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This 19 page paper (not including the table of contents) is a report that considers who a new information system may be designed for a fictitious company. The paper looks at how the employees and the system may interact and how the hardware and the software should be designed. The bibliography cites 23 sources.
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File: TS14_TEnewinfsys.rtf
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as the difficulties with culture resulting from tying to integrate two companies in a merger as well as the difficulties they are facing with their information system. There are several
systems in place, but they are not facilitating communications between all departments which is helping to maintain fragmentation. There are also major issues with information flow. This report considers how
the situation can be remedied with a new system. By looking at approaches such as soft systems modelling and actor network theory the way that the employees interact with the
system can be considers and the use of either agile development of requirements engineering can be used to help develop a system that meets the user and organisational operational needs.
The recommendation is that this should be based on a client server system with the use of a requirements engineering model to determine the software needs.
2. Table of contents 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 3. TERMS OF REFERENCE 3 4. LITERATURE REVIEW 4 5. THE PROBLEM 7 6. ALTERNATIVES 11 6.1 Hardware 11 6.2 Software 14 7. RECOMMENDATIONS 19 7.1 Hardware 19 7.2 Software 20 8. REFERENCES 21
9. REFLECTIVE LEARNING 24 3. Terms of Reference The implementation of any new information system has to take into account many factors. Bapco Oil
needs a new information system (IS) to bring together the different departments which have different cultures. The company has undergone change which means there are legacy systems, but with the
changes and the increased demands the current system cannot support the needs for fast information, efficient communication and support the current matrix structure which has been in place since 2001.
The company has undergone change and there appear to be current cultural clashes as well as difficulties with the IS, the new IS will need to be able to
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