MIS Change Management Questions

1. How will this new MIS help the company achieve its strategy?
The new MIS will help Lucky cement to achieve its strategy in following ways:
● VALUE – ADD DELIVERY

The new MIS will help Lucky Cement offer best value to its customers through improving
inventory management, providing substantial customer support and delivering their orders on
time.

● BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT

The new MIS will also help the company improve its functional areas as it will offer the
necessary data needed to identify areas that are non-performing in the organization and will also
help the management to explore multiple alternatives to make smarter decisions based on critical
analysis of data. It will also provide competitive advantage over Lucky cement's rivals as
managers will have updated data to run their day to day operations more efficiently.

● PROJECT MANAGEMENT

The new MIS will help Lucky cement in their future projects. It will have all the necessary tools
and techniques used to gather, integrate, and disseminate the outputs of project management
processes. It will also support all aspects of their future projects i.e. from initiating through
closing.

2. What processes are needed to ensure that the MIS is designed to support the strategic
focus, not the other way around?
The following processes ensure that the MIS is designed to support the strategic focus:
● Create an efficient way to perform transactions and analyze business data in real time,
without interfering with everyday business processes.
● The system detect imbalances in the production line, assesses if any damage occurred and
gives practically all the data needed to secure immediate corrective actions.
● Management of activities/operations in a production system is concerned with decision
making related to different components of the system so as to accomplish the desired output.

3. To what degree does the MIS aid in aligning the process and Organizational
architecture?
 This MIS will help the Lucky Cement in aligning the informational and business systems, in
this way the company can bring products to market faster and will be able to quickly and
easily manage the technological obstacles.
 With the help of new MIS the managers can get the necessary data that will help them in
identifying the strengths and weaknesses of Lucky Cement. This will consequently help to
achieve a higher level of efficiency within the company.
 The new MIS will provide high availability of data which will reduce uncertainty and allow
managers to make better ratio quality decision based on insightful data.
4. Can new products and services be introduced with a minimum of effort?
Yes, the new MIS will help Lucky Cement in introducing new products and services with
minimum efforts as it will reveal additional information about the customers and with this useful
information about the customer needs, the management will be in better position to improve
customer service and deliver highly effective and promotional and marketing campaigns.
5. To what degree does the strategic focus drive centralization or decentralization?
Lucky Cement is a centralized organization where responsibility for operating decisions is
delegated to top management and the top management make sure that the mid-level and low-
level management are working in the same direction to achieve organization's goals.