Reflection On Contemporary Information Systems

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Contemporary Information Systems Reflective report Firstly, I would like to start this reflective report by expressing my gratitude for the opportunity to reflect on the work I have done in Contemporary Information Systems. This is really a fresh experience to me as I have never done this before. I believe this natural reflection process will benefit me in the long term. What’s most appealing to me is that we students got the chance to get involved and provide supply chain information that could support decision making for the management. In this report, I will analyze my contribution to the group assignment 1 as well as to online forum. I will illustrate the knowledge and skills I have learned, and how these combined facilitated the completion of the course goals. At the very beginning of this course, we were instructed to pair up with another classmate to work as business consultants on a group assignment with regards to Honda’s supply chain. Saira and I quickly established trust in each other and we agreed to work together towards this common goal. Soon, we divided the workload into halves: I would be responsible for writing part 1 – supply chain information for Honda while she would be working on part 2 – a supply chain information management system for Honda. After both parts were finished, we would work on part 3 together. …show more content…

After getting some basic idea about Honda’s business operation and structure, we agreed to choose its world famous automobile division as our focus for analysis. A rich picture was used to identify key information to be collected from Honda’s supply chain process. This information also served the purpose of guiding Honda’s management for decision support and strategy optimization. During this time, we had some communications and checked in on each other’s

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