Question

Topic is Walmart:

4. The IS Department, including information on: 2.2 million, Worldwide (2018) 1.5 million, U.S. (2017) 700,000, International

(a) The number of employees in the IS department,

(b) The structure of the IS department,

(c) The working style within the IS department (i.e., how formal or informal it is), and

(d) The placement of the IS department in the overall organization structure (i.e., who does the head of the IS department report to?).

5. Description of the structures and processes for managing IS’s. This section should describe how the organization manages information systems and technologies. Questions such as the following should be answered in this section: How does the organization plan for the various information systems it would be developing? Which individuals and departments are involved in the IS planning process? How does it decide how much resources would be allocated to each system? How does it usually develop systems (e.g., in-house or outsourced?) Who evaluates information systems? How are they typically evaluated? Who are the main individuals and committees involved in IS management? etc.

6. Detailed description of one major information system: Select the one most important information system for this organization, and describe it in detail. This section should address questions such as the following: Who are the main users of the system? What are the key in-puts and outputs for the system? What benefits does the system provide to various users? When was it developed, and by whom? How much has the system changed over the years, and in what ways?

7. Conclusion. To conclude the report, the above sections should be used to comment on

(a) the nature of the overall IS management process and the organization’s information systems;

(b) the future direction you (based on interviews, etc.) foresee for the organization’s IT use and management. In drawing these conclusions, you should draw upon the concepts and cases covered in this course.

8. Appendices. The required appendices include:

(a) indicators of the organization’s size (annual sales & no. of employees);

(b) a chart for the overall organization structure;

(c) a chart for the structure of the IS department;

(d) a list of the individual interviewed for the projects, including their names and titles, and the date and approximate duration of each interview; and

(e) a list of all the articles referred in the report.

can you please answer only 5

Answer 1