You must select the attached CASE STUDY from Harvard Business School cases. No exception! The case study document for the selected organization should be the primary source of information utilized for completing the final project. Going to company or company-related websites often led you to lose track of the IT orientation of the project.
IT Vision – Please provide a short, concise, vivid statement of the IT organization’s future, not the whole company’s vision.
IT Mission – Mission statement is a declaration of an IT organization’s core purpose. It addresses both what you, as a senior IT manager or director, seek to accomplish and the manner in which the IT organization seeks to accomplish it. Again, the final project is about the selected company’s IT organization, not the company as a whole. This is absolutely a key as going off this track at any point will make your final project very difficult to be successful in further milestones.
Organization A. Structure and Organization: Describe the current organizational structure and background information. How does the organization organize its internal and external communication? What is the age of the organization? What is the organizational structure?
Include the following:
1. What is the number of employees?
2. What is the organizational decision-making structure?
3. What kinds of technology are used in the organization? B. IT Values: What are the IT values of the organization? Analyze the organizational values as indicated by policies, public releases, or noted actions of the company.
Some things to consider include:
1. How does the organization deal with intellectual property rights?
2. What is the privacy policy of the organization?
3. What is the technology usage policy?
4. How does the organization ensure the accuracy of the data it stores?
5. How does the organization ensure data accessibility, while ensuring data security?
6. What, if any, governance policies are implemented within the organization?
C. Customer Profile: Analyze the customer profile of the company to determine possible competitive issues that could be IT-related. What is the size and type of community? Who is the primary customer? What is the size of the customer/end-user base? What is the demographic profile of the customer or end user?
D. Internal Standards: What are the existing internal rules and standards for information technology governance? Describe the existing policies and standards within the organization to establish a baseline for appropriate practice. II. IT Vision and Mission
A. IT Vision: What is the ideal vision of how your information technology department fits into the overall organization? What is the role that IT plays in the organization? Articulate your clear and reasonable ideal vision for the roles and responsibilities of the IT department (or IT subgroup) within the organization.
B. IT Mission: What is the IT mission of the organization? Craft an IT mission statement that represents your vision, represents the values of the organization, and speaks to the impact of IT on business opportunity and competitive advantage. Guidelines for Submission: Your paper should follow these formatting guidelines: two to three pages in length, double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins. Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information, review these instructions. Submit your organizational profile to your instructor for approval and to move forward. You must score “Proficient” on every critical element to earn your points. Please see the feedback provided by your instructor and resubmit as needed. Rubric Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (0%) Structure and Organization Accurately describes the structure and organization of the selected company Describes the structure and organization of the company, but with gaps in accuracy or detail IT Values Analyzes in detail the values of the organization related to IT, based on available information and inferences from company actions Analyzes the values of the organization related to IT, but not based on available informa·IT 550 Final Project Milestone One: Organizational Profile Guidelines and Rubric For this milestone, you will submit an organizational profile on your chosen organization. Be thorough in your description of the organizational structure, IT values, standards, vision, and mission. Be sure to include a profile of the organization’s primary customers. To facilitate this milestone activity, review the following sample organizational profiles: Sample Organizational Profile 1: Hewlett-Packard (HP) Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, HP is an American multinational IT corporation specializing in hardware and software and providing services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses, and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health, and education sectors. Sample Organizational Profile 2: Chevron Chevron is an industry leader in the energy sector with interests in oil and natural gas, petrochemical products, renewable energy, geothermal energy, efficiency solutions, and innovative research in biofuel development. Feedback should be incorporated into the final project as warranted. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: tion and inferences from company actions or lacks detail Customer Profile Critically analyzes the customer profile of the organization to determine competitive issues or threats that could be related to IT Analyzes the customer profile of the organization to determine competitive issues or threats that could be related to IT, but with gaps in logic, detail, or accuracy Internal Standards Describes in detail the existing policies and standards within the organization to establish a baseline for appropriate IT practice Describes the existing policies and standards within the organization to establish a baseline for appropriate IT practice, but lacks detail IT Vision Articulates a clear and reasonable ideal vision for the role and responsibilities of the IT department within the organization Articulates a vision for the role and responsibilities of the IT department within the organization, but with gaps in clarity or reasonable representation of what would be ideal IT Mission Crafts a mission statement that clearly represents the IT vision and the values of the organization and speaks to the impact of IT on business opportunity and competitive advantage Crafts a mission statement, but does not clearly represent the IT vision or the values of the organization or does not speak to the impact of IT on business opportunity and competitive advantage Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization Submission has errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas
