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¶ … role that the Board of Directors should play in IT governance.
The Board of Directors will have the ultimate responsibility for IT policies within a company. It is the board of directors that determine IT policies will be put into place, and will be responsible for accurately communicating those. The model also be responsible for keeping up-to-date with developments, as well as the determination and monitoring of investments and IT costs. Major aspects of IT within the organization should also be reported to the board, including reports on major projects which will be reviewed by the board to ensure that is suitable support available in terms of both resources and infrastructure
(SO 3, 5) Two feasibility studies occur during the SDLC: one during systems planning, and one during systems design. Describe the differences between these two feasibility studies.
The feasibility study which is undertaken in systems design phase will contain more detail, and is undertaken with a different scope and focuses on only a single design, rather than the multiple designs during system planning. This limited scope is because during the systems design phase has a ready been an assessment of alternative designs, and the decision has been made regarding which design will be chosen. Feasibility during the systems design focuses on the way the chosen design may be unfermented, including assessing the technology which will be required, the operational needs, the costs which will be involved, and the development of an implementation schedule. The schedule may be...
The feasibility which occurs during systems planning phase is broader and less focused as it is assessing the various alternative designs with the aim of choosing a single design.
35. (SO 4) There are four methods of data collection used in the study of the current system: observation, documentation review, interviews, and questionnaires. Compare and contrast these four methods.
During the observation and the documentation review the project team are not gathering user feedback, instead they is in an perspective in order to assess the strengths and weaknesses. User input will be gathered during interviews and with the use of questionnaires, which may be either structured, or unstructured. Questionnaires provide a written form of data gathering, and may be undertaken with the users remaining anonymous. Interviews are a verbal form of data collection and usually take place face-to-face.
36. (SO 4) Describe the purpose of Business Process Reengineering during the System Design phase.
Underlying business processes may need to be changed during implementation of an IT system, this will be identified during the design phase. When business process re-engineering takes place this is a significant redesign of the underlying business processes, this redesign may be implemented in order to take advantage of increased efficiency offered by the new computer systems, and can facilitate a firm's ability to ensure they are optimizing the benefits they can gain from the improved IT…
Roles of Directors and Duties of an Audit Committee The Board of Directors is an organization's or company's governing body that is mandated with the task of ratifying all major decisions. Generally, the Board of Directors handles all issues of major strategic importance to an organization or company. This implies that the Board of Directors needs to be involved, engaged, and supportive in all issues of strategic importance, especially with regards
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