Strategic Use of Technology: Maryland Technology Consultants, Inc. - Business Analysis and System Recommendations

Maryland Technology Consultants, Inc.
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Introduction
Business Analysis and System Recommendation (BA&SR) is a process which is
carried out in order to analyze the business processes of an organization and then recommend
solutions for the organization which would help them in carrying out their processes in an
effective manner (Anthony, Shih & Jin, 2016). As a Chief Information Officer, the BA&SR had
to be carried out for the organization. At first the strategic usage of technology has been
describes, it further supports the decision making process of the organization. The stage 2
consists of a process analysis; here the current processes as well as workflow are evaluated. The
next stage explains the requirements, in this stage the main expectations of stakeholders are
identified and system recommendations are provided.
I. Strategic use of technology
A. Organizational Strategy: the main organizational strategy of Maryland
Technology Consultants, Inc. is to provide consulting services; it also
provides various suggestions to its customers by hiring consultants who
are highly skilled (Conforti, de Leoni & La Rosa, 2015). They also aim in
developing new best practices and business concepts. The present manual
hiring process of Maryland Technology Consultants, Inc. faces some
problems; these include the time consumed by the manual recruitment
process. The present recruitment process of Maryland Technology
Consultants, Inc. would not allow the organization to meet its recruitment
goals. Improving the hiring process would reduce the time consumed by it
and would also help the organization in achieving its organizational goals
as well as hiring goals (Chen, 2018). The organization must choose some

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strategies that would help them to recruit people who have skills or
knowledge regarding consultancy.
B. Competitive Advantage: the Maryland Technology Consultants, Inc.
usually concentrates on quality as well as expertise of the employees. It
works through competitively bidding on various requests for proposals
issued by the business, non-profit organizations and government
organizations (Jiang & Shang, 2017). It also grows its business with the
help of referrals as well as follows on contracts from the satisfied clients.
The strategy of candidate sourcing innovations must be utilized by
the organization in order to obtain various advantages, recruiting with the
use of alternative sites where the organization expects to get target
employees. The organization would be receiving application from
interested candidates from different platforms including social media.
Raiding talent competitors would help the organization to save resources
as well as time spent in providing training to the employees (Ferreira,
Junior & Rosa, 2017). Referral can also be considered, this would help the
organization to reduce enough amount of time invested in the recruitment
process. These strategies would help Maryland Technology Consultants,
Inc. to gain a competitive advantage in the market. The data received from
the hiring system can be utilized for strategic advantage. The data would
help the company to change the structure of industry and provide new
ways to outperform their rivals. It would also spawn the entire business
from the existing operations of the company.