Introduction:
Identifying the processes that will help cascading the company goals is a very important task, this would help the company be aware of what needs to be done and take control of the process. The best way to start is by using a comprehensive framework such as COBIT 5. The processes enable the company to be steered in the direction set by the board, by cascading the enterprise goals to more specific processes.
In Bottler Company the processes should facilitate the alignment of the business goals of the company with the Information Technology goals.
The two major goals for Bottler Company is to become more profitable and to stay competitive to keep the innovation edge. Both can be achieved by having better IT Governance, once
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• This process requires that stakeholders are identified as we did in part 2. So that effective communication can be implemented between all stakeholders that have to be working together such as cross divisional cooperation.
• Another important aspect is to define who owns the information and what measures should be taken to protect the data.
• Another important reason why we need this process is because this manages the continual improvement of the other processes that needs to be focused on.
A set of measurements for this process are:
• Some of the measurements that can be implemented are the implementation cost and time of the ERP.
• Percent of active policies, standards and other enablers documented and up to date
• Date of last updates to the framework and enablers
• Number of risk exposures due to inadequacies in the design of the control environment
• Number of staff who attended training or awareness sessions
2. Manage Strategy: Since the IT department is going to have a big project in hand it needs to focus on managing the strategies that are going to steer the IT department. The IT department and all the employees in the department must know what is at stake for this project and the business importance of the success of the project.
• To do that first the CIO needs to understand the enterprise direction and then assess the
Identify relevant legal requirements and procedures covering confidentiality data protection and the disclosure of information.
Architecture must be developed in order to oversee IT strategy to benefit the whole organizational enterprise. Centralizing IT strategy at the start of the new business strategies will be important to make sure IT and business are working together with common goals that deliver the most value. The following steps are to be completed within each department:
In order to leverage IT for the benefit of the whole organization enterprise architecture must be developed to oversee IT strategy. Centralizing IT strategy at the start of the new business strategies will be important to make sure IT and business are working together with common goals that deliver the most value. The following steps are to be completed within each department:
the difficulty of strategy execution and the tools managers can use to make strategy happen. As the title
¿Use the strategic goals to develop a goal for each of the four aspects. Now, be creative, what should the critical success factors and measurements be?
IT Organizational Restructure is necessary for the current IT department to be developed into a CIO organization. Outlining a new framework and identifying roles and responsibilities will help to shape an effective organization to be in a better situation to support the company’s goals. It will also better align the current and future IT investments and
The company ensured that they monitored each new process that were implemented by putting performance measures in place to reflect gaugeable improvements. Group leaders were assigned to each division to monitor and review them regularly, and again, more importantly, to take ownership and be accountable. The company continues to monitor and implement changes in an attempt for continuous improvement and embrace team
Steps are taken to maintain the confidentiality of data through digital signatures by the personnel and through the computer security assurance using the key coding and unlinking of the data.
Currently their information system (IS) is not fully centralized and this is causing a lot of problem in their expansion and cross-company
When the CEO launches two new strategic initiatives requiring integration across all business units, the organization – whose IT decisions have been largely delegated to its business units in proportion to their revenue generating capacity – now faces the dilemma of how to prioritize its IT projects in order to support the new strategic “enterprise” vision.
Strategy- Decide on an IT strategy that will be followed but allows some flexibility as technology and needs change. Set up goals and define objectives for the IT department that align with overall company objectives. Review these objectives
Alignment of an enterprise’s goals with its IT1 and IS1 systems has been a challenge ever since IT became a business enabler. Proposing an IT alignment requires a thorough understanding of the business goals of the enterprise and the knowledge that alignment is an iterative process which requires constant measurement and honing (Chan, 2002). Enterprises often face the problem of balance of priorities between IT and Business objectives. This report deals with one such case that faced alignment and prioritization hardships resulting in an unclear approach to achieve a corporate strategy.
Process improvement is a fundamental to business management. If you run an operation (and all businesses do, one way or another) you are reliant on two things:
Frenzel (2004) claimed that to be successful, a firm’s IT management team must take action on the following critical areas: business management issues; strategic and competitive issues; planning and implementation concerns; and operational items. If for any reason, the organisation experiences difficulties in the above areas, the manager will need to set goals and objectives to overcome and prevent these issues.
Management should be able to clearly distinguish between strategy and operation issues. They should focus on the corporate vision; Defining what the organization will look like in the future.