...Business and IT Alignment Advantages Douglas Peters BSA/310 June 17, 2013 Jack Davis Business and IT Alignment Advantages The advantages of aligning business and IT strategies are many. The first and most important to most businesses is to improve their bottom line or profits. Integrating strategies will help to achieve maximum benefits and generally will improve a company's overall performance. IT or Information Technology is becoming a key to businesses succeeding especially as they grow. By aligning business and IT companies can reduce costs, streamline or standardize processes within the company saving both time and money which can improve workflow and communication within the company. Aligning these may also help a company get to a level of service to the customers that they can repeat continuously and help the company with future growth due to its standardized processes. "Ninety-six percent of IT executives surveyed predict a "significant or moderate" positive bottom-line impact if an IT strategy was specifically developed to closely align with and support the corporate strategy." (IT Business Edge, (2013)). IT delivers business benefits related to the business strategy by helping organizations become both more efficient and successful which can lead to reduced operating costs and help to create value added services. With the effective integration of IT a company can benefit from better decision making. Companies that can change their business direction as...
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...Value Alignment for PepsiCo For organizations to attain a competitive advantage in today’s business environment they are employing a diverse and multicultural workforce. This diversification permits organizations to focus on developing products and services that reach numerous cultures. This diversification also allows various cultural and ethical standards to be integrated into their strategic plans. It is the duty of top level executives in an organization to impart ethical, moral, and the company vision to its employees. Executives must “walk the talk.” In this brief analysis, Learning Team D will examine the origin and subsequent evolution of both PepsiCo’s workplace values and personal values. An explanation of how individual values drive actions and behaviors will be reviewed along with an analysis of the degree of alignment between PepsiCo’s stated values and their plans and actions. Finally Team D will explain the differences and analyze the degree of alignment between our values and PepsiCo’s values as reflected in their plans and actions. Evolution of Personal and Workplace Values Most individuals derive attitudes relating to personal responsibility through their upbringing and family interactions. Many value concepts learned early in life influence individual perceptions and subsequently affect (through demonstrated traits) ‘learned’ behaviors that relate to speech, personal beliefs (faith), work environments, and interpersonal activities (Davis, & Keyser,...
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...Problem: Competition was shifting as traditionally Nypro ahead of others by offering high precision moulds which not only satisfied but delighted the customers. But in recent times completion has caught up and have started similar producing moulds which needed high precision. Decision: Gordon Lankton has decided to incorporate an innovative product called NovaPlast. But due to the structure of the organization with 21 plants globally he has to take a call as how to introduce the product. Alternatives: Lankton has three alternatives in front of him on the issue of leveraging the capability of NovaPlast: 1. Build a new plant employing only NovaPlast machines: The advantage of having all the NovaPlast machines in a single plant is engineering efficacy. The Centralized development would facilitate personal oversight of project. Also the senior management is all in favour. However this option does not align with Nypro’s close-to-customer strategy. It will result into longer delivery time which is the most critical factor determining customer demand and satisfaction in the current competitive market scenario. 2. Install 2-3 machines in each plant: Having NovaPlast machine in each plant will help Nypro in quoting shorter delivery time and capture more market share. It aligns with the company’s close-tocustomer manufacturing policy. There could be however opposition from plant employees to adoption of an unproven technology and standardized employment of NovaPlast in...
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...Early Supplier Involvement Q1 – What is the logic behind pursuing early supplier design involvement with suppliers? 1. Improvement in product quality 2. Stronger communication between firms 3. Decrease in process time and production cost 4. High utilization of sources 5. Decrease in cycle-time leading to shorter time-to-market 6. Improvement in manufacturability 7. Innovative products and ideas 8. Increase team work 9. Alignment of technology roadmaps/strategies 10. Cross-functional training Q2 – If a buying company has an objective of involving suppliers early during product development, what type of questions should the buying firm ask a supplier during evaluation and selection? 1. Is the supplier willing to have a long-term commitment? 2. Does the supplier’s roadmap & policies align with those of the buyers? Do they share buyer’s vision? 3. Is supplier flexible to vary production on a need-by basis and flexible to changing demands (quantities, timeframe)? 4. Is supplier willing to share technical expertise and process knowledge to improve Product Development efficiency? 5. Is the Supplier willing to share Accounting records to compare actual cost v/s estimated cost? 6. Is the supplier willing to continuously evaluate cost reduction opportunities? 7. Is the supplier willing to share expertise to develop and share cost improvements and eliminate any costly processes? 8. Does the supplier share your same values and commitment...
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...Achieving Business & IT Alignment Through Business Capabilities & Governance September 21, 2010 Thrivent Financial for Lutherans • Not-for-profit, Fortune 500 financial services membership organization • Largest fraternal benefit society in U.S. • Help approximately 2.6 million members achieve financial security and give back to their communities • Offer a broad range of financial products and services • More than $67 billion in assets under management • Ranked 342 on Fortune 500 list based on 2009 revenue of $6.514 billion Confidential – For Internal Use Only -2- Agenda • Creating Alignment with Business Capabilities • Case Study • Optimizing Investments: Governance -3- Agenda • Creating Alignment with Business Capabilities • Case Study • Optimizing Investments: Governance -4- Creating Alignment with Business Capabilities Evolution not Revolution Strategy Capability Process Capability Capability Capability People/ Organization People/ Organization Strategy Process Skills/Training Framework/Methodology Framework/Methodology 2006 2007 2008 2009 Developed Thrivent Capability Map Used capabilities to communicate common needs and project overlaps to achieve reuse savings. Defined roadmaps relevant to Thrivent Create a business architecture practice -5- Creating Alignment with Business Capabilities Business Capability Planning Strategies Vision 2011 Comp Redesign Member Access Points...
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...project, how it aligns to the business needs, and performance measurements for ensuring business value is attained. Additionally, included is the standardized System Development Life Cycle process, used to ensure the project remains aligned to business needs throughout its life cycle. Wobbly Wheels IT Decision Paper Wobbly Wheels has expressed numerous complaints involving the current delivery system. One of the key complaints is the lack of processes for tracking shipment sizes and the capacity within warehouses and trucks. The lack of formal processes has resulted in multiple turned away shipments, due to overloaded warehouses, or lack of space in loaded trucks. The project below is meant to specifically address this issue of informal shipment size tracking. Project Description The proposed project is an automated system for tracking the weight and dimensions of packages, integrated with the information about warehouse and truck capacity in order to ensure that trucks can be loaded to full capacity without fear of turned away shipments. The warehouse employees would use the system for inputting shipments size and dimensions, while dispatchers would use the information to choose appropriate trucks for the shipment. Additionally, dispatchers could use the gained information to choose appropriate warehouses for delivery, based on current capacity. Strategic Alignment The shipment size tracking system aligns directly with business strategies previously outlined...
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...resolution ,Classification and pub med citation from PDB Structure data base. 4.Find the disease pathway ,drug target enzymes and drug molecules used for a given disease by using KEGG database. 5.For a given protein/enzyme find its EC number ,its location and Km, K cat/Km values by using BRENDA/KEGG database. 6.Find the pair wise sequence alignment for a given protein/DNA sequence by using Dot matrix method Dot helix and comment on the results inverted repeats ,palindromes. 7.For a given Protein sequence find the homolog sequences and Study the obtained output critical statistical parameters, the % identity, %similarity ,p ,E-value by using BLAST. 8.For a given Protein/DNA sequence find the pblast ,nblast ,psi blast ,phi blast ,blast, tbalstn and analyze the obtained results obtained results for each blast method. 9.For a given Protein sequence find the pair wise sequence alignment by using the FASTA algorithm and compare the results obtained with those from other methods. 10.Find the optimal alignment for the given protein sequence by using Dynamic programming –LALIGN method. 11.For a given FASTA sequence find the multiple sequence alignment by using the Clustal W/T-coffee and find the conserved regions ,motifs and profiles. 12.Find the motifs/domains for a given protein sequences by using Web logo program. 13.Construct the Phylogenetic Trees for the given sequences using MEGA. 1) Distance based method. 2)Maximum Parsimony method. 3)Maximum Likelihood...
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...Developing a Mission & Vision Statement that Aligns to the Church’s Strategic Plan A church’s strategic plan provides structure, accountability, and directional oversight as the church reaches out to church members and to those within their community. A church is most effective in planning, executing, and evaluating the success of its ministry when it is actively operating under the clear understanding of its mission, vision, and purpose statements. “Being strategic [in ministry] means having a carefully devised plan of action to achieve a goal,” and the best way for a church to develop a strategic plan is through adherence to their mission statement (Browning, 2009, p. 45). In some cases, this may require developing or revising the current mission statement. Developing or revision of a church’s mission statement is a critical aspect of the strategic plan, and it is vital that it reflect the current mission and vision of executive leadership and the church. At times, it may be necessary to make minor changes to the current mission statement to eliminate wordiness or unclear objectives. A great key to developing a concise mission’s statement is to keep it simple, and to “streamline the organization so it can shed deadweight and achieve greater” impact within the church and community (Browning, 2009, p. 167). A strong mission statement will enable executive leadership to stick to the primary mission and purpose of the church and church membership. Although a church may...
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...Summer Price ENG-111 26H January 26, 2016 Taking Flight I will never forget the day my life changed forever. I know a lot of people say that about a lot of things. I’m sure you’ve heard many earth-shattering stories about death and despair – but mine is different. You see, on this day, I was thrown into the unknown. Alone, scared, and extremely clueless about why this was happening to me. Everything in my life became utter chaos -- quite literally, overnight. It was a Tuesday. Or maybe a Wednesday? A week day, for sure. I was supposed to be getting up for school. Seventh grade, not necessarily my favorite. Usually Sabine would come in right at 6am, throw my blinds wide open, unlock the window and slide it up to let the cool morning air in. She did this to wake me up, which is to this day the most effective way to tear me out of bed. But not this morning. Today, Sabine flung the door open and flipped a switch. I awoke blinking at my ceiling light. As I rolled over and glanced at my alarm clock, I saw that it was 4am. 4am? What in the world? “What’s going on?” I asked, sleepily, confused. No answer. Sabine was my stepmom; she had married my dad when I was four and then blessed me with my little brother, Michael, when I was six. She is your typical German woman: Tall. Long, dark hair. Not big, per-say, but strong, and endlessly intimidating. But she had one weakness; her face always told her heart. On this crisp January morning, she was blank. I remember watching her, straight-faced...
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...IMPACT OF HR AND BUSINESS STRATEGY ALIGNMENT ON JOB PERFORMANCE AND EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION Abstract A company’s success is determined to a large extent by the nature of its employees as well as the level of devotion that employees demonstrate. Due to this, the top managers and executives are given the responsibility for maintaining control on employee’s activities as well as the employee’s management policies through the development of the Human Resource Management Department. This shows that how important role HR plays in maintain the employees satisfied within any organization. This research study is focused on studying the impact of HR and business strategy alignment on job performance and employee satisfaction. This research used deductive approach as this study find out the impact of aligning HR with business strategy and effect of job environment on employee satisfaction. The survey questionnaire method is used to get reliable and valid results based on close ended questions having a 5-Likert scale to measure the attitude of employees and employers towards the impact of aligning HR with business strategy and effect of job environment on employee satisfaction at Siemens. The research used SPSS for analysing quantitative information by using descriptive analysis and inferential analysis. Research shows that Siemens align HR practices and business strategy. From regression analysis, it is found that alignment of Human Resource practices with the business strategies of Siemens...
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...A Literature Review of Business/IT Alignment Strategies. This journal is about a literature review which is useful for evaluating different alignment approaches, with the aim of discovering similarity, maturity, and capability to measure, model asses and evolves the alignment level existing among business and technological assets of an enterprise. The top research issue for currently is the alignment between business processes and supporting software system. For the first time the issue was mention in the 1970 and then several studies and researches were conducted focused the alignment concerns. Actually this paper is aiming to review a proper analysis which considering the alignment topics. From the view of the business and technological alignment, it focuses on the degree of the information technology mission, objectives and plans, support and is supported by the business mission, objective and plans. To looking how the organization can achieve alignment, the traditional approaches have been used, however only a little contribution about how to identify and correct misalignment. To complete the alignment strategies, the modeling and measurement is a must. The phase of modeling is about the various entitled the alignment concept and the links between business and IT entities. Measurement of the alignment degree existing between the chosen assets for establishing if there is any improvement. The alignment is supported by an automatic support where it’s all the processes. There...
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...Running head: VALUE ALIGNMENT PAPER Value Alignment Paper University of Phoenix Value Alignment Paper The first paragraph of this paper will give a brief introduction of my company, Coffee and Tea Beyond Retail, followed by an analysis of the individual values and organizational values reflected by the organization. Then, the rest of the paragraphs will examine the degree of alignment between the organization's stated and actual plans as well as the differences in individual and organizational values. Coffee and Tea Beyond Retail is a small business I want to start and will be a profitable private retailing company which will provide the finest and qualitative coffee and tea products sourced from all over the world and packed in a friendly environment. The coffee and tea will be sold in the retail and will be sourced from the finest and premium coffee and tea plantations across the world and will adhere to best practices in environment protection in the sourcing and procurement activities. The mission and vision statement of my company will focus on putting people before products and have a long established and passionately large and diverse loyal retail coffee and tea customer base. The company will strive to provide the highest quality products in the coffee and tea retail industry, at competitive prices to consumers and attain the highest possible customer satisfaction levels, by displaying highest standards in customer service, quality and professionalism...
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...stakeholders in order to exist in the market. In such a situation, Information Systems of a company is highly expected to add value to business. Business Value means all forms of value that determine the health and well-being of the business firm in the long run (WikiPedia). Such value addition is not easily or freely achieved without huge effective and efferent effort. Some IS organization often gives huge effort to achieve excellence or to add value to business by only aligning IS Strategy to Business or preparing IS strategic plan or adapting of any IS governance / management framework/ ISO standards like CoBIT5, ITIL 3, ISO 27000/ 20000. But such approach is NOT often enough for value addition where there is almost non-existance of IS governance or related operating model. That is why, KPMG rightly stated “Many organizations either do not possess any form of IS Governance or it is out of alignment with business goals and strategies.” – IT Advisory article titled IS Governance Services, KPMG 2004. I have similar personal realization while I fortunately worked in 6 different organizations as CIO, VP, Director and Manager of IT in Telecommunication, IT Enabled services and Humanitarian industries. I observed that there are 3 types of enablers (factors that, individually and collectively, influence whether something will work – Cobit5: A Business Framework for the Governance and Management of Enterprise IT, 2012) in IS operation. Either one of them - People or/and IS Process...
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...Table of Contents Delivering Business Value with IT at Hefty Hardware........................................................3 Key Concerns........................................................................................................................5 Business/IT Alignment.........................................................................................................6 Gap Between Business and IT.............................................................................................10 IT is just a expense center.......................................................................................10 Most affordable technique is the best technique.....................................................10 Simply no typical terminology................................................................................11 Small business and IT have got unique aims...........................................................11 Analysis...............................................................................................................................12 Conclusion...........................................................................................................................14 References...........................................................................................................................16 Delivering Business Value with IT at Hefty Hardware Cheryl O’Shea, VP connected with Retail Promoting, grouses as IT...
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...systems at all levels of operation to collect, process and store data. Management aggregates and disseminates this data in the form of information needed to carry out the daily operations of a business. Everyone who works in any business, from someone who pays the bills to the person who makes employment decisions, uses information systems. A car dealership could use a computer database to keep track of which products sell best. A retail store might use a computer-based information system to sell products over the Internet. In fact, many businesses concentrate on the alignment of MIS with business goals to achieve competitive advantage over other businesses. MIS professionals create information systems for data management; examples include storing, searching and analyzing data. In addition, they manage various information systems to meet the needs of managers, staff and customers. Microsoft would be considered a MIS. For example, our textbook might have been created using Word. First, an author writes the content; other contributors and editors change, format, and edit the content, and then the content from a specific chapter can be integrated into the larger work. In this sense, Word is an effective tool in a management information system because it is facilitating the way a business operates. Think of the time and effort saved because with this word processing technology a document can be shared, stored, transmitted, worked on, and...
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