BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS

CASE : Innovation at International Foods

TASK

In week 4 of semester you must form an IT management consulting team (comprising four members) for a multi-national organization of your choice. Advise your tutor so that your group can be allocated an industry sector.

- Analyse the IT function and its role to the overall business to achieve and sustain its competitive advantage in the marketplace.

- Identify and analyse current and expected future challenges involved in the alignment of the IT function and business function of the selected organization. Base your discussion on what you can find out about about your selected company including the industry sector and the countries that your company is in.

- Suggest recommendations to tackle the challenges facing the organization and discuss them extensively. The discussion should draw insightful analysis based on existing theories, frameworks, and models (refer to scholarly literature only) relevant to the domain of managing the IT function, strategic alignment, IT strategy, IT organization and governance, scope of IT, business value and so forth.

- Critically argue, analyse and justify how these will be dealt with in the context of the organization

Written report guidelines:
- The report should be 8000 words excluding executive summary.
- The report must be word-processed in 1.5 spacing, 12-point, Times New Roman.
- Provide an executive summary of the report.
- Critically summarise and review the scholarly literature in your own words.
- Present your analysis. It is strictly important that you do not simply describe the author's point of view but contrast opinions where they differ, and/or note where several authors agree.
- Make recommendations that draw on what you have learned from the literature.
- Evaluation will be based on argumentation, completeness, appropriateness, justification and critical analysis.
- Every member of the group should write a minimum of 1500 words.
- In the appendix section, specify the sections of the report contributed by each member. If a member of the group does not contribute to the written report, marks will be penalized for that member as appropriate.

Evaluation will be based on your argument, completeness, appropriateness, justification and critical analysis.

Note that your grade will also depend on how professionally your paper has been structured, formatted and presented.

Part iii : Presentation requirements:

All group members should make a presentation of their report for the tasks in Part ii of the assignment in class

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The company name is "TOYOTA"

This is just an overview raw intro about company.

- Analyze the IT function and its role to the overall business to achieve and sustain its competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Topic 1

- IT and business strategic alignment

Topic 2:

- IT functions and business function (organization structure): Role of IT function and business function for an organization

- IT organization and governance

Topic 3:

- Scope of IT and IT processes and planning
- Business value and customer value

Topic 4:
- Contingency planning
- Change management
- Cultural management

Topic 5:
- Executive summary, recommendation,introduction,conclusions,overall formatting,overall proof reading.
- Abstract
- Each topic comprises of minimum of 1500 words and 15 academic references.