Business Strategy Evaluation and Effects of Changes Report

This report evaluates the current business strategy of The South Dakota Department of Labor, Workers’ Compensation division, focusing on the implementation of a new management information system (MIS). The strategic plan includes a mission to effectively manage employee injury records, a vision for streamlined record-keeping, and strategic objectives to analyze existing issues, implement a suitable MIS, and recommend improvements. A SWOT analysis identifies internal strengths and weaknesses, and external opportunities and threats. The report then conducts a gap analysis, comparing the current manual system with the requirements of a proposed technology-driven system. Recommendations include investing in a new MIS to overcome inefficiencies and improve the company's performance, highlighting the benefits of cloud-based infrastructure and secure online databases to modernize operations and better serve the organization's needs. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of change management and the positive impact of a new system on the company's workflow and overall efficiency.

Evaluation of business strategy and effects of changes
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Assessment 1: Evaluate current business strategy and Evaluate effect of changes
Part A: Evaluate Current Business Strategy
Strategic Plan
1. Mission
The mission of the strategic plan is to assist the company of The South Dakota Department
of Labor, Workers’ Compensation division with the help of an effective management
information system. This system would help the section of the company to manage
effectively the insights of the injured employees for keeping records in accordance to the
future reference (Laudon and Laudon 2016).
2. Vision
The vision of strategic plan is to formulate a structure through which it will be very easy to
maintain the records of the employees who have been injured in a particular year with the
implementation of an effective management information so that the company does not face
any difficulties in deriving out information about the injure employees in the future.
3. Strategic objective
The three strategic objectives to be taken for providing assistance to The South Dakota
Department of Labor, Workers’ Compensation division are as follows:
i. To analyse the issues that the section of the company is facing in maintaining
records.
ii. To distinctly identify the problem areas and implement the management
information system that would be suitable for the company (Jeston 2014).
iii. To recommend special ways through which the company would be able to benefit in
the upcoming years and the condition for the company will be bettered.
4. SWOT Analysis
a. Internal Environment
i. Strength
 Unbiasedly treating the employees within the company.
 Maintaining records of all the injured employees (White 2015).
 Providing information about the injury of the employees.
ii. Weakness
 Inefficiency in time management.
 Difficulty in finding out the maintained records.
 Sinking under the huge pile of records.
b. External Environment
i. Opportunities
 To foster in the commercial market.
 To provide insights about the employees according to the relevance.
 To embrace the new challenges regarding maintenance of records

ii. Threats
 Mixing up of records due to large quantity of records.
 Misplacement of the records in time of crisis.
 Possibility of data theft due to the physical existence of the records.
5. Approval/sign-off
Part B: Evaluate Effect of Changes
Gap Analysis
1. Review of current system
The present system of The South Dakota Department of Labor, Workers’ Compensation
division is one of the systems that are devoted upon maintaining the records of the
employees who have been injured during their course of job. The system is analogous in
nature and is manually driven for which it has become extremely difficult for the section of
the company to maintain the insights of the injuries that the employees have been affected
with one time or the other during the course of his job (Dukić 2013).
2. Requirements for the proposed system
The requirements of the proposed system or the system that is required to replace the old
system of the manually driven information system requires a robust system accompanied by
a solidity in the framework of the same. It should be kept in mind by the authority that
before the implementation of the new management information system, all the perquisites
including the arrangement of the online databases and the infrastructure of a reliable cloud
computing service is comfortably arranged before the implementation of the services
(Tomás and Tordsson 2013). Otherwise, during the implementation of the system a lot of
discrepancy may creep up.
3. Comparison
The difference in both the resources and the performance level of the traditional system and
the modern system is quite notable considering the level of their assistance to the
organisation. The old system was manually driven which required the deployment of the
considerable workforce. On the other hand, the proposed system is entirely dependent on
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technology for which the workflow would be highly reduced. The proposed system would
include the involvement of a cloud based infrastructure and an array of online databases
with high security (Rong, Nguyen and Jaatun 2013).
4. Implications
Analysing the above sections of this part, it can be concluded that The South Dakota
Department of Labor, Workers’ Compensation division was suffering a lot of difficulties in
maintaining the steady flow of work as the system had become old enough and was no
longer being able to the meet the purposes of the organisation. Thus, it was high the time
that the organisation had to invest on a new management system that would handle their
pressure and serve their purpose thereby providing a natural boost to the company.
5. Recommendations
It is recommended to the company that in order to meet the requirements of the
organisation and be served with the necessary beneficiaries, the company should invest on
the implementation of a new management information system that would meet all the
requirements providing a boost to the company.
6. Approval/Sign-off
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