Analyzing the Business Case

Red Star College is a private school. They have an outdated IT system, which was implemented in $1995.$ For example, the college$$s student database, class scheduling, registration system, HR$,$ and all other systems were in separate buildings and on different operating systems. The graduated student$$s records system is still paper$-$based $($manual$).$ The school has no centralized IT management system. Plus, the college$$s website and social network are all very old and do not meet the needs of the current students and faculty. Therefore, one problem is the miss$-$calculation of the student grades $($wrong transcripts$)$ and very slow response to transcript requests.

Assignment

Question $1$: The college has outgrown its computerized system and is considering a New System. The college president has asked you to list the reasons for this IT project. Why do you think there is a need for a new IT system?

Question $2$: You will prepare the list of IT changes to save the college. Please list IT$-$related changes $($upgrades or new purchases$)$ and match them with the importance weight. Prepare the list of changes needed and assign a relative weight to each reason, using a scale of $110,$ low to high $($where $10$ means the most important IT section for the new system$)$