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Week 5 Question (10 marks, maximum 300 words)

Puma Designs hired a consultancy firm four months ago to redesign the information system that the architects use. The architects will be able to use the state-of-the-art computer-aided design (CAD) programs to help in designing the products.

The consultancy firm has been instructed to develop the system without disrupting the architects. In fact, top management believes that the best route is to develop the system and then introduce it to the architects during a training session. Management does not want the architects to spend precious billable hours guessing about the new system or putting work off until the new system is working.

Required:

a) Do you think that the management is taking the best course of action for the announcement of

the new system? Why?

b) Do you approve of the development process? Why

Answer 1

In order to meet the requirement of the business according to current analysis it is better to redesign the inforamtion sysyem from time to time fo rbetter result and also for the development of th eemployee and the employer in fastt changing environment impact.

a. Redesign Information system suggests by the management:

to meet the challenge of stable low enrollments in the Management information system (MIS) program, the renewal of the MIS strategies vary depanding upon the feasible approach to increasing requirement of information system.

first company make the information systems planning strategies to familiarize with the methods used to specify information system requirements.

information system must be change according to environment and also flexible in nature according to customer needs, requirements,are critical for the competitive survival.

take efforts to link the information system with the business plans and find the way to make strategies esssential component of th eorganizational planning process.

It help to identify the key entities and attributes in the organization's data. Strength of the firms also analysis by the person while desigining the information system

Critical Success Factors (CSF) is the small number of easily identified operational goals shaped by the industry, the firm, the managers and ensure the sucess of the organization

It is the system analyst who determine the requirement of information in the best way, bytheir own skill and according to requirement of organisational goals.

b. Development Process is proposed and passed by taking crucial action and by taking various question asked by the managers like;

- How they use information in the firm

- Where they get the information

- What are the objectives of th eorganization

- How they make decisions to work at full capacity

- and how the data is used in better way to achieve full resources.

Information system can be a powerful instrument for organisational change , enabling organisation to re-design there power structure scope , work flow , product and services.

Nowadays, international division of labor are no longer determined by the location or area, now the reach of the firm is extended.

Organisation are interested in it because they get the reward of high level, the radicle re-design of business process combining steps to cut waste an eliminating paper intensive task to reduce cost and improve quality of the product and provide service to maximise the benefit of information technology.

Strategies in the business process should be redesigned to cover maximum output at minimum cost and create task force from key line group. There are various activities of system development like system analysis , system design, programming , testing, conversion and finally production and maintainance.

System analysis involve a feasibilty study to determine whether that solution is feasiable and according to organisation design, it should also be

- TECHNICAL FEASIABILTY

- ECONOMICAL FEASIABLITY

- OPERATIONAL FEASIABILTY