementation based upon the organization’s specific characteristics. You must provide a timeline for the implementation in addition to a narrative description of how you will implement the plan. -This plan should also include a trouble resolution/post implementation issue resolution component that describes how you will handle issues that arise during or after the solution has been deployed. -Discuss the controls you will have in place to evaluate the effectiveness of your proposed solution as well as the effectiveness of your implementation. What are the KPIs the solution should improve? What are the CSFs that will help ensure a clean transition to the proposed solution Provide a conclusion that summarizes the midterm paper and the implementation outlined for this paper