Subject: Management and Information Systems

Scenario: Your family owns a company that makes personal protective equipment for industry. There are 100 employees. Last year, your net profit was 1.5 million dollars. Your grandfather has been the CEO for the last 30 years and has been very resistant to spending money on information technology. You do not have an internal network, and people are connected to the Internet, individually, using an external provider. Your grandfather has stepped down and your mother is the new CEO. She has asked you to make an MIS strategy and plan for the organization. You are currently taking an MIS course and have covered the first four chapters of your text. You will consider the current (mid-June, 2020) business environment and what can be predicted, for your business, going forward. You will also contemplate how you can integrate MIS into an organization with the following departments: Human Resources, Accounting, Purchasing, Shipping and Receiving, Supplies and Warehousing, Maintenance and Manufacturing. Currently, you use a safety supplies distributor to sell your products. See Appendix 1 for an organizational chart. Because there has been intense competition from Asia, your company has concentrated on a customer-oriented strategy of competition. You will need to consider available funds in arriving at any recommendations (any recommendations need to meet your needs without being too extravagant - you won't be providing pricing at this time).

Question: Discuss business pressures within your organization and industry and how IT improvements will be of benefit.