Information Systems Strategy for Security Service Limited

Security Service Limited

Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Q1 Analyse how SSL may identify the value that it obtains from its current portfolio of
information systems and evaluate the techniques that may be used in assessing future IS
investments......................................................................................................................................4
Q2 In many parts of the company, it is clear that SSL does not have a coherent IS strategy.
Analyze how it may construct an IS strategy that is supportive of its business strategy and the
benefits that it would derive from this.............................................................................................6
Q3 Analyse the strategic potential for greater investment in information systems and technology
at SSL both from a divisional and company-wide perspective. Could the business process re-
engineering be a useful tool in maximizing the potential of IS and IT within the company?
Explain and justify your answers.....................................................................................................7
Q4 Describe the current location of IS functions within SSL. Recommend the best location for IT
services in the future........................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

Introduction
The organization Security Service Limited has seen a large increment in its growth in the last
three decades in being among the major organizations that provide private services in the sector
of security in the United Kingdom. The total benefit for the financial year that was terminated in
April 1995 was increased by 17 percent to 98.4mn euros from the last year. The beneficially has
stayed stable at almost 10 percent of the total benefit for back to back 3 years. The Security
Service Limited has provided a large bracket of services to the organization, a person and even
the public sector. The organization owes to various factors that include the growth by the help of
the actual business, startups in the related sectors of securities. In the course of this document,
the dos and don’ts of the information systems of the SSL are discussed, while going through this
report a learner would be able to answer questions such as analysis of the ways by which the
organization would identify the value if the information systems or the strategies for planning of
the informational systems or their strategic potential and functions within it.