IT Integration Case Study: Campbell Soup Company

Although Campbell Soup Company's IT transformation, there is a special in many ways, and span for three years, but Campbell adopted by the process, for many IT departments need to business integration will also apply. IT departments cooperate with business departments, and CEO, has always been one of the most critical steps. Here a brief introduction about our steps taken：
⦁ Self-assessment, analysis of the company organization structure, competitive, technology environment and use a wide variety of applications. Then the self-assessment with the company's development goals is the result of the comparison.
⦁ IT transformation plan and starts to implement. The following is to support the program's six "pillars":
• Consistent with the customer
To rethink it functions, in fact, that is, to conduct a comprehensive review on the company, the company has what kind of problem, will be reflected in the IT function. A prominent problem is that Campbell Soup Company for a long time of compartmentalization between departments, organizations is too independent. Also, the IT team is also very independent. In terms of technology, the company has no global across business strategy, there is no sharing process, technology management, even few shared applications. The whole company's system is like in each independent computing platform and network protocol together hodgepodge, lack of Enterprise Application Integration (Enterprise Application Integration, EAI). Distribution of all kinds of technical mess in the whole
Then, a global framework of safe and reliable; as far as possible to share solutions; the ability to work sympathetically; control the uncertain factors in the lowest level. Also, to build the relationship between the strategic third-party services, to outsource non-core business, improve the efficiency of each employee's work.
⦁ Operation mode: This mode is used to centralize management strategy, architecture, shared infrastructure and major supplier relationships. At the same time, Campbell is in relationship management, business process analysis, and the delivery of the solution for localization. In other words, Campbell needs centralized management determines which issues or shared; what needs to be localized within the scope of management in the business or region, and when what business outsourcing, outsourcing, etc.
⦁ Global process: the aim of this project is to build a developing strategy and annual operating plans, annual and quarterly target standardization methods.For priority scheduling of project, and establish the nomination, the investment decision-making process; at the same time, the establishment of project management department, make sure to adopt standards and