Business Process And IT Strategy

Business Process and IT Strategy
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Task 1
SWOT analysis of your online business. (This task is Due in Week 7)
In Week 7, during the tutorial time, you are required to submit to your tutor the following information, MILESTONE SUBMISSION FORM (available under assessment 2), and SWOT analysis (Task 1).
(Team members are required to specify their contributions in the milestone submission form)
Task 2
Analysis of your business using the Information Systems Strategy Triangle
Business strategy
Organizational strategy
Information system strategy
Also, briefly discuss the business-IT alignment.
See Lecture/Chapter 1 to 3, and on UTSOnline
Business strategy involves the goals, objectives, mission/vision and tactics of an organization, which is the fundamental strategy that makes the organization to operate, all the decision are made followed by the business strategy. Such as, one of the business strategy frameworks is Porter’s Generic Strategies. The organizational strategy (organization design, and structure and managerial levers) and information strategy (hardware, software, database, network, etc.) are all based on how the business strategy decides. The business strategy drives the overall operation of the organization, any changes in organizational and IS strategy should look back on the business strategy, and the changes should not avoid the process of business strategy. The IS strategy triangle helps to balance business, organizational, and information strategy.
Task 3
Build a social business strategy. What might be a reasonable business strategy, and how would organizational and IS strategy need to change? How would this differ for a brick and mortar business? How you could use social commerce to engage customers?
See Lecture/Chapter 1 to 3, and on UTSOnline
Social Business Strategy include collaboration (bringing people together to share ideas, information, and expertise), engagement (increase perceived attachment through increased interaction), and innovation (development of new ideas). Example: National Instruments (ni.com) has created a ‘branded community’ to collect and disseminate new ideas
Task 4
Discuss information resources strategies (Porter’s five competitive forces, value chain model and resource based view) model to describe how information technology might be used to provide a winning position for your business.
See Lecture/Chapter 2, and on UTSOnline
Task 5
Identify and create at least five business processes you would like to implement in your e-commerce website.
See Lecture 5, and on UTSOnline
Task 6
Construct a BPMN-Business Process Modeling Notation (such as Swimlane diagram) for a process from any of the five business processes that you have identified.
See Lecture 5, and on UTSOnline