...Approval Company - World Printing Location - Chicago, IL USA Abstract This paper explores a hypothetical proposal to solicit contracting of Smith HR Contracting Services for a previous employer that the writer worked for. Smith HR Contracting Services is a hypothetical company while World Printing is a real venture capital held company that currently does business throughout the world. World Printing as roughly 1700 employees located throughout its 44 offices, 5 design centers, and 12 manufacturing plants that are located in 15 different countries. They specialize in custom design and printing for some of the largest technology companies in the world. They have been a leader in their industry for over 33 years. Introduction of Smith HR Contracting Services Smith HR Contracting Services specializes in partnering with companies that are in need of assistance making smart business decisions and making the right choices for its internal and external customers. Our staff helps your Human Resource team understand the things that your employees desire and require to make them as efficient and satisfied in their careers with your business. We do this by helping your team build processes and implementing the right benefit programs that govern the company/employee relationships. This is where teaming up with the right HR consulting firm can really count and make a difference. Some of the services that we offer are: • Recruiting/Staffing • Development of new employee orientation...
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...com/product/cmgt-445-entire-course/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM CMGT 445 ENTIRE COURSE CMGT 445 Applications Implementation Week 2 Individual Assignment The following individual assignments refer to Boardman Management Group, Baderman Island Resort and Smith Systems Consulting, several of the Virtual Organizations. A link to the Virtual Organizations can be found on the Course Materials page. Boardman Management Group manages the Baderman Island resort. They are considering whether to upgrade the word processing software currently in use at the resort or to purchase a new word processing software application. Boardman plans to hire Smith Systems Consulting to help them analyze their options and to prepare an implementation plan. Submit a 3-4 page plan for how Boardman Management Group should utilize Smith Systems Consulting as an outside consultant for this project. Include a discussion of why the specific elements of your plan are important, how they will achieve the results you intend and why they were chosen over alternative methods. Week 3 Individual Assignment Boardman Management Group has decided to upgrade the Microsoft Word, word processing software for Baderman Island Resort. Smith Systems Consulting has provided Boardman with an analysis of the factors that need to be considered in upgrading the software. Using the analysis prepared by your Learning Team during Week Two, submit a Request For Proposal (RFP) that would be sent to software vendors seeking...
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...[pic] Business Case Template This Business Case Template is free for you to copy and use on your project and within your organization. We hope that you find this template useful and welcome your comments. Public distribution of this document is only permitted from the Project Management Docs official website at: www.ProjectManagementDocs.com Business Case Company Name Street Address City, State Zip Code Date Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 2 1.1. Issue 2 1.2. Anticipated Outcomes 2 1.3. Recommendation 3 1.4. Justification 3 2. Business Case Analysis Team 4 3. Problem Definition 4 3.1. Problem Statement 4 3.2. Organizational Impact 5 3.3. Technology Migration 5 4. Project Overview 6 4.1. Project Description 6 4.2. Goals and Objectives 7 4.3. Project Performance 7 4.4. Project Assumptions 8 4.5. Project Constraints 8 4.6. Major Project Milestones 8 5. Strategic Alignment 9 6. Cost Benefit Analysis 10 7. Alternatives Analysis 11 8. Approvals 11 Executive Summary This section should provide general information on the issues surrounding the business problem and the proposed project or initiative created to address it. Usually, this section is completed last after all other sections of the business case have been written. This is because the executive summary is exactly that, a summary of the detail that is provided in subsequent sections of the document...
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...[pic] Business Case Template Date Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 2 1.1. Issue 2 1.2. Anticipated Outcomes 2 1.3. Recommendation 3 1.4. Justification 3 Result and data 2. Business Case Analysis Team 4 Background 3. ENVIRONMENT SCAN…………………………………………………………………. 3.1. Environment 4 3.2. Commercial 5 3.3. Technological 5 3. 4 Economic 3. 5 Situational Analysis 4. Project Outline and scope Key Project Milestones 8 6 4.1. Improve Order Fulfilment times 6 4.2. Reducing the number of back orders 8 4.3. Reduce Sales team involvement……………………………………………………….. 4.4. Increase Inventory Turns 8 Method and Approach 5. Strategic Alignment 9 Analysis 6. Cost Benefit Analysis 10 Business Case 7. RISK ANALYSIS………………………………………………………………………… All members 8. References………………………………………………………………………………………………… 9. Appendix 11 Executive summary - 2-3 paragraphs fully summarising the entire project. Environmental scan - the commercial, social and technology environment in which the business case is proposed. This is equivalent to a background or literature review. Situational analysis - in which the current position of the company (and it's need for this project) is outlined. Cost/Benefit Analysis - the maths showing the nett effect of the money (spend offset by extra revenue), often comparing 2 or 3 scenarios: "do nothing", "do the second best project", "do this project"...
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...Environmental Proposal Paper Smith Systems Consulting provides web and business application services to a variety of clients including small and medium-sized business organizations, large domestic, multinational, and global corporations, government, and non-profit organizations (UOP, 2010). Learning Team B’ will recommend strategies to create alliances between Smith Systems Consulting and its networked internal and external customers, explain how the differences between leadership and management affect networking, and propose an environment that is supportive of team functioning and learning, and fosters sustainable innovation and creativity. Strategies to Create Alliances with Internal and External Stakeholders Stakeholders of Smith Systems Consulting, internal and external, may include company employees, consumers, investors, suppliers, government agencies, and non-government organizations. All stakeholders are assets to Smith Systems Consulting and are essential for business development. Engaging with the company stakeholders can prove to be a good business strategy. Smith Systems Consulting should develop high-quality, and open communication with the company stakeholders. Stakeholders should be able to suggest improvements, critique company policies or practices, and bring up any issues they believe important. Most people want to do business with a ‘good’ company and stakeholders can help put a personal brand on Smith Systems Consulting so the world view’s the company...
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...[pic] Sample Business Plan (A Service) SMITH E-COMMERCE CONSULTING Mary Smith October 31, 2014 |Section 1: The Business Profile | |Description of My Business | | | |I plan to provide a complete service for the design, installation and maintenance of E-commerce marketing functions for my retail | |clients. I intend to evaluate the success of each installation and follow up to make changes to improve the effectiveness of the each | |site. | |Targeted Market and Customers | | | |My customers will be small businesses that can enhance their present sales by the utilization of E-commerce. Typical clients will | |require sites for the dual purpose of providing 24-hour information to customers as well as providing...
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...Final Project: System Upgrade Scenario Smith Systems Consulting has been providing Web and Business Application services since 1994. During nearly 20 years of business, Smith Systems Consulting’s systems have required several upgrades. This scenario is meant to detail their most recent upgrade and will assume that much of the infrastructure is in place (i.e. networking cable is either Cat5e or Cat6, networking devices such as hubs, switches, routers, and wireless access points are in place and firmware is current, hardware such as printers and scanners are capable of supporting current and future needs; monitors, input devices, and workstation PC’s are capable of supporting current software requirements) and will focus on new hardware such as servers as well as new or updated software. The desired result of this project is to maintain both client and internal data security and integrity and ensure there is as little interruption to Smith Systems Consulting and their clients’ workflow as possible. A project team has been selected from within and has been tasked with planning and implementing this project. Before the project can begin, time must be spent in the planning phase. By not planning how the project will advance, resources such as time, money, and man-hours will be wasted. The members of the team must research the business implications, perform a SWOT analysis, identify the stakeholders, prepare a scope statement and SOW, and provide specific details of what the...
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...Sample Business Plan (A Service) SMITH E-COMMERCE CONSULTING Mary Smith July 12, 2011 Section 1: The Business Profile| Description of My BusinessI plan to provide a complete service for the design, installation and maintenance of E-commerce marketing functions for my retail clients. I intend to evaluate the success of each installation and follow up to make changes to improve the effectiveness of the each site.| Targeted Market and CustomersMy customers will be small businesses that can enhance their present sales by the utilization of E-commerce. Typical clients will require sites for the dual purpose of providing 24-hour information to customers as well as providing a purchasing venue. Potential clients are businesses in which E-commerce can provide additional incremental sales. The businesses will range widely: from restaurants to neighborhood drug stores.| Growth Trends In This BusinessThe market for my services is growing at an unprecedented rate. In 2004 and 2005, year-end holiday shopping increased 25% each year. Can you document from trade sources the anticipated rate of growth of your industry? If industry sources are not available, you will need to give a logical explanation as to the trend and potential of your intended market. This segment will provide you and your backers with information as to whether your market is growing or shrinking. | Pricing PowerInitially, my pricing power will be limited by what...
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...Role Identification Kimberly Knight, Tishelia Smith, Nicole Warren, Gerald Zgaby University of Phoenix GEN/480 Ms. Peg Billing August 22, 2010 Quad Consulting Firm has 4 strong leaders that will use their professional skills, life experience and educational backgrounds to assist organizations enhance or begin their social service programs. Quad consulting firm believes that with our strong people skills and business savvy that Quad consulting will be one of the most sought after entities in the consulting world. The mentoring consulting provides a wide range of agencies and organizations that will utilize the organization and need assistance with establishing safe and productive youth and adult programs off the ground, they will look to Quad consulting for guidance for these programs and this is where each individual’s specialties will come into play. Kimberly Knight has a customer service background with her BS in Marketing; her understanding of marketing will help Quad Consulting with researching strategies for each organization. Making sure that the Firm focuses on each organizations goal. Gerald Zgaby, an all around people person with work experience in banking and his BS in Management will be able to present for the businesses looking at venturing into giving back to their perspective communities. Gerald’s business savvy will allow him to present the business side of what mentoring can do as well, the benefits to what their program can give...
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...Week 2 Individual Assignment University of Phoenix – CMGT 430 In order to better serve Riordan Manufacturing’s information security infrastructure, a solid plan must be put in place to ensure that the approach to its implementation is logical, easy to follow, and effective. Many aspects must be considered when formulating an information security policy, including the needs of the company vs. best practice, thus striking a delicate balance between both variables. Therefore Smith Systems Consulting is dedicated to ensuring that a quality service is delivered that will meet these objectives. However, before a more comprehensive plan can be put into place, it is important that Smith Systems Consulting understands exactly how the security plan will be managed, and how to enforce it on the most basic level. It is therefore the opinion of our company to begin by defining a simple, yet utterly crucial part of Riordan’s base information security policy: separation of duties via the practice and implementation of role assignments. Separation of duties, in information technology, is the practice of dividing both IT staff and end users into managed groups, or roles. While users and IT staff, from an administrative level, may fall into several groups (ex., Accounting Department, Maintenance, Security, etc), these groups are not enough to enforce proper security policy. A more comprehensive approach is to define what the base access is for all of these groups, thus the use of roles....
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...Enterprise Security Plan Enterprise Security Plan Smith Systems Consulting (SSC) is a major regional consulting company. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the firm’s 350 employees provide information technology and business systems consulting to its clients in a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, transportation, retail, financial services and education. Smith Systems Consulting (SSC) is a service provider. It provides IT services for other companies. Security is essential for SSC because it not only requires security for itself, but SSC also has many customers depending on it to provide top level IT services, which also includes security. Enterprise risks are a part of all business and how we address these risks determines how successful we are in the business world. Risks can be defined by “any exposure to the chance of injury or loss.” (Cheryl l. Dunn, 2005) Risks can be internal or they can come to us from outside sources in the form of external risks. Both types of risks pose a threat to the overall security of the enterprise. An Enterprise Security Plan (ESP) outlines possible risks by identifying the vulnerabilities within the business process and ranks the vulnerabilities for ease in developing a mitigation plan. The ESP also identifies technologies and policies that will help in the development of an operational plan that protects the business process and intellectual property of your corporation. Within this ESP we have developed 3 different...
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...Smith Systems Consulting Boardman Management Group - Baderman Island Resort: Word Processing Software Upgrade Table of Contents Overview 3 Purpose and Projected Goals 4 Business requirements 5 Gathering Techniques 5 Recommendation 9 Options 9 Microsoft Office 2010 Professional and Open Office Comparison 10 Economic model 13 Risk Assessment 21 Projected Schedule 24 Testing Plan 26 Training 27 Further Training. 27 Maintenance and Support Plan 29 Testing Process Summary 29 Conclusion 30 Running Head: BMG World Processing Software Upgrade Proposal Overview The Baderman Island inclusive resort entity falls within the confines of Boardman Management Group, which specializes in various areas of tourism. The previously mentioned management group is a well-known host to many conferences centers, dream vacations, and destination resorts. Supporting business ventures include areas specializing in recreation, hotel, health promotion, dining, and entertainment. Among the most notable is the Baderman Island Resort, which opened to the public in 2004, and consists of three hotel locations. Each location provides a variety of retail establishments from specialty shopping to fine dining. All Baderman locations are supervised by the Boardman Management Group. Boardman Management Group (BMG) is constantly working to improve each entity within its group. The successful executions of past goals, and missions, have helped to mold BMG into a well-established...
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...Kudler Accounting System Vu T. Ma University of Phoenix Kudler Accounting System Kathy Kudler developed a business plan and open the doors of Kudler Fine Foods in 1998 in San Diego, California. Part of the initial business plan involved developing an accounting system. Kathy outsourced a consulting company, Smith System Consulting, to help select and install a retail enterprise management system (REMS). Smith System Consulting decided to install a modular and scalable retail management system (RMS). The REMS system implemented during the opening of the store is too slow to stay up with today's demands. Kudler needs an upgrade or an implementation of a new system. Windward System Five is the new accounting system needed to stay up with today's demands. Key features, core technology, benefits, and costs of the new system will decide the value of this new system to the company. The Windward System consist of some up-to-date features, which are lacking in the current REMS. General ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, POS, inventory control, E-commerce, purchase orders, customers, and advance security system with real-time backup functions General Ledger * Journal entries; * Supports recurring entries; * Supports check writing; * Balance sheets, income statements, cash flow, and trend analyses are some of the financial reports offered; * Multiple month reporting helps analyze sales comparison of stores and department; * Fully integrated...
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...restaurants, and different activities for the whole family to enjoy (Baderman Island, 2005). Each business entity’s was open at different times and although each entity started out with up-to-date computer hardware and software, upgrades of equipment and software have not been consistent. Boardman will employee Smith Systems Consulting to help with the analysis and implementation plan. Analysis The word processing software in use at the Resort currently is: 26 computers running Windows XP and Word XP, 38 computers running Windows 2000 and Word 2000, six computers running Windows 98 and Word 97. Baderman is currently facing a backward compatibility between the various versions of the software; the older versions do not have the tools of the newer versions. Boardman Management Group is wondering what would be implied to upgrade to a standard version of Microsoft Word or alternatively, to switch to a word processing software application from another vendor. Implementation Plan 1 To meet those needs, Boardman Management Group decided to collaborate and a content management solution using Microsoft® Office and Windows Server 2008. With the support of Smith Systems Consulting, the Information Systems Team gathered disparate information relevant to combining all the computers on the same software and hardware. The IT department will be connecting its 72 desktop PCs to Microsoft Office® 2007, and ResortSuite software using Windows Server® 2007 and or Microsoft® SQL Server® 2007. ...
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...a Frequent Shopper Program to award loyalty points for redemption. The customer purchase behavior patterns will help Kudler refine its processes and offerings to best satisfy their valued customers. Smith Systems Consulting is the firm that has been contracted by Kudler Fine Foods to go about the development of the Frequent Shopper Program (FSP). Smith Systems Consulting is proposing alternative methods for consideration to complete the Frequent Shopper Program. These alternative methods are addressed along with the advantages and disadvantages for each method relative to the Frequent Shopper Program project. Kudler Fine Foods will conduct market research in the form of testing and development to make an appropriate decision as to which program proposed by Smith Systems Consulting shall be incorporated into their business. Alternative Methods for Frequent Shopper Program The Waterfall Process Model is one of the oldest models known. This process has many weakness factors and disadvantages because it requires the requirements to be known upfront, difficulty of reliability estimations, no feedback from stakeholders until after testing phase, major issues are discovered late, lack of parallelism, and inefficient use of resources. For these reasons, Smith Systems Consulting is considering a few alternative methods to the waterfall process model for the development of the Frequent Shopper Program for Kudler Fine...
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