When it comes to working with infrastructure, assessing the current state of the business before starting the full project is a necessity.

Imagine this scenario: International Plastics Inc., a manufacturing company, hired you as a technology consultant to work with the company to review their resources and develop a plan for their infrastructure needs. Your first step is to become familiar with their current documentation and provide a status update to the executives.

Access and review the $6$ documents located in the International Plastics Inc. Network Diagrams zip file.

Write an outline of the business requirements for International Plastics Inc. for an upcoming discussion with the CEO. As a general guideline, this type of outline could be used to create an executive summary later in the project. However, you will not be creating this executive summary for this course; instead, the information you gather in this outline will be used in your summative assessments in future weeks.

Include the following information for International Plastics Inc. in your outline:

A high$-$level description of their current IT Infrastructure, including network, information systems, applications, mobile computing, data management, business intelligence, and security

An overview of their operational environment

An explanation of how a new IT infrastructure will improve business performance

A chart listing at least $3$ examples of technology hardware upgrades and how they will improve business performance