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IS management review is an essential aspect in realizing the goals and targets of an organization through achievement of quality interaction and communication with relevant stakeholders and consumers. This is a similar case with reference to Hot-Shots Company. HOT-SHOTS Company in Australia, founded in 1995, seeks to meet the growing demand for children's licensed confectionery and biscuit products. The company is an accredited supplier of licensed merchandise and food products. The organization focuses on the provision of various products in the form of Fruit Tails, Cookies, and Rice Snacks, tin lunchboxes, and Halloween products. The organization obtains license in promoting diverse brands such as Scooby Doo, My Biggs, Hello Kitty, The Simpsons, and M&M's. Under the influence globalization, Hot-Shots Company operates in areas such as United States, South Africa, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Australia (Pinard, 2013, p. 94).
Environment and Context
The organization focuses on enhancing its revenues and profit levels at the end of the financial year through globalization. This relates to operating in various nations across the globe such as U.S., UK, and New Zealand. The main objective of the organization is to offer services and products to the consumers in appropriate and affordable manner. The main products include Fruit Tails, Cookies, and Rice Snacks, tin lunchboxes, and Halloween products. The Mission of Hot-Shots Company is to create smiles through licensed food and collectible merchandise as well as generation of consumer/customer royalty. The organization aims at becoming an international reference in relation to the creation and development of innovative licensed products (Mahoney 1992, p. 253). This is through utilization of control and specialization in products innovation as well as integration of most modern technologies in accordance with European and Australian toy regulations and food quality standards. Some of the strategic objectives influencing IS services within Hot-Shots Company include globalization, increasing effective communication...
One of the essential organizational resources that influence or affect the operations of the IS services within the organization is IT budget (West 1992, p. 184). This is because IT budget has the ability and capacity with the aim of influencing the cost and operations of the IS services within an organization. The organization also notes that IT staff play a critical role in influencing the operations of IS within the case of Hot-Shots Company. This is through adequate or inadequate training, insufficiency or sufficient labor services, and skills in relation to utilization of the available hardware and software within the organization. The organizational culture will also have substantive influence on the utilization of IS services within an organization. Hot-Shots Company should focus on addressing these resources in order to maximize the goals and objectives of IS services in the modern economy, market, and industry of operation (Bouchikhi & Kimberly 2008, p. 272).
IS services management review
This review focuses on the examination of the organization's mission statement, vision, strategic objectives influencing IS services strategy, and organizational resources influencing IS strategy. In addition, the review will focus on the existence of IS strategies in the case of Hot-Shots Company. The main constraint of the review relates to lack of substantive information on the relevant organizational resources in relation to implications on IS services strategies.
Formal vs. Informal IT Governance
Hot-Shots Company focuses on the realization of the goals and objectives of its market operation through provision of quality products and services to the consumers. This is critical towards achievement of the competitive advantage in the market and industry of operation. Hot-Shots Company has informal IT governance in relation to…
