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  1. CMGT 578 All Assignments (May 2020) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com CMGT 578 Week 1 Leveraging Technology to Drive Competitive Advantage (2 Papers) CMGT 578 Week 2 Aligning IT Strategy to Organizational Vision and Goals (2 Papers) CMGT 578 Week 3 Short-range Strategic IS Plan (2 Papers) CMGT 578 Week 4 IT Budget (2 Papers) CMGT 578 Week 5 Intermediate Strategic IS Plan (2 Papers) CMGT 578 Week 6 Signature Assignment: Long-range IT Plan Focusing on Innovation (2 Papers) ==============================================

  2. CMGT 578 Week 1 Leveraging Technology to Drive Competitive Advantage (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com CMGT 578 Week 1 Leveraging Technology to Drive Competitive Advantage For this assignment, you’re a senior IT manager. Reynolds Tool & Die has decided on a set of competitive advantages it would like to pursue. The company has asked you to provide a 2-page executive memo outlining how you believe the company can leverage IT to achieve as many of these advantages as possible. Carefully read the Course Scenario. Read and complete the Week 1 Assignment Instructions. Use the below executive memo template.

  3. Save your executive memo as a Microsoft® Word document. You can copy and paste the template into a blank Word document and then include details. Format any sources you include according to APA guidelines. Submit your assignment. ============================================== CMGT 578 Week 2 Aligning IT Strategy to Organizational Vision and Goals (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com CMGT 578 Week 2 Aligning IT Strategy to Organizational Vision and Goals

  4. For this assignment, you will return to the course scenario involving Reynolds Tool & Die. Senior leadership has asked for a detailed analysis of the current IT infrastructure with an emphasis on how well it’s supporting the company’s stated mission and vision. You will analyze the Reynolds Mission and Vision statements listed in the course scenario, and then write a 3- to 4-page analysis assessing the company’s current IT strategy, including existing hardware, software, licensing agreements, etc., and aligning strategy components to organizational vision and goals. Carefully read the Week 2 Assignment Instructions. Aligning IT Strategy to Organizational Vision and Goals To complete this assignment, rereadthe course scenario involving Reynolds Tool & Die. Analyze the Reynolds Mission and Vision statements listed in the course scenario, and then write a 3-page analysis assessing the company’s current IT strategy (including existing hardware, software, licensing agreements, etc.) and aligning each

  5. strategy component to Reynolds’ organizational vision and goals. The result will be a detailed analysis of how well the company’s existing IT infrastructure is supporting the company’s mission and vision. Your headings for this assignment should include: Business Vision and Goals Outline the goals and vision for the business. (You will find them in the course scenario.)Remember that this is not a strategic plan, so your assessment won’t need to address every single aspect of the company’s vision and goals. Instead, you’ll be analyzing IT components in the context of the company’s vision and goals. IT Internal Analysis You may want to review the assessment you produced in Week 1’s assignment and expand on it here, in the Week 2assignment. Be specific when analyzing hardware, software, licensing, and external services. For example, how old are the company’s servers, switches, routers, desktops, etc.? Is the company current in terms of operating systems, security patches, etc.? What enterprise business applications are in use, such as accounting packages, CRM, ERP, etc.? Are they all current? Are their licenses current? What external services, if any, is the company

  6. using? Is the company using managed services, cloud computing, mobile technology, etc.? How the IT Infrastructure and Organization Can Be Optimized to Achieve Business Goals Explain how the IT function within Reynoldsis achieving or can achieve, with changes you suggest, the stated goals of the business as described in the first heading. For example: If one of the company’s goalswas to rate high with customers consistently on customer service, you would explain how the current call center infrastructure could produce lower wait times, achieve 99.9% uptime, etc. Perhaps you would also explain how the addition of a mobile app could enhance the customer experience by enabling timely feedback, finding nearby retail shops, etc. If one of the company’s goalswas to grow revenue by 10% annually, you would explain how the current CRM or ERP software is helping to achieve that goal by helping to target new customers and achieve faster, better production.

  7. Look at Amazon’s vision statement as an example: “Our vision is to be earth’s most customer-centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.” There’s a lot of IT potential there. Now take the Reynolds Tool & Die vision statement and explain how the IT infrastructure and organization can help achieve the company’s vision. As you develop your analysis, remember that the current IT assessment may not support the goals and vision. You may have to suggest certain changes in the IT organization and infrastructure to achieve the organization’s goals and vision. Use at least one other reference in addition to the class textbook when writing this paper. Review the Course Scenario.

  8. Save your alignment assessment as a Microsoft Word document. Ensure that you have included in your Word document the headings listed in the Week 2 Assignment Instructions, and that you have included the appropriate content under each heading. Format any sources you include according to APA guidelines. ============================================== CMGT 578 Week 3 Short-range Strategic IS Plan (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com CMGT 578 Week 3 Short-range Strategic IS Plan For this assignment, you will write a 3-page short-range strategic IS plan for Reynolds Tool & Die that includes a summary of where the company

  9. wants to go (its goals) and where it’s capable of going right now (based on its current IT infrastructure). Then you will recommend specific purchases and strategies necessary to make its IT function capable of supporting the company’s goals. Your plan should address outsourcing and the facilitation of business expansion into new markets, new regions, and new countries. Note that outsourcing can be either local, onshore, or offshore. For example if you have been using your own trucks and employees to deliver goods, but you want to expand into other states, you may use onshore outsourcing to UPS in those other states to deliver your products. In IT, hiring consultants to help with a project is outsourcing that function locally or onshore. Having an IT development team in Mumbai would be an example of offshore outsourcing. Carefully read the Week 3 Assignment Instructions. Short-range Strategic IS Plan For this assignment, you will produce a 3-page short-range strategic IS plan for Reynolds Tool & Die that includes a summary of where the company wants to go (its goals) and where it’s capable of going right now (based on its current IT infrastructure). Then you will recommend specific purchases and strategies necessary to make its IT function capable of supporting the company’s goals. Your plan should address outsourcing and the facilitation of business expansion into new markets, new regions, and new countries. The most important partof your strategic plan is outsourcing.

  10. To complete this assignment, review the course scenario. Pay special attention to Reynolds’ plans for a joint venture with an automotive parts manufacturer in Mexico and the acquisition of a light aircraft parts supplier in Canada. The short-range strategic plan you create will assist Reynolds in realizing what, ultimately, is a rapid expansion of their business. Your headings for this plan should include: What Functions Will be Outsourced Develop an outsourcing plan. You may decide to outsource all elements of IT for this expansion. This would include a managed services contract, which would cover all hardware platform management, perhaps an entire data center, and an internal and possibly external Help Desk. Or, you may decide to outsource only certain key elements of the IT expansion, such as the Help Desk or the data center. Whatever

  11. decisions you make in terms of functions to outsource, support your decision by describing how your decisions will benefit the business. Risk Mitigation and Outsourcing Because of the expansion into any international market,senior management will require a risk mitigation plan for outsourcing IT. Under this heading, you should address outsourcing risks such as security, data ownership, an exit strategy for an outsourcing contract, etc. Will you choose an outsourcing company based in an international market? What are the risks associated with that choice? If you outsource IT to a domestic (assume U.S.) company for the international expansion, what are the assurances that you, as a senior IT manager, would need to be comfortable with this type of scenario? For example, IBM has a significant managed services portfolio internationally though, obviously, IBM is a US-headquartered company. Are there risks associated with this solution?

  12. Benefits of Outsourcing as a Short-Range Strategic Plan Explain the benefits of outsourcing as a short-range strategic solution for market expansion. The topics you cover in this section should include any economic benefit you anticipate.Forexample,explain that a benefit is an increased ability to deploy solutions in a timely fashion, orit will provide better security (if applicable), etc. Tie your IT strategic outsourcing plan to the organization’s expansion strategy. Be specific when you explain how your plan will support the expansion strategy. Include at least one reference in addition to the class text for this assignment. Review the Course Scenario. Use the Instructor-provided memo template, below. Include at least one reference.

  13. Save your plan as a Microsoft Word document. Format it according to APA guidelines. ============================================== CMGT 578 Week 4 IT Budget (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com CMGT 578 Week 4 IT Budget Part 1

  14. Create a Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheet proposing the Reynolds Tool & Die company’s IT operations’ annual budget including maintenance, licensing, and any proposed new investments, such as hardware, software, cloud services, and/or outsourcing. Ensure that your spreadsheet looks similar to the sample shown in page 2 of the Week 4 Assignment Instructions document, with your own numbers filled into the cells. Save your IT budget as a Microsoft Excel document. Part 2 Carefully read the Week 4 Assignment Instructions. Part 1: Spreadsheet The example spreadsheet that begins on page 2 is a rough suggestion of an annual, itemized budget. You will create your budget in Microsoft

  15. Excel. Your budget headings may vary, but your budget needs to be as specific as possible. Within each category, you should include purchases for the IT strategic plan. For example, if, as the CIO, you are contemplating moving applications to a cloud solution, your budget needs to reflect that process. If you are implementing or expanding VMWare as a virtualization solution, your budget needs to reflect those purchases. The actual numbers can be approximate. A little research can point you in the right direction. For example, desktops run about $200-$300. You can use approximate figures for items such as licenses, maintenance agreements, servers, etc. Just make sure you have some justification (i.e., references) for the numbers you use. Part 2: Executive Summary Your executive summary needs to explain your budget. Possible headings include: Predictable Annual Expenditures

  16. Simply put, fixed operational expenditures keep the lights on. They are mainly hardware and software maintenance items, licensing, etc. These are expected costs of doing IT business. If, however, you are purchasing more hardware or software that will require additional annual maintenance and license agreements, you’ll need to defend those purchases and the annual expenditures that will remain for the company. New Purchases Any new purchases you recommend need to be justified. Why are you purchasing them? What benefit do you expect from the purchases? You’ll need to justify the purchases relative to the previous Week’s assignments—Reynolds’ business situation and goals.For example, how will a new investment in hardware, software, or services achieve a competitive advantage for the company? What do you think the company needs to purchase to achieve its expansion goals? How much will outsourcing cost?

  17. Special Projects and Long-term Strategic IT Investments As CIO, you need to look at technologies in the context of long-range strategic planning. Think of this section as your wish list. The investments in this category may not help the organization achieve its short-range goals, but they’re considered a long-term investment in innovation to remain competitive. For example, a manufacturing facility may consider artificial intelligence and robotics as a long-range plan. Create a 1- to 2-page executive memo defending your budget choices in terms of innovation and efficiency. Use the memo template provided below. Include references in the memo as necessary. Save it as a Microsoft Word document. Review the Course Scenario.

  18. This is a two-part assignment. For this assignment, you are the Chief Information Officer, or CIO, of Reynolds Tool & Die. To complete this assignment, you will: Create a Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheetproposing the Reynolds Tool & Die company’s IT operations’ annual budget, including maintenance, licensing, and any proposed new investments, such as hardware, software, cloud services, and/or outsourcing. Create a 1- to 2-page executive summary defending your budget choices in terms of innovation and efficiency. ============================================== CMGT 578 Week 5 Intermediate Strategic IS Plan (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com CMGT 578 Week 5 Intermediate Strategic IS Plan For this assignment, you will write a 3-page intermediate strategic IS plan for Reynolds Tool & Die. Outline an IT strategy to support the

  19. upcoming merger and acquisition planned by the company. Your plan must address timelines, systems integration, and change management. Note that systems integration does not necessarily mean building integrations to move data between systems. You will likely be making decisions on which systems to keep (the parent company’s or that of the company that is acquired) and how to consolidate the data, get buy in from the users, get them trained and using what to them will be new systems. You may keep some of Reynolds’ software and some of each of the new companies’ software. It depends on your analysis. Also note that you will need to review your Week 4 IT budget as this merger and acquisition may require additional purchases and may make some other purchases not necessary. Carefully read the Week 5 Assignment Instructions. Intermediate Strategic IS Plan For this assignment, you will construct a 3-page intermediate strategic IS plan for Reynolds Tool & Die. You will create an outline detailing a comprehensive IT strategy (not just purchases) to support the upcoming merger and acquisition planned by the company. Your plan must address timelines, systems integration, and change management.

  20. In this assignment, you will be leading the IT transition team and once the merger and acquisition are completed, you will serve as the senior IT manager for the new organization that has absorbed the aircraft part manufacturer. You will also be the person working with your counterpart in the joint venture with the company from Mexico, butyou will not have any managerial or supervisory role there. Assume the merger/transition announcement is made in the first quarter. Systems integration needs to start in the second quarter, and then must finish by November 30 in order to be prepared forthe year-end accounting procedures. Headings for your intermediate strategic information systems plan should include: Current Assessment of the Merger/Acquired Organization You’ll need to assess and analyze the IT operations and infrastructure of the organization you are about to merge with and/or acquire. This assessment should include hardware, software, and IT personnel.

  21. IT Intermediate Strategic Plan Based on your assessment, you are to propose an intermediate strategic plan for systems and IT organization integrations. Address these questions: Which organization’s IT assets will become the primary enterprise IT solution, and why? Will you integrate the merger/acquisition target into your systems, or will the merger/acquisition IT platform become the primary solution? Your assessment should guide you in this decision. What will you need to perform the successful integration by theend of the third business quarter? Will you need outside integrators to assist? Will you need a supplemental budget for new hardware and software, as this merger probably wasn’t included in the annual budget? How involved will the merger/acquisition IT organization be involved in the integration, and will you retain their present IT management structure to lead them?

  22. End of Plan and Change Management An intermediate strategic plan is analogous to a project in that it has a finite life span. Address how you will wrap up the integration; specifically, what your new IT organization structure will look like, how you will deliver services to the new company, and what change management processes you will employ to deliver those services and address cultural changes and potential conflict within the new organization. Remember, there will be new users who will need to learn entirely new processes and tools as the new company moves forward. Ensure that you include the headings contained in the Week 5 Assignment instructions, and that you include content for each section. Consider adding tables and/or bullet lists in the plan where appropriate. Review the Course Scenario.

  23. Format your plan according to APA guidelines. Save it as a Microsoft Word document. ============================================== CMGT 578 Week 6 Signature Assignment: Long-range IT Plan Focusing on Innovation (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com CMGT 578 Week 6 Signature Assignment: Long-range IT Plan Focusing on Innovation For this assignment, you will write a 3-page proposal detailing how you, as a senior IT manager, plan to create a culture of innovation in IT operations and integrate IT innovation into long-range strategic planning. The audience for this plan is senior leadership. Your proposal should include recommendations for specific technology innovations, and include how you expect these innovations to drive business success.

  24. Carefully read the Week 6 Assignment Instructions. For this assignment, you’re a senior IT manager at Reynolds Tool & Die. You have been asked to write a 3-page plan detailing how you will create a culture of innovation in IT operations and integrate IT innovation into long-range strategic planning. Your proposal should include recommendations for specific technology innovations, and explain how you expect these innovations to drive business success over time. This assignment requires you to analyze the company’s goals; analyze how IT innovation can contribute to those goals and how the current environment might be able to support innovation. After you have completed your analyses, you will synthesize all of this information into a long-range IT plan focusing on innovation. Specifically, your plan needs to address two things: What IS innovations can you propose that align with the strategic long- range plans of both IT and the organization? How can you create a culture of innovation within your IT organization?

  25. Headings should be as follows: Long-range, Innovative Solutions Planning Consider this a wish list. What innovative technologies will you propose to help Reynolds accomplish its long-range goals? For example, does artificial intelligence have a place in the organization? Big Data? What about next generation cloud technologies? How will mobility (related to mobile devices)fitinto your planning? Creating a Culture of Innovation in the IT Organization In order to implement creative solutions, you need an innovative team. Going forward, you’ll want to hire the right people and train them the right way.You already have staff who have been doing things a specific

  26. way, and you need to create a culture of innovation throughout the organization. How will you do that? Some areas to address are: IT Staffing and Training Does your current staff have the right skill sets? What skill sets will they need to add in order to be innovative? What are the potential budget considerations for ongoing training? R&D Can you make the case for research and development (R&D) within Reynolds’ IT organization? R&D isn’t synonymous with product development; it’s a function tasked with pursuing forward-thinking, innovative strategies, even strategies that the business doesn’t expect to pay off in the short termbut hopes will pay off eventually in the long term. Review the Course Scenario. Format your proposal according to APA guidelines.

  27. Save it as a Microsoft Word document. ==============================================

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