IS Consulting Process (IS 6005) Masters in Business Information Systems 26 th Mar 2010 Fergal Carton Business Information Systems

Last week Describing demand and supply cycles –Break down business activity into processes –Be able to describe each process in detail –What are the information requirements? –Where is there overlap between processes? –What processes require the same information? –What systems could support the processes

This week Jerry Buckley, Head of Enterprise Applications, UCC Computer Center –Overview of UCC application portfolio Your PostCode proposals: feedback Implementation stages and planning Re-cap on value proposition Re-cap on frameworks Reading

Your proposals Good on design But: –Definition of a post-code –Relationship between code and physical address –Significant coding –Role of IT –Implementation

Implementation template Analyse requirements Design solution Develop processes (including software) Test Implement Support Maintain

Implementation project Scope Timeline Budget Resources

What is your value proposition What are you offering customer? Can you make this value clear? What way will you transmit the message? How can you check that it is received? What is your unique selling point?

How might you use a framework Help client to understand problem Help you to design a solution Help you to communicate benefit Help you to build a coding system Help users to understand code

Reading Supply chain management and information systems integration –Christopher and Towill, 2000 –Bagchi & Skjoett-Larsen, IJLM 02 –Boersma & Kingma, JSIS 05 –Carton & Adam, Idea Group, 2004 Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence –Sammon, Adam and Carton, EJISE, 2003