Expert answer:IT Strategic Project Plan and Presentation
Expert answer:THIS ASSIGNMENT IS BASED ON FOUR OTHER ASSIGNMENTS FROM THE PRIOR WEEKS THAT I’VE ATTACHED. I’VE ALSO ATTACHED THE GRADING CHART.ALSO THE TEACHER GAVE THE ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS: This should not be too much work if you did a good job all class. You need to submit and Word paper and a PowerPoint presentation.Take the papers you did and combine the information. Be real careful about segregating the sections so they are obvious – don’t make it one big run on paper – use headings. Be sure to use APA format for the paper and get the 3 citations in. Review the bullet points listed for the paper here and make sure you hit each one.Use good format guidelines for proper PowerPoint presentations (not too much text per slide) and check that you hit all the bullet points lists for the presentation. You can go over on slides a little if you need to and feel free to use the notes sections for supporting content rather than cram it all on the slide.Scenario: You are researching a business development idea for your company. You have been preparing components of the project plan throughout this course. You will now pull together the four components completed in the previous weeks into a final project plan for presentation to the board of directors of your organization. The business development idea will be focused on an IT project that will improve or change your current business model to create more value for your company and its customers.Synthesize the individual assignment deliverables from Weeks 1 through 4, including instructor corrections and recommendations.Create an Information Technology (IT) project plan in Microsoft® Word in a minimum of 2,100 words, including an introduction and conclusion, and include the following:The project proposal summary that you created in Week 1, updated with recommendations and corrections from your instructorYour data communications plan and project budget from Week 2Your collaboration and eCommerce recommendations from Week 3Your project security plan from Week 4A GANTT-type chart in your paper to illustrate the project scheduleCreate a Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation of 6 to 10 slides to accompany the strategic plan. Please include the following in your presentation:Overview of your project (cover the points listed in the project proposal summary, 2 to 3 slides)A summary of your data communications plan (1 slide)Your collaboration and eCommerce recommendations (1 to 2 slides)Your project security plan (1 slide)A Gantt-type chart illustrating project schedule (1 slide)A call to action slide to your audience (1 slide)Cite a minimum of 3 peer-reviewed references from the University Library.Format consistent with APA guidelines.
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Running head: ERP BUSINESS PROJECT
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System Implementation Project
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ERP BUSINESS PROJECT
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System Implementation Project
Brief Profile about This Project
I intend to create and install an effective enterprise system that will automate many of
key business functions within my organization. Automation of all daily business functions will
be focused in key areas such as supply chain management, logistics, finance, accounting,
production distribution and human resource management (Ahmed, March 29, 2015). This project
is meant to serve as a backbone information system that will enable my company achieve agility,
efficiency, responsiveness being essential for a dynamic business environment and ensure that
my company is able to obtain a unique competitive advantage as compared to my business
competitors in the same industry. This system will be collecting data from various sects of the
company and store it in central position for easy access; for making informed decisions within
the organization.
An ERP system at my company will be resolving problems of fragmented redundant data
sets and systems; enhancing a situation where my company will be able to have real time
processing of business activities and other essential tasks; without incurring huge economic
costs. An ERP system will be performing the following key functions; coordination of daily
business activities, real time response to customer order and provision of valuable information
for streamlining management; and decision making process within the organization (Shaul &
Tauber, 2012).
Reason for Implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System
There are numerous merits that are associated with an Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP) System for any company that is focused with attaining a unique competitive edge within
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any industry. As well opined by various scholars and managers in the field of business and
finance, ERP system plays a significant role in improving quality and efficiency of service
delivery within the company. This is attained by creating a framework for integrating and
improving internal processes such as customer service delivery and access of financial records in
a secure and user friendly manner. It reduces costs by a huge margin. For example, all process
costs, hardware, software and IT support staff are decreased significantly as compared to nonintegrated legacy systems within any organization (Ahmed, March 29, 2015).
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System support informed decision making process
within any organization. This is made possible by provision of vital cross-functional information
that is used by management of any company to address issues such as stiff competition caused by
other business competitors, discharge of quality services to esteemed customers, aiding in
employee compensation and motivation practices initiated within the organization, improving the
image of the organization to the public and finally ensuring that there is in place a well designed
corporate social responsibility program (Ahmed, March 29, 2015).
Another compelling reason for initiating an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System
is because of the culture of coordinating key departments within the company such as human
resource management, quality assurance and standards, auditing, and procurement among others.
These are just but a few advantages that are associated with implementation of an Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP) System. I feel that by implementing this, my company will be able to
address many business needs in a timely manner. The entire process of managing current
workforce is highly improved with design and implementation of an Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) System within business organizations (Almajali, 2016).
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ERP and Company Betterment
As already opined in the above section, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System will
make my company different from others. Being an electronic service and product provider within
the United States, I will be able to streamline internal communication channels, deliver products
to the target customers in a reasonable time frame and be able to enhance effectiveness in service
delivery. Public image is going to be streamlined by this Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
System as compared to other business partners that have failed to embrace it.
Consequences of not embracing an ERP System Project
I am fully convinced that lack of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System within my
company will result to the following nauseating business outcomes: delayed production process,
compromised communication channels, succumbing to dark forces of business competitors, lack
of proper coordination of the activities within my company and finally jeopardized efforts of
realizing a competitive edge in the business industry of selling electronic products. It is prudent
to be aware that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System has the following challenges:
requiring complex technology to be build, huge financial costs incurred during the roll out phase
and difficult to build it. However, I request the board to approve my project in a period of not
more than six months from this date of submission.
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References
Ahmed, F. (March 29, 2015). Business Applications: Cross Functional enterprise systems and
Enterprise Resource planning.
Almajali, D. (2016).Antecedents of ERP systems implementation success: a study on Jordanian
healthcare sector. Journal of Enterprise Information Management. Emeralad. 29 (4):
549. doi: 10.1108/JEIM-03-2015-0024.
Shaul, L.; Tauber, D. (2012). CSFs along ERP life-cycle in SMEs: a field study. Industrial
Management & Data Systems. 112 (3): 360–384. doi: 10.1108/02635571211210031.
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Data Communication and Project Planning
BIS/320
November 6, 2017
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Data Communication and Project Planning
My project last week was on enterprise resource planning (ERP). I emphasized on the
need to have a working ERP program that will streamline all business functions within the
organization. As argued by Thomson (2015), every organization functions like a system. This is
to say that every organization function is linked to the others. For example, production as a
function is linked to other functions like marketing and human resource management. A firm’s
production department works on orders that are received my marketing department. The size of
these orders determines number of people to be hired in the production team. By understanding
this, one can clearly say that there is a reason to have one robust system that links all
organization functions. By having this system, it is possible to coordinate organizational
functions in order to achieve one goal.
This paper illustrates the intended data communication systems for creating the ERP
system. The researcher will elaborate on communication functionality of the system and how it
will be able to achieve the intended purpose. Finally, the researcher will recommend on the
project planning methodology that will be used to come up with the system.
Data communication refers to the process of transferring data from one source top
another (Allen, 2016). In order to determine an effective data communication model to apply in a
project, there are some questions that one needs to ask him or herself. Firstly, it is important to
understand who will be the data transmitter. This is the person who will be charged with the
responsibility of entering data into the system. In many ERP cases, there is a data manager who
is responsible for the entire system. Such a manager determines which data should be transmitted
into the system at any given time. System administrator works closely with management to
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control data transfer and access. The other important question is on data recipient. One needs to
understand the levels of involvement for all parties into the system.
After determining data origin and destination, the next step is to determine data
communication networks that will be applied to achieve intended purpose. In our case, there are
different data communication types that will be applied in different situations. There are those
instances that the management communicates to junior employees without any intention of
getting responses from them. Such instances include when management wants to pass certain
directives to employees. In these cases, the ERP will be programmed using simplex data
communication. This according to Allen (2016) is a data communication mode that sends data in
one way within a network. This mode is recommended for communication instances where the
main motive is to give directions without expecting and response (Thomson, 2015).
In a case where there will be interaction between network users, full duplex data
communication will be applied. According to Allen (2016), this is a data communication mode
where network users interact simultaneously within a network. This is very useful in horizontal
communication. For instance, when production manager wants to communicate with other
departmental managers in order to organize on how to meet a certain order, this is the best
communication mode.
Creation of ERP within this organization will be treated as a project. The most effective
project planning methodology for the ERP project is critical path methodology. As pointed out
by Zack (2017), this is a methodology where core elements of a project are classified and listed
in the critical chain. Using this approach, resources are allocated in such a manner that tasks in
the critical chain and other tasks can be run concurrently. In the ERP project, the most important
steps are to come up with an enterprise management system that is web hosted. The system
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should be adequately secured to curb any case of unauthorized access. These are the critical
paths. The issues of data communication models and other technicalities of the system are
additional features that should be run concurrently. The goal of project planning is to ensure that
all project teams are bound together by project goals.
By taking a project management approach using critical path model, the organization
will be able to allocate resources adequately into the project. This is because the model starts by
prioritizing activities depending on relevance within the project. Secondly, this approach helps in
project assessment. It is possible to evaluate specific section of the project.
Budget
Budget ($)
Project planning
75,000
Project implementation300,000
Project evaluation
50,000
Remedial
20,000
Total
445,000
References
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Allen, P (2016) Overview of Data Communication Networks; Fundamentals of Data
Communication Networks, 1-15
Thomson, J. D. (2015) E-Government Management Practice; Enterprise Resource Planning,
651-664
Zack, R., K (2017) Value-Driven Project Management; Project Management 2.0, 53-76
Running head: E-COMMERCE
E-commerce and Information Technology
BIS/320
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E-COMMERCE
E-commerce and Information Technology
The aim of every business is to ensure satisfaction of their customers. The company also
needs to ensure that it has created a good environment for all the employees in the organization
so that they can deliver their best. A business, therefore, needs to collaborate e-commerce
techniques and information technology to ensure that the above players are useful in ensuring the
continuity of the company. The collaboration is essential since there is no single system available
that can provide all the information that is required in an organization. The information is vital in
decision making which is a crucial art of the business.
Collaboration ensures that systems work together to achieve the common goals of the
organization. It also involves bringing together two or more individuals in an organization to
perform a given task. Collaboration does not necessarily mean that the two colleagues will have
to interact face to face, but with the adjustment in technology, there are more ways of bringing
employee together. The ways include audio conferencing and video conferencing. These are
information technology techniques that can be applied to business together with e-commerce.
The aim of bringing two colleagues together is so that they can exchange ideas and brainstorm to
come up with the best strategies to carry out business. Having a forum where many employees
who are not necessarily in the same geographical area can interact is a benefit to the business. It
helps the business have many ideas as the ideas are contributed by a large number of individuals.
The ideas are after that evaluated, and the best are chosen. The use of information technology
and e-commerce, in this case, will lead to better decisions being made.
The collaboration will boost the employees’ morale in the business. When employees are
given an opportunity to video conference with the management, it boosts their confidence. The
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employees also gain a sense of belonging and hence they become more productive in the
business. Collaboration also makes it easy to get feedback from the customers. The aim of the
company as said earlier is to ensure that the customer is satisfied. When a customer gets to
engage in a computer-mediated communication with an employee in the organization, it gives
them a sense of being valued by the organization. This will not only attract more customers but
also maintain the already existing ones. The company also gets to guide their customers on how
different processes are carried out, e.g., how to use a particular item.
There are different types of e-commerce techniques that are available and can be applied
to business to ensure its success. The first is ensuring that the e-commerce to be put in place is
up-to-date with the universal trends. A business that needs to be successful with e-commerce
needs to ensure that it is updated and is in line with the current trends. Content marketing also
needs to be a critical technique. A business that intends to venture to e-commerce must be ready
to give content to the customers. This is done through the creation and also ensuring there is new
and available information for the customer about your organization (Qin, 2010).
Social media marketing is another e-commerce technique. This involves communication
with your customers and the general public in a personal way. This is a critical area since it is
important for the company to maintain consistency when it comes to this area. The consistency
of the company is what will create confidence in the public who will later become your
customers. A company intending to use this technique must also have the necessary mechanism
to measure the impact of this type of marketing. The company needs to know whether they are
achieving anything (Qureshi, 2016).
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E-COMMERCE
The technique that I would apply to the project is social media marketing. With this
technique, it is possible for the company to interact regularly with their customers on the various
platforms. The company has a quick way of passing information on their product to the
customers. The company also gets immediate feedback on their products from the customers. It
is easy to address issues which boost the customer’s esteem and hence facilitating the increase in
the business (Djoleto, 1970).
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E-COMMERCE
References
Djoleto, W. (1970). Electronic Commerce and Organization Leadership. Hershey: Business
Science Reference.
Qin, Z. (2010). Introduction to E-commerce. Springer Science & Business Media.
Qureshi, J. A. (2016, September 30). 11 Essential Marketing Strategies-for Your eCommerce
Business. Mouseflow Blog. Retrieved from Mouseflow Blog:
https://mouseflow.com/blog/2016/09/11-essential-marketing-strategies-for-yourecommerce-business/
Running Head: INFORMATION SECURITY
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Information Security
BIS/320
November 20, 2017
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Any information that a system attacker, be it a competitor, industrial spy or a cybercriminal,
maybe targeting is available in the company’s ERP. This data includes personal ID information,
financial data, and intellectual property among others (Hendrawirawan et al., 2007). Some of the
internal and external security threats to the project’s ERP include:
1. Unpatched Software, the complexity of the ERP decelerates the detection and patching
of the system hence making it a security issues. An attacker can exploit any of these unpatched
vulnerabilities and gain access to the financial data.
2.
Poor Configuration, failure to properly configure and setup the ERP can be a great
security risk. This opens the door for cyber-attacks because the security of the system is casually
set up. Thee configuration vulnerabilities include unlocked credentials for the access parameter
and open ports.
3. Outdated web interfaces, these have popularized the use of the web-based attacks such
as XSRF and XSS as well as the common SQL injection. This is caused by the use of old web
framework that is vulnerable to newer modes of attacks.
4. Inadequate access control, this bears the system mostly to internal attacks because any
employee can access the systems financial records (Allen, 2008). The data can also be edited hence
compromising the integrity of the ERP
Security and threat prevention technology
The risk of patching is high hence the best technology to use is the virtual patching, the
best way to through with it is through updating the intrusion-prevention system filters
configuration for blocking any attacks that try to use the system vulnerabilities (Allen, 2008). The
use of updated web interface through using the latest technology is also essential for the system to
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ward of newer threats. Better access control methodologies will also be implemented; these include
the use of biometrics for different level access in the system. This will ensure that only the allocated
people will have access to the financial data as well as other critical company information
(Hendrawirawan et al., 2007). Lastly, during the configuration, the proper configuration will be
done to ensure that the attack surface is small.
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References
Allen, V. (2008). ERP security tools: data mining and analysis software can help auditors test
access controls for key enterprise resource planning systems. Internal Auditor, 65(1), 2527.
Hendrawirawan, D., Tanriverdi, H., Zetterlund, C., Hakam, H., Kim, H. H., Paik, H., & Yoon, Y.
(2007). ERP security and segregation of duties audit: A framework for building an
automated solution. Information Systems Control Journal, 2, 46.
IT Strategic Project Plan and Presentation Grading Guide
BIS/320 Version 3
Individual Assignment: IT Strategic Project Plan and Presentation
Purpose of Assignment
The purpose of the assignment is to apply Information Technology (IT) and Project Management (PM) best
practices to create a Project Plan for your proposed IT development.
Resources Required
Essentials of MIS, Chapter 1, 12
Electronic Reserve Readings for Week 5
Lynda.com® Project Management Fundamentals
Grading Guide
Content
Met
Partially
Met
Not Met
Student synthesizes the individual
assignment deliverables from Weeks 1
through 4, including instructor corrections and
recommendations.
Student creates an Information Technology
(IT) project plan in a Microsoft® Word
which includes the following:
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The project proposal summary created in
Week 1 includes recommendations and
corrections from their instructor.
Their data communications plan and
project budget from Week 2
Their collaboration and eCommerce
recommendations from Week 3
Their project security plan from Week 4
A GANTT-type chart in your paper to
illustrate the project schedule.
The paper is 2,100 words in length.
Student creates a Microsoft® PowerPoint®
presentation which includes the following:
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