Midsouth Chamber of Commerce (MSCC)‚ a non-profit member supported organization that lobbies state government for local businesses‚ needed to update its IBM AS/400 based UNITRAK system to a more advanced structure to meet the growing demands of employees and members. Dick Gramen‚ a former computer trainer for an insurance broker‚ who had no experience with the AS/400 computer or the UNITRAK software‚ was hired for the job. After struggling to learn the previous hardware‚ software‚ data structure
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CISM7330 – INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT Case Study 1 - Midsouth Chamber of Commerce (A) Wednesday August 24‚ 2010 Brian Putallaz Midsouth Chamber of Commerce‚ a nonprofit‚ member driven‚ business advocacy group is in the processes of upgrading their current information system. Midsouth has decided they need to upgrade their information system to a more currently system‚ in order to increase revenue producing opportunities. Their original IS system was built by an outside consultant
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Case Study Midsouth Chamber of Commerce Pamela A. Hernandez Colorado State University - Global Campus Business and Information Technology ISM 500 Dr. Jose Lepervanche September 08‚ 2013 Case Study Midsouth Chamber of Commerce In the early 1900’s a group of powerful business people came to the rescue of the economically drowning Midsouth area. This area which was highly dependent on transportation for economic development had no representation against any legislative decisions. That is until
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CASE STUDY: Mid-South Chamber of Commerce Abstract: The Mid-south Chamber of Commerce started sometime in early 1900’s and began inception of Information systems in 1989 as they knew leveraging this could give added advantage to their business. From this period till 2010‚ MSCC went through significant changes in their Information systems and Management too. MSCC management tried lots of information systems (hardware and software both) and finally in a long tenure of 20 years ended up with the situation
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Midsouth Chamber Of Commerce Case Study 9/7/2012 Mgmt of Technology Resources Rene Trevino MSCC or otherwise known as the Midsouth Chamber Of Commerce has existed since the 1900’s. This organization has withstood many changes‚ and it started originally as a Lobbing body for Transportation access issues. Then it grew in the 1930s to encompass issues that affect business such as: state banking laws‚ industrial development‚ and business taxes. The last era was when Jack Wallingford was in control
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execution. The situation was certainly no different with the Midsouth Chamber of Commerce (MSCC). With respect to the MSCC’s information systems‚ each decision put the organization into an increasingly worse position that finally reached its apex as this case begins. Summarize what processes can be used to manage the chaos in Midsouth Chamber of Commerce information systems. The Vice President of Marketing at the Midsouth Chamber of Commerce (MSCC) Leon Lassiter has updated their systems but are having
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Case Study Midsouth Chamber of Commerce Date: October 30‚ 2014 Course: Management of Technology Resources Instructor: Professor Amir Al Nizami Introduction Leon Lassiter‚ Vice President of Marketing with the Mdsouth Chamber of Commerce (MSCC)‚ ran into some issues while converting their information technology software. All the members of his staff were frustrated with the transition to the new system. With all the complexities of implementing a new system along with not exhausting your
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SOFTWARE PROBLEMS MIDSOUTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ERIC D. PFEIFER REGIS UNIVERSITY JOHN HOLMES MSCC610 Abstract In recent years‚ board members and staff of the Midsouth Chamber of Commerce (MSCC) have been trying to update their information system. Their information has steadily required more capabilities and in pursuit of better more efficient capabilities they have made several missteps that have cost them a very large sum of money. They have had personnel acquire information systems that
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1. Describe the mistakes that the chamber has made since the implementation of the Unitrak software – since the Midsouth Chamber of Commerce (A) case study. A. Prior to the implementation of Unitrak‚ Lassiter thought Unitrak had the software capabilities of help MSCC’s information system problems. Lassiter allowed the lack of “time” to be the guiding factor concerning the decision making of adapting the system. He‚ alone‚ was not qualified to make the best determination to adopt the Unitrak system
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The Role of the Operating Manager in Information Systems May 11‚ 2014 MGMT408IE Professor Gary Giomi‚ John Tang Introduction In the case of Midsouth Chamber of Commerce (MSCC)‚ there is a question of the extent of responsibility and participation the Vice President of Marketing and Membership‚ Leon Lassiter‚ should have in the conversion from the companies old accounting system to the new one. This responsibility had been appointed to the Vice President of Public Finance‚ Jeff
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