1.4 Proposed Solution
The Leapfrog Project
By 2000, Murphy had gotten the RCCL in order. The IT department was reorganized and focused on the business, and the corporate strategic plan had been rewritten "with IT wrapped around the plan." The Leapfrog project was then conceived. It was designed to be a quantum leap forward in its support of the business. The significance of Leapfrog was such that Murphy was the first nonexecutive officer who had ever presented to the board of directors. However, to Fain, it was essential that Murphy present the $200 million project so the board could fully understand his enthusiasm as to why the project would transform the company. The project was approved. Leapfrog's three main IT projects Leapfrog was really
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human resource system. Peoplesoft Shoreside was the first of many employee systems under Leapfrog, including knowledge/document management, Peoplesoft Shipboard, and crew movement systems. This Web-enabled version would provide ships at sea real-time access through satellite connections as well as allow ships' officers access to licensing, training, and employees' backgrounds. Given the ambitious five-year plan to grow the headcount from 17,000 to 40,000 people, an automated and efficient HR management tool was critical. Leapfrog's third pillar-customer-was the building of a $50 million Web-enabled reservation system (called NexGenRes) but also lots of other initiatives based on the Web. Murphy compared the current reservation system to a bowl of spaghetti. Seven different reservation systems existed that did not talk to one another, thus preventing the providing of both useful detailed information and a common view of the customer to the sales and marketing departments. As Rice noted, business users needed a holistic view of customers and the ability to access the information through a single source. By June 2001, RCCL still had different systems, which prevented it from seeing the whole picture of a customer's history; that is, it had a separate reservation system, a loyalty system, a shipboard system, and a revenue system. It was working hard to integrate them. In parallel to Leapfrog, for the first time in …show more content…
With its high-tech movie theaters, ice-skating rinks, and rock-climbing walls, RCCL was constantly at the edge. Its ships were the latest in luxury, holding more than $10 million of IT equipment and software to support the hotel (e.g., Web access in passenger cabins for the most recent ships, Web access in the crew cabins, and Internet cafes).
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In Tim Seibles' poem, The Case, he reviews the problematic situations of how white people are naturally born with an unfair privilege. Throughout the poem, he goes into detail about how colored people become uncomfortable when they realize that their skin color is different. Not only does it affect them in an everyday aspect, but also in emotional ways as well. He starts off with stating how white people are beautiful and continues on with how people enjoy their presence. Then he transitions into how people of color actually feel when they encounter a white person. After, he ends with the accusation of the white people in today's world that are still racist and hateful towards people of color.
WOOSTER — Authorities continue to look for the driver of a car that fled the scene after crashing into an Amish buggy Wednesday evening, causing serious injury to at least one of the buggy's occupants.
A group of investors (Arundel group) is looking into the idea of purchasing the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major movie studios. Movie rights are to be purchased prior to films being made. Arundel wants to come up with a decision to either purchase all the sequel rights for a studio's entire production during a specified period of time or purchase a specified number of major films. Arundel's profitability is dependent upon the price it pays for a portfolio of sequel rights. Our analysis of Arundel's proposal includes a net present value calculation of each movie production company. In order to decide whether Arundel can make money buying movie sequel rights depends on whether the net present value of the production company's movies is higher than the estimated 2M per film required to purchase the rights.
The Army Human Resource System (AHRS) known as the Electronic Military Personnel Office or (eMILPO) is a web based multi-tiered application. It provides the Army Human Resource Community with a reliable mechanism for performing personnel actions and strength accountability. The System consolidates 43 Personnel Information Systems in one. This system provides visibility of the location, status, and skills of Soldiers in the United States Army. The primary users of this system are Human Resource Soldiers, Commanders, and First Sergeants. The primary features and functions of eMILPO include Personnel Services, Personnel Accounting, Reassignments, Promotions, Readiness, Workflows, System Services, PERSTEMPO, and DTAS.
2. Detail the HR functions(s) that is/are the focus of this case. Practices include recruitment, selection, training and development, performance appraisal, compensation (including benefits), internal employee relations (including discipline and termination), and safety.
2. What steps did Jack Moore (the CIO for Heartland Healthcare System) bypass with his oversight of the IT project? Jack Moore's action in advancing Heartland's IT department was very careless and lacked cautions. Jack negligence and Richard Smith (CEO) failure to get involved has genuinely put Heartland Healthcare system in a potential financial dilemma. Let begin with all the step that Jack chose to ignore. Healthcare IT is rapidly advancing, and no one person is capable of mastering all the area of Information technology. Jack failures to engage others is what causes heartland to experience such financial losses and put the organization tech department behind the eight ball. Jack also has decided not to involve current staff member of Heartland
RoundTech needs to shift their managerial strategy from a classical organization to a human relations organization. The tasks performed by their staff have a high level of interdependency, especially the production staff, as a result they need to have a social or team based work environment.
Davenport University is pleased to submit this request for proposal of services to all competing companies in achieving its goals for improving the universities technologies and student experience by providing a timely and cost effective method of delivery, installing, and configuring of these technologies systems. We have partnered with the information technology department with the school’s education board with the intent of improving the educational standards. It is crucial that the accuracy of supply quota and the delivery of 200 new machines is done in a timely manner and does not interrupt the education process at Davenport University.
From initial assessment the project had all of the indicators of a sustaining product line. Which would justify all of the decisions management made as rational. Making a product with increased critical performance features with our current processes and enhance the value system of HP sounded great! Unfortunately, this was a disruptive technology that should have been developed for less than $50 and marketed to gaming community. This case is a classic lesson on the importance of knowing what direction you development team is going, sustaining or disruptive, and accurate categorization. If the project is incorrectly categorized it effects all facets of business including finance, development, marketing, and, management.
The next step for AES is to establish a human resource information management (HRIM) system. A HRIM system will allow employees to access information contained in the HR manual through a company intranet. A HRIM system could also help AES employees track their training and development, look for courses to take, search for job openings or cross training opportunities throughout the company, and locate benefit information. As AES plants become more geographically dispersed, a HRIM system will help to communicate the company’s values and strategy to all employees.
Entering a galley of gleaming video screens and well-stocked bookshelves, I had the distinct feeling of being in a science fiction museum, or the control deck of a 1960’s space ship.
External competition is the key threat that Yahoo faces presently, and has been an impediment in the past too. As stated before, Yahoo’s services consist of multi-business units that are not only hard to differentiate on the internet space, but are also rivaled by other similar providers. Google provides email service, online advertising and search engine services among many more others, while Facebook, on the other hand, provides social media online advertisement and eats substantially into Yahoo’s user numbers. Spencer (2012) also provides that by Yahoo choosing g to venture into the mobile web business, it has effectively exposed itself to two marketing fronts that must be simultaneously articulated. This will or might prove hard to do, considering the fact that some of its rivals such as Google have set aside billons for such strategies. With Yahoo’s current market and financial position, it is impossible to match the financial power of both Facebook and Google. In terms of expansion into foreign markets, Yahoo faces the issue of cross-cultural complications. It should be noted that some conservative countries such as Chia have crated and adopted their own search engines that reflect their needs and wants and as such, there is bound to be little need for Yahoo in these markets. Therefore, the formulation of strategic partnerships and alliances is the key to successful expansion into foreign international markets, as opposed to direct entry.
According to Brown, C.V., Dehayes, D.W., Hoffer, J.A., Perkins, W.C., Martin, W.E. (2011), MidSouth Chamber of Commerce (MSCC) is a member support, non-profit organization that deals with state government on behalf of local business policies. In the early 2000’s, the MSCC, became the most powerful advocacy organization for the business community under the new leadership of President Jack Wallingford. As the growing demands of members and employees were increasing, the MidSouth Chamber of Commerce (MSCC) has decided to update its computing systems. The management then decided to consolidate their systems to AS/400 based system called UNITRAK. Ted Vassici has supported the systems for a significant period before Simon Kovecki was hired by MidSouth Chamber of Commerce (MSCC). Simon Kovecki was in charge of implementing this new system, but he ended up with failure that left MidSouth Chamber of Commerce (MSCC) with lost data on the old systems, and an inoperable UNITRAK system. This case study illustrates the problems that MSCC went through after acquiring the UNITRAK system.
Open Systems Mapping: CEMEX divided 40 employees into 10 functional teams in two to three months and because of this fast organizational change, the company might need to think about how to adjust to the changes in such a short time. Also, the size of the RMC acquisition would deter management from its aim of cutting the business's debt. I believe that using open systems mapping would be quite beneficial for the company to reorganize and determine its mission and what it would like to be (Mclean, 2006). Mapping the system is like mapping where employees want the company to be in the future. This is a good approach to building these visions more specific for the company.
Databases and tracking tools give companies the ability to know the finer details in order to foster that relationship and allow customer service agents to provide that intimate service to a customer even when they have never spoken before. Customers have come to expect this level of focused customer service and depend upon the investment they have made in the company by establishing an interactive relationship with