Use either Global Auto case study or your own organization as the basis for the assignment. You are an information system consultant working for New Century Systems (NCS) and have been invited to give a presentation to students at Derby Business School regarding the development of integrated enterprise information systems support for organisational processes within one of the functions within the Global Auto ERP project or your own organisation. In your presentation (max. 15 minutes in length), you are to address the following aspects: 1. Requirement Content Mark a) Explain your business area in general terms. e.g. main areas of responsibility, cycle of processes, events, transactions, etc. b) Illustrate the nature of cross-functional integration within your business area by providing three examples of data/information flows between different functional organisational units (one of which must be the accounting function/department) 20 Discuss key challenges or difficulties that may affect the adoption/implementation of IT-based business processes in your chosen area, and suggest potential solutions/responses in each instance (note: to gain such understanding, consult academic research articles/case studies and ‘practitioner/customer success stories’ ) 40 2. At the start of the presentation session, submit a printed set of your slides (including a list of references of articles/books/case studies and/or web-site material consulted in your preparation) Business Areas: You may select your own specific business area/model/industry to present upon. To promote diversity in the coverage of chosen topics, you are encouraged to consider varied areas like: • Sales
