Description
Scenario
You have spent many years as an MIS executive. You have just been hired as the new C.I.O. for a company of your choosing. You will need to create an IT strategy that addresses the necessary information technology needs and projects that the company must undertake to be successful.
You will first determine your mission, vision, and strategic goals. Once those are established, you will create your IT strategy/plan. The IT strategy should document how your business will plan, execute, and measure all activities.
You will need to present your strategy to the Executive Board. As the Chief Information Officer (C.I.O), you will need to be clear about how your efforts will increase efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability.
Instructions
Create an IT strategy/planfor your business that you can present to the Executive Leadership Team. It will need to be detailed, clear, and specificso that they can understand your plan then trust in your abilities to manage this part of the business.
Your submission should be in Microsoft Word. You may use a Microsoft Word template to create your IT plan. Appendices for the organizational chartand MIS architecturemay be attached separately. Each of the following sections,should be a section of your final IT plan.
Section 1– Summarize the business and industry that you chose. Explain the type of leadership style you believe is best suited ina changing business environment. Discuss how leadership principles will help ease the challenges of a fast changingIT environment.
Section 2– Produce an organizational chart that adequately depicts the hierarchal relationship between the IT department and other key business positions. Using the organizational chart, summarize how decision making is impacted by “change,” planned or unplanned. Describe the internal and external stakeholders that will be impacted by the changes.
Section 3– Evaluate the existing design of the MIS architecture then provide a summary of how the architecture supports business objectives. Analyzing your companies resources and the needs of your MIS architecture, determine the best IT systems implementation model. Create a Disaster Recovery plan that provides automated restoral of key systems and services.
Section 4– Conduct a systems analysis in order to determine IT systems requirements based upon business objectives and goals. Conduct an inventory of existing IT resources in order to determine the impact of implementing change.
Section 5– Create a MISarchitecture baseline that outlines the current capacity and capability of the infrastructure. Examine and define the best systems life cycle methodology for changes to your MIS architecture. Defend your chosen methodology based uponthe capabilities of your chosen company.
Section 6– As changes to the MIS architecture are necessary, explain how you will implement the changes from a Change Management perspective. Demonstrate knowledge of the change control process. Create a RFPthat will be submitted to executiveleadership of the organization for approval.
Explanation & Answer
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Running Head: IT STRATEGY PLAN
IT Strategy Plan
Bria Jones
Rasmussen College
October 2, 2019
IT STRATEGY PLAN
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Company Overview
Kroger Co. is an American chain supermarket that was incorporated in 1902 as a retailrelated business. The store is considered as the third-largest retailer in the United States with its
headquarter located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company has revolutionized its operation to
centralize everything into customer satisfaction with its experience in grocery. Currently, the
company boast of more than 2,500 stores across the world with a fundamentally different
outlook than the company's original Barney. Kroger Co. adopts the transformational leadership
style, which is relatively similar to a coaching style. This approaches mainly focuses on efficient
communication, effective goal setting, and, the motivation of employees. Thus, this style is
capable of propelling the organization towards realizing organizational objectives and goals by
concentrating most of its energy and resources into employees to transform the leadership of the
organization. Due to this leadership style, the organization is capable of picturing on its dynamic
IT environment by delegating the task to the different department under minimal supervision.
Organizational Chart and IT Department
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The above organizational structure is crucial for control orientation. For example, 'a highend Kroger Co, supermarkets will likely need to employ a hierarchical system to monitor the
design and sales of its products closely. Similarly, a high-volume consumer products company
needs to maintain a consistent worldwide brand image, and so needs to control all aspects of
production, distribution, and marketing’ (Liedtka, 2018). Thus, shareholders will significantly
benefit from this structure as it will impact on the management and decision-making styles.
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