Running head: RIORDAN GENERIC BENCHMARKING Riordan Generic Benchmarking Introduction Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics producer. The company wants to develop a team compensation plan around its new customer-relationship management system. Riordan wishes to choose the best option to support this plan. Based on the generic benchmarking for issues facing Riordan the following companies have been identified as having some of the same issues: Graybar for
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Financial and Accounting (F & A) Systems Team A Business Systems – BSA/310 May 13, 2013 Current Challenges Riordan Manufacturing is using different business systems throughout their branches. These different systems are causing difficulties, which produces errors in reporting and argument between these branches. San Jose has a license for a fully integrated Windows system without application source code. Michigan has a vendor software application that is no longer supported due to the
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Virtual Organization: Riordan Manufacturing Learning Team B August 3, 2013 FIN370 Prof. Putnam, Richard There are many factors of strength that can be found in a company who’s going public, as well as the company understands that with going public, their real capital can be created. This capital can allow more money to go towards research and development, pay for current capital expenditures, or even help pay off existing debts (Investopedia, 2009). When an organization is publicly traded
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With all the areas that the change management system can touch with the Go Green Initiative Project it is wise to have one person from each facet to sit on the board who is not directly on the project team. Originally the thought to put the CEO Dr. Riordan, SVP R&D Kenneth Collins and COO Hugh McCauley on the board but the time and effort that it would take to get all three in the same conference call for a proposed change was not viable. The change management board will be made up of nine qualified
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Michael Turner BSA/375 Karen Knox 10/31/15 Riordan Manufacturing Part 2 of the SR-22 Security protocols are of paramount importance within a company and should be maintained by all levels from development to end user operation of any software. “Security is the primary responsibility of the operations group, which consists of staff responsible for operating security controls such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems and routine backup and recovery operations” (Dennis, Wilcox and Roth
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Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 3 Ryan Finch BSA/375 Implementation for this design would be where Riordan Manufacturing will find some challenges with certain parts of the overall design including the end user results. Having a complete team of design analysts, IT techs, Business analyst and end users all working together will help make the difference in producing successful and efficient program in the end. Moving through each phase of the project from start to finish will be dependent
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Riordan HR Request Service Request SR-rm-022 Janet Chase BSA 375 February 11, 2013 Karen Knox Riordan Manufacturing Service Request SR-rm-022 Hugh McCauley, Riordan’s Chief Operating Officer, submitted Service Request SR-rm-022. In his request, he specifies a need to centralize the company’s human resources functions. With the “more sophisticated, state-of-the art, information systems” (Apollo Group, 2013, p. 1), Riordan desires an integration of all human resources tools into one platform
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behavior of the organization. Table 1 Business Name | Business Type (Industry not Corporate type) | Key Economic Influences | Key Government (Regulatory) Influences | Key Legal (Law and Litigation) Influences | Riordan Manufacturing | Manufacturing | Gross National Product (GNP) or Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rateInventory levels | Export restrictions Import tariffs and quotasPolitical stability | Worker safety laws (OSHA)Union regulationsMinimum wage laws | Huffman
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has recruited several employees from the town to work as technology consultants for his thriving business. Smith Systems Consulting serves the City of Kelsey for the majority of its information technology needs. Transportation, manufacturing, retail, education, financial services, and healthcare are industries that are clients for technology services of Smith Systems Consulting. The company recognizes its strengths as including providing development solutions to business information processes; integrating
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Riordan Manufacturing Systems BSA/375 October 6, 2014 Riordan Manufacturing Systems Hugh McCauley, COO, has submitted a service request for the Human Resources (HR) department to integrate the department's current systems into one integrated application. Mr. McCauley is the main point of contact for this project. The systems analyst has reviewed the service request and studied a listing of what systems are currently in place. Using the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology,
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