Introduction In the expansion of Acme Home Improvements to Mexico City, an information system management plan needs to be established in order to oversee employment and management, as well as meet the needs of Acme’s stakeholders including employees, customers, suppliers, shareholders and investors. The plan has a goal of improving aspects such as sales and marketing, budgeting, planning, hiring and training all while using technology to assist in the assignment of roles, and to discover correlations between profits, performance, and competitors.
System Objectives & Information Requirements of Stakeholders The goals and scope of the Information Systems plan is to identify how the plan will help each stakeholder group obtain the necessary information, data, and equipment required in order to complete the tasks associated with each group. A stakeholder is someone that has put a level of trust and interest into a business, project, or idea. Regarding the Acme Mexico City project (AMC), the stakeholders consist of those employed by AMC, buyers of the product, suppliers, and their shareholders and investors. All of the needs of the stakeholders will be met by the AMC information system, which will help to organize departments such as human resources, marketing, operations management and sales. Human Resources is defined as a department which “maintains policies, plans and procedures for the effective management of employees” (Baltzan, 2011). This includes the hiring and training of those employed by AMC and maintaining the information and data surrounding these employees as well. Human resources requires an information system to keep a database of all hired employees and upper management. This database is also helpful in that it can identify high risk employees (those who are quitting), and can also create a rewards system with the ability of tracking