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Report on Strategic Information Systems of Woolworths Limited

   

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Running Head: STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEMSHI5019 STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS T2 2017Name of the StudentName of the University

1STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEMSIntroductionThere are a number of large scale retail chains in Australia and Woolworths Limited isone of them. This organization grew from a simple street-side store to one of the largestorganizations in Australia. The reason for using this particular organization as a case study forthis research is that Woolworths has been successful in Australia for quite some time now and isnow looking to grow further beyond the national boundaries.In this report, an analysis has been conducted on Woolworths Limited and differentaspects of business operations like new accounting system and software acquisition packageshave been explored.Discussion of the Topic: Part 11.1 Current Organizational StructureThe chosen organization for the analysis is Woolworths Limited, which is a one of thelargest retail supply chains in Australia. Woolworths began with just one single street-side storewhere all the business operations were performed manually. With exponential growth over theyears, the company is currently the largest retail supply chain in Australia and one of the largestin the world (Arli et al., 2013). With the growth in the business, the organization structure alsoincreased rapidly in order to manage all the complex business operations. The currentorganizational structure at Woolworths is reflected in the following picture.

2STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEMSFigure 1: Organizational Structure at Woolworths(Source: Lawley, Birch & Craig, 2016)The current director of the company is Robert Corbett who also presides over the roleCEO of the company. He is advised by the directors’ board that consists of Adrienne Clarke(Non Executive Director), Roderick Deane (Non Executive Director), James Strong (Chairman),Diane Grady (Non Executive Director), Leone L’Huiller (Non Executive Director) and JohnAstbury (Non Executive Director) (Lawley, Birch & Craig, 2016). Under the director’s board,there is the management board where all the management officials have been appointed indifferent roles namely Chief GM Project Refresh Stage 3, Director Supermarkets, ChiefLogistics and Information Officer, GM Human Resources, Chief GM Freestanding Liquor andPetrol, Director General Merchandize & GM Big W, Chief Financial Officer, GM Property, GM

3STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEMSCorporate Services and GM Business Development. All the management board members presideover their own departments and the subordinates work under them.1.2 Operational ProblemsAnalyzing the entire organization structure, it can be said that company might face someoperational problems during the course of the business operations. The first main problem arisesfrom the fact that there are an excess number of officials in the management team. There is alarge number of general managers in a large number of departments that may result in internalconflict between the managers. There are some unnecessary general manager posts that couldhave been avoided by integrating some of the smaller departments (Ali & Soosay, 2015).Although the company has created this number of posts to simplify the duties of each of themanagers as well as reduce the internal operation time, some of the duties of the generalmanagers often overlap, resulting in conflicts of ideas. Again, the company has appointed a largenumber of non-executive directors who are poised to provide advices to the director and CEOregarding policy making and planning of projects and operations. As they are not directly linkedwith the regular executive operations, their duties are to analyze the operations and differentfactors related to the business of the company and suggest suitable planning and changes to thedirector. However, due to a large number of officials on the same role, there will be conflict ofideas that can be both beneficial and harmful (Devin & Richards, 2016). More diversity in ideaswill allow the director to choose the best option whereas too many ideological differences willnot bring the best and the most feasible solution to the director. Another problem identified inthe organizational structure is the communication system. Due to the existence of too manydepartments, most of the time, one department is not able to communicate with others.Moreover, the internal operations portal often crashes due to the simultaneous online activities of

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