Riordan Manufacturing Inc. is a global plastics manufacturer that was founded in 1991 and employs 550 people. They have since expanded to three locations in the U.S. and one in China. Due to these expansions the company is now experiencing communication and processing issues. Each system needs to be connected to the others in order to improve the tracking and productivity as well as communication between systems. We have been asked to develop a plan to implement a system to connect all of the people and locations into one enterprise system that will give the company access to information from any location at any time. This document covers our plan to achieve this goal for Riordan Manufacturing Inc.…
This project to implement a new hiring process has four phases which include, defining the project, researching the options, executing the process and implementing the new hiring process. The project is scheduled to be completed in 49 days. A team of 4 people will be established to accomplish the goal of implementing an updated hiring process that will include questions that will better assist the hiring official to determine the person that will be the best fit for the position available.…
In order to make sure that the meeting will offer a successful transition, communication is very important for all offices so stakeholders are alert and ready for the upcoming dealings. In order to get everything settled their will be daily meeting that will be set up via the web and at a landline location for those that are able to attend. Schedules for each provider and their staff should eventually be shortened to accommodate training and mandatory attendance should be enforced. A checklist will be provided for each office with the necessary materials needed for the conversion and information regarding government policies.…
Hire external change management consultants to ensure minimum user disruption and smooth transition into the new system.…
1a) As part of the expansion plans fast Track intends to recruit 5 new employees, 33 drivers and 2 administrators. Suggest a suitable recruitment and selection process for the organisation.…
2. Assume that you have been retained as a change consultant by BA management to advise them on how to avoid such a situation in the future. What lessons emerge from each perspective and what recommendations would you draw from each in constructing your advice to BA management? If appropriate, role-play the presentation of this advice to senior management of BA. Me to leadership at BA: “In the future, I recommend you work to get the pulse of your employees. It must not only be middle management that understands the barriers and frustrations of employees, but executive leadership should also be part of that conversation. When making changes it is important to examine the sense of the change: is this good in the long run or just a quick fix? Once that is know you must look at the impact of the change both from a cost perspective as well as a human capital perspective. If possible, allow employees to be a part of the decision making process in the form of…
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is identified as the essential platform upon which companies are building their competitive business process upgrades (Caruso 2003). An ERP system is an integrated software solution that spans the range of business processes that enables companies to gain a holistic view of the business enterprise. It promises one database, one application, and a unified interface across the entire enterprise (Bingi, Sharma & Godla 1999). Due to the fact that ERP systems provide companies with a means to have an integrated and unified business process, companies have not been swayed from investing large amounts of money on…
As the name implies, a “mega” project is a large project which draws a large amount of resources in order to complete. Such projects also usually entail long and complex implementation schedules. In this case, a prospective ERP solution was tasked with conjoining vast and different functional business teams in a fast moving technology-based company — a complex endeavor.…
Using the services of a headhunter, Stephen is assessing four different candidates. All of them have pros and cons, but in different aspects and no one seems to fit perfectly to be considered as the ideal person to hire. The selection process is not clearly described but from the information in the case it can be inferred that it is unstructured even when some selection tools are used.…
This question will allow the candidate to express their understanding of the position. Fit, expectations, understanding, and skills set is the information I am hoping to gather from this question.…
There are many different software programs and web-based programs that could have been chosen to alleviate our archaic process of recruiting and managing candidates. This is the step in the process in which I and others in the lower positions were not fully included. We were not consulted in the alternate solutions. I cannot say 100% that there were in fact alternatives discussed. If I were in the upper management positions, I believe that the lower level employees who will be using the new program should be consulted in this decision. We are after all, the employees who will be using this system on a daily…
CHENNAI: Maars Software International Ltd has launched Maarsman Compact, a plug-in-play ERP product for small industries. The product is based on Maarsman, the company's existing ERP solution.…
From early 2008, after about 5-year feeding period, China 's collaboration software market was beginning to mature.…
Leon Lassiter, Vice President of Marketing with the Mdsouth Chamber of Commerce (MSCC), ran into some issues while converting their information technology software. All the members of his staff were frustrated with the transition to the new system. With all the complexities of implementing a new system along with not exhausting your resources. Leon is heading the conversion process, but has no information technology history or back ground, this can be a serious issue. If this issue is not corrected the entire Midsouth chamber of commerce will be affected by this.…
Overview: Enthusiastic and result oriented individual with qualitative experience in delivering projects. Have successfully completed industrial and academic projects with working Experience of 8.0+ yrs. Proficient in client server architecture and programming in Visual Basic 6.0 and working on SAP Business One(Fuctionally) and SQL Server 2005.…