Strategic Management Information System PDF

INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM

INTRODUCTION
• Strategic information system is recognised as an
effective approach that is developed in terms of
few corporate business related initiatives
(Charter 2017).
• The given presentation is about the Duke
Energy’s Oconee Nuclear Power Plant.
• The primary motive is to study the objectives for
the replacement of the control system with the
better utilization of software for controlling the
nuclear power plant with the core attempt for
raising all kinds of safety standards for the
organization.

BACKGROUND OF
THE DUKE’S
ENERGY PLANT
• Its first unit was commissioned in the year of 1973.
• Its second and third unit was commissioned in the year of 1974.
• Duke’s Energy Oconee Nuclear Power Plant had suffered minor
control failure in the year of 1990, although no individuals were
injured in the process.
• In this concern, all the gas turbines, vapour turbines, HRSG,
generator and plant system steadiness are required to be
analysed properly to ensure that all issues are solved in the
concerned energy plant.
• The approach of software controlled systems or digital control
systems would be quite effective and efficient to align the
respective business goals and strategies with organizational
information systems and information technology in Duke’s Energy
Oconee Nuclear Power Plant after successful analysis of
numerous drivers and barriers of this technology for the company.

PESTEL
ANALYSIS

POLITICAL
• The changing policies for the employees.
• The change in the policies with the countries connected to the
trade relations of the plant.
• Resource allocation by the government.
• The political stability of the market and the nation.

ECONOMIC
• The high efficiency in the financial market.
• Easy accessibility to the liquidity assets.
• Implementation of the software controlled systems.

SOCIAL
• The power structure of the business market.
• The demographic factors.
• The level of income of the society.
• The education standard of the people that determines the
employment status of the concerned energy plant.

TECHNOLOGICAL
• The innovation amendments concerning the advancements in the
technical factors.
• The safety and security of the people connected to the business
concerning the use of the new pieces of equipment and
machinery.
Technologi
cal factors

ENVIRONMENTAL
• The risk in the leak of the harmful radiation from the energy
plant.
• The sudden weather conditions.
• The changes in the climatic conditions.
• The need to sustain the environment and its natural resources.

LEGAL
• The environmental laws and the laws towards
healthy and safety of the employees and the
society.
• The legalised protection of the systems and the
natural resources.

VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS
• Primary Activities: Primary activities are inbound
logistics, operations, outbound logistics, marketing and
sales and services (Cui et al. 2015). These could help in
achieving better competitive advantages with software-
controlled systems, hence bringing more innovations and
effectiveness. The main factors of the core approach of
strategic information system eventually involve
competitive advantages after analyses of data sets, value
chain analysis so that they are able to apply them in
strategic level.
• Support Activities: Support activities are firm
infrastructure, human resource management,
procurement and technology. A digital control system
comprises of the core and distinctive advantage for
reducing all types of complexities or issues related to
nuclear plant failure. Digital computers are being utilized
for in such systems for acting as certain system
controllers (Rezvani, Dong and Khosravi 2017). The digital
control system eventually takes the significant form of a
microcontroller for a standard desktop computer system.
Thus, management would be much easier.

DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY
REVIEW
• The specific approach of Software-Controlled Systems would be
ensuring high safety and security for Duke’s Energy Oconee
Nuclear Power Plant.
• The major advantages of this type of approach is to deliver
products or services within lower costs and also reduce gaps or
challenges within the business (Reich and Benbasat 2013).
• Major resources are also identified for the information services
and for gaining business initiative.
• reviewing of disruptive technology for software controlled systems
Is required for fast, cheap and simple inventions to threaten
market leader or technological failure chances.
• The new processes and approaches of digital control systems
would be even lowering the risks of being agile and responsive
towards changes.

DRIVERS AND BARRIERS OF THE
TECHNOLOGY
• The most significant drivers of Software Controlled Systems are
some of the market related factors such as high competition, major
demand elements of the business like technology inputs such as
innovation, speed of delivery as well as societal pressure such as
government regulations (Henfridsson and Lind 2014).
• Being a nuclear plant, it is extremely important and significant for
them to implement software-controlled systems so that they are able
to ensure safety and security in the business effectively.
• The major barriers in such implementation is the high expenses.
• The next barrier comes to be the resistance of the employees towards
the adoption of the advanced technologies.
• Lack in the effective participation of the senior level managers of the
organisation in the decision making process.

STRATEGIC PLANNING, PROJECT
MANAGEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION
APPROACH
• Establishment of Objectives: The objectives of the nuclear plant are being established in this step so that
they are able to deal with technological failure. . Since, they have previously faced a minor technical failure, it
was required for them to implement the strategy of software controlled system, hence this particular step was
important.
• Formulation of Policies for Strategy Execution: Proper policies are to be formulated so that Duke’s Energy
Oconee Nuclear Power Plant is able to implement software controlled systems. These policies are required to
be formulated so that there exists a high chance for better execution of strategy. Moreover, it helps in reducing
complexity of decision making.
• Resource Allocation: Relevant resources and costs are being allocated in this particular step so that the
strategy becomes successful. These resources would help the users in reducing incurring of extra costs and
resources in a better manner.
• Proper Performance of Activities and Tasks: The performances of the activities and tasks are being
analysed in this step of strategy implementation so that Duke’s Energy Oconee Nuclear Power Plant is able to
complete their deployment of software controlled systems. In this particular step, the performances of
respective activities and tasks are analysed so that the organization does not face any issue regarding
performance error.
• Control of Performance of Activities: In the final step, the overall performance of every preceding activity is
being analysed by this organization. The performances of these activities ensure that the entire process of
implementation of software controlled system strategy is accurate.

SWOT ANALYSIS
Strengths
• Specialisation in
the field of
business
• Location of the
business
• Competitor
advantage
• Quality processes
and procedures
Weaknesses
• Operational
and people
goal initiatives
• Investment
• Lack of
communication
• Location of the
business
Opportunities
• Joint ventures
and strategic
alliances
• New market
• Growth goals
• Shore up
Threats
• Security and
Health
factors
• New
competitors
• Monitoring
of the
radiations.

CONCLUSION
• Duke’s Energy Oconee Nuclear Power Plant has faced a
technical glitch due to its old and traditional systems.
• Duke’s Energy Oconee Nuclear Power Plant had undergone
technical failure.
• Digital control system would be helpful in this case. Such
systems are inexpensive and scalable in nature and they
ensure static operation, which refers to the fact these are less
prone towards environmental conditions like inductors or
capacitors.

REFERENCES
• Charter, M., 2017. Greener marketing: A responsible approach to business.
Routledge.
• Cui, T., Ye, H.J., Teo, H.H. and Li, J., 2015. Information technology and open
innovation: A strategic alignment perspective. Information & Management, 52(3),
pp.348-358.
• Henfridsson, O. and Lind, M., 2014. Information systems strategizing,
organizational sub-communities, and the emergence of a sustainability
strategy. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 23(1), pp.11-28.
• Reich, B.H. and Benbasat, I., 2013. 10 Measuring the Information Systems–
Business Strategy Relationship. Strategic Information Management, p.265.
• Rezvani, A., Dong, L. and Khosravi, P., 2017. Promoting the continuing usage of
strategic information systems: The role of supervisory leadership in the successful
implementation of enterprise systems. International Journal of Information
Management, 37(5), pp.417-430.

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