INFO 531 Week 3 Discussion 1

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Topic: Overview and Structure of the Business

For this assignment, please add a new post to the discussion thread, with your answers to the questions below. Your initial post must be at least 250 words. Continue to follow your classmates' posts for the remainder of the week and post-follow-up messages to at least two of your classmates' posts. Each follow-up post must be a minimum of 100 words. Your follow-up posts can add additional insight to a classmate's opinions or can challenge their opinions. Use examples from the readings, or from your own research, to support your views, as appropriate. Be sure to read the replies to your own posts and reply to any questions or requests for clarification from your classmates and your professor.

Assignment:

Continue using your Term Paper Template file, which you have renamed according to the following convention: LastnameFirstnameTermPaperOutline (eg., HandKarenTermPaperOutline). You will use this same file throughout the semester to complete each week's assignment, and will turn in the completed file as your Term Paper at the end of Week 7.

This week you will write the Overview and Structure of the Business section of your term paper. What is the mission of your organization? How is your organization structured? What are the job roles and responsibilities of the different parts/units or your organization and the different employees of your organization? How do the roles and responsibilities of each unit and/or employee fit together into the mission of your organization? Are there different levels of employees, such as managers and lower level workers who will have different information technology needs? I am looking for a big picture view of your organization in this section. Later in your term paper, you will discuss the information technology of your proposed business in more detail. But here I am just trying to get a big picture of your organization itself and how everybody fits together to fulfill the mission of the organization. The organizational overview section should describe the structure of the business that you are proposing, focusing on the different levels of employees in the organization (upper management, middle management, operational management, and lower level employees, such as production and service workers, and data workers) and their IT needs (chapter 1). Other topics to cover in this section could include a description of the main business processes in your business and the types of information systems and enterprise applications you will need to efficiently run the various business processes (chapter 2), and an analysis of your business against Porter's competitive forces model, along with a recommendation for an appropriate strategy for your organization to gain a competitive advantage (chapter 3).

When you are finished, copy and paste the Overview and Structure of the Business section of your term paper into a post and post it to the discussion board.

For your follow-up posts, read at least two of your classmates' posts and give them feedback on their work. You can ask for more information on their particular information system and add your own insights and thoughts about what they have written. You can also give them constructive feedback and criticism to help them improve what they have written, if you feel you can help them (just be kind and sensitive in how you make your suggestions to them!)