EMG155F- SYSTEMS ENGINEERING COMPANY STUDY I. Industry Analysis (May 10, 2013) A. Industry Description and Overview B.

Porters Five-Forces Model Analysis 1. Current Impacts of Five -Forces 2. External Forces Analysis Use the STEEPIL (Social, Technological, Economic, Ecological, Political, Institutional, and Legal) Environment or PEST Model Analysis framework 3. External Forces Impact to the Five Forces C. Opportunities and Threats Indicate basis of opportunities and threats from the Five-Forces Analysis II. Business Analysis (May 17, 2013) A. Business Description and Overview (7S) 1.1 Corporate Vision/Mission 1.2 Organizational Structure 1.2.1 Subsystems/ department- discuss the functions of each, I-P-O, boundaries and environment ; Discuss each department specific objectives (strategic). 1.3 Leadership Styles, employees skills and employee development 1.4 Shared value 1.5 Systems (automated systems) B. Value-Chain Analysis (May 17,2013) Use Porters Value Chain Framework to identify the value chain activities of the company C. Financial Analysis D. Strengths and Weaknesses Identify from Value-Chain and Financial Analysis, 7S III. PROBLEM ANALYSIS (May 31, 2013) 3.1 Identify problem (s) based on SWOT Analysis, interview/survey, and review of documents.- PROBLEM STATEMENT 3.2 Define objective(s) for improvement. IV. Causal Analysis (June 7, 2013) 4.1 Discussion and presentation of the present system and subsystems (flow of transactions, documents, key personnel/ current strategies) using appropriate tools 4.2 Identify the root cause(s) of the problem using appropriate tools

V. Decision Analysis (June 14, 2013) 5.1 Present at least 2 options/ alternatives to address the problem (based on best practices/ thru benchmarking) 5.2 Apply decision analysis technique through cost-benefit analysis, criteria analysis etc. 5.3 Select the best alternative VI. Develop / design improvement (June 21, 2013) 6.1 Discussion of the proposed solutions (proposed flow of transactions, strategies, policies and procedures). VII. System Implementation and Evaluation 7.1 Plan of actions on how to introduce changes in the system considering the corporate culture of the company as well as the skills and competencies of the worker. (Implementation Plan) 7.2 Potential Problem Analysis Group Presentation June 28, 2013