Question

Write a business report based on the following:

A new business, Globex Corporation has been created as the result of merging two large regional business, Riverina Precision Farming, and B T & Sons Farming Equipment. Globex Corp is primarily located in the Riverina Region of NSW and has three locations, Albury, Griffith and Wagga Wagga. Within Globex there are two arms to the business (Precision Farming & Farming Equipment), each of which is represented at each location.

The Globex Farming Equipment head office is located in Wagga Wagga, while the Globex Precision Farming head office is located in Griffith. Parts and Services for both arms as well as administration support are coordinated from the Albury office.

Globex Corporation strives to supply agricultural solutions that achieve the following objectives:

• Fulfill unmet market needs
• Exceed the standards for quality, effectiveness and value of its competitors
• Delivered on time
• Supported with expert technical service and advice
• Environmentally responsible and beneficial

Senior management has finalised on the following decisions:

1. Globex will retain all existing staff, stock and infrastructure from the merged businesses. B T & Sons aging systems are to be merged into the Riverina Precision Farming systems.

2. Globex have decided to invest in the development of an Online Sales Management System (OSMS), replacing all manual processes, allowing clients to order and pay for equipment online.

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[Points 3 and 4 will be given to you by your lecturer 7 days before date due. This is to allow everyone to work in this timeframe and to prevent unauthorised assistance with your work.]

Write a business report outlining the above case, stating assumptions you make at the beginning of your report. Provide critique into the management decisions substantiating with reference to literature. In your report, make the difference between Information Systems (IS) and Information Technology (IT) issues and how it will affect customer choice, continued patronage, brand loyalty, and so on.

Suggest how to attract new customers (from competitors) and any other new business opportunities that may arise with such a set up. All these should be substantiated with references to IS and IT literature.

Answer 1

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I experienced enormous advantages and disadvantages working in team work because as a team worker we I have to take more and more responsibilities and we have to act verity of roles throughout the whole period of team work. Woking at a team, as a team member leads to create many negative and positive effects such as

Advantages like,

We move along different knowledge areas creative ideas and thoughts differ from each person.

Able to in co-operate and interact with different people in different stages. (fields)

Enable to recognize own weakness and can improve them in better way.

Create opportunities access to explore new inventions in the particular field

Disadvantages

Specifically, most of the time knowledge areas of team or project members and ideas which come from that particular knowledge area do not match with other knowledge areas during the project initiation stage.

Team values

Improve and use effective critical listening and thinking

Do team planning and decision make in effective and efficient manner

use interpersonal skills such as soft skills for speak politely among team members

improve integrity between team members that participating and co-operate for the all team works

specifically, respect to each member who involve with the team work

to be honest with the responsibilities and with all the members

Code of ethic statement

QUADRATECH will work co-operate with all the team members to achieve team’s goals successfully and enhance our knowledge and experiences from working as a group and it may helpful to our future team works.

Rules and expectation

Work on time and participate all the meeting that the team arranged.

Complete all the duties without major mistakes.

Respond efficiently all the team works carrying through the emails and other support communication methods.

Complete team works timely efficient and effective manner.

Goal of QUADRATECH

Utilize strength and opportunities as develop our project life cycle and leave all the weakness and threats throughout the project and complete the project successfully and effectively.

Learning cycle

Facts already know regarding the project	Assumption	Fact that we do not know Questions to be answered
GLOBEX need computer based system instead manual system	Lack of efficiency with manual system, they using currently	What would be the best solution for this problem
Need a method that can identifying volunteers for their contribution	Client (GLOBEX) require a computer based system to increase their productivity, accuracy efficiently and effectively	At present, what is the method they use to identifying volunteers and staff members for their contribution.

Role of conduct	Duties	Date
Devon,Chamali, gaurpeet, sarvesh	Brainstorm, define and analyse what are the requirement of the system that received from client	Monday, Tuesday
Devon	Develop the project MOV (goals and values)	Tuesday
Chamali	Observe what is the best method from all the alternatives	Wednesday
Gaurpeet	Analyse scope, risk and quality management plan	Thursday
Sarvesh	Evaluate the overall final project as a review	Friday

Communication plan

Number of stakeholders involved with this project and following are,

GLOBEX (client)

VIRTUCON (consultant)

Project team

Project manager

Internal staff of GLOBEX

Volunteers

Government

Object	Communication method	frequency	Subject of responsible	Contribute to
Project information with initial discussions	Emails, face to face conversation, meetings	As needed	Project manager, project team	Project team and stakeholders to recognize exact way and look at alternatives
Project planning and designing MOV, SCOPE	Emails, face to face conversation, meetings	As needed	Project manager, project team	Project team, project manager, sponsors
Project framework including rules and responsibilities	Emails, face to face conversation, meetings	As needed	Project manager, project team	Project team, project manager, sponsors
Project updates	Emails via internet	Weekly	Project manager, project team	Project team, project manager, sponsors
Schedule milestones	Emails via internet	Weekly	Project manager, project team	Project team, project manager, sponsors
Introduce project risk	Emails, face to face conversation, meetings	Weekly	Project manager, project team	Project team, project manager, sponsors
Project quality	Emails, face to face conversation, meetings		Project manager, project team	Project team, project manager, sponsors

Closure Checklist

	Task	Completed Yes/No
Team
1	All deliverables are completed with evidence of acceptance and acceptance dates	yes
2	Functional Requirements have been met successfully	Yes
3	Technical Requirements have been met successfully	Yes
4	Testing completed with certification and accreditation	Yes
5	Security and Controls certification completed	Yes
6	Data Archiving Plan implemented	Yes
7	Data Backup and Recovery implemented	Yes
8	Maintenance Plans established	Yes
9	Licensing Agreements completed	Yes
10	Account Authorization and Management Procedures completed	Yes
11	Deployment Plan implemented successfully	Yes
12	Maintenance team has access to artefacts to help them maintain the system	Yes
13	Customer formal acceptance	Yes

Project evaluation report

Goal of the project	Object of the project	Activities	contribution
Establish a computer based system instead manual rostering system	Enrich the computer based system accuracy to assist end users	Explore and investigate about project and record major initiations	GLOBEX (client) VIRTUCON (consultant) Project team Project manager Internal staff of GLOBEX Volunteers Government
Implement a system that can identifying volunteers for their contribution.	Develop effectiveness to identifying volunteers for their contribution.	Gathered all the information and analyzed it to demonstrate to the project team that can able to understand	potential participation volunteers staff members
Implement a method to store volunteer’s information effectively and efficiency	Increased effectiveness of storing volunteer’s information efficiency	project planning and designing (MOV, SCOPE management plan, metrics) Milestones initial approval design phase final approval implementation phase identifying risks and it probability quality assurance	methods of data collect face to face conversation major meetings Surveys and Questionnaires Interviews Observations Diaries and Logs
Implement a system to avoid massive expenditures	Increase future financial benefits of Globex	project closure

The major purpose of this project is establish a computer base system instead manual rostering system. Therefore, globex required a computer based system to implement as their main system. Through the computer based information system globex expected massive advantages such as Save the time, side of organization and the volunteers. For example, Time saving on volunteer advertising purposes throughout the period of Riverina Agriculture and Lifestyle show. Information of volunteer’s update and retrieve instantly it leads to increase efficient in work. Decrease cost as a long term benefit because this system is cost effective positively for instance, reduction with stationary, printing documents, communication costs Improve accuracy 100% for recognizing new and previous volunteers for their contribution. Under these circumstances project team able to design the measurable organization value(MOV) including goals most likely to achieve. According to measurable organization value(MOV) identified metrics values and enable to design the project and Submitted that to stakeholders to take the final approval able to complete the project successfully and it measured that This computer based system project will be successful and achieved all the requirements after 2-weeks when establish the computer based system in right place and it leads to Improve accuracy 100% for recognizing new and previous volunteers for their contribution.

Team experience and brief reflection

Being a member of a team I had a great chance access observe numerous information related to this area and co-operate with my colleagues also use my interpersonal skills and improve my ability as well as knowledge it led to develop a strong relationship between the members results a magnificent output. The team there was five members including me and each individual had a responsibility and a role to play. For becoming a project successful there should be a better and strong leadership to lead the members. The leader should understand the project requirements. At the same time the way of leading the team members is really important to make a project successful.

At the beginning of this particular project all the team members gathered and had a discussion on the project and share the individual ideas on the project. That was a great opportunity to me to link with different people who came from different countries and backgrounds. Mainly working with a group means sharing individual ideas and getting feedbacks from the others to get a final decision to success the project. These individual ideas may lead to create conflicts among the team. That happened in my team as well. However, after some arguments the team came to a final decision. And I felt I am a member of the team of colleagues after understanding the individual characteristics.

During the working in the team, I felt that, teamwork helps to build the relationship with new people. The development of each and every task assists me to overcome various types of problems which happened during the stages of the task. During the process I found both negative and the positive aspects for the project, as a member of a team I had the strength to face them.

In this project the role of mine was to finalize all the tasks and making sure all has done according the schedule. Likewise, encourage the team members to do the project properly and clearly before the deadline. I was curious about each and every member and their work as I wanted to give the best output to the client and make the client impressed. Every individual of my team was responsible and well organized. They were enthusiastic for the project and every time that they had to face for an issue, they are overcoming it with a new and a better path. However, I still need some sort of techniques and tricks to manage the team and the members to make them much more enthusiastic and make them punctual and some ideas to make a happy environment for the members and let them not to feel board and tired.

In fact, as a part of a project or a team I have to burden a lot of responsibilities, duties to make the final product or result to be completed effectively and efficiently. Similarly, during the period of project life cycle I had experienced number of difficulties and useful facts that working as a part of project team. Along with those experiences i am able to complete ma future works more successfully.