The Role of Systems

The Role of Systems Assignment 1

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to assess your ability to explain the role of information systems to support business collaboration.

Action Items

1. Conduct research for the following topical areas. Focus your research by locating current articles (i.e., within the last 12 months) in information technology and/or MIS journals. Concentrate on articles that discuss specific implementations of collaboration systems for:

· Knowledge management;

· Content management;

· Workflow management; and

· Groupware.

2. Conduct additional research regarding future trends in collaboration systems. Examples might include:

· Instant messaging; or

· Blogs; or

· Streaming content; or

· Online meeting/collaboration spaces; or

· Other trends of your choice.

3. Choose a specific future trend related to collaboration systems and discuss its potential benefits to organizations.

Assignment 2 PowerPoint Presentation

Please choose one option and three roles associated with that option

​Project Research and Strategy Proposal – As a C Level​

Proposal Strategy Analysis and Solution Proposal – As an Executive​

Solution Proposal Analysis and Recommendation Proposal – As a Manager

Option 6 – CCO- Chief compliance officer = CCO> Senior Vice President, Human Resources> Manager, HR​

· ERP Risk Factor: The implementation (Big Bang Approach) integrated everything at once.​

· ERP Risk Factor: The implementation did not consider how requirements might frequently change.

· You will each research those 2 ERP risk factors, discuss how collaboration might mitigate them, and propose a strategy to implement them, from the perspective of your job title.

· Your research and discussion should focus on actual implementation.

· You will prepare a PowerPoint presentation, including notes for each slide contained in the presentation.

· In your discussion/presentation, you will focus on:

· Introduction, this should frame what you will be presenting.

· What are the factors which you are responsible for?

· Who (by job title) would be involved with each factor?

· Quantify and discuss the risk factor in terms of potentially negative impact (1/least-10/most) and include at least two examples of issues from each risk factor in real-life ERP implementations? You will focus your research by locating current articles (i.e., within the last 12 months) in information technology and/or MIS journals. Concentrate on articles that discuss specific ERP implementations.

· When should collaboration be part of the implementation?

· Why will collaboration be a positive remedy?

· How will collaboration address the risk(s)?

· Conclusion/Summary/Recommendation, this should be a strong restatement of your findings.