IFSM 300 Stage 4: System Recommendation and Final BA&SR Report

Strategic Use of Technology

Chekita Augburn

IFSM 300-Section #

March 30, 2019

Review assignment instructions: Create a title page that includes: The company name, title of report, your name, Course and Section number and date. Title of Report should be Business Analysis and System Recommendation. Also, date should be updated as you add each stage throughout the class.

Strategic Use of Technology

Introduction

In this paper, we will discuss how an IT scheme could be used to assist the objectives and strategies of “Maryland Technology Consulting (MTC)” also assist its decision making procedure. You are writing a business report for MTC- this first sentence shouldn’t be part of your introduction. MTC is a successful and effective IT consulting service firm that uses confirmed IT and administratioadministration? (what are administration methodologies?) n methodologies to attain measurable outcomes for its clients. MTC, like a consulting corporation, depends on the expertise and quality of IT staff to deliver the services required through for the clients or customers. Once it is presented a deal, the client supposes MTC to deliver the consultant rapidly also start work on that specific project—unclear sentence. The two major deals that MTC supposes to win will need the hiring or recruiting of 75 consultants quickly. The expected contract is just representative of the issues – the current manual process can’t meet MTC’s growth and increased hiring demands overall. Comment by Betty Ring: As noted in the assignment instructions: “Use third person consistently throughout the report. In third person, the writer avoids the pronouns I, we, my, and ours. The third person is used to make the writing more objective by taking the individual, the “self,” out of the writing. This method is very helpful for effective business writing, a form in which facts, not opinion, drive the tone of the text. Writing in the third person allows the writer to come across as unbiased and thus more informed.”

The director (Director of what?) is worried that the recent manual procedure of hiring and recruiting employees will not enable his branch department to be responsive to such requirements also the demands of upcoming growth with increased recruiting requirements – not correctly worded sentence but this is the right idea for the current problem at MTC. He is observing-wrong word choice for the best solution that will program? the hiring procedure steps also decrease the time it takes to recruit new employees. He is looking for a better solution that will enable MTC to select employee’s employees’ sites in many other states around the domain – what domain?. As a business analyst in the “Chief Information Officer’s (CIO's) department of Maryland Technology Consulting (MTC),” I would like to describe how an IT scheme could be used to assist the objectives and strategies of “Maryland Technology Consulting (MTC)”also assist its decision making procedure for better hiring.

Your introduction needs to much more clearly and concisely provide a brief overview of MTC and the current problems and then what this report will provide. The recap I’ll provide the class when I finish grading will have a couple of examples.

As noted in the assignment formatting instructions:

· In Stage 1, you are preparing the first part of a 4-stage report. Use the structure, headings, and outline format provided here for your report. Use the numbering/lettering in the assignment instructions as shown below.

I. Strategic Use of Technology

A. Organizational Strategy

B. Competitive Advantage

C. Strategic Objectives

D. Decision Making

I. Strategic use of Technology

A. Organizational Strategy

As a “small to mid-size business (SMB),” MTC identifies that it requires to plan its upcoming strategy sensibly – this is true of any business – doesn’t add value here. Strategic usage of IT for MTC delivers valuable visions?? into the task of CIO’s, their essential interaction with many other parts of the MTC also the external associations with suppliers and vendors – unclear what this sentence means. Strategic use of technology for MTC organization focus the requirement for stability among technology and management in the task of CIO. It also emphasis on this task like not only a specialist on IT but like a leader in the application of technology. In the Organizational Strategy section, it was important to provide insights into MTC’s strategy and direction and how a hiring system would enable or support that strategy. As MTC seeks to expand its business, earn new contracts and build its reputation in the industry, it needs a talented, highly skilled workforce. Because the IT market is competitive, there are other companies seeking the same talent. An efficient hiring practice can enable the company to achieve its goals. Current expansion plans mean more hiring, and the manual way of recruiting and hiring will not be effective moving forward. Revise for final report.

Organizational Strategy

MTC's organizational strategy is to deliver an extraordinary assessing?? or consulting recommendations and services to its clients through hiring highly skilled or expert consultants also staying well-informed of new commercial technology and concepts and emerging new commercial concepts with best uses of its own- unclear as worded. The hiring process of MTC suffers due to several issues. One field that is vital to a consulting corporation is the capability to have staff who have the necessary skills and knowledge to fulfill recent and upcoming contracts.-true statement – is this one of the issues? Need to connect with previous sentence.

Another major issue are is that the hiring process consumes a lot of time. So, these are several issues of the hiring process in MTC. In this situation, it is very important to hire the best employees to support the business strategy of MTC.  The “recruitment and selection” of the right member having complete skill and knowledge for that specific role can lead to abridged costs, consequently prominent to an amended bottom line. Better hiring or recruiting process becomes very beneficial for MTC. Effective staffing can support an organization to attain faster stages of growth and development. Rationalized, efficient staffing procedures provide higher-quality, additional engaged rentals, delivering a “competitive advantage” that directly influences on business presentation (Zimmers, 2006).

Review assignment instructions – I’m unclear what the paragraphs before the Organizational Strategy section were to address but my comments above still are relevant. As noted in the assignment instructions, this section (organizational strategy) should “(Use two to three strong sentences that explain how the system would support the strategy and justify your position with specifics from the Case Study.) While I’m not very strict on the length, you have provided far more than is required for this section. Focus on MTC’s strategy and how improving the hiring process with a technology solution will help MTC. Revise for final report.

Competitive Advantage

A “competitive advantage” is an aspect that enables a corporation to beat its competitors. Competitive benefits enable a corporation to attain greater profit margins associated withthan its competition also generate some values for the corporation also its owners – not written as a correct sentence. A “competitive advantage” must be problematic, if not impossible, to copy. If it is simply imitated or copied, it is not deliberated? a competitive benefit.- A competitive benefit differentiates a corporation from its several competitors. It also subsidizes to greater prices, additional customers, with brand reliability. Creating an advantage is one of the significant objectives of any corporation. Today, competitive advantage is important to commercial success (LetycjaSołoducho-Pelc, 2014). Assignment recommended (Paragraph of 4-5 sentences) to address this section.

Better hiring procedures help MTC to gain competitive advantages. Nowadays, the commercial world is extremely competitive. Hiring firms can also discover and select top employees who will yield outcomes. Recruiters have the complete experience also expertise needs to spot such exceptional employees through seeming at several factors than employee resumes. Moreover, as hiring firms have connections or links with several candidates with better experience, knowledge, and skills in technology, that an organization requires now also in upcoming time to stay competitive, by recruiting, explanations can also decrease employee’s turnover, which is significant both for the firm’s productivity and its bottom line to be competitive (Pahuja & Dalal, 2012).

The corporation will use this data and information form the system to hire the best employees for the specific job via easy recognition of those candidates with best knowledge and skills that the corporation requires for their customer’s requirements. The recruiting system will direct to several benefits that comprise ensuring that recruiting is less exhaustive; steadiness is always trailed during hiring; it is very easy to follow all the employees also obtainability of the system.

This isn’t about an essay on competitive advantage but needs to be focused on the environment MTC is operating in and how improving the hiring process can maintain/increase its competitive advantage. This builds off of the previous section on organizational strategy. The Case Study mentions the competitive environment that “contains many very large IT consulting firms such as Hewlett-Package (HP), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), as well as numerous small companies…” In the interview from the Manager of Recruiting, she mentions the competitive market for IT Talent and needing to get offers to top candidates ahead of the competition. In this section, you needed to briefly describe the competitive environment and how this system can help address that to maintain/increase MTC’s competitive advantage. Being able to reach a broader audience, screen for needed skills and expertise more quickly, move candidates through the hiring process more efficiently, etc. can help MTC maintain/increase its competitive edge. Revise for final report.

Strategic Objectives

The below table displays the strategic goals, objectives, and explanations for better organizational strategy. Be more specific about what this table provides – It presents 4 of MTC’s goals along with relevant objectives and how the hiring system can help achieve those.

Revise table above to provide clearer, measurable objectives and then supporting explanations.

Decision Making

The hiring method will assist essentially during making vital decisions effectively and efficiently within the MTC IT consultant. Need to provide one clear sentence that introduces what this table provides.

Think about examples of specific decisions (choices) managers at each level might need to make based on the hiring process and information coming from the hiring system. Revise for final report.

Please review comments and let me know where you have questions. I’ll also post a recap for the class when I finish grading. Although revisions aren’t graded until the Stage 4 submission, if you want feedback earlier, just note in your submission with the next stage that you have also revised Stage 1 and would like it reviewed as well. I suggest getting an early start on Stage 2 to ensure you’re on track.

While you’re provided a lot of information, often the information is not providing what the assignment requirements call for. The assignment is deliberately kept very focused to help students zero in on those relevant areas.

I’d recommend for Stage 2, you take advantage of the Effective Writing Center’s services to review drafts. I’m still available to review content, but their expertise in overall writing mechanics is very valuable. Here’s a link to their service. http://www.umuc.edu/current-students/learning-resources/writing-center/submit-your-paper/index.cfm They are limited in how many assignments they can accept per day so you need to plan ahead. Unfortunately wrong or missing words and poor sentence structure is detracting from clearly presenting the necessary information.

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