...Strategic Technology Plan Strategic Technology Plan Introduction Technology Selected It was evident that Jabber was a suitable choice, as it was the original form of technology to be invented that would provide the first method of communicating via the Internet. The development of Jabber technology began in 1998 by Jeremie Miller who completed and released the first version of the Jabberd server in 1999. Jabber provided the development of the very first use of Extensive Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) formats. The purpose for Jabber was to demonstrate the improvements in communication as well as its inheritance to other communication systems. Jabber would prove the start of instant messaging system. Its capability was to provide The evolution to its start has allowed for it to have an impact as an upward trend in technology as well as to its downfall. It was evident that Jabber was a suitable choice, as it was the original form of technology to be invented that would provide the first method of communicating via the Internet. The development of Jabber technology began in 1998 by Jeremie Miller who completed and released the first version of the Jabberd server in 1999. Jabber provided the development of the very first use of Extensive Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) formats. Its large feature as an open-source communication software proved to be a cost savings benefit as well as an easy method to communicate as an instant messaging service...
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...Information Technology Strategic Plan My. X Strayer University Information Systems For Decision-Making CIS500 Dr. XYZ March 10, 2015 Abstract This article is focused on the format of a Business Plan strategy. It provides an overview of the company, financial, and other aspects of the business plan. The main components of business plan are: executive summary, company, products and services, market, strategy and implementation, financial plan, and financial plan. This article will show the plan for a successful corporate finance strategy, corporate finance and strategy functions that will work together and illustrate how to create shareholder value. Keywords: Writing Business Plans, SWOT analysis, Strategy plans, financial plans, sample business plans Introduction Many companies are using mobile (tablets, smartphones, and blackberries) technologies to enhance their customer service experience and internal job satisfaction for their employees. Companies like Delta Airlines, PayPal, a medical company, and a software security company, has shown that using mobile/wireless technologies are reaping its benefits. They’ve also have shown that they are in touch with social media platform and engaged customers to increase their understanding of what is needed to provide better products and services. “Indeed, many good business ideas have flopped before getting off the ground because they were not thought through fully” (Tusin, J, 2006, p. 226). A business plan enables an...
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...CIS500 Information Systems for Decision-Making Term Paper - Information Technology Strategic Plan April 12, 2015 1. Write an introductory statement of the company including but not limited to the type of the company, the location, the industry in which it competes, and the organizational vision and mission that encompasses the nature of the company. Being the largest not-for-profit Catholic healthcare system serving the Delaware Valley, Mercy Health System is part of Trinity Health and sponsored by Catholic Health Ministries. Their mission is to serve in the spirit of the Gospel, which means serving the entire community with compassion and healing presence while addressing the diverse factors that impact the health needs of the whole person. Even though they treat people from all walks of life, they have a special concern for the poor and disadvantaged. The goal of Mercy Health System is to be recognized as the leader in improving the health of the community and everyone they serve. Currently, they employ approximately 6,500 caring, highly skilled personnel who are focused on creating positive patient-care. Mercy Health System is a diverse, integrated system that embodies: Four Hospitals acute care hospitals: | Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital | A 213-bed teaching hospital in Delaware County and Southwest Philadelphia | | Mercy Philadelphia Hospital | A 268-bed community teaching hospital serving the needs of West and Southwest Philadelphia communities | |...
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...Term Paper Information Technology Strategic Plan CIS 500: Information Systems for Decision-Making Information Technology Strategic Plan Established in 1984, in Chattanooga, TN, 1st Step Counseling started as a privately owned counseling practice, primarily serving the local courts by providing first time DUI offenders with DUI education service and assessment, as mandated by their court ordered probation. Over the next ten years 1st Step Counseling has expanded its’ services to deliver out-come focused Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder counseling. By 1995, 1st Step Counseling had a patient census of approximately 300 patients, requiring the employ of an Internal Medicine Specialist, a Psychiatrist, a Nurse Practitioner, three Licensed Practical Nurses, two Clinical Psychologist, six Licensed Professional Counselors and two Clinical Social Workers, plus eight Administrative and Support staff. Later the same year, 1st Step Counseling opened a second office in Farragut, south of Knoxville, TN. Since this first expansion, 1st Step Counseling has established itself as a prominent Mental Healthcare Service provider, with 14 locations in or near metropolitan areas, throughout the Southeast. In January 2014, the Board of Directors decided to expand to the national market. To begin steering the company toward the national stage, the Directors and Senior Executives rebrand the company’s identity by changing the name to Access-Link Behavioral Healthcare (BHC)...
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...Manufacturing CRM Jason Lee CIS/568 Information Systems Concept February 27, 2012 Kemal Tekinel Strategic Planning Strategic planning needs extensive data collection if it is to be successful. An organization needs to know what is happening in its business, political, economic and social environment. It needs to know about its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. It needs to understand what culture it has and whether that culture fits the environment in which it is operating. It also needs to have a clear idea of the values under which it wants its people to operate, who its stakeholders are and how the organization is going to interact with those stakeholders. All this before it starts to go through the formal planning process. Introduction The President of Lee Technology Group developed this strategic plan to provide Lee Technology Group with a five-year roadmap for support, services and organization development. The President and Vice President will review progress quarterly and will review and update the plan annually as needed. Executive Summary Lee Technology Group mission is to design, develop and implement unique IT solutions for your business. Background and History Lee Technology Group began in 2011 as a start-up offering Project Management and Telecom solutions and services to Government and commercial clients. Lee Technology Group services include IT Project Management from planning to implementation, Project Management...
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...Information Technology Strategic Plan Wahidah Muhammad Strayer University Dr. Richard Brown March 14, 2016 Information Technology Strategic Plan Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher company based in Irvine, California. Founded in 1991, by three University of California, Los Angeles graduate’s students, Michael Morthaime, Frank Dearce and Allen Adham, under the name Silicon & Synapse. Before 1993, the company primarily focused on creating game ports, a connector for video game input devices, for other studios. After being acquired by Davidson & Associates, a distributor company, in 1994, the company became known as Chaos Studios and shortly after Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Blizzard’s mission is dedicated to creating the most epic entertainment experiences…ever (us.blizzard.com.). With eight core values that represent the principles and beliefs, has shaped this company throughout the years. Their goal is to make every game as fun as possible for as many people they can reach. To improve the quality of the gaming experience, Blizzard Entertainment seeks honest feedback from gamers. Understanding that first and lasting impressions are everything in the gaming industry, the company strives to maintain a high level of respect and integrity in all interactions with players, colleagues, and business partners. Everyone has a little geek in them. With cutting edge technology, comic books, science...
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...IT STRATEGIC PLANNING “You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.” Yogi Berra BACKGROUND Henry Mintzberg, former president of the Strategic Management Society, points out that “strategy can not be planned because planning is about analysis and strategy is about synthesis.” 1 Failure to recognize this basic distinction accounts for the frequent failure of such exercises, as does an excessive focus on technical detail, lack of suitable leadership, and perhaps most important, failure to align technology to institutional mission and priorities. Strategic planning involves a structure or framework, a set of procedures (both formal and informal), and of course content. Beyond these basic elements, the underlying assumptions about strategic planning are that the future can be anticipated, forecasted, managed or even controlled, and that the best way to do so is to have a formal and integrated plan about it in place. The process of planning itself may turn out to be more important than the results, and that process requires, as Mintzberg suggests, both analysis and synthesis. Planning simply introduces a formal “discipline” for conducting long-term thinking about an institution, and for recognizing opportunities in and for minimizing risks from the external and internal environments. Among the hundreds available, perhaps the most well-know model of strategic planning has the SWOT (for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities...
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...SIERRA LEONE RESEARCH PROPOSAL PROPOSED MASTERS-MPA PROPOSED TOPIC THE IMPACT OF STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEM PLANNING AND IT’S ALIGNMENT WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN OF THE ORGANIZATION A CASE STUDY: PARLIAMENT OF SIERRA LEONE (STRATEGIC PLAN 2009-2013) SUBMITTED TO: THE DEAN OF POSTGRADUATES STUDIES SUBMITTED BY: JOSEPH CONTEH INTRODUCTION Strategic information system planning (SISP) is consistently identified as the most critical issue facing the Organization. Leaderer and Sethi define strategic information systems planning as the process of identifying a portfolio of computer-based applications to assist an organization in executing its business plans and realizing its business goals. Strategic information systems planning also include the search for applications with a high impact and the ability to create- an advantage over competitors. The use of Information Technology associated with proper planning would increase business success within the organization. SISP is considered to be the best mechanism that would support the organization to assure that IT activities are attuned with those of the rest of the organizational needs. The paper will focus on such factors that will assist the organizations to success in the strategic information systems planning. Background Information to the Research area Over the years, some organizations have made technology decisions and acquisitions in Sierra Leone that impact organizational information systems (IS)...
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...Strategic Planning and Nursing Process Your name HCS/482 January 12, 2015 instructor Strategic Planning and Nursing Process Strategic planning and the nursing process have many similarities, however strategic planning has the potential to affect how nurses perform in profound ways. As the integration of technology and informatics, takes hold in healthcare settings nurses can help use their knowledge of the nursing process to develop a strategic plan to best incorporate this emerging technology. The goal of this paper is to compare the nursing process and the strategic planning process, as well as nurses’ role in both processes. Comparison “The nursing process is a scientific method used by nurses to ensure the quality of patient care” (Nursing Process, 2014, para 1). The nursing process helps nurses develop a plan to guide patient care through assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Similarly, strategic planning is a method to design a comprehensive plan to guide an organization’s operations. Strategic planning has many of the same steps as the nursing process; assessment, analysis and identification of potential solutions, course of action, implementation, and evaluation/feedback (Hebda & Czar, 2013). While the nursing process focuses on a single patient’s goals, strategic planning focuses on organizational goals. The nursing process often involves a nurse and a patient, however strategic planning affects a variety of internal...
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...technological means in terms of systems development. It is a comprehensive plan that I.T. professionals use to guide their organizations. A System Strategy should cover all facets of technology management, including cost management, human capital management, hardware and software management, vendor management, risk management and all other considerations in the enterprise IT environment. Executing a system strategy requires strong IT leadership; the chief information officer (CIO) and chief technology officer (CTO) need to work closely with business, budget and legal departments as well as with other user groups within the organization. An article from CIO magazine, “Strategic Systems: Beneath the Buzz” discusses the way the very term “strategic systems” is beginning to lose its meaning. Ever since the word came into popular usage in business and IT management circles it has come to be applied to many projects, almost just for the sake of using the term. Instead of projects being necessarily strategic, they are simply called such so it sounds efficient and practical-the fact is there is little attention being paid any longer to what it means. According to the article, “it’s imperative that IT and business leaders know what truly is strategic in order to focus scarce resources on really important, high-payoff initiatives.” The article defines strategy from a business perspective as “a comprehensive plan of action to achieve a goal.” With this definition in place, it puts the term...
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...H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship Masters Programs ISM 5014 – Enterprise Information Systems IT Strategic Plan Part One: Background General Instructions: The background is the first part of the IT Strategic Plan document. It is an introduction for people who are strangers to the information systems organization. These outside readers need to be given the contextual information they need to fully comprehend the IT Strategic Plan. Basic Points: • Length of Part One: Write no less than two and no more than five double-spaced pages. Content should be clear and concise. • Narrative Form: Describe the background of the organization in narrative forms, which is more engaging for outside readers. • Fictional or Real The organization may be based on a real one or may be completely fictional. If you have ever considered a start-up, this is a great opportunity to put your ideas to paper! • Factual: The background description should include factual information about key aspects of the organization’s global environment, organizational structure, and IT values (see below for complete description and expectations). Content Will Include: Global Environment: In addition to the following items, include anything about the external environment that comes up in the strategic planning process. Such items can include, but are not limited to, competition or possible competition in the market, the need...
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... Preview Version February 1999 By the Information Technology Resources Board www.itrb.gov FOREWORD The Information Technology Resources Board (ITRB) is pleased to issue Managing Information Systems: A Practical Assessment Tool. This instrument is designed to assist Federal agencies in understanding how to strategically apply information technology to achieve their missions and deliver services and products. The Assessment Tool contains a broad array of questions in nine areas from which to evaluate information technology systems: mission and vision, customers, business focus, executive direction, capital planning, project management, performance management, acquisition, and architecture. These questions reflect the ITRB members' extensive on-the-job experiences, as well as insights gained from assessments of critical information systems across the Federal government during the past several years. This is a preview version of the Assessment Tool, which will continue to be enhanced over time. Comments or suggestions for improving it should be sent to: Ginni Schaeffer Interagency IT Strategies Division 1800 F Street N.W. Room 2227 Washington, DC 20405 Additional information on the ITRB is available at www.itrb.gov Arnold Bresnick Chair Information Technology Resources Board ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Information Technology Resources Board (ITRB) Arnold Bresnick, Chair Department of Agriculture Valerie...
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...Strategy defined What is strategy? The Oxford Dictionary describe strategy as A plan of action designed to achieve a long-term goal or overall aim; or the art of planning and directing overall military operations and movements in a war or battle; It is derived from the Greek word “stratégia” that means generalship (Oxford dictionary. 2015). A company’s strategy consist of the competitive moves and business approaches that managers are employing to grow the business, attract and please customers, compete successfully , conduct operations and achieve the targeted levels of organizational performance (Hough et al. 2008:4). Strategy is all about how the anticipated goals will be achieved. It works like a recipe where different elements are used in a more or lesser manner to achieve an end result. In an organisation the leader ensures all members are heading in the right direction and completing their goals and objectives. Organisations lacking leadership quickly implode as members scatter in all directions attempting to achieve conflicting goals in a silo-orientated environment. However, this can be overcome if leaders communicate and execute business strategies. A business strategy is a leadership plan that achieves a specific set of goals or objectives such as: * Developing new products or services. * Entering new markets. * Increasing customer loyalty. * Attracting new customers. * Increasing sales. * Decreasing costs. (Baltzan, 2013:16) Leaders also...
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...introduced it because of a fad, not wanting to be behind by others, and some others because were directed to do so. Many public sector enterprises adopted corporate planning because they were to do so by the Bureau of public Enterprises, the governmental body that regulates all public enterprises. Despite the facts that are now quite a few firms which have introduced corporate planning, such firms still constitute a small minority. On the academic side, research in India on strategic planning has not taken off. There are very few studies on corporate planning practices in India firms. Of late some leading Indian management education institutions have begun to offer short duration executives development programmes on corporate planning. A quick examination of the teaching materials used in these programmes clearly shows a predominance of materials originally developed in the United States. This is not surprising because strategic planning at the enterprise level had its genesis there. Strategic planning or corporate planning is a management process which enable a firm's management to explore the future impact of change and make current decisions to move towards the envisioned future. The Western economies, characterized by a rapid rate of change and fierce competition became an ideal home for the development of the concept of corporate planning. The Indian economy till recently provided protection to firms from change through a plethora of...
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...INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) STRATEGIC PLANNING Information Technology (IT) strategic planning Nilsa Barnes Stevens Henager College Professor: Niemira John Information Technology and Society/ MBA605A March 27, 2010 Information Technology (IT) strategic planning This paper will give the readers a view of a preparation of an analysis of Information Technology. Analysis and justification is how IT adds value and increases the institution's ability to accomplish its mission, and initiatives. Consequently, executive leadership will support sustainable funding plans and lead the institution through these changes (UNM, 2006). In order to achieve success of this strategy several objectives must be accomplish. First having a more collaborative IT and integrated and governance structure helps the institution make the right decisions in respect to IT. These actions will help the Executive VPs to support the idea of IT funding based on value received (UNM, 2006). Within a strategic level, the only technologies that have changed more rapidly are information technology and communications. These changes are driving most of the changes in a more global business environment. Companies that are capable of getting their “arms around” their information systems and communications have a critical competitive advantage. Companies’ content with older technology will find themselves on the wrong side of an ever expanding technology driven gap in customer...
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