Assignment:
Benefits of Enterprise-wide Data Sharing
As identified in the CIC Case Study, a critical success area is the ability to have employees who possess the necessary knowledge and skills to fulfill current and future contracts. There are several areas where a business might need improvement, including: recruiting, hiring best- qualified candidates, tracking employees' skills, and promoting and retaining employees. Over time, each of these might have its own IT solution. However, you know that if you could combine these into an enterprise-wide system, you would be able to significantly improve the overall business operations.
Begin your analysis by answering these questions:
1) What organizational opportunities are being missed when each HR function (as listed above) has its own "stove piped" data? (Provide an example)
2) What business benefits can a company realize if an enterprise-wide system is implemented? Identify how management will benefit from having additional information available.
3) What types of decisions could be improved if all this information were in one place and easily accessible to HR and managers?