The four separate reports were completed for the IFSM 300 Information Systems in Organizations course through the UMGC. The report covers a case scenario for a new hiring software to help increase screening and hiring personnel efficiency. Each stage of the report covers issues with the current hir...
The Business Analysis and System Recommendation is used to help evaluate a new
hiring system to facilitate the organizational goals of Maryland Technology Consultants (MTC)
(UMGC, 2022, “Week 8: Developing a System Proposal,” para. 1-4). The first stage of the
analysis will cover the business strategy, competitive advantage, strategic objective, and
decision-making. The possible improvements that may be accomplished with the new system
will be discussed within each of these. The second stage will cover the current hiring process
with needed improvements and expected improvements with the new system. The third stage
will go over the stakeholder interests with specific problems they see and how the new system
can facilitate improvements to correct these problems. The last area under the third stage will
be the system-defining requirements which will list what the user interface should provide and
what stakeholders added to it. The last part of the defining requirements will list the
performance requirements for the system and what stakeholders added to it. The fourth stage
will cover the system justification and implementation areas. The implementation will include
the vendor agreement, what hardware would be needed, the configuration of the new system,
and then testing. The next areas would be for employee training in preparation for the new
system, and then transferring all open applications to the new system. The last area is to ensure
the new system is operating correctly and everything is configured properly. After completing
all four stages of this analysis it will show how the new system can help streamline efficiency
and reduce the overall time of hiring new personnel (UMGC, 2019, Maryland Technology
Consultants Case Study,” pp. 1-7).
, I. Strategic Use of Technology
A. Business Strategy
The business strategy used by MTC for competitive advantage is the
differentiation advantage strategy (UMGC, 2022, “Week 1: Does IT Matter,” para. 8).
The differentiation strategy here at MTC is to increase revenue by winning new
contracts and increasing its reputation by providing outstanding consulting services.
The accomplishment of this is by employing only the best consultants in their field of
business and technology. The current manual hiring process cannot keep up with the
hiring demands because it takes too long, and it is hard to track where the
application is currently. Because of this MTC misses out on getting some of the
talent needed on time. Since MTC is an information technology consultant company,
it should be using innovative solutions to meet its current objectives (UMGC, 2019,
“Maryland Technology Consultants Case Study,” p. 3). When using a cloud-based
system, there is no hardware to buy or configure. By utilizing this system, it will
lower the cost of processing applications, and it will interconnect with all the current
systems. The result of this would decrease the time to process and approve
applicants. Other results would allow increased communication between everyone
in the process and hiring the most qualified applicants promptly (UMGC, 2019, “EZ-
ATS Applicant Tracking Software,” p. 1).
B. Competitive Advantage
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