Your Company's IT Planning and Analysis Processes
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This week you will write the Your Company's IT Planning and Analysis Processes section of your term paper. Topics to cover in this section include your organization's IT strategy and planning process (chapter 13 and 14), your organization's use of management decision support and intelligent systems (chapter 12), and your organization's IT security policy, acceptable use policy, business continuity plan, and disaster recovery plan (chapter 8). Be sure to also take ethical and social issues into consideration in relation to IT planning (chapter 4).
This is still about Crunchy restaurant
IT Planning and Analysis Processes
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Crunchy has high invested in technology to make sure that all the processes in business are smooth and well integrated to enhance the customer experience while helping the management achieve the objectives of the business (Puffinadvisors.com, 2015). In light of the level of integration that the management aims to achieve, the aspect of IT planning and analysis processes have become quite crucial.
The company IT strategic planning process involves several stages and processes. The first stage will involve the establishment of the IT strategy inputs (Puffinadvisors.com, 2015). At this stage the company will establish the functional areas of the business and strategies and line of business strategies. To make sure that all the inputs are handled relative to the expectations and delivery measures, interviews are going to be conducted internally to turn up all the input elements at all department and working station across the business structure (Puffinadvisors.com, 2015). External interviews are also going to be crucial in the determination of the market trends and expectations. The next stage will involve the evaluation of the strategic goals that the company hopes to achieve through the integration of technology in its business processes. Stage three will involve the assessment of the initiatives, imperatives and the applications to be used within the business in connection with IT solutions. The company will then have to conduct the GAP analysis (Mindtools.com, 2015). This will basically be associated with assessment of the performance differences in what the business information system is able to achieve alongside the business requirements at all the stations along the business structure at any given time. As such, this will help establish if the business information system is able to meet the demands of the various stations and business processes. The management will be in a position to assess the actual performance against, what is desired and the potentials of the same. The needs of the business will then be synchronized relative to those that are essential, strategic and those that have high potential. These will then be communicated to the organization through the department communication channels to establish their applicability (Puffinadvisors.com, 2015).
The management is heavily invested in the decision support systems as the programs have been very instrumental in the business process integr...