FINAL STAGE 4

Technology In Business Analysis And System Recommendation

Introduction

I. Strategic Use of Technology

A. Business Strategy

Information technology plays a vital role in delivering value and supporting Maryland Technology Consultants’ transformations. The firm uses management methodologies and proven IT to develop support and achieve measurable results for their customers, governmental interventions at the federal, state, and local levels, non-profit administrations, and mid-tier companies. The success is attained because of the joint effort and talent from the IT Consulting in IT Outsourcing and Business Process Consulting and delivering extraordinary results to all their clients.

Maryland Technology consultants’ primary business strategy is employing highly skilled consultants knowledgeable of new technology and business ideas, consultants who have evolving new business ideas, and excellent ways to provide great recommendations and consulting services to their customers. There is a high need to employ IT and consultants more quickly because of the highly increased business. Although hiring new employees manually takes much time, embracing social media and digital trends will make it easy for the Maryland Technology Consultants to hire many IT consultants by using social public media profiles because it offers more background facts about the individual as a person. Also, hiring employees in different countries will be fast and easy because of the broad coverage of social media(Caramela, 2021).

B. Competitive Advantage

Maryland Technology Consultants competitive advantage is the use of ‘just in time’ hiring and also follow-on contracts and referral from their contented customers because of these referrals from their customers MTC business is growing rapidly thus they need to hire more IT Consultants employees who are high, quality skilled expertise to provide good services to their clients through the use of digital trends and social media, By the use of social media MTC can hire new skilled consultants quickly to begin to work on the new project they are anticipating and other proposals, this way it will not be time consuming to review the candidates skills so as to select the top candidate and hire the appropriate consultant to meet the new anticipated contracts MTC provides onsite work to their clients having their site in social media it will help other customers to see the referrals from their satisfied client and make them receive more new contracts from different government organizations and non-profit organizations making Maryland Technology Consultants small business develop widely (UMGC,2019).

C. Strategic Objectives

There are different planned goals that MTC uses to achieve their business plan, as demonstrated below in the table:

Strategic Goal (From case study)	Objective (Clear, measurable, and time-bound)	Explanation (2-3 sentences)
Increase MTC Business Development by winning new contracts in the areas of IT Consulting	Satisfying their clients to get more referrals from clients	Having good reviews from different clients will land them many contracts. Many organizations follow up referrals from their neighboring organizations. Therefore, it will highly increase the number of clients they have.
Build a cadre of consultants internationally to provide remote research and analysis support to MTC’s onsite teams in the U. S.	Increase international recruiting efforts and employ five research analysts in the next 12 months.	The new hiring system would allow applicants worldwide to apply online, increasing the number of international applicants. In addition, it would enable the recruiters to monitor the applications for these positions carefully, identify the necessary research and analysis skills, and screen resumes for these critical skills. As a result, recruiters could quickly view the number of applicants and identify when additional recruiting efforts are needed to meet the objective.
Continue to increase MTC’s ability to quickly provide high-quality consultants to awarded contracts to serve the clients’ needs best	Anticipate new contracts and provide readily available skilled consultants.	MTC needs to provide consultants quickly to work on a new project provided by the client. Before signing a new contract, they need high-quality expertise to assist their clients.
Increase MTC’s competitive advantage in the IT consulting marketplace by increasing its reputation for having IT consultants who are highly skilled in leading-edge technologies and innovative solutions for its clients	MTC provides skillful, talented IT consultants	Successful consultants in MTC hire and recruit highly skilled professionals to work for their clients onsite. The management hires consultants near the client’s location to provide efficient work onsite.

D. Decision Making

Maryland Technology Consultants is preparing proposals for large projects. Also, they have anticipated having two new large contracts soon; thus, hiring new employees is highly needed. Still, the HR Director informed that his workforce would be unable to handle and assist the appointment of new workers required in time manually; the following made some decisions in the table beneath:

Role Level as defined in Course Content Reading Example of Possible Decision Supported by Hiring System Example of Information, the Hiring System, Could Provide to Support Your Example Decision Senior/Executive Managers (Decisions made by the CEO and the CFO at MTC supported by the hiring system.) Business analysis It is essential to invest in the manual hiring process because it is inefficient and not cost-effective. Technology solutions that improve the future and enable current functionality are essential to MTC’s success. Middle Managers (Decisions made by the Director of HR and the Recruiting Manager supported by the hiring system.) System recommendation The recruiting staff have been pushed due to the expansion and growth; the director of HR recommended a simple method to interface with the existing systems. We can use the applicant tracking systems to reduce the hiring time to 2-months before the big projects. Operational Managers (Decisions made by the line managers in the organization who are hiring for their projects supported by the hiring system.) System recommendation Upgrading their systems electronically will be easy to use and not time-consuming. Use an electronic dashboard to see data on eligible applicants who have applied and set up the interview time online.

Maryland Technology Consultants uses IT to analyze their current processes before anything by seeking feedback from their employees to know where they need to rectify a successful business. They can easily track their projects, schedule them based on their importance, and organize them efficiently (Rhumbix, 2021). Using the Vendor brochure by MTC as an applicant tracking system is the best way of hiring new IT Consultants because the software provides everything the HR department needs to create a high-performance hiring process. It makes it easy to implement, more cost-effective, more efficient, and easy to use from any location, device, and time over the internet. When maintenance is done on the system, it will not interfere with the user experience; security and other updates are installed automatically. It has a thirty days (30) free trial for customers; subscription service payment is available based on the number of uses. The Vendor brochures in Maryland Technology consultants are best because it saves time and cost. There is no interruption during installation, available anywhere, anytime, from any device, it is safe to use, has security of system data through the asses control, and the enhancements and upgrades are free of charge (UMGC, 2019).

References

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UMGC Hiring Solutions, Inc. (2019). EZ-ATS Brochure [Course Resources]. In IFSM 300: Information Systems in Organizations. Retrieved 8th January 2022 from http://learn.umgc.edu

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