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Midsouth Chamber of Commerce Case Study

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Midsouth Chamber Of Commerce Case Study 9/7/2012 Mgmt of Technology Resources Rene Trevino MSCC or otherwise known as the Midsouth Chamber Of Commerce has existed since the 1900’s. This organization has withstood many changes, and it started originally as a Lobbing body for Transportation access issues. Then it grew in the 1930s to encompass issues that affect business such as: state banking laws, industrial development, and business taxes. The last era was when Jack Wallingford was in control. As most business they knew that proper investment in the Information systems and Information Technology is the best way to go but they dropped the ball when it came to proper investing, they either didn’t realize or ignored the problems …show more content…

The final Damage of this was 250,000.00 dollars of cash what was spent trying to fix the issue from DMA and it didn’t work, and DMA will not help MSCC anymore unless they paid more. MSCC signed a toxic contract that didn’t have any wat to recoup their losses or to force DMA peform, MSCC sealed their fate. The research that would need to be done would be mostly technical but there is a great amount of IT project management and general management research that would also need to be completed. The technical research would be how the new IS would fit in with MSCC. The project management research would provide for accountability and visibility throughout this project. The general management research would be directed to buy in from staff for whatever system is selected because at the end of the day technology is supposed to make everything easier and more efficient. The current situation at MSCC is Wallingford retired, Lassiter has been selected as President of MSCC, and MSCC has hired Sage Niele. DMA is claiming that they have already incurred an extra quarter million dollars that they have not charged MSCC due to the nature of the situation. Niele seems to actually be the first person with the correct knowledge to be able to handle the situation but, where MSCC seems to be currently is beyond repair and they will have to spend more money to get everything they need up and

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