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Focus on an Incumbent (“Traditional”) Organization
Many traditional, or incumbent, organizations are being challenged by organizations that use information systems effectively. If you choose this option, you’ll want to choose an organization that is struggling against an organization that uses information systems effectively. Again, you’ll have better luck choosing organizations with transparent information (e.g., strategy, operations, and IT management plans or other kinds of reporting). Your paper and presentation will focus on the incumbent, and how the incumbent can attain a competitive advantage with respect to its competitor.
For this paper, we choose Ashley Furniture Home Store as a struggling against an organization that effectively uses information systems and how the incumbent can attain a competitive advantage over its competitor, Wayfair Furniture. Please help me do provide a comprehensive plan to Ashley organization. A comprehensive plan, in the context of an information systems course, implies that strategic and/or operational recommendations support information systems and technology recommendations. Ensure to have appropriate details to buttress suggestions, which may include ROI calculations, high-level project plans, or an appropriate diagram or two. Please go straight to these two parts listed below, you don’t need to make an introduction at the beginning.
1. Make Strategic Suggestions to Ashley Furniture Industries Inc aligned with business capabilities and with targeted weaknesses.
2. Make Information systems suggestions to Ashley Furniture Industries aligned with strategy and business capabilities and which leverage appropriate emerging technologies
This is the Key Success of these 2 part that my instructor requires:
• Do not suggest IS for the sake of IS. Determine a strategy for the focus organization and craft your IS ideas and concepts to support the strategy.
o Strategy is as much about what to do as it is about what not to do.
o A collection of tactics is not a strategy.
• The more detail you can provide about the feasibility and potential implementation considerations associated with your proposed strategy, the higher you’ll score. In practice, this could include a high-level project plan, an ROI calculation, or an appropriate diagram or two. Students who choose a focus organization to which they have greater access tend to do better on this front.
I also attached the proposal part that our group did before