Assignment Objectives: Focus is still on Personal Computer Industry

Analyze a company, its business position, and the attainment of a competitive advantage through the understanding and application of information systems and technologies. Discuss the management of the process by which policies and strategies relating to technology are formed.

Key Assignment

All sources should be cited using in-text references and in the References section using APA format.

New Content

Your company has purchased the smaller company that was discussed in the Phase 1 and Phase 4 Individual Projects. Your input was greatly valued. Senior management believes that you have a firm grasp on how to handle the new business; therefore, you have been assigned the role of project manager.

Your boss has asked you to write a Project Management Plan. Your plan should contain the following sections:
• Initiating
• Planning
• Executing
• Monitoring and Controlling
• Closing

In addition, your plan should touch upon the following components:
• Integration
• Cost
• Human resources
• Stakeholder management
• Scope
• Quality
• Communications
• Time
• Procurement
• Risk management

These components should be worked into the sections of your assignment noted above.

Your final draft of the Key Assignment should be 20-25 pages in length (excluding the Cover page and Reference page). The new content should be 5 pages in length.

Create document in Word that contains the following elements:
• Title page
• Course number and name
• Project name
• Your name
• Date
• Table of contents
o Autogenerated
o Up-to-date
o Maximum of 3 levels deep

• Section headings

 Qualitative Evaluation of the Industry's Strategic Position

o Choose an aspect of the information technology (IT) industry that has not been previously used as an example in this course. Use Porter's five forces to make a qualitative evaluation of the industry's strategic position. Be sure to explain each of the five forces as well as explain how they relate to your chosen industry.

Note: The mobile phone industry was provided as an example in the video material and may not be used as the subject for this assignment.

o Remember to include the following elements (Porter's five forces):

•Threat of new entrants: Are new entrants being attracted to the market, and are there barriers to entry in the industry?

•Threat of substitute products or services: Are there other products that could be alternatives to offerings in the chosen industry?

• Bargaining power of customers: What degree of bargaining power do the buyers have in terms of putting the industry under pressure to provide more products or less cost?

• Bargaining power of suppliers: What is the importance of raw materials, components, labor, and services that are required for the industry, and are there substitutes for those inputs? Discuss the possibility of switching suppliers, if necessary.

• Intensity of competitive rivalry: Does the industry have a sustainable competitive advantage?

• Strategic Information Systems Assessment

o Analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for the case study organization that are related to its present information systems environment.

o Assess the forces that are presently governing competition for the case study organization.

o Using Wiseman's framework of strategy development, define the strategic thrusts (and related advantages) that the case study organization should use to build a business case for implementing an information systems management plan.

• Information Systems Business Case
o Based on the information contained in the Business Systems Plan and the Strategic Information Systems Assessment, write an IT strategy statement that details the following:

• Critical success factors for the IT manager
• A general strategy for how the IT department will determine congruence between the goals of the IT department and the goals and objectives of the case study organization
• A general strategy for how the IT department will support the goals and objectives of the case study organization
• Strategic Business Plan

o Executive summary
o Marketing analysis
• You should identify a target market.
• You should establish a strategy for acquiring a customer base.

o Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis
o Financial statements
o Summary of the relevance of Porter's five factors
o Conclusion