Strategic Information Systems Assignment
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Contents1 Introduction..............................................................................................................................................32 Case study................................................................................................................................................32.1 Current processes..............................................................................................................................32.2 Gaps in the current process...............................................................................................................42.3 Proposed solution..............................................................................................................................42.4 Assessment criteria............................................................................................................................43 Information system strategy.....................................................................................................................44 Difficulties in developing SIS.....................................................................................................................65 System failures.........................................................................................................................................6References...................................................................................................................................................7Bibliography................................................................................................................................................7
1 IntroductionStrategic Information systems (SIS) are information systems developed to respond a corporate initiative of a business or organization. SIS are mainly developed and implemented by the business to give a competitive advantage over other businesses or organizations. There are different reasons for using a SIS in an organization which can range from improving the production process thus reducing the production costs to improving the distribution or sale of the products. This is achieved by application of analytical tools and metrics on the data warehouses to allow the organization to identify unseen opportunities for growth or ways to improve operational efficiency. This paper provides an in depth analysis of strategic information systems using Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) as the case study (Columbus, 2013). The paper identifies current processes and operations in use by TMC and the gaps existing in various operations. It then explains how a strategic information system will fix the gaps identified and typical problems that might the organization might face while acquiring the SIS or using it.2 Case studyToyota Motor Corporation is a multinational corporation with its headquarters in Japan. TMC is the world’s largest maker of cars with an approximate of 316,000 employees all over the world. Since its inception TMC has constantly strived to build better products at reduced costs. For this reason Toyota developed their own unique production method which differentiates it from other automobile companies in the industry. The production system is based an idea of producing the required amount of parts when they are needed as envisioned by the founder Kiichiro Toyoda. The system also aims to significantly reduce any sort of waste so as to reduce the cost of production. The company also values every employee by allowing every individual working in the organization to maximize on his abilities by participating in productive management and improvement of their role and the environment they work in. TMC adopted a motto of “Good Thinking, Good Products” to help every employee understand that their effort is essential to ensuring that every customer gets the highest quality product. Though this principle, TMC was firmly established as the world’s lowest cost producer and most efficient producer ofautomobiles. Other automobile producers in the U.S and Europe became aware of the principles of lean production and invested to catch up with TMC. This lead to an expansion in the global scale for improved design and efficient manufacturers thus resulting to a lot of competition for TMC. The competition experienced by TC raised several important strategic issues that needed to be addressed for TMC to stay dominant in the market in the highly dynamic market. TMC came up with a global strategy to respond to the changing market. The global strategy has a lot of elements but the two main aspects that stand out are use of Information Technology to enhance lean design and lean production making the company to evolve to a new age of smart design strategy and smart production. The second aspect is design and development of smart cars (Cooper, 2009). 2.1 Current processesTo design cars TMC formed a production engineering group that is involved in the design of the cars from the beginning. The design is based on a market segment which is segmented on the basis of style and price. The production engineering group needs to communicate with other entities involved in the manufacturing process like the suppliers and the project team. Constant communication in the progress of the design including any changes and developments need to be efficiently communicated through all the participating entities.
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