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READ THE CASE STUDY AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW

SECTION A Read the case below carefully and answer ALL the questions under it A billion dollar retailer with 4,000 stores finds that it cannot move fast enough to beat out the competition. The organizations sitio management arrives at the conclusion that it would be easier to achieve the strategic goals enumerated by the board of directors in the various organizational functions would share information Shared information would enable them to develop and deploy new actions and tactics more quickly. The CEO and President have the core ordered the major functions to update their information system medutely so that data sharing is possible. The senior vice presidents (SVP) of Accounting and Human Resources immediately decide that the only solution is to jointly decide on an enterprise resource Planning (ERP) product ERP software applications are a set of integrated database applications, or modules, that carry out the most common business functions, induding human resources, general ledger, accounts payable accounts receivable, order management Inventory control and customer relationship management see www.ersupersite.com). To speed the installation along they will install it using a rapid-implementation methodology that a company down the street used. The goal is to have the new systems operational in 9 months Shortly after this decision has been made, the SVP of HR.calls you into his office and tells you that you will be management sponsor for this project. You have to decide on everything. You sit back in your rice office and think What's the problem with this scenario should be difficult to select vendor and then borrow the methodology from down the street. It worked for ther, it should work for us! We call a few vendors in the morning and find out about cost, time frame, and implementation methods in the meantime I should find out a tle more about how to do this and who will be using it remember from my information systems class in college that this is a reasonable first step when it comes to buying software After some discussions with department heads from all the departments in the organization, you realize that there are a large number of people stakeholders) who will be affected by the new systema. Furthermore, you come to realize how important HR data really are to these stakeholders. Based on this information, you think "Wow, there are far more people who could be patentially using this information system than Over the next month as you continue to obtain information about the design and implementation of the new system, you are still somewhat confused about what to do Once again, we find you in your office thinking There are so many poteri desions to make with regard to hardware wonder what we need to schedule we need to buy urdhare and how should configure the servers to ensure mamumenty a tune to make another ist of questions As part of your investigation, you have uncovered a system concept called "Cloud Computing! You are in your office in trying to decide what to do, and you think perhaps cloud computing might be the best and best way to go. You have just sat down in your office feeling as if there is way too much to dot Your IS software professional has given you the information from one of the potential vendors about the various steps that need to be taken in implementation of the HRIS. Your immediate reaction is Man am going to be at work late or the meat many months Adopted from: Kavanagh, M. 1. & Thite, M. (2009). Human resource information systems: Basics, applications, and future directions. Sage Answer ALL the following questions based on the case 1. Identity four customers who would he logical members of the implementation team and explains why. (4 marks) 2. List the recruitment processes that will need to be mapped out during the implementation. (4 marks) 3. Think through an HR process and state the three kinds of data you will need to complete the process well. (6 marks) ut the possible HRIS architecture you will recommend and why? (4 marks)