Strategic Information System Report: Business Analysis of Woolworths

This report provides a strategic analysis of Woolworths Supermarket's information system. It begins with an introduction to strategic information systems (SIS) and their role in providing a competitive advantage, followed by an identification of Woolworths' structure, products, and services. The report examines the company's operations, current processes, and identifies gaps in the existing system. It highlights specific issues expected to be addressed by a new system and outlines the criteria for evaluating its success. The report also discusses the constitutes of an Information Systems (IS) strategy, with suggestions related to IS failures and potential problems within IS projects. Finally, the report offers suggestions for the project's implementation and concludes with a summary of the findings, emphasizing the importance of SIS in enhancing organizational efficiency and sustainability. The report draws upon various studies on information systems and their impact on business performance.

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Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Identification of company’s structure, products and services.........................................................3
Operations and functionality........................................................................................................4
The current processes...................................................................................................................4
Gaps witnessed.............................................................................................................................5
Specific issues expected to be fixed by the new system..................................................................5
Criteria that will be used to prove the proposed system..................................................................6
Constitutes of Information Systems (IS) Strategy...........................................................................7
Suggestions With reference to studies on Information Systems failures........................................8
Expected Problem to arise within Information Systems projects....................................................9
Suggestions in relation to the project...............................................................................................9
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Strategic Information system is the information system that is developed in response to the
corporate business function. The purpose is to provide a competitive advantage to the company.
SIS is a salient feature in the company that distinguishes it from the rest. The software helps
business to categorize, store, process or transfer the information in an effective way. This tool
helps in managing the information in a systematic way. The company applies metrics and
analytical tools in order to keep an eye on the information repository (Almalki, Al-fleit and
Zafar, 2017). This is a way to improve the growth and efficiency of an organization. Most of the
Information system is used as a support mechanism. They are developed for the purpose of
developing an effective organizational capacity. They help in improving the organizational
efficiency and profitability it is a process through which a business organization can gain
effectiveness in order to earn long term sustainability. SIS is an integral part of a business that
allow in resolving effective issues. The system directly affects the organization and helps in
arranging effectiveness. They do affect the organizational competency and hence are one of the
reasons behind developing organizational competency. There are many possibilities that require
an effective organizational effectiveness in order to maintain a balance. This is one of the most
effective business strategies that require individual efforts in order to gain organizational value
and programming. This is necessary for generating better and effective supply chain for meeting
pre-requisites. The development of the strategic information system therefore improves the
organizational growth. This allows in improving the existing value in order to match up with the
organizational expectations (Arvidsson, Holmström and Lyytinen, 2014).

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Identification of company’s structure, products and services
Woolworths Supermarket is an Australian Supermarket and grocery chain owned by Woolworths
Limited. The store is known for selling groceries like (vegetables, fruits, meat and packages
food). Currently Woolworths is operating more than 1000 stores across Australia. Apart from
that Woolworths Online is known for carrying out online shopping. Technology is a game
changer for a retail organization and creates a distinguished result. It has helped in improving
the technology by implementing effective software. This has helped in offering customers with
distinguished options (Woolworths Ltd (WOW.AX), 2017). The IT sector has collaborated
significantly in order to create better opportunities. It is important enough for giving better
organizational opportunity and developing results in order to gain competency. The SIS helps
the company in getting effective organizational goals. It is important from the point of gaining
effective knowledge in order to arrange effectiveness and developing a proper information
system that allow in gaining competitive factors. It is therefore necessary for arranging
effectiveness that has helped in gaining competencies (Chen, Mocker, Preston and Teubner,
2010). It is important for arranging factors that are effective in order to disburse the array of
issues that specialize in managing data. Big data is important enough to deliver business
efficiencies that allow in increasing the customer engagement in an organization. The business
has to understand customer’s expectation in order to attain structured data (Defoe, 2013).
Woolworths has developed inner capacity that has allows store managers to take decision. The
managers have drillable reports, dashboards that allow in providing direct information. The
technology is important enough for a business organization in delivering necessary data. This
will help in acquiring effective information and priorities. The IT infrastructure is important
enough for gaining organizational effectiveness and arranging necessary growth (Cassidy, 2016).

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Operations and functionality
The information system has focused on managing integrated concept. This is necessary for a
business organization in making a dynamic and iterative process. In order to manage the process,
this is necessary to retrieve the important information. This concept is important for arranging
information system in an effective way. The purpose is maintaining the business model in order
to organize effective results. The information system helps in framing out the strategy in order to
attain business operations and gaining supply chain adequacy (Chugh, 2017). Most of the
companies are directly and indirectly dependent on the Information and Technology in order to
gain competent results. Information system is necessary for the business organization in order to
gain innovative service. Leading brands like Microsoft and Google are dependent on
coordinating information and technology. It is necessary for developing a better infrastructure
that will allow in gaining sustainable results. For a business organization, it is important to
arrange effectiveness by synching the IT infrastructure (Galliers and Leidner, 2014).
The current processes
The technology is used in order to develop organizational effectiveness to motivate the
employees in a better way. The company is using big data in order to increase customer
engagement. This is important for a business organization in order to gain effectiveness. The
purpose of implementing superior technology is important enough in order to arrange
information for the purpose of attaining long-term sustainable results (Peppard, Galliers and
Thorogood, 2014). The IT infrastructure is important enough to broaden the product
superiority. It is necessary for the purpose of implementing an effective decision. This is
important enough to deal with the organizational effectiveness. The Real time connectivity is
important for increasing the mobility in an organization (Jarzabkowski and Paul Spee, 2009).

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This is necessary for implementing a broad corporate program that will help in adding value to
the employees. Woolworths has significantly added the IT structure in order to gain
effectiveness. The purpose is to attain effective results in order to arrange long-term growth. It is
important for gaining effectiveness for the purpose of attaining an effective infrastructure. This
is important from the point of generating effective results and substituting it with the better
structure. It is necessary for strategizing the organizational requirement (Pearlson, Saunders and
Galletta, 2016).
Gaps witnessed
There are several challenges in the SIS due to the wide gap in strategic implementation of
results. The system is identified as the process through which the company can gain goals.
The information system is important enough for managing the requirements in order to mitigate
the gaps. For the reason it is important to develop a process that allow in arranging the best
results. The plan related to the information and technology is necessary for generating better
result. There are gaps in meeting the organizational targets in order to attain effective role and
responsibility. This is necessary for arranging effective organizational goals and attaining
effective growth by matching up with the expectations. This is necessary enough for matching
up with the gaps and looking onto the best possible opportunities. It is necessary enough for
matching up with the budget allotted In order to gain sustainable objectives (Peppard and Ward,
2016).
Specific issues expected to be fixed by the new system
The human resource issue is common to the organization with a lot of issues that need to be met
by defining the strategies in a better way. The organization has to identify the issues in order to

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manage the organizational needs which will allow in substituting the effective long term growth.
The purpose of initiating the organization is to utilize the demands that will allow in arranging
effectiveness. The technical challenges in the organization is creating gap in meeting up with the
strategy in a better way. This is important enough for regulating the goals and managing the best
possible strategy in order to arrange the gaps (Chung, 2016). This is important enough to
manage the systematic growth in order to define sustainable strategy. It is necessary for the
business organization to implement the strategy that will help in sustaining the changes. The big
companies are looking forward to manage the system in order to organize the factors in the best
possible way. This is necessary for arranging better opportunities. This is necessary for
maintaining systematic factors in order to gain results.
Criteria that will be used to prove the proposed system
In order to manage the changes it is important to figure out the most appropriate strategy that
will allow in gaining effective results. This is important enough for gaining effective results and
responsibilities in order to meet the targets. These targets are important enough for developing
an infrastructure that will allow in meeting the target with the purpose of gaining insight. This is
important enough for calculating the effectiveness that is associated with the information and
technology. It is necessary for matching up with the expectations of the customers and deriving a
better portal which will allow in gaining effectives. This is important enough in dealing with the
long-term goals with the purpose of generating better opportunities that will allow in building a
strong infrastructure. This will surely allow in building a strong capacity which will certainly
allow in generating better results. There are possibilities that allow in managing the systematic
growth in the infrastructure plan. It is important enough to deal with the challenges and applying

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the better results. It is necessary for arranging the most applicable software that is necessary to
mitigate the deficiency. It is necessary for the business organization in dealing with the
ineffectiveness. It is important from the point of gaining effective knowledge in order to arrange
effectiveness and developing a proper information system that allow in gaining competitive
factors (Somasundaram, 2017).
Constitutes of Information Systems (IS) Strategy
The strategy is to build systematic software and network which allow keeping sync in between
the different stores. It is important to keep an effective supply chain management. This is
necessary enough for regulating systematic growth and development. In order to understand the
long term purpose it is evident to look after the possibilities in order to generate sustainable
results. For the reason it is important to organize systematic growth and development that will
surely allow long-term sustainable result (Low, 2016). It is necessary to align the organizational
structure with the information mechanism. The purpose is to manage the effectiveness by
aligning the goals with the organization. This however helps in meeting the targets. While
expanding the business oversea it is one of the important targets that are necessary to be kept in
mind. This strategy will surely allow in managing the result and applying them in the best
possible way. It is important enough for generating sustainable results and organizing the
effectiveness that will up-grade the organizational requirements. It is necessary for arranging
organizational effectiveness in a better way which will allow in gaining results that are important
for matching up the organizational effectiveness. It is necessary enough for generating Bette
opportunities and matching up the expectations of the customers in order to gain relatable results.
The benefit resides with the organization and matching up with the expectation of the customers.

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Information system is necessary for the business organization in order to gain innovative service.
Leading brands like Microsoft and Google are dependent on coordinating information and
technology. Challenges experienced in developing an Information Systems Strategy. This is
important enough for arranging the needs and requirements so that the organization can gain
effectives. In order to match up with the expectations it is necessary to look onto the arising
individual needs. This is necessary for matching up the changes that are taking place in the
business surrounding. It is necessary enough for enhancing the individual capacity and
organizing the results in the best possible way. This effective strategy is necessary for mitigating
the gaps in order to attain results. Woolworths is a well-known brand in Australia. In order to
carry out the operations more efficiently it is necessary to identify the goals in order to arrange
organizational goals. The purpose behind focusing on the strategy is to attain effective
organizational results and generating the possible outcome. This is necessary to challenge the
poor management and gaining the outcome by focusing over the results. It is necessary for
meeting the results and understanding the outcomes.
Suggestions With reference to studies on Information Systems failures
The poor coordination in between the factors is one of the major reasons behind the poor
performance. In order to attain systematic growth, it is important to figure out the most
appropriate strategy. This will surely allow the organization in mitigating the gap and attaining
the best possible results (Liguori, 2012). Woolworths focus on managing the relation with the
employees. This will help in achieving the targets and looking onto the possible results. The
infrastructure can develop necessary results in order to manage the most possible results. This is
however important for an individual in order to match up with the expectations it is necessary to

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look onto the arising individual needs. This is necessary for matching up the changes that are
taking place in the business surrounding. It is necessary for managing the requirements and
creating opportunities which will allow in arranging the most evident results. This is necessary
for the business to arrange the most effective policies that has the capability to attain result.
Expected Problem to arise within Information Systems projects
The possible problem that might arise in the organization is related to the systematic IT
infrastructure development. This will surely creates the gap in meeting the resultant growth and
arranging the most effective results. The necessary purpose is to manage the outcome and
defining the most effective results (Hyam and Ong.2016). The purpose is to manage the
continuity in the organization and helping in meeting the effectiveness in the organization. This
is necessary for meeting the expectations of the people around. It is therefore necessary for
meeting the effectiveness and arranging the most desired results for matching up with the
individual expectations (Goolsby, Reed.2016).
Suggestions in relation to the project
In the above section the major challenge is regarding the commitment in the senior management.
In order to reduce the cases of failure, it is important enough to find out the most possible
outcome in order to arrange effectiveness. This is necessary enough for managing the issues
which will allow in gaining sustainable results. In order to organize the results it is necessary to
mitigate the issue and to look after the possible role and responsibility that will allow in
arranging effectiveness. It is necessary for managing the long term goals and representing the
needs of the people.

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Conclusion
To conclude, the report highlights the IT strategy and the requirements that are related to the
long term sustainable results. In order to arrange effectiveness the purpose is to accelerate the
business strategy and to gain effectives. Being the second largest retail outlet it is important
enough to gain better results. It is necessary for the purpose of aligning the IT infrastructure with
the organization and look onto to the upcoming business opportunities occurring outside the
business organization. This is necessary for matching up with the expectations of the customers
and looking onto the necessary IT infrastructure.

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