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Management Information Systems ITC 5301 Unit VII PowerPoint Presentation

This PowerPoint Presentation measures your mastery of ULOs 1.2, 3.6, 5.3, and 6.1.

It is important to understand what information systems are and why they are essential for running and managing a business. The case studies below will provide you with an opportunity to review many of the concepts covered in this course thus far. These case studies provide you with an opportunity to critically analyze events that are taking place in real-life organizations. This helps to develop your critical thinking and research skills as you research each of these scenarios.

For this assignment, you will review two case studies. Then, in a PowerPoint presentation, you will evaluate the studies and address each of the requirements listed below, using both critical thinking and theory as well as supporting documentation.

Review and analyze the Chapter 1 Case Study “Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Make Working from Home the New Normal?” and address the following in a minimum of four slides:

· Define the problem described in this case. What are the management, organization, and technology issues raised by this problem?

· Identify the information systems used to provide a solution to this problem. Was this a successful solution? Why, or why not?

· Will working from home become the dominant way of working in the future? Why, or why not?

· Analyze how information systems aligned with organizational goals and strategies is necessary.

Review and analyze the Chapter 8 Case Study “Is the Equifax Hack the Worst Ever—and Why?” and address the following in a minimum of four slides:

· Identify and discuss the security and control issues that resulted from flaws in Equifax security and control.

· What management, organization, and technology factors contributed to these problems?

· Explain how an organization’s information systems are vulnerable to internal and external threats.

· Discuss the impact of the Equifax hack.

· Explain why data management has a tremendous impact on an organization’s survival.

· How can future data breaches like this one be prevented? Discuss information systems solutions.

In formatting your PowerPoint presentation, do not use the question-and-answer format; instead, use bullets, graphs, and/or charts in your slides to identify important points, and then discuss those points in the speaker notes of each slide. The speaker notes section of each slide should not repeat slide information, but serve as an area in which you augment or elaborate on slide information so that your audience has a better understanding of the material. You must have a minimum of 100 words in the Speaker Notes section of each content slide.

Your PowerPoint presentation should be at least eight slides in length (not counting the title and reference slides). You are required to use at least two peer-reviewed, academic sources that are no more than 5 years old to support each case study. You may use your eTextbook once in each case study. All sources used, including the eTextbook, must be referenced; all paraphrased material must have accompanying in-text citations in APA Style. At least two sources must

come from the CSU Online Library.

**## UnitVIIStudyGuide.pdf**

ITC 5301, Management Information Systems 1

Course Learning Outcomes for Unit VII

Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:

1. Analyze the use of information systems in business.
1.2 Discuss information systems solutions that can be applied to business problems.

3. Explain how information technology systems influence organizational strategies.

3.6 Analyze how information systems projects are aligned with organizational goals and strategies.

Required Unit Resources

Chapter 13: Building Information Systems

Chapter 14: Making the Business Case for Information Systems and Managing Projects

Unit Lesson

Information Systems

No organization will remain the same for too long if it wants to be effective, efficient, and competitive. The
concept of organizational change goes hand-in-hand with implementing new systems, regardless of whether
you purchase new systems or develop them in-house. There is a whole discipline of quality management
based on organizational change, process improvement, and business process redesign that supports the use
of technology to improve business processes. For many organizations, the concept of business process
redesign is never ending due to the continual need for evaluating current processes, designing new
processes, implementing new processes, and seeking to optimize processes (Laudon & Laudon, 2022).

Let’s look at an office environment as an example. An office environment is not generally set up to be
process-efficient like an assembly line in an automobile assembly plant. However, people in office
environments often get new information systems. Why is that? There are always ways of being more efficient
in every type of workplace. There are always new ways to automate manual tasks—even just being able to
access data faster is a plus. Most systems development comes from a desire to solve a problem. For
example, how can we gather some specific data, manipulate the data, and output the data into information
that makes sense to us or that we can use to make good business decisions?

The opening case in Chapter 13, “Vinci Energies Builds a New Mobile Employee Time Sheet App” (Laudon &
Laudon, 2022), illustrates how important it is for an organization to assess its business processes and strive
to improve them continually. Between 2009 and 2019, the company tripled in size and found that its existing
systems that were once sufficient now cumbersome. The systems were heavily manual, making them difficult
and time-consuming to maintain. The highlighted company implemented a single instance of SAP S/4HANA
Cloud as-a-Service (PaaS). This ERP system simplifies its information technology (IT) systems and financial
reporting processes. One of the applications in the suite is a new employee timesheet application named
MOBITIME that could capture worker time sheets as well as project costs and activities for multiple projects
from any location. Other authorized users would be able to view the time sheet and project data online

Developing a New Information System

There are some core activities involved in systems development. These activities or steps in the process
might actually be common sense to some of us. Different theorists can break the development process into

UNIT VII STUDY GUIDE
Building Information Systems and
Managing Projects

ITC 5301, Management Information Systems 2

UNIT x STUDY GUIDE
Title

different steps, but for the purpose of this course, we will say that there are six basic activities, according to
Laudon and Laudon (2022).

1. Systems analysis: How do you know how to solve the problem unless you do some analysis first?
What is the exact problem? What are the causes? What are the requirements? What are some
potential solutions? Are these solutions feasible? Based on many factors including time, cost,
benefits, and impacts, management will choose a solution.

2. Systems design: How do you get written user requirements into technical requirements? What are the
system specifications? What is the functionality? What should the user involvement be? The systems
design document should lay out the entire solution so that the developers can create the new system.

3. Programming: This is where a lot of the work happens because the developer has to take the
technical document and create an operational system. In many cases, organizations will purchase
software packages from a vendor. If the tasks are standard or customizable, then purchasing a
system may be a good option.

4. Testing: There are different forms of testing. The developer will test as he or she goes, making sure
there is functionality in the system. Then, the developer or a quality assurance (QA) representative
will perform unit testing on the applications or modules one at a time. The next step would be to test
the whole system to make sure everything works in unison. There will also likely be some regression
testing, which means the tester will make sure no other systems are harmed by what this new system
is doing. The final step is to test with the user to make sure the system is functional.

5. Conversion: This involves the process of going live with the new system. There are many ways of
doing this. Two popular ways involve a phased approach or direct cutover. Many times, organizations
can even run systems in parallel until they are ready to turn off the old system.

6. Production and maintenance: This step involves a review process over a period of time to make sure
that there are no bugs that need to be addressed.

The opening case of Chapter 14, “BDO Canada Selects New Project Management Software,” illustrates how
important it is to involve users in designing, building, and implementing system changes. BDO replaced its
internally built project management tool with a user-friendly online software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool that
would work better with BDO’s growing portfolio of cloud applications. BDO’s senior IT management meets
regularly, and the PMO team works with IT project managers to help them with product features and
processes. The PMO team also offers drop-in sessions for stakeholders with questions two or three times per
month.

This case study shows that project management can be successful when done right. Unfortunately, too many
organizations fail to correctly assess the business value of projects or fail to manage the organizational
change brought on by new projects.

Management of the Information System

Just like any process, there are ways to manage the software development process to make sure that the
rules are followed and that the process is as efficient as possible. Depending on the size of the project,
managers may need some tools to help document and manage the process. First, it is important to note that
there are different methodologies for developing systems. Structured methodologies are top-down, step-by-
step methodologies that use data entities whereby progress flows from one logical step to the next. Object-
oriented development methodologies are more iterative and incremental. They use objects that are data
accompanied with information/instructions concerning the data.

To manage the software development process, most development shops use a software systems
development life cycle (SDLC) program. The original SDLC was called the waterfall method and was
characterized by having formal stages where one stage had to be completed before the next one began. That
sounds a bit rigid, does it not? It works well for smaller, less-complex software projects; however, it does not
work well for larger, more-complex projects. Since the development of the waterfall SDLC, there have been
many other approaches that have been developed. For example, prototyping is a popular method where parts
of the system are created and presented to the user for use and approval. If the user does not approve, then
adjustments can be made and presented again. This method can be used in conjunction with the waterfall
method and adds an iterative element. More recently, several methods have been developed that are more
versatile and iterative in nature. One of the more popular methods is called agile development, which focuses

ITC 5301, Management Information Systems 3

UNIT x STUDY GUIDE
Title

on the quick delivery of small subprojects, each treated as a full project. Agile is used in many software
development shops.

Just as technology has adapted over time to answer the needs of organizations, so have the methods and
processes been used to support technology advancement and information systems development.

Role of project management. You might ask yourself why you need project management if you have a
SDLC. Broadly speaking, a project is a set of activities that work together to achieve a business objective.
That business objective might be to build a new warehouse, or it might be to build a new system. Either way,
the project has to be managed. Nowadays, most complex systems go outside the boundaries of just software
development. There may be hardware, network, server, database, and security considerations. You may even
have prominent involvement from the business side of the organization. For the actual software development
portion of the project, you can use an SDLC methodology to manage that process and project management to
manage the overall project.

There are some higher-level considerations for organizations and project management as well. How can you
align your system projects with business goals? The organization’s business strategy drives the selection of
projects. Many organizations will have a steering committee or similar facsimile to drive this selection process.

How can organizations link their information systems projects to their business plan? An information systems
plan will help make the link between specific technology and corporate goals. The plan will list the corporate
goals and specify how IT will support the achievement of those goals through current systems and new
development and acquisitions. How can you assess business value in relation to the information systems that
you are developing? The value of a system is based on whether it provides enough returns to justify its cost.
However, remember that there are always tangible and intangible benefits when discussing value.

All of these are important considerations in the process of developing information systems for organizations.

Reference

Laudon, K. C., & Laudon, J. L. (2022). Management information systems: Managing the digital firm (17th ed.).

Pearson.

Suggested Unit Resources

In order to access the following resources, click the links below.

To reinforce the concepts from this unit, you are encouraged to review the following:

• Chapter 13 PowerPoint Presentation
(PDF for Chapter 13 PowerPoint presentation)

• Chapter 14 PowerPoint Presentation
(PDF for Chapter 14 PowerPoint presentation)

The following video cases mentioned in your eTextbook augment the information presented in the assigned
chapter readings. You are encouraged to review the Chapter 13 and 14 video cases linked below.

A transcript can be accessed for each video within the YouTube player by clicking on the three dots below the
video title on the right. Closed-captioning can be turned on by clicking the “cc” icon at the bottom of each
video.

leorwebsphere. (2011). IBM business process management [Video]. YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDfQunJ12Mc

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Management Information Systems ITC 5301 Unit VII PowerPoint Presentation

This PowerPoint Presentation measures your mastery of ULOs 1.2, 3.6, 5.3, and 6.1.

It is important to understand what information systems are and why they are essential for running and managing a business. The case studies below will provide you with an opportunity to review many of the concepts covered in this course thus far. These case studies provide you with an opportunity to critically analyze events that are taking place in real-life organizations. This helps to develop your critical thinking and research skills as you research each of these scenarios.

For this assignment, you will review two case studies. Then, in a PowerPoint presentation, you will evaluate the studies and address each of the requirements listed below, using both critical thinking and theory as well as supporting documentation.

Review and analyze the Chapter 1 Case Study “Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Make Working from Home the New Normal?” and address the following in a minimum of four slides:

· Define the problem described in this case. What are the management, organization, and technology issues raised by this problem?

· Identify the information systems used to provide a solution to this problem. Was this a successful solution? Why, or why not?

· Will working from home become the dominant way of working in the future? Why, or why not?

· Analyze how information systems aligned with organizational goals and strategies is necessary.

Review and analyze the Chapter 8 Case Study “Is the Equifax Hack the Worst Ever—and Why?” and address the following in a minimum of four slides:

· Identify and discuss the security and control issues that resulted from flaws in Equifax security and control.

· What management, organization, and technology factors contributed to these problems?

· Explain how an organization’s information systems are vulnerable to internal and external threats.

· Discuss the impact of the Equifax hack.

· Explain why data management has a tremendous impact on an organization’s survival.

· How can future data breaches like this one be prevented? Discuss information systems solutions.

In formatting your PowerPoint presentation, do not use the question-and-answer format; instead, use bullets, graphs, and/or charts in your slides to identify important points, and then discuss those points in the speaker notes of each slide. The speaker notes section of each slide should not repeat slide information, but serve as an area in which you augment or elaborate on slide information so that your audience has a better understanding of the material. You must have a minimum of 100 words in the Speaker Notes section of each content slide.

Your PowerPoint presentation should be at least eight slides in length (not counting the title and reference slides). You are required to use at least two peer-reviewed, academic sources that are no more than 5 years old to support each case study. You may use your eTextbook once in each case study. All sources used, including the eTextbook, must be referenced; all paraphrased material must have accompanying in-text citations in APA Style. At least two sources must

come from the CSU Online Library.

**## UnitVIIStudyGuide.pdf**

ITC 5301, Management Information Systems 1

Course Learning Outcomes for Unit VII

Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:

1. Analyze the use of information systems in business.
1.2 Discuss information systems solutions that can be applied to business problems.

3. Explain how information technology systems influence organizational strategies.

3.6 Analyze how information systems projects are aligned with organizational goals and strategies.

Required Unit Resources

Chapter 13: Building Information Systems

Chapter 14: Making the Business Case for Information Systems and Managing Projects

Unit Lesson

Information Systems

No organization will remain the same for too long if it wants to be effective, efficient, and competitive. The
concept of organizational change goes hand-in-hand with implementing new systems, regardless of whether
you purchase new systems or develop them in-house. There is a whole discipline of quality management
based on organizational change, process improvement, and business process redesign that supports the use
of technology to improve business processes. For many organizations, the concept of business process
redesign is never ending due to the continual need for evaluating current processes, designing new
processes, implementing new processes, and seeking to optimize processes (Laudon & Laudon, 2022).

Let’s look at an office environment as an example. An office environment is not generally set up to be
process-efficient like an assembly line in an automobile assembly plant. However, people in office
environments often get new information systems. Why is that? There are always ways of being more efficient
in every type of workplace. There are always new ways to automate manual tasks—even just being able to
access data faster is a plus. Most systems development comes from a desire to solve a problem. For
example, how can we gather some specific data, manipulate the data, and output the data into information
that makes sense to us or that we can use to make good business decisions?

The opening case in Chapter 13, “Vinci Energies Builds a New Mobile Employee Time Sheet App” (Laudon &
Laudon, 2022), illustrates how important it is for an organization to assess its business processes and strive
to improve them continually. Between 2009 and 2019, the company tripled in size and found that its existing
systems that were once sufficient now cumbersome. The systems were heavily manual, making them difficult
and time-consuming to maintain. The highlighted company implemented a single instance of SAP S/4HANA
Cloud as-a-Service (PaaS). This ERP system simplifies its information technology (IT) systems and financial
reporting processes. One of the applications in the suite is a new employee timesheet application named
MOBITIME that could capture worker time sheets as well as project costs and activities for multiple projects
from any location. Other authorized users would be able to view the time sheet and project data online

Developing a New Information System

There are some core activities involved in systems development. These activities or steps in the process
might actually be common sense to some of us. Different theorists can break the development process into

UNIT VII STUDY GUIDE
Building Information Systems and
Managing Projects

ITC 5301, Management Information Systems 2

UNIT x STUDY GUIDE
Title

different steps, but for the purpose of this course, we will say that there are six basic activities, according to
Laudon and Laudon (2022).

1. Systems analysis: How do you know how to solve the problem unless you do some analysis first?
What is the exact problem? What are the causes? What are the requirements? What are some
potential solutions? Are these solutions feasible? Based on many factors including time, cost,
benefits, and impacts, management will choose a solution.

2. Systems design: How do you get written user requirements into technical requirements? What are the
system specifications? What is the functionality? What should the user involvement be? The systems
design document should lay out the entire solution so that the developers can create the new system.

3. Programming: This is where a lot of the work happens because the developer has to take the
technical document and create an operational system. In many cases, organizations will purchase
software packages from a vendor. If the tasks are standard or customizable, then purchasing a
system may be a good option.

4. Testing: There are different forms of testing. The developer will test as he or she goes, making sure
there is functionality in the system. Then, the developer or a quality assurance (QA) representative
will perform unit testing on the applications or modules one at a time. The next step would be to test
the whole system to make sure everything works in unison. There will also likely be some regression
testing, which means the tester will make sure no other systems are harmed by what this new system
is doing. The final step is to test with the user to make sure the system is functional.

5. Conversion: This involves the process of going live with the new system. There are many ways of
doing this. Two popular ways involve a phased approach or direct cutover. Many times, organizations
can even run systems in parallel until they are ready to turn off the old system.

6. Production and maintenance: This step involves a review process over a period of time to make sure
that there are no bugs that need to be addressed.

The opening case of Chapter 14, “BDO Canada Selects New Project Management Software,” illustrates how
important it is to involve users in designing, building, and implementing system changes. BDO replaced its
internally built project management tool with a user-friendly online software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool that
would work better with BDO’s growing portfolio of cloud applications. BDO’s senior IT management meets
regularly, and the PMO team works with IT project managers to help them with product features and
processes. The PMO team also offers drop-in sessions for stakeholders with questions two or three times per
month.

This case study shows that project management can be successful when done right. Unfortunately, too many
organizations fail to correctly assess the business value of projects or fail to manage the organizational
change brought on by new projects.

Management of the Information System

Just like any process, there are ways to manage the software development process to make sure that the
rules are followed and that the process is as efficient as possible. Depending on the size of the project,
managers may need some tools to help document and manage the process. First, it is important to note that
there are different methodologies for developing systems. Structured methodologies are top-down, step-by-
step methodologies that use data entities whereby progress flows from one logical step to the next. Object-
oriented development methodologies are more iterative and incremental. They use objects that are data
accompanied with information/instructions concerning the data.

To manage the software development process, most development shops use a software systems
development life cycle (SDLC) program. The original SDLC was called the waterfall method and was
characterized by having formal stages where one stage had to be completed before the next one began. That
sounds a bit rigid, does it not? It works well for smaller, less-complex software projects; however, it does not
work well for larger, more-complex projects. Since the development of the waterfall SDLC, there have been
many other approaches that have been developed. For example, prototyping is a popular method where parts
of the system are created and presented to the user for use and approval. If the user does not approve, then
adjustments can be made and presented again. This method can be used in conjunction with the waterfall
method and adds an iterative element. More recently, several methods have been developed that are more
versatile and iterative in nature. One of the more popular methods is called agile development, which focuses

ITC 5301, Management Information Systems 3

UNIT x STUDY GUIDE
Title

on the quick delivery of small subprojects, each treated as a full project. Agile is used in many software
development shops.

Just as technology has adapted over time to answer the needs of organizations, so have the methods and
processes been used to support technology advancement and information systems development.

Role of project management. You might ask yourself why you need project management if you have a
SDLC. Broadly speaking, a project is a set of activities that work together to achieve a business objective.
That business objective might be to build a new warehouse, or it might be to build a new system. Either way,
the project has to be managed. Nowadays, most complex systems go outside the boundaries of just software
development. There may be hardware, network, server, database, and security considerations. You may even
have prominent involvement from the business side of the organization. For the actual software development
portion of the project, you can use an SDLC methodology to manage that process and project management to
manage the overall project.

There are some higher-level considerations for organizations and project management as well. How can you
align your system projects with business goals? The organization’s business strategy drives the selection of
projects. Many organizations will have a steering committee or similar facsimile to drive this selection process.

How can organizations link their information systems projects to their business plan? An information systems
plan will help make the link between specific technology and corporate goals. The plan will list the corporate
goals and specify how IT will support the achievement of those goals through current systems and new
development and acquisitions. How can you assess business value in relation to the information systems that
you are developing? The value of a system is based on whether it provides enough returns to justify its cost.
However, remember that there are always tangible and intangible benefits when discussing value.

All of these are important considerations in the process of developing information systems for organizations.

Reference

Laudon, K. C., & Laudon, J. L. (2022). Management information systems: Managing the digital firm (17th ed.).

Pearson.

Suggested Unit Resources

In order to access the following resources, click the links below.

To reinforce the concepts from this unit, you are encouraged to review the following:

• Chapter 13 PowerPoint Presentation
(PDF for Chapter 13 PowerPoint presentation)

• Chapter 14 PowerPoint Presentation
(PDF for Chapter 14 PowerPoint presentation)

The following video cases mentioned in your eTextbook augment the information presented in the assigned
chapter readings. You are encouraged to review the Chapter 13 and 14 video cases linked below.

A transcript can be accessed for each video within the YouTube player by clicking on the three dots below the
video title on the right. Closed-captioning can be turned on by clicking the “cc” icon at the bottom of each
video.

leorwebsphere. (2011). IBM business process management [Video]. YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDfQunJ12Mc

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reproduced or transmitted without publisher's prior permission. Violators will be prosecuted.

Printed by: melissabunn24@gmail.com. Printing is for personal, private use only. No part of this book may be
reproduced or transmitted without publisher's prior permission. Violators will be prosecuted.

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Management Information Systems ITC 5301 Unit VII PowerPoint Presentation

This PowerPoint Presentation measures your mastery of ULOs 1.2, 3.6, 5.3, and 6.1.

It is important to understand what information systems are and why they are essential for running and managing a business. The case studies below will provide you with an opportunity to review many of the concepts covered in this course thus far. These case studies provide you with an opportunity to critically analyze events that are taking place in real-life organizations. This helps to develop your critical thinking and research skills as you research each of these scenarios.

For this assignment, you will review two case studies. Then, in a PowerPoint presentation, you will evaluate the studies and address each of the requirements listed below, using both critical thinking and theory as well as supporting documentation.

Review and analyze the Chapter 1 Case Study “Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Make Working from Home the New Normal?” and address the following in a minimum of four slides:

· Define the problem described in this case. What are the management, organization, and technology issues raised by this problem?

· Identify the information systems used to provide a solution to this problem. Was this a successful solution? Why, or why not?

· Will working from home become the dominant way of working in the future? Why, or why not?

· Analyze how information systems aligned with organizational goals and strategies is necessary.

Review and analyze the Chapter 8 Case Study “Is the Equifax Hack the Worst Ever—and Why?” and address the following in a minimum of four slides:

· Identify and discuss the security and control issues that resulted from flaws in Equifax security and control.

· What management, organization, and technology factors contributed to these problems?

· Explain how an organization’s information systems are vulnerable to internal and external threats.

· Discuss the impact of the Equifax hack.

· Explain why data management has a tremendous impact on an organization’s survival.

· How can future data breaches like this one be prevented? Discuss information systems solutions.

In formatting your PowerPoint presentation, do not use the question-and-answer format; instead, use bullets, graphs, and/or charts in your slides to identify important points, and then discuss those points in the speaker notes of each slide. The speaker notes section of each slide should not repeat slide information, but serve as an area in which you augment or elaborate on slide information so that your audience has a better understanding of the material. You must have a minimum of 100 words in the Speaker Notes section of each content slide.

Your PowerPoint presentation should be at least eight slides in length (not counting the title and reference slides). You are required to use at least two peer-reviewed, academic sources that are no more than 5 years old to support each case study. You may use your eTextbook once in each case study. All sources used, including the eTextbook, must be referenced; all paraphrased material must have accompanying in-text citations in APA Style. At least two sources must

come from the CSU Online Library.

**## UnitVIIStudyGuide.pdf**

ITC 5301, Management Information Systems 1

Course Learning Outcomes for Unit VII

Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:

1. Analyze the use of information systems in business.
1.2 Discuss information systems solutions that can be applied to business problems.

3. Explain how information technology systems influence organizational strategies.

3.6 Analyze how information systems projects are aligned with organizational goals and strategies.

Required Unit Resources

Chapter 13: Building Information Systems

Chapter 14: Making the Business Case for Information Systems and Managing Projects

Unit Lesson

Information Systems

No organization will remain the same for too long if it wants to be effective, efficient, and competitive. The
concept of organizational change goes hand-in-hand with implementing new systems, regardless of whether
you purchase new systems or develop them in-house. There is a whole discipline of quality management
based on organizational change, process improvement, and business process redesign that supports the use
of technology to improve business processes. For many organizations, the concept of business process
redesign is never ending due to the continual need for evaluating current processes, designing new
processes, implementing new processes, and seeking to optimize processes (Laudon & Laudon, 2022).

Let’s look at an office environment as an example. An office environment is not generally set up to be
process-efficient like an assembly line in an automobile assembly plant. However, people in office
environments often get new information systems. Why is that? There are always ways of being more efficient
in every type of workplace. There are always new ways to automate manual tasks—even just being able to
access data faster is a plus. Most systems development comes from a desire to solve a problem. For
example, how can we gather some specific data, manipulate the data, and output the data into information
that makes sense to us or that we can use to make good business decisions?

The opening case in Chapter 13, “Vinci Energies Builds a New Mobile Employee Time Sheet App” (Laudon &
Laudon, 2022), illustrates how important it is for an organization to assess its business processes and strive
to improve them continually. Between 2009 and 2019, the company tripled in size and found that its existing
systems that were once sufficient now cumbersome. The systems were heavily manual, making them difficult
and time-consuming to maintain. The highlighted company implemented a single instance of SAP S/4HANA
Cloud as-a-Service (PaaS). This ERP system simplifies its information technology (IT) systems and financial
reporting processes. One of the applications in the suite is a new employee timesheet application named
MOBITIME that could capture worker time sheets as well as project costs and activities for multiple projects
from any location. Other authorized users would be able to view the time sheet and project data online

Developing a New Information System

There are some core activities involved in systems development. These activities or steps in the process
might actually be common sense to some of us. Different theorists can break the development process into

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different steps, but for the purpose of this course, we will say that there are six basic activities, according to
Laudon and Laudon (2022).

1. Systems analysis: How do you know how to solve the problem unless you do some analysis first?
What is the exact problem? What are the causes? What are the requirements? What are some
potential solutions? Are these solutions feasible? Based on many factors including time, cost,
benefits, and impacts, management will choose a solution.

2. Systems design: How do you get written user requirements into technical requirements? What are the
system specifications? What is the functionality? What should the user involvement be? The systems
design document should lay out the entire solution so that the developers can create the new system.

3. Programming: This is where a lot of the work happens because the developer has to take the
technical document and create an operational system. In many cases, organizations will purchase
software packages from a vendor. If the tasks are standard or customizable, then purchasing a
system may be a good option.

4. Testing: There are different forms of testing. The developer will test as he or she goes, making sure
there is functionality in the system. Then, the developer or a quality assurance (QA) representative
will perform unit testing on the applications or modules one at a time. The next step would be to test
the whole system to make sure everything works in unison. There will also likely be some regression
testing, which means the tester will make sure no other systems are harmed by what this new system
is doing. The final step is to test with the user to make sure the system is functional.

5. Conversion: This involves the process of going live with the new system. There are many ways of
doing this. Two popular ways involve a phased approach or direct cutover. Many times, organizations
can even run systems in parallel until they are ready to turn off the old system.

6. Production and maintenance: This step involves a review process over a period of time to make sure
that there are no bugs that need to be addressed.

The opening case of Chapter 14, “BDO Canada Selects New Project Management Software,” illustrates how
important it is to involve users in designing, building, and implementing system changes. BDO replaced its
internally built project management tool with a user-friendly online software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool that
would work better with BDO’s growing portfolio of cloud applications. BDO’s senior IT management meets
regularly, and the PMO team works with IT project managers to help them with product features and
processes. The PMO team also offers drop-in sessions for stakeholders with questions two or three times per
month.

This case study shows that project management can be successful when done right. Unfortunately, too many
organizations fail to correctly assess the business value of projects or fail to manage the organizational
change brought on by new projects.

Management of the Information System

Just like any process, there are ways to manage the software development process to make sure that the
rules are followed and that the process is as efficient as possible. Depending on the size of the project,
managers may need some tools to help document and manage the process. First, it is important to note that
there are different methodologies for developing systems. Structured methodologies are top-down, step-by-
step methodologies that use data entities whereby progress flows from one logical step to the next. Object-
oriented development methodologies are more iterative and incremental. They use objects that are data
accompanied with information/instructions concerning the data.

To manage the software development process, most development shops use a software systems
development life cycle (SDLC) program. The original SDLC was called the waterfall method and was
characterized by having formal stages where one stage had to be completed before the next one began. That
sounds a bit rigid, does it not? It works well for smaller, less-complex software projects; however, it does not
work well for larger, more-complex projects. Since the development of the waterfall SDLC, there have been
many other approaches that have been developed. For example, prototyping is a popular method where parts
of the system are created and presented to the user for use and approval. If the user does not approve, then
adjustments can be made and presented again. This method can be used in conjunction with the waterfall
method and adds an iterative element. More recently, several methods have been developed that are more
versatile and iterative in nature. One of the more popular methods is called agile development, which focuses

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on the quick delivery of small subprojects, each treated as a full project. Agile is used in many software
development shops.

Just as technology has adapted over time to answer the needs of organizations, so have the methods and
processes been used to support technology advancement and information systems development.

Role of project management. You might ask yourself why you need project management if you have a
SDLC. Broadly speaking, a project is a set of activities that work together to achieve a business objective.
That business objective might be to build a new warehouse, or it might be to build a new system. Either way,
the project has to be managed. Nowadays, most complex systems go outside the boundaries of just software
development. There may be hardware, network, server, database, and security considerations. You may even
have prominent involvement from the business side of the organization. For the actual software development
portion of the project, you can use an SDLC methodology to manage that process and project management to
manage the overall project.

There are some higher-level considerations for organizations and project management as well. How can you
align your system projects with business goals? The organization’s business strategy drives the selection of
projects. Many organizations will have a steering committee or similar facsimile to drive this selection process.

How can organizations link their information systems projects to their business plan? An information systems
plan will help make the link between specific technology and corporate goals. The plan will list the corporate
goals and specify how IT will support the achievement of those goals through current systems and new
development and acquisitions. How can you assess business value in relation to the information systems that
you are developing? The value of a system is based on whether it provides enough returns to justify its cost.
However, remember that there are always tangible and intangible benefits when discussing value.

All of these are important considerations in the process of developing information systems for organizations.

Reference

Laudon, K. C., & Laudon, J. L. (2022). Management information systems: Managing the digital firm (17th ed.).

Pearson.

Suggested Unit Resources

In order to access the following resources, click the links below.

To reinforce the concepts from this unit, you are encouraged to review the following:

• Chapter 13 PowerPoint Presentation
(PDF for Chapter 13 PowerPoint presentation)

• Chapter 14 PowerPoint Presentation
(PDF for Chapter 14 PowerPoint presentation)

The following video cases mentioned in your eTextbook augment the information presented in the assigned
chapter readings. You are encouraged to review the Chapter 13 and 14 video cases linked below.

A transcript can be accessed for each video within the YouTube player by clicking on the three dots below the
video title on the right. Closed-captioning can be turned on by clicking the “cc” icon at the bottom of each
video.

leorwebsphere. (2011). IBM business process management [Video]. YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDfQunJ12Mc

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