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Stage 1: Strategic Use of Technology

Before you begin work on this assignment, be sure you have read the Case Study on Maryland Technology Consultants (MTC).MTC is a fictional company created for IFSM 300's Case Study. It is also recommended that you review the additional Stages (2, 3 and 4) as well as the vendor brochure provided for Stage 4. This will help you understand the overall report and potential solution.
Overview

As a business analyst in the Chief Information Officer's (CIO's) department of Maryland TechnologyConsulting (MTC), you have been assigned to conduct an analysis, develop a set of system requirements,evaluate a proposed solution, and develop an implementation plan for an IT solution (applicant tracking or hiring system) to improve the hiring process for MTC. This work will be completed in four stages, and each of these four stages will focus on one section of an overall Business Analysis and System Recommendation (BA&SR) report to be delivered to the CIO.

Section I. Strategic Use of Technology (Stage 1) - The first step is to look at the organization and explain how an IT system could be used to support MTC's strategies and objectives and support its decision-making processes.

Section II. Process Analysis (Stage 2) - Next you will evaluate current processes and workflow and explain how MTC can use IT to improve its processes and workflow.

Section III. Requirements (Stage 3) -Then you will identify key stakeholder expectations for the new technology solution to support MTC's hiring process and develop a set of requirements.

Section IV. System Recommendation (Stage 4) - Finally, you will review the provided Vendor brochure for a proposed applicant tracking systemand explain how it meets the requirements and what needs to be done to implement the system within MTC.

The sections of the BA&SR will be developed and submitted as four staged assignments. In stages 2, 3 and 4, you will also incorporate any feedback received when the previous stage was graded to improve the effectiveness of your overall report and then add the new section to your report. At the end of the course, you will submit a complete BA&SR document that includes all the sections and changes that resulted from previous feedback.Part of the grading criteria for Stage 4 submission includes addressing previous feedback to improve the final report.

Assignment - BA&SR: Introduction and Section I. Strategic Use of Technology

Write an appropriate Introduction to the entire BA&SR Report (guidelines are provided below). Section I of the BA&SR document contains an organizational analysis and identifies ways in which an information system to improve the hiring process can help MTC, the organization in the case study, meet its strategic goals and meet the information needs of various levels of management.

Using the case study, assignment instructions, Content readings, and external research, develop your Introduction and Section I.Strategic Use of Technology. To start, review the readings in Weeks 1 and 2. The case study tells you that the executives and employees at MTC have identified a need for an effective and efficient applicant tracking or hiring system. As you review the case study, use the assignment instructions to take notes to assist in your analysis.

Formatting Your Assignment

Consider your audience - you are writing in the role of aMTC business analyst and your audience is MTC and your boss, the CIO. Don't discuss MTC as if the reader has no knowledge of the organization. Also do not reference "stage #" or "case study" - these are class terms and would not be in a business report. Use third person consistently throughout the report.In third person, the writer avoids the pronouns I, we, my, and ours. The third person is used to make the writing more objective by taking the individual, the "self," out of the writing. This method is very helpful for effective business writing, a form in which facts, not opinion, drive the tone of the text. Writing in the third person allows the writer to come across as unbiased and thus more informed.

• Create a title page that includes: The company name, title of report, your name, Course and Section number and date.

• In Stage 1, you are preparing the first part of a 4-stage report. Use the structure, headings, and outline format provided here for your report. Use the numbering/lettering in the assignment instructions as shown below.

Introduction
I. Strategic Use of Technology
A. Organizational Strategy
B. Competitive Advantage
C. Strategic Objectives
D. Decision Making

• Write a short concise paper: Use the recommendations provided in each area for length of response. It's important to value quality over quantity. Assignment should not exceed 4 pages excluding title and reference pages.

• Content areas should be double spaced; table entries should be single-spaced.

• To copy a table: Move your cursor to the table, then click on the small box that appears at the upper left corner of the table to highlight the table; right click and COPY the table; put the cursor in your paper where you want the table and right click and PASTE the table.

• Ensure that each of the tables is preceded by an introductory sentence that explains what is contained in the table, so the reader understands why the table has been included.

• Use at least two resources with APA formatted citation and reference. Use at least one external reference and one from the course content. Course content should be from the class reading content, not the assignment instructions or case study itself. For information on APA format, refer to Content>Course Resources>Writing Resources.

• Begin a Reference Page for resources required for this assignment. Additional research in the next stages will be added to this as you build the report.The final document should contain all references from all stages appropriately formatted and alphabetized. Use APA format for your reference page.

• Running headers are not required for this report.

Attachment:- Business Analysis and Systems Recommendation.rar