ASSIGNMENT

ASSIGNMENT

THIS PROJECT IS ABOUT INTEGRATING A COMPANY CURRENT IT STRATEGY INTO THEIR NEWLY ACQUIRED GLOBAL LOCATIONS TO FORMULATE AN IT GLOBAL BUSINESS STRATEGY TO INTEGRATE THE FOREIGN LOCATIONS INTO THE CURRENT ERP IT SYSTEM CALLED MATERIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS.

HERE IS THE ACTUAL ASSIGNMENT PROVIDED BY THE LECTURER( BUT THE QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED ARE BELOW)

I HAVE SUMMARISZED THE BUSINESS INTO THIS;

A Brief Overview of New breed

The Company: New breed is a growing American electric car manufacturer. It operates a car manufacturing plant in California, battery plant in Nevada and various dealership locations across the United States. It’s primary objective is to designs, manufacture and sell electric vehicles and its components.

History: Founded in 2000, the headquarters and main plants are located in Los Angeles, California. It first became prominent and well known for its production of the New Breed fully electric sports roadster before subsequent production of its fully electric luxury sedans and SUVs. Its recent cash influx has resulted to the production of the all new electric armored truck.

Mission: To produce energy efficient cars while developing a global/local IT strategy that will enable New Breed to service the firm’s mission on a global basis.

Public Offerings:Trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol NEWB and has recently gone Public in 2015 which gave rise to a huge amount of cash from investors leading to the acquisition and investments in foreign countries.

Acquisitions: New breed recently acquired parts manufacturer in Germany and South Korea, Key Mines Lithium battery Element provider in South Africa and a New Delhi Call center company to provide consumer related services and complaint resolutions.

Market and Chains: New breed’s market due to its new acquisition spans over different continents and Countries such as North America-US, Europe-Germany, Asia-Korea/India, and Africa-South Africa giving new breed a wide spread Advantage and broad edge in the Electric Car Manufacturing Industry.

Products:Electric cars, Trucks and Batteries.

CIO’s Global Objective: To integrate new breed's IT strategy with their global business strategy by enabling changes in the ‘Current’ ERP Architecture to ultimately incorporate the international locations into their ERP System currently known as ‘Material Management Systems’.

This document will seek to provide an interim report to Management and Executives detailing the IT strategic global plan. It will begin with an outlook of the Technical, Legal, Tax, Regulatory, Cultural and other Environmental bottlenecks/differences encountered when working across borders. It will also identify New Breed’s NEW IT and Business strategy by understanding the effects of globalization, ways in which IT Architecture can be revised/changed to meet the needs of newly acquired companies with a deep exploration into offshoring.

THE EXACT WORK/ASSIGNMENT;

Question 1.  Identify Technical, Legal, Tax and Regulatory Considerations

         Research CREDIBLE sources on technical considerations when working across borders  including expanding to a global ERP platform. Be sure to review our textbook.

APA citation format required where necessary.

Learn about legal/tax/regulatory considerations in foreign lands and how they differ from those in the U.S. using these sources.

KEY to note: Discuss ways to overcome any related issues

Deliverable: Interim report summarizing technical, legal, tax and regulatory considerations that are applicable to New Breed in terms of the development of a new global business strategy.

I WILL PREFER QUESTION 1 ANSWERED IN THe FORMAT BELOW

EXAMPLE; (Please note that the countries where acquisition took place was provided above. So Technical, Legal, Tax and Regulatory  consideration should be addressed by countries.

TECHNICAL ACROSS BORDER CONSIDERATIONS

Europe(Developed): Germany: Frankfurt: (Discuss/summarize technical considerations to developing a new global business strategy-IT in Germany)

Ways to overcome related issues:

Asia(Developing): South: Korea: (Discuss/summarize technical considerations to developing a new global business strategy-IT in Germany)

Ways to overcome related issues:

Asia(Developing): South: India: (Discuss/summarize technical considerations to developing a new global business strategy-IT in Germany)

Ways to overcome related issues:

Africa(Underdeveloped): South Africa: (Discuss/summarize technical considerations to developing a new global business strategy-IT in Germany)

Ways to overcome related issues:

Comparison of all countries to the United States:

Provide a brief comparison about the united states and link it with the other countries .

TAX ACROSS BORDER CONSIDERATIONS

LEGAL ACROSS BORDER CONSIDERATIONS

REGULATORY ACROSS BORDER CONSIDERATIONS

NOTE:USE THE SAME FORMAT USED FOR TECHNICAL OR PREFERABLY CREATE A TABLE IF ITS MUCH MORE EASIER FOR YOU.

This sections is a Mininum of 400 words. It can be more. Turnitin would be used to grade this to avoid plagiarism as such originality is required!

Provide 3 references .

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Question #2

Recognize Cultural/Ethnic, Environmental and Other Considerations

Research references on cultural/ethnic ramificationswhen dealing with foreign countries.

One reference is “Information Technology and the Ethics of Globalization”: HYPERLINK "https://books.google.com/books?id=0Fk7pHWGERoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:1605669237&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2kxFVfCAF9CHgwTtoIGoCg&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA%23v=onepage&q&f=false" https://books.google.com/books?id=0Fk7pHWGERoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:1605669237&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2kxFVfCAF9CHgwTtoIGoCg&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Determine any local environmental issues in the international locations that could impact the IT plan using these sources.

Identify other relevant considerations related to globalization such as the use of offshore outsourcing.

Deliverable: Interim report summarizing cultural/ethnic, environmental, offshore outsourcing, and other considerations that are applicable to New Breed in terms of the development of a new global business strategy.

WHILE TALKING ABOUT OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING, I WOULD REFER TO “new breed outsourcing their call centers to New Delhi india

I WILL FOLLOW THE FORMAT IN QUESTION 1 OR YOU CAN JUST COVER;

I will discuss each extensively as Culture alone is huge with important key points. But I will site the different countries above(Germany, korea, india, south Africa)  as my examples during the discussions to at least point to something unique to describe by point.

CULTURE/ETHNIC CONSIDERATION

Ways to overcome related issues:

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS

Ways to overcome related issues:

OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING CONSIDERATIONS:

Ways to overcome related issues:

This report is for management. Minimum: 400 words with 3 references

Questions#3

Identify New Breed’s new “Global Business and IT Strategy”

1. Based on your understanding of the effects of globalization on New Breed, provide a revised set of business strategies for the company.

2. Also, describe how the IT architecture needs to be revised. For example, cover how New Breed’s ERP architecture needs to be changed to handle the acquisitions in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Address the fact that the new acquisitions will need to integrate their system into those supporting the US operations.

3. Furthermore, explore the ramification of using offshore contractors in working with the foreign acquisitions.

Deliverable: Capture and compile the key findings from this step in the“Global Business and IT Strategy Report.” This report is for the corporate executives.

You might want to look at the FBI’s IT Strategic Plan for ideas: HYPERLINK "http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/itb/it-strategic-plan-2010-2015" http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/itb/it-strategic-plan-2010-2015

Minimum length: 600 words.

QUESTION#4

Prepare the Summary Presentation

Deliverable:

Executive-level presentation that addresses all of the above. Be sure to address:

Current Situation

Impacts due to Globalization

Revised Business Strategy

Revised IT Systems Architecture (including the ERP adjustments)

Conclusions

The presentation should consist of 10-15 PPT slides. It should include audio narration (directions are found at: HYPERLINK "https://support.office.com/en-au/article/Add-narration-to-a-presentation-0b9502c6-5f6c-40ae-b1e7-e47d8741161c" https://support.office.com/en-au/article/Add-narration-to-a-presentation-0b9502c6-5f6c-40ae-b1e7-e47d8741161c). The narration should also be captured in the slide notes.

As an alternate method of delivery, you can create a video using YouTube Capture ( HYPERLINK "https://www.youtube.com/capture" https://www.youtube.com/capture) or a similar tool.

PLEASE LEAVE THE AUDIO PART FOR ME TO NARRATE;

A Summary of Final Deliverables

1. Interim report on technical, legal, tax and regulatory considerations

2. Interim report on cultural/ethnic, environmental, offshore outsourcing and other considerations

3. Global business and IT strategy report

5. Final PPT 10-15 PAGES SHORT presentation.

1.    Title

IT Globalization Initiative

2.    Introduction

You have been appointed to be the CIO of the growing American electric car manufacturer called “New Breed.”The firm has attracted many investors by going public and, with the cash resulting from its public offering, New Breed has been on an [acquisition binge].

·      Parts manufacturers in Germany and Korea were acquired to vertically integrate the car manufacturing for some of its critical components.

·      Key mines have been bought in South Africa to provide elements needed in the manufacture of the Lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery backs and ultra-light composites for the car parts.

·      A call center was also acquired in New Delhi.

As New Breed’s CIO you oversee an IT infrastructure and systemsto service the car manufacturing plant inCalifornia and your battery plant in Nevada. Also you service the New Breed Car dealerships at various locations in the U.S.

Now you must extend that infrastructure to Europe, Asia, and Africa. You need to revise your “IT Strategic Plan” to accommodate these new acquisitions in different continents.

Your plan also needs to be an “IT Strategic Globalization Plan” for New Breed.

Critical is integrating these new locations into New Breed’s materials management system.

Your present IT planning function supportsNew Breed’s current business mission, goals, and strategies.

However, as the company extends its reach to other continents, you need to revise the IT strategic plan and determine how to ensure the IT infrastructure can meet these new requirements. This planning will involve global integration while providing specific services to individual company locations so a global/local strategy is needed.

This is represented in Figure 1.

Also you need to incorporate the new locations into New Breed’s current enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Having the new locations added to the enterprise system will ensure that New Breed has accurate materials inventory in manufacturing their electric vehicles.

With the cash influx from going public, New Breed has actively sought large corporate contracts for electric vehicles. Recently they just received a large request from the U.S. Treasury Department for battery powered armored vehicles to transport the cash from the mints to the banking system.

To integrate the new locations into the ERP system, New Breed is soliciting bids from consulting firms to ensure that the integration goes smoothly. Smooth integration is key for New Breed to be able to handle the large orders expected and the present large order from Treasury.

This learning activity focuses on IT globalization which is important for firms growing internationally.

New Breed will stay true to its mission to produce energy efficient cars while developing a global/local IT strategy that will enable New Breed to service the firm’s mission on a global basis.

For units of the business in the US, Europe, Asia, and in Africa, New Breed should provide IT services needed in the locations while accounting for differences in local cultures/ethnicity, government regulations, environmental issues and other concerns.

You the CIO will now develop the global/local IT Strategic plan to support New Breed’s global presence.

Achieving or maintaining a global expansion is a key goal among organizations and managers need to know and understand the role and impact of globalization on their company.

In this learning demonstration, you will experience integrating a firm's IT strategy with their global business strategy.

Specificallychanges are needed to New Breed’s ERP architecture to insure that New Breed incorporates the international locations into its material management systems.

Key areas to note—this is my note

A global ERP system will allow

·      the materials locations in Europe, Africa, and Asia to provide current information needed in the production of electric vehicles.

·      Also a global ERP system will allow New Breed to account for other tax laws and regulations in consolidating their financials.

·      The ERP infrastructure will make the transition to international show rooms easier to handle in consolidating their accounting and financial systems.

Understanding IT globalization is basic to the foundational knowledge, skills, and abilities that IT personnel are expected to possess. Effective IT professionals are expected to be aware of differences in governmental regulation and cultural differences for their firm’s many international locations.

IT professionals must be able to communicate effectively (oral and written) to executive level management in a non-jargon, executive level manner that convincingly justifies the need to invest in IT infrastructure improvements. Communication between IT and executive management is key to achieving an IT global strategy that will enable the New Breed to achieve its business mission and to grow the business. This learning demonstration is designed to strengthen these essential knowledge areas, skills, and abilities needed by IT professionals.

3.    Steps to Completion

1) Review the Environment

Here is some background information about New Breed.

The company

·         designs, manufactures and sells electric vehicles and its components. It

·         is a public company that trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol NEWB. It

·         first gained widespread attention following their production of the New Breed Sport, the first fully electric sports roadster. Subsequently, it has produced a luxury sedan and an SUV, both fully electric.

·         It is now moving toward the production of an all-electric truck.

·         Founded in 2000, the headquarters and plant are located in Los Angeles, California.

·         The battery plant is in Las Vegas, Nevada. Originally, it was a totally American company with all components and vehicles made in the United States and cars were only sold in the United States. However, when the company went public in 2015, it received a tremendous amount of cash from investors. It was a strategic decision to acquire international assets as described below:

BUSINESS AND IT STRATEGY

Its business strategy consists of:

·      Direct customer sales

·      Use of cutting edge technology in the vehicle to attract buyers

·      Target value-conscious auto buyers who want to avoid gasoline payments

·      Strategic partnerships with suppliers and research universities

·      Leverage IT to maximize efficiency and effectiveness

The current IT strategy involves:

·      Maintaining strong communication capabilities among its American offices from its sales offices to suppliers.

·      Provide reliable data for use in identifying sales trends and opportunities.

·      Use IT to support research activities involving its use of lithium-ion battery cells, location services and communications

·      Application of strong IT security controls to protect its intellectual property.

ARCHITECHTURE

New Breed’s system architecture consists of the following:

Hardware – Use of a data center in Pomona, California which includes a server farm; supplemented with an Amazon cloud, Dell laptop computers with docking stations, Apple MacBook, iPad

Software – Oracle ERP, Siebel CRM, Microsoft Office/Outlook/SharePoint, Cisco Webex video conferencing software, Windows 8.x

Programming Languages – Java, C#, Perl, Ruby

Data – Oracle database, Oracle BI, and SAS Enterprise Miner

Security – Kaspersky Anti-Virus, McAfee Internet Security, Sourcefire Intrusion Detection System, Microsoft Firewall