week 3

Pretend that you are planning to open your own business within the next year, and that you are writing your business plan. For your research paper, you will analyze the IT requirements for your proposed business and write a proposal for how you plan to meet the IT needs of your new company. Your research project submission should include the following:

Overview and Structure of your business:

The organizational overview section should describe the structure of the business that you are proposing, focusing on the different levels of employees in the organization (upper management, middle management, operational management, and lower level employees, such as production and service workers, and data workers) and their IT needs. Other topics to cover in this section could include a description of the main business processes in your business and the types of information systems and enterprise applications you will need to efficiently run the various business processes, and an analysis of your business against Porter’s competitive forces model, along with a recommendation for an appropriate strategy for your organization to gain a competitive advantage.

What is the mission of your organization?

How is your organization structured?

What are the job roles and responsibilities of the different parts/units or your organization and the different employees of your organization?

How do the roles and responsibilities of each unit and/or employee fit together into the mission of your organization?

Are there different levels of employees, such as managers and lower level workers who will have different information technology needs?

Your Company’s Infrastructure and Information Systems Needs

Please include your plan for your company’s IT infrastructure, use of telecommunications, networking and wireless technologies, use of functional information systems, such as production and operations, marketing and sales, accounting and finance, and human resource information systems, use of enterprise applications for supply chain management and customer relationship management, and an analysis of your company’s internal operations against Porter’s value chain model, with a recommendation for how IT can be used in your organization’s value chain to increase your organization’s efficiency, effectiveness, and competitiveness.

Your Company’s Management of Data and Knowledge section and Your Company’s Use of the Internet section

Your Company’s Management of Data and Knowledge section include your organization’s current use of data management systems, problems and difficulties faced by your organization in regards to data management, your organization’s procedures for collecting, storing, managing, and updating data, and types of knowledge management systems currently used by your organization.

Your Company’s Use of the Internet section include how your organization is affected by the digital economy and what issues they need to consider in regards to doing business in the digital economy, current messaging and collaboration software and Web 2.0 technologies in use by your organization, and your company’s use of e-commerce technologies.

Your Company’s IT Planning and Analysis Processes section

This section should include organization’s IT strategy and planning process, your organization’s use of management decision support and intelligent systems, and your organization’s IT security policy, acceptable use policy, business continuity plan, and disaster recovery plan. Be sure to also take ethical and social issues into consideration in relation to IT planning.

Deliverable: You will be submitting the research project in a word document 10 pages excluding the title and reference page. Make sure to follow APA format 7th edition. The reference section must include atleast 5 sources