Effects of Group Support Systems on United States Air Force Strategic Planning Efforts

Strategic planning at an Air Force wing is a team based activity that offers many advantages to the Air Force. But, it is clear there are still questions about how to properly conduct strategic planning to produce the highest quality plans in the most effective and efficient manner. To answer this question, the Air Force created a research project aimed at discovering new methods to improve strategic planning at Air Force wing levels using a computer-mediated communication system. The research project\u27s goal is to apply collaborative processes and technologies, such as Group Support Systems (GSS), to improve the quality of the strategic planning process. This thesis validated the measurement instruments and analyzed the data from one of those studies. The thorough evaluation of the measurement instruments led to validated scales that could be valuable for future use. The analysis shows a significant increase in overall plan quality, and increased participant satisfaction with both the process employed and the product created when the groups used a GSS instead of traditional face-to-face methods. These results lend support to the continued fielding of such systems to support the decision making process for these types of problems

Everyone is Different! Exploring the Issues and Problems with ERP Enabled Shared Service Initiatives

In today’s increasingly competitive environment, there is constant pressure for corporate leaders to add value to their organizations. These contemporary organizations are increasingly moving into business models that attempt to reduce duplicate supporting processes and staff by streamlining business processes that are not central to the organization’s operations and concentrating on strategies on strategic or core, business processes. This concept, known as Shared Services, attempts to bundle some of the supporting processes and non-strategic activities into a separate organization, which in turn treats those processes and activities as the core of its own business. Shared Services consolidate and support redundant functions, such as accounts payable and procurement, for disparate business units. By leveraging economies of scale from a common IT infrastructure, such a group is able to market specific services to business units. Many organizations are employing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, for example SAP, to facilitate Shared Service initiatives by aggregating backroom functionality across departments. This research-in-progress paper investigates issues and problems with ERP enabled Shared Services in 19 organizations. The results reveal five main issues that organizations face in implementing a Shared Services initiative

Perencanaan Strategi Sistem Informasi Penjualan Menggunakan Pendekatan Togaf Adm (Studi Kasus : Three Sister’s House Of Beauty)

Three Sister’s House Of Beauty is one of the several business located at karangtengah cibadak sukabumi. This Business offers all things about skincare, makeup and fashion for youngest to the oldest especially for a man. In the process business activity, Three Sister's has implement strategic planning, but in this prospect the planning has a missed targeted so that it cannot be realized properly, the problems regarding data collection process of sold product and ordering data for customers sometimes just written, input into Ms.Word and Ms.Excel. In odd moment, Three Sister’s share and promotion product on social media, the community of beauty have every rules if want post on group. So that, Three Sister's House of Beauty must planning of ISand IT strategies to be good business proces in future. The conclusion, strategic planning for implementing Enterprise Architecture is one of the best solutions for supports a business or organization. So with this, the author conducts research with the study of the Togaf ADM to support Sales Information Systems that are integrated, right on target, and support business processes in Three Sisters' House of Beauty.Three Sister’s House Of Beauty is one of the several business located at karangtengah cibadak sukabumi. This Business offers all things about skincare, makeup and fashion for youngest to the oldest especially for a man. In the process business activity, Three Sister's has implement strategic planning, but in this prospect the planning has a missed targeted so that it cannot be realized properly, the problems regarding data collection process of sold product and ordering data for customers sometimes just written, input into Ms.Word and Ms.Excel. In odd moment, Three Sister’s share and promotion product on social media, the community of beauty have every rules if want post on group. So that, Three Sister's House of Beauty must planning of ISand IT strategies to be good business proces in future. The conclusion, strategic planning for implementing Enterprise Architecture is one of the best solutions for supports a business or organization. So with this, the author conducts research with the study of the Togaf ADM to support Sales Information Systems that are integrated, right on target, and support business processes in Three Sisters' House of Beauty

Conducting of the linkage between information systems strategy (ISS) and Operation Strategy in the case of 'X' Airlines in Arabic gulf country

The integration of IS/IT strategy with other business units' strategies has become an important issue. The layer of integration through business strategies requires an explanation of interrelationships so that business objectives appropriate to the available resources and market conditions can be established. This study is a comprehensive examination of the relationship between IS and operational strategy at 'X' Airlines. Operation is considered one of the core activities at 'X'. In this study, the researcher employs a qualitative method, presenting the literature on IS integration and utilising a case study approach to understand the how and why of using IS at 'X'. This study discusses the existing frameworks, both theoretical and practical, for IS strategic integration. The results show that there are strong relationships but as a traditional kind of back office support of IS for operational strategy within 'X'

Placing the Networks on the Web: Challenges and Opportunities for Managing in Developing Asia

Placing the networks on the Web poses a fundamental challenge, but also provides new opportunities for managing in Developing Asia. There is a huge efficiency gap between the region's manufacturing systems and the management of complementary, knowledge-intensive support services. The challenge is to reduce this gap as quickly as possible by embracing the Internet as a core business function, despite a weak base of accumulated knowledge of how to manage IT-based information systems. Asian companies, even the best, lag substantially behind their American and European counterparts. There is a potential vicious circle that needs to be broken: a belated transition to IT-based information systems has prevented the accumulation of knowledge, through trial-and-error, of how to design and implement an appropriate IT organization that reflects the peculiar strengths and weaknesses of diverse Asian management systems. Limited resources prevent any attempt to address these problems in a big leap forward. This implies that in-house efforts need to be supplemented with outsourcing of IT services. There is also a need for strategic partnering with major suppliers of Internet software and networking equipment. The opportunity is that the Internet provides almost unlimited opportunities for the outsourcing of mission-critical support services, such as ERP (enterprise resource planning), HRM (human resource management). Furthermore, fierce competition among major producers of Internet software and networking equipment has created a buyers' market - placing Asian firms in a reasonably strong bargaining position. These developments are generally not well covered by existing studies, which are primarily focused on developments in the U.S. and Europe. The paper tries to fill this gap, and explores how placing global production networks on the Web affects managing in Developing Asia. A conceptual framework is introduced in parts 1 to 3. That framework is then applied to one of the role models of managing in Asia, Taiwan's Acer Group. Part 1 introduces a taxonomy of expected benefits from Internet-enabled transformations of business organization. In part 2, we argue that the real issue is to analyze how the Internet reshapes the organization of global production networks. In part3, we access conflicting claims on how an increased use of the Internet to manage global production networks affects international knowledge diffusion. In part 4, the example of Taiwan's Acer Group is used to describe the challenge for Asian firms to embrace the Internet as a key management function. And in part 5, we ask what Acer's experience tells us about Developing Asia's opportunities.

Supporting strategy : a survey of UK OR/MS practitioners

This paper reports the results of an on-line survey conducted with practitioner members of the UK Operational Research (OR) Society. The purpose of the survey was to explore the current practice of supporting strategy in terms of activities supported and tools used. The results of the survey are compared to those of previous surveys to explore developments in, inter-alia, the use of management/strategy tools and „soft‟ Operational Research / Management Science (OR/MS) tools. The survey results demonstrate that OR practitioners actively support strategy within their organisations. Whilst a wide variety of tools, drawn from the OR/MS and management / strategy fields are used to support strategy within organisations, the findings suggest that soft OR/MS tools are not regularly used. The findings also demonstrate that tools are combined to support strategy from both within and across the OR/MS and management / strategy fields. The paper ends by identifying a number of areas for further research