Group Project 1: Paper Analyzing and Summarizing Cases
Purpose of this Assignment
This assignment gives you the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to research, evaluate, and explain enterprise systems and to communicate effectively at the executive level.
This assignment specifically addresses the following course outcomes:
analyze and examine how enterprise architecture and enterprise systems influence, support, and enable an organization’s ability to contribute to strategic decision making and to respond and adapt to the business environment
analyze enterprise system solutions to make recommendations based on benefits, limitations, and best fit within the enterprise environment
analyze and explain the elements of a successful plan for implementing enterprise solutions, addressing structure, processes, culture and other considerations
Assignment
The chief information officer (CIO) of your organization has heard about enterprise systems and believes they could solve many of the problems in the organization. He has asked your team to do some research and prepare an analysis and recommendations about these types of systems.
Your team will be assigned one of several types of enterprise systems (ERP, SCM, CRM, or others) to research and prepare a paper and an informational presentation for the CIO. The purpose of your task is to help him understand the type of enterprise system (assigned to your team), how other organizations have implemented such systems, and lessons learned from the implementations.
As part of the presentation, your team will lay out the considerations that the CIO should think about—both positive and negative aspects—prior to suggesting that the organization consider implementing one of these systems.
Your instructor will assign each group one of several types of enterprise systems to research and on which you’ll prepare both a paper (Group Project 1) and an executive-level informational presentation (Group Project 2).
Your group should research and find two case studies relevant to your assigned system. You need to find these case studies as these are not provided to you by your instructor.
For Group Project 1, your team will analyze the case studies that you have agreed to. Then, for Group Project 2, your team will use that information to develop an executive-level presentation that provides an analysis and recommendation for your CIO.
You should review Group Project 2 in order to understand how Group Project 1 supports both Group Project 2 and the individual project to write a memo to the CIO on “Success Criteria” for implementing enterprise systems.
Note: The individual research assignment, a memo to the CIO on Success Criteria, is due in the class schedule between your Group Project 1 and Group Project 2 due dates.
This memo, which identifies at least seven success criteria for implementation of enterprise systems, is used in conjunction with the group projects to provide the CIO with the necessary analysis to make an informed decision on an enterprise system implementation. Details on the Success Criteria memo assignment are provided separately.
Group Project 1
Review the case studies for two different organizations that implemented the type of enterprise system assigned to your group.
For each, briefly describe:
the business they are in
the problem they were trying to solve
whether the enterprise system implementation was a success or not
why it was or was not a success in terms of cost, schedule, quality, and performance (this is important – don’t forget it!)
lessons learned
Prepare a 2-3 page paper in Word format that provides this information and post it in your Group Assignment Folder.
Each team member should use the Individual Assessment of Group Member Participation criteria (explained below) to evaluate contributions to this part of the group project.
Individual grades will be based on the group product and adjusted appropriately according to the individual assessments.
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