The Case:

A general contracting company engaged in the construction of real estate has several branches

throughout the Kingdom and a headquarters in Al-Qassim.

The company different branches are independent from each other and they have similar administrative structure, activity and infrastructure. Each branch has its own departments (finance, accounting, human resources, warehouse management, marketing, sales and operations management). The departments are related to the headquarters in Al-Qassim to whom they are presenting monthly reports.

As for the information technology, the company's branches have been completely independent in the use of the technology provided by different software, as each department in each branch manages its various administrative and operational activities through software as it deems appropriate.

However, this is no longer appropriate for senior management in Al-Qassim in many ways and believes that a unified information system must be applied to all branches.

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Questions: Answer five of the following questions:

1. What are the disadvantages of the current situation in the company in terms of information systems,

which prompted the senior management to take the above decision?

2. What are the most important characteristics that must be available in the new information system?

3. What is the most effective for the company, to buy an ERP system or to build and develop a customized information system?

4. In the form of choosing a company to build a customized information system, do you advise it to hire specialized personnel to do this or to outsource the developing of the new information system?

5. What is the best methodology for developing the company's system, the system life cycle methodology or the prototyping methodology or the rapid application development methodology RAD?

6. What is the best way to convert to a new system?

7. How can the new system help the company make a decision?

Handing-in Method:

Submission should be by email.

Deadline:

Please, note that the deadline date for submission is (Monday October 12th, 2020).

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Maximum font size 12 pt.

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The writing should be mechanically correct, meaning (minimally) at a level we expect

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and punctuation and proper citation of sources.

You have to cite all sources you use, even those you do not paraphrase or quote

from.

Number all pages except for the title page - the first page of the text is p.1.

Use the cover sheet template provided with this assignment.

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