Assignment task: A Strategic Information System (SIS) helps an organization gain a competitive advantage through its contribution to the strategic goals of an organization, and /or its ability to significantly increase performance and productivity. An SIS enables companies to gain competitive advantage and to benefit greatly at the expense of those that are subject to competitive disadvantage.
Identify a case study of a recent (last 10 years) strategic information system implementation in Jamaica or the Caribbean
- Students are to provide a background on the case selected, to include the relevant link corresponding to the case study, as part of their introduction.
- Identify and discuss the challenges experienced previously by the organization that sparked the need for the implementation of an SIS
- Discuss the objectives that the company was hoping to accomplish post the implementation of this system
- Discuss the type(s) of system implemented
- Was the system implementation successful? Justify your response.
- In your opinion, based on the objectives or reason for the implementation of an SIS, identify three (3) things that could have been done differently in this scenario.