...IT426-1302B-02 System Integration and Organization Deployment Academy Carpets Integration Project 06/24/2013 Contents Project Outline 3 Integration Model and Tasks 5 Standards and Regulations 7 Support Strategies 9 Best Practices 11 Cultural Implications 15 References 17 Project Outline The organization I have targeted for this assignment is Academy Carpets. They are a small business located in my hometown of Colorado Springs, Colorado. They have three locations, and currently employ about 100 employees. They are relatively small company but over the last three to four years business has been steadily rising. Before the influx of new business the slow systems didn’t really bother the business or the employee’s production, but over the past years the need to upgrade their systems processes has become apparent. Academy Carpets now desperately needs a new system integrated, some salesmen are still using a pen and pad to track sales and request their orders, as a result of this their orders are constantly getting misconstrued up due to the lack of organization. The goal is to get the entire organization on an integrated computer system and provide the staff with a user friendly system that will give them the organization and performance that is needed for the company to continue to grow. Academy Carpets hopes by achieving this goal, not only will the salesmen have a less complicated workplace but Academy Carpets will have the ability to place, track and...
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...Program Planning and Grant Proposal HSM 270 Program Planning and Grant Proposal Working in human service fields certain individuals within the agency will be investing their time on program planning and grant proposals. Program planning is the first step in planning of a particular program in which needs funds. Program planning is a process with objectives, setting up goals and evaluation of all statistical data is measured. In this process of program planning; the team illustrates where a program or service might be needed in the community or city. It is a plan that someone or a group puts together so that the program function thoroughly. After careful ideas are secure in laid out on paper a grant proposal is the next step. The grant proposal must address the grantor’s goals, objectives and their main priorities. Through specific and clearly defined detailed information within the proposal would it be considered by the funders to be addressed. An application for a grant should include the following detailed information: 1. Table of contents 2. Abstract 3. Specific goals 4. Targeted area 5. Evaluation plan 6. Budget and budget justification 7. Community support Grants use the same basic information as with the planning of a program so that it can be approved. This process is one of the similarities between grant proposals and program planning. One difference is that a grant is a plan for money and a program plan is ideas that someone...
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...Process Modeling vs. Configuration Management Derrick L. Mines Bus 437 Project Procurement Management Dr. Jim Marion, PMP April 30, 2014 Thesis Statement In order to determine which is more applicable across the widest possible range of situations, we must first understand process modeling and configuration management and also distinguish the difference between the two. Organizations have become successful for many reasons and two of those reasons are due to the use of Process Modeling and Configuration Management. In order to determine which is more applicable across the widest possible range of situations, we must first understand process modeling and configuration management and also distinguish the difference between the two. According to The Wiley Guide to Project Technology, Supply Chain & Procurement Management, authors Peter W.G. Morris and Jeffrey K, Pinto (2007) explains that “Process models are process of the same nature that are classified together into a model. Thus, a process model is a description of a process at the type level. Since the process model is at the type level, a process is an instantiation of it.” Pg.82 The same process model is used repeatedly for the development of many applications and thus, has many instantiations. One possible use of a process model is to prescribe how things must/should/could be done in contrast to the process itself which is really what happens. According to Davenport (1994), “The design of the project...
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...The systems development life cycle (SDLC) is the traditional systems development method that organizations use for large-scale IT projects. This system is designed to help the flow of information from department to department. The three major advantages of SDLC are accountability, error detection and control of the information being processed. SDLC is typically made up of eight sections. They are: systems investigation, systems analysis, systems design, programming, testing, implementation, operation, and maintenance. Systems investigation is a feasible study in which a business will decide on which three options they will conduct with their business in order to stay relevant. They are: (1) do nothing and continue to use the existing system unchanged, (2) modify or enhance the existing system, or (3) develop a new system. This step is carried out by the board members, or a committee that is driving the process. If they are not present, then management would step in to make the decision. A systems analysis is the examination of a business problem and that the company or organization plans to solve with an information systems and are carried out by a systems analyst. Systems design describes how the system will accomplish its tasks. This is basically the blueprint of how the system will be integrated in the organization; including hardware, software, personnel, procedures, and user interfaces amongst other things. This step is typically carried out by the project managers...
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...Individual Report What I understand about Systems Engineering is that, is an area that focus in the structure, management and logistic of a project. I think this area is very important in the field of engineering. Because they are like the roots of the project. Is like putting everything in order to have a logistic and to work with a same direction. In this class I learn a lot of things that I can apply in the engineering field. As it was passing the semester I understand things that when I came into this class, there were not clarified at all. In the project we were assign to do as the semester was passing I learned a lot of things helpful in the field of engineering. My team members and I at the beginning, we were confuse of what to present in our project. We change the topic like two times. But finally as a team we decide to do the project in the fabrication of Ecological Tires, which are better for the environment and reduce pollution. In the project I learned how to make the Conceptual Design, Preliminary Design and Detailed Design of a project. To make the Conceptual, Preliminary and Detailed Design, I learned how to do Need Statements, SE Process Diagrams, Tradeoff Studies, Operational Requirements, Design Requirements, Functional Diagrams Serial, Logical Diagrams, ICOM Diagrams, Risk Analysis, Migration Plans, System Reliability, System Integrations, etc… To make the project first of all, we make the Need Statement. They can be different Needs Statements...
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...Chapter1. The Systems Development Environment Problems and exercises 1. Answer: It is essential that systems analysis and design methodologies should be applied to build a system due to methodologies, which are a sequence of step-by-step approaches, helping develop your final product: the information system. Supposing that the system is built in whatever way seems to be “quick and easy”, a series of problems will occur in the following steps. Since the main goal of systems analysis and design is to improve organizational systems and the efficiency of employees accomplishing key business tasks, it seems to ignore the potential danger when skipping the process of systems analysis and design. The value provided by the engineering approach is the software engineering process that forms an organizational approach to systems analysis and design meanwhile makes the process be performed more easily and effectively. Additionally, to improve the organization’s current information. 2. Boundary Education level Answer: Students might describe inputs to a university or college as new students, new faculty, new employees, supplies, or funding. Some outputs include graduating or transferring students, faculty, and other employees who take jobs elsewhere, knowledge, or inventions. The boundary should be the level of education. The components of a university they typically have business functions, academic functions and functional hierarchy. Nearly all universities are faced with...
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...structured activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product (serve a particular goal) for a particular customer or customers. 3. There are 5 main components of an information system hardware, software, data, processes and people. People are the stakeholders, which is who have an interest in the information system and sometimes are called the end user. 4. Explain the difference between vertical and horizontal systems packages. A horizontal system is a basic software package system that can be adapted to common business processes like inventory and payroll. A vertical system is customized to meet the unique needs of a particular business, industry, or organization. 5. How do companies use EDI? What are some advantages of using xml? EDI is the exchange of information in a standard format between computers without any human intermediary. XML is cheap to implement and cheaper to deploy via the Internet, while being intuitive, easy to read. 6. Describe five types of information systems, and give an example of each. Enterprise computing systems support company-wide data management. Airline reservations systems Transaction processing systems process data generated by day-to-day business operations. Customer billing systems Business support systems...
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...1. Create a brief job description for a position within the company you research that you would like to fill. As a government employee I chose to do my research on the State of Florida and went to their website at http://www.myflorida.com and research the position of Emergency Management Specialist. This position has the responsibility in planning, coordination and program management activities that require broad discretion and strict accountability for one or more diverse and complex emergency management programs such as emergency planning, training, and education, public information, disaster recovery, and duties related to complying with the planning and confidentiality requirements of Chapter 252 of the Florida Statutes regarding the special needs program. This position reports to the Assistant Emergency Program Manager, who review work for compliance with established policies and procedures. (State of Florida, 2008) 2. Discuss ways that goal setting could be used to motivate your performance after you fill the position. Goal Setting is the process of specifying desired outcomes toward which individuals, teams, departments, and organizations will strive and is intended to increase organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Just as organizations strive to achieve certain goals, individuals also are motivated to strive for and attain goals. The goal setting process is one of the most important tools for affecting the performance of the position in the organization that...
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...people provide us with manage. 2. System analyst would be used for business process to programmers. It also would be used to speak a language that programmers can relate to. 3. 4. Wal-Mart, Lowe’s and other companies, use Web-based marketing channels to increase sales and serve customers better. Helps with the convenience of online shopping and the alternative of hands on purchase. 5. Some of the components are hardware, software, data, processes, and people. Mission-critical is a vital to a company’s operations. 6. Transaction Processing is process data generated be day to day business operations. It’s also different process a set of transaction related commands as a group rather than individually. Business Support provide job related information support to users at all levels of company. Knowledge Management use large database called a knowledge base that allows users to find information be entering keywords. It also uses rules that identify data patterns and relationships. 7. Four level of organizational are operational employees, supervisors and team leaders, top managers, and middle managers. Top managers develop long range plans, called strategic plans. The level worker that would be rely on heavily would be operational employees. 8. System Development Tools: Modeling produces a graphical representation of a concept or process that systems. It also describes the information that a system must provide. Prototyping is an...
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...equent Shopper Program The Kudler Fine Foods Sales and Marketing Department is trying to implement a Frequent Shopper Program to track customer purchase trends and offer shopper incentives through a point system. This program will assist the Kudler Fine Food in creating better customer loyalty. For the current customers of Kudler Fine Foods, this program will provide more incentive to stay as a loyal customer. For new customers it will provide a reason to start shopping with Kudler foods. For specialty items instead of offering daily discounts for purchase frequency, the company will implement a points system to reward customers with redeemable points or “cash” for high-value gift items. Customers will use a rewards membership card to accumulate points with the purchases they are making. After a few purchases, customers could be entitled to collect rewards like expensive gift items, or free specialty foods. A database will be created to store customer information. This database can use a member identification number to track the amount of points they have built up. Also, the database will be able to track customer purchases and observe trends for each product. Program Goals The main goals of the Kudler Fine Foods Frequent Shopper program are to encourage customer loyalty, and expand its customer pool, which should increase profits. A successful implementation of the program should augment revenue over time by better meeting customer needs and decrease costs by helping...
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...into the source code, with the aid of tools. Currently, there are several approaches to the realization of MDD paradigm which should bring a lot of benefits. However there are still problems to be solved, which will be discussed here. The authors are also going to analyze developers pros and cons, and give their own opinion about today's open question: Will MDD become a failure in trying to deal with software crisis, like the idea of CASE tools in 80's or will it become the future of software development? Keywords. MDD, MDD approaches, Software Factories, Software Development 1. Model Driven Development Paradigm In the last few years, software development has been faced with many challenges. Requirements of new and/or existing systems are growing, systems are complex and it is hard to build them on time and on budget. As an answer to these challenges, a wide spectrum of new approaches occurred, varying from buzzwords to comprehensive methodologies. One of the most prominent paradigms is Model Driven Development (MDD). MDD represents a set of approaches, theories and methodological frameworks for industrialized software development, based on the systematic use of models as primary artifacts throughout the software development cycle. It targets two roots of software crisis – complexity and ability to change. First of all, let us start with definition of MDD paradigm? The basic idea of this...
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...otherwise good conclusion—namely, that architecture is quite relevant. A better conclusion would have been that a proper systems architecture is vital, desires of the agile cowboy coding hackers notwithstanding. One always has an architecture. It might have been done explicitly; otherwise, it’s ultimately defined by whatever the developers came up with. It all depends on which end of the dog is wagging the other. And this is not some Big-Endian vs. Little-Endian religious dispute (see Danny Cohen’s article “On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace” in the October 1981 issue of Computer). When it comes to dogs, the tail should be the thing wagged, just as a design should be dictated by an architecture. And architecture is relevant to the end users. Without starting with a proper systems architecture, the end result won’t serve users well. They might not care about the implementation details, but they do care that the interface and functionality suit their needs when delivered. Although Booch observes the generic relationship between architecture and implementation, he omits the details that let software- oriented people persist in their delusion that software is the system and that software architecture is synonymous with systems architecture—and that they can consider their part of the system without regard for the whole. Software is but one component supporting a systems architecture. To optimize the entire...
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...Solutions to REVIEW QUESTIONS –Chapter 1 1. An accounting information system is a collection of resources designed to provide data to a variety of decision makers according to their needs and entitlement. 2. The users of accounting information fall into two broad groups: external and internal. External users include stockholders, investors, creditors, government agencies, customers and vendors, competitors, labor unions, and the public at large. Internal users are the managers in an organization. 3. Electronic data processing (EDP) is the use of computer technology to perform an organization's transaction-oriented data processing. Management information systems (MIS) use computer technology to provide decision-oriented information to managers. In a decision support system (DSS), data are processed into a decision-making format for the end user. An expert system (ES) is a knowledgebased information system that uses its knowledge about a specific application area to act as an expert consultant to end users. 4. The four common operating cycles of business activity are the revenue cycle, expenditure cycle, production cycle, and finance cycle. 5. The term internal control suggests actions taken within an organization to regulate and direct the activities of the organization. 6. A controller is in charge of the accounting function. The treasurer is responsible for the finances of the business. 7. Internal audit is charged with monitoring and assessing...
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...Task 1 Why does engineering equipment fail, what happens when it does and what can we do about it? Equipment’s fails because certain parts of it fail first and that prevents the whole process from working. It is important to understand the problem before any maintenance. There are a lot of reasons it could fail because of the age of the equipment and parts need to be changed or if the equipment vibrates nuts and bolts can be loosen and parts can fall apart. When this happens the machine needs to be stopped and maintained. Age is very important if the machine has been used for a very long time the efficiency and the quality wouldn’t be as good as a new one, a machine has a certain life span for example on a car the timing belt must be replaced after every 50,000 miles. Wear could lead to a fault in a machine because parts come into contact with each other for example a cars break pad. Corrosion in certain materials takes longer than others like aluminium, when a part of a machine corrodes it degrade and can cause failures. Raw materials such as oil and compressed air can run equipment’s. If something different unwanted to the equipment is in it, it can affect the way the machine works. For example water in a petrol tank will cause a car to break down and this is a fouling. Lack of maintenance can cause a fail, routine maintenance such as cleaning and lubrication. This cause for example in a factory that is manufacturing can will stop the line and check the cars in that line to...
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...customers with the suppliers. Among the challenges of procurement performance in UNRA, the findings pointed to the revealed lack of a clear understanding of the core-activities, unclearly defined objectives, goals and expectations, non involvement of key stakeholders' valuable knowledge, lack of integrative point of view of the stakeholders, unclear assignment of responsibilities, poor communication, poor monitoring and lack of needs assessment of the user departments affected the performance of the purchasing function of the company. Some of the suggested strategies that could be maintained to improve procurement performance included clearly defined objectives, goals and expectations for the purchasing function, effective communication systems which are integrated with the suppliers, regular supplier interaction with staff to assess their needs, sufficient involvement of top management in the key procurement activities, putting in place the necessary infrastructure and facilities to enhance the operations of the purchasing function and supplier development....
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