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Virtual Case Analysis: Reasons For Ivf Failure

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The FBI Background As an investigative body, the FBI is responsble for crimes nationally and internationally including acts of terrorism. As a part of technology advancement, gathering and sharing informaion is important in preventing criminal activities. Methods use for gathering information are needed to streamline how this is done. The FBI and the Secret Service, refutes ‘information sharing’ amongst their global agents and agencies, and in doing so find themselves investgating each other instead of criminal elements assigned (Pearlson & Suanders, 2013, p. 98-99). This advent caused the Chief Information Officer (CIO) to invest in a technological system to eliminate future confusion, thus initiating the Virtual Case File, (VCF), codenamed Trilogy, to gather, store ,sort and retrieved data information VCF agility to combat crimes before they occur, were essential components for the system’s success in clearly defining suspected criminals from the agent working on the …show more content…

Organizational System: Information systems may be defined as, “the combination of technology (the what), people (the who), process and (the how) an organization ability to produce and manage information (Pearlson & Saunders, 2013, p. 19). In the case of the FBI, the technology goals and the organizational goals was not in alignment with each other. They wanted to share information globally and make it easily accessible amongst the agents instead of hoarding it to themselves. The Culture of the organization: The culture of the organization plays a vital role especially when it comes to how they interact with each other. In this case it was not the culture of the FBI to share information because they operated in secrecy. They should have educated their employees in order to create a shift in culture prior to implementing the VCF system. People are normally resistant to change especially if they have become accustomed to a certain way of doing

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