Background AgCredit‚ a financial institution focusing on agribusiness‚ is at a crossroads after an effort of three months of planning. Kate Longair is orchestrating critical restructuring in the IT system to support the company’s growth and operations. The current IT system lacks integrity and support from the many leaders and users in the organization. Project delays‚ bad information‚ customer complaints and managing human capital are contributors to the current environment. Kate faces a lack
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Creating a Process-Driven Organization at AgCredit 1. Propose an organizational structure for the IT department that you feel would support the transformation of AgCredit into a process-centric organization. AgCredit should appoint a CEO who is responsible for carrying out the strategic plan and will ultimately responsible for managing company operations coupled with a Vice President would oversee operations‚ carry out the strategic plan set forth by the CEO‚ and manage the four separate
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Process-Driven Organization at AgCredit AgCredit‚ The MidWest Agriculture Credit and Loan Company is a midsize financial institution which concentrates on agribusiness. Over the past few years there is a significant growth in business and plays its own role by competing with other larger banks. "Even though AgCredit had an extensive customer knowledge‚ the process and customers were taxed to the hilt due to the lack of better technological system"‚ said Jim Finney‚ CEO of AgCredit. (McKeen & Smith‚ 2012)
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useful? Mini-cases-5 Creating a Process-Driven Organization at AgCredit 1. 2. © 2012 Propose an organizational structure for the IT department that you feel would support the transformation of AgCredit into a process-centric organization Outline a project selection process for AgCredit to ensure alignment with the enterprise business vision 3. How should Manley “make the case” for SOA to ensure that the executive team at AgCredit buys in? 4. What new internal IT capabilities will have to be
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Questions: 1. Propose an organizational structure for the IT department that you feel would support the transformation of AgCredit into a process-centric organization. Recognition of business ownership will be vital to the organizational structure. Having the business sign on and join the conversation about IT and related projects will be instrumental. A steering committee will be need to be part of the approval process of all projects is needed to make sure an enterprise view is taken. The
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John Ottersbach Info I-303 Organizational Informatics June 17‚ 2009 Project # 4 This is the project report from evaluating the AgCredit mini-case (Textbook pages 131-134) 1. Synopsis This case focuses on an agriculture credit and loan company whose core competency is based around its customer knowledge. The organization’s IT structure and function does not suit the business well. The current setup is not enterprise architecture and staff issues are rampant. There has been a lot of preparatory
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Decision Framework (Sep 30) Chapter 10: IT Sourcing (Oct 7) Chapter 11: Application Portfolio Management (Oct 7) Section II Mini-Cases (Oct 14) Mid-term Exam Building Shared Services at RR Communications Creating a Process-Driven Organization at AgCredit IT Investment at North American Financial Course Objective: To examine the way information technology is being used to influence the competitive strategy of organizations and to assess the impact of strategic deployment of information technology
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College of Adult and Professional Studies CIS 453 – Information Systems Strategy Syllabus ©2013 Friends University Rev. January 28‚ 2013 Instructor Information Name: Dr. Jason Ferguson Contact Information: 316-295-5541 jason_ferguson@friends.edu Course Description This course will explore the issues and approaches in managing the information systems function in organizations and how the IS function integrates / supports / enables various types of organizational capabilities. It takes
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