Key Issues That Are The Root Cause Of The New Cio 's Problems

Some software applications will include procedures for web integration, which would require an information system with applications. Thus a Web-centric architecture would avoid many of the connectivity and compatibility problems that typically arise when it comes online and users/employees start accessing it through the web. With the new system being put into place other legacy systems may need to be integrated with the new applications. Thus the interfacing of both would have to be consistent with the requirements to analyze different types of data formats and compatibility. Those implementing the new payroll system should know if the new application eventually will replace the legacy system.

The challenge is some of the past development work was done by a consultant. We have option to scale the current work which is not an industry standard and end up paying more money and band aids fixes or develop a new program that we can design and manage for our future growth knowing future growth is inevitable. The risk of continuing the current information system program is low for now, but it will be a major replacement issue for the future growth that could cost the company millions and lost business opportunities. Developing a new information system program is a risky choice from time

Riordan Manufacturing is a multi location multi million dollar company that is looking to take advantage of a piece of software that is a state of the art sophisticated information system. Riordan would like to integrate its old information and use it to implement the new system and just have one system take care of everything. Since the corporation already has a similar system in place, this technology should be easily done with the new system. This new system should be very cost efficient and the process

This is the reason why BAL does not want to give the cost to the suppliers and in turn charge their customer hence decided not to invest into the sophisticated system being the strategy of the company itself.

You have been hired by a medium size (approximately 200 employees) widget manufacturing company to do a complete evaluation of their computer needs and make recommendations to them about an information system to support their business. Currently several of their support departments are using manual processes and they wish to automate their accounting and human resources business processes. They also want to harness the power of the Internet in their business.

Midsouth Chamber of Commerce, a nonprofit, member driven, business advocacy group is in the processes of upgrading their current information system. Midsouth has decided they need to upgrade their information system to a more currently system, in order to increase revenue producing opportunities. Their original IS system was built by an outside consultant (who is no longer in business) on a departmental need base, rather than a company wide need. The original system was put into place in 1987, with modifications done in 1993, and 1995. During this time all IS decision were made by outside

Troon's IT infrastructure expenses were increased because of the aging of the hardware and IT managers

The opinions of the CIOs in regards to the survey conducted is better understood and justified by the duties and responsibility that CIO job entails. The CIO responsibilities are vast across a health care organization. They oversee obtaining HMIS technology and applications. That includes the process of acquiring the technology, assuring it is excepted and implemented through proper practices of adoption. The CIO must make sure the HMIS and the health care organizations key objective and goals are aligned. In addition to continuously developing ways to improve the efficiency of administration, and effectiveness and productivity of clinical operations through IT application. Including, maintaining a secure organizational data by assuring

They do not need help in the overall technology the IT manager knows that our system are not compatible.

The vendor provides the support and continued enhancements for the product based on the current industry standards and any requirements from agencies if the software interacts/used for contacting any regulatory agency. They also provide the enhancements and bug fixes based on the other customer’s experiences. When building custom software sometimes small changes to functionality might require redesign and reengineering would end up being expensive.

June 28th marked the end of the 4th Healthiest CIO Challenge. For the previous 45 days, participants strived to be active for 30 minutes for at least 30 days. This year over 2,775 staff from the CDC enrolled in the challenged and logged 2,807,415 minutes of physical activity. Certain centers or colleagues also created teams to compete in the challenge. Employees joined one another for health walks and attended zumba, line dancing, and yoga classes. Other teams also participated in scavenger hunts and games such as cat and mouse. The challenged encouraged employees to make small steps to improve their health and record their results. Success stories and health selfies can be found on the Healthiest CIO Sharepoint.

* Keeping all the different systems running with acceptable up-time and performance is a strain on the IT department: "the IT infrastructure was consuming so much maintenance energy that further innovation was becoming a luxury".

IT and marketing department were worried that software or hardware applications not supported by IBM might not be available

WestJet faces the risk of losing many of their customers due to their system crashes and delays. This benefits their competitors and hence a lot of revenue is lost in this process. WestJet also spent a lot of money for testing the system and training the employees well in advance however there was a high risk of damaging the brand name since other surrounding issues such as website crashes made customers angry and brought a bad reputation. After seeing what happened to WestJet, JetBlue faced a similar risk of losing customers during the upgrade system however they had to incur costs to build up a back up site. There’s always a risk when customers don’t like the upgraded system. It raises many questions; What if the customers prefer the older system? Big losses can occur. However, on the other side the upgrade can be efficient and if it works better than the previous version, it can lead to attract more customers.

The general ledger system is also very old and is consequently difficult to trace. The payroll system is running of different versions which are two to five generations old at each of its operating companies. No programming standards were used for the food product R&D application, and because of this it was modified significantly by the R&D staff. (ISACA,2010)