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Manufacturing & Distribution Companies Business System
Strategy Setting Workshop
PlanSmart! A interactive One and Half Day workshop

WHAT IS ...... An
interactive One and Half Day workshop in which a Buker Industry Expert
Facilitator with your Management Team will:
- Review and clearly define your company's strategic business
objectives.
- Review and define your company's Critical Success Factors -
Company "Must Do-Wells". This would include the current business environment
and the future.
- Identify the current information systems utilized within the
company and the major gaps in the current information systems infrastructure.
Provides the opportunity to identify areas for business process improvement.
- Determine the information system requirements for meeting your
business goals. Review various software and technology options available to
satisfy the information processing requirements.
- Discuss system project costs.
- Identify the Key Performance Metrics for your Company.
- Create an IS/IT Strategy matrix to support your Critical
Success Factors.
- Establish your Business Systems Model --- how the new system
and the functional organizations will exist.
- Review "Why System Selections and Implementations Can Fail?".
Utilizes a PC software tool for defining your companies Business Functional
Environmentals.
- Document any system Selection and/or Implementation
Issues.
WHY DO A
WORKSHOP?......Will assist your Management Team to
translate the company's High Level Business Strategy into a workable
Information System Strategy, Direction, and Plan. Starts the team in the right
direction for selecting and implementing an application software solution for
your business.
BENEFITS OF A
WORKSHOP:
- Compresses the time for defining the scope of the system
selection project.
- Establishes a plan, scope, and direction for the system
selection project.
- Examines the true need for the new system and obtains consensus
on the project issues.
- Promotes a cross-functional dialogue between key management to
get the required support to make the project a success.
- Educates the management team on systems concepts, technology,
terminology and an awareness of issues that can cause the project to fail.
A
WORKSHOP WILL HELP ANSWER QUESTIONS LIKE THESE:
- How do we get started with our system selection project?
- What is the scope of the ERP software project?
- What are our business critical success factors and will the
software meet them?
- Do we understand the complexities of this project and the
resources required to support it?
WORKSHOP DELIVERABLES:
- A final report summarizing the elements of the workshop
including:
- Why Change the Current System?
- Current Systems list Your IT/IS Vision and Strategy
- Functional Performance Metrics
- Critical Success Factor vs. IT/IS Strategy Matrix
- Why System Selections and Implementations Can Fail?
- Business Environmentals which defines functional
areas/system project scope
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN THE
WORKSHOP? President, CEO, COO, Functional Vice
Presidents, Senior Functional Managers, CIO, IT/MIS Manager, CFO, Controller,
Plant/Site Manager, Plant/Site Senior Management, and an option to include the
System Project Team.
To help us better understand your software needs
click here to begin to create your
company's software requirements profile.
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