INFO 531 Week 4 Discussion

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Topic: Your Company's Infrastructure and Information Systems Needs                          

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: Lastname Firstname Term Paper Outline (eg., Hand Karen Term Paper Outline). 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 Your Company's Infrastructure and Information Systems Needs section of your term paper. Topics to cover in this section include your plan for your company's IT infrastructure (chapter 5), use of telecommunications, networking and wireless technologies (chapter 7), use of functional information systems, such as production and operations, marketing and sales, accounting and finance, and human resource information systems (chapter 2), use of enterprise applications for supply chain management and customer relationship management (chapter 9), and an analysis of your company's internal operations against Porter's value chain model, with a recommendation for how IT can be used in your organization's value chain to increase your organization's efficiency, effectiveness, and competitiveness (chapter 3)

When you are finished, copy and paste the Your Company's Infrastructure and Information Systems Needs 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!)