Mkt 578 Week 4 Information Technology Strategic Plan
Information Technology Strategic Plan
Riordan Manufacturing China Manufacturing Facility Relocation
Sayed Abdelrahman, William Dubose, Alan Erb, John Rodie, Eric Sillman
CMGT 578
December 24, 2014
KenRoy Regester, MS
Information Technology Strategic Plan
Executive Summary
The plan should begin with a summary targeted for the business audience.
Purpose
Purpose of the plan.
Scope
High-level goals and plans for all areas of information technology that affect the business, not just the infrastructure. A road map for IT is useful in illustrating overall strategy.
Business Direction
Lay out the specific business drivers, assumptions and plans that informed the IT strategic plan. (For example, the business is planning to acquire smaller companies so its plan is to focus on integration technologies.).
Current IT Infrastructure …show more content…
The system is divided up into four main areas, office automation, research and development (R & D), servers and network attached storage (NAS), and communication (Apollo Group, Inc., 2013). The IT staff in China are all contract workers reporting to a local IT manager. The IT manager for the China facility reports to Maria Trinh, Riordan Manufacturing’s Chief Information Officer (CIO). None of the China IT department’s employees, except for the Manager are Riordan employees (Apollo Group, Inc., 2013).
The office automation function consists of 35 Dell Vostrro computers configured with Microsoft Windows 7, Office, and links to appropriate corporate databases and systems running on one of the servers. The computers utilize a 100BaseT wired Ethernet backbone for connectivity to the servers and local printers. The size of the computer hard disks is kept small to make sure that company data is stored on one of the NAS
Riordan Manufacturing China Manufacturing Facility Relocation
Sayed Abdelrahman, William Dubose, Alan Erb, John Rodie, Eric Sillman
CMGT 578
December 24, 2014
KenRoy Regester, MS
Information Technology Strategic Plan
Executive Summary
The plan should begin with a summary targeted for the business audience.
Purpose
Purpose of the plan.
Scope
High-level goals and plans for all areas of information technology that affect the business, not just the infrastructure. A road map for IT is useful in illustrating overall strategy.
Business Direction
Lay out the specific business drivers, assumptions and plans that informed the IT strategic plan. (For example, the business is planning to acquire smaller companies so its plan is to focus on integration technologies.).
Current IT Infrastructure …show more content…
The system is divided up into four main areas, office automation, research and development (R & D), servers and network attached storage (NAS), and communication (Apollo Group, Inc., 2013). The IT staff in China are all contract workers reporting to a local IT manager. The IT manager for the China facility reports to Maria Trinh, Riordan Manufacturing’s Chief Information Officer (CIO). None of the China IT department’s employees, except for the Manager are Riordan employees (Apollo Group, Inc., 2013).
The office automation function consists of 35 Dell Vostrro computers configured with Microsoft Windows 7, Office, and links to appropriate corporate databases and systems running on one of the servers. The computers utilize a 100BaseT wired Ethernet backbone for connectivity to the servers and local printers. The size of the computer hard disks is kept small to make sure that company data is stored on one of the NAS