Executive Summary
Achievers Company is an incorporated company certified by the national project and management contractors’ board to provide project management consultancy services in local and international markets. Our mission is to provide unprecedented services to our clients by assessing the shortest and cost-effective time to complete the project. Our vision is to be the world’s leading project managers and consultant in Telecommunication industry.
Company Description
Our core objective is to assist private companies and parastatals to upgrade their telecommunications systems with intent to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in data and communication system within e and beyond the company. We are credited by the Government and large companies as our main clients
Organization and management
Our company is divided into several departments to enhance transparency and accountability at work. The sections include customer care service, system development section, maintenance section, finance and executive management section.
Products and services
Our products and services range from accounting system upgrade, hardware performance upgrade and system synchronization.
Proposed Plan
Upgrading Accounting System
As a company with a large client base, you shall have an opportunity to select the most suitable software form the following variety: Microsoft Dynamics GP, Intacct Financial and Accounting System, Netsuite Financial system among others. (Bodnar and Hopwood, 2001)
Developing Employee Vacation Tracking System
Companies face a great challenge when most employees request time out of work to attend a vacation with loved ones. It would be paramount to automate the tracking system for easier follow-up.our company will develop an online platform which will manage employees’ work hours, vacation hours, holiday hours and sick time hours. This will enable the manager to calculate each employee’s work progress and the period worked. In addition, it will save the company the conflict on who will be granted leave before the other. This is because the system is automated to grant permission for leave to an employee and simultaneously suggest the redistribution of work to seal the loophole.
Enhancing Employee Intranet
Intranet is a platform on website that allows simultaneous communication among employees of a certain company. The system is safely guarded to protect any external user from accessing the information. By installing such system into your company, the management will save on cost and time consumed to make communications among workers and also enhance brainstorming sessions through E-mail and social networks over a contentious issue requiring urgent address. The system will be developed through a company’s personal website and coded to protect it from external influence.
Cleansing and Scrubbing Data Warehouse Information
This task will require use if a data scrubbing tool which will eliminate unnecessary data in the system and trace any errors that could have occurred in the data. Further, it will initiate the process of correcting the flaws. These tools are customized to correct specific mistakes and thus save the administrator the cost of manually correcting the system. Cleaning and scrubbing of data is necessary and should be done periodically to eliminate unnecessary data and create space for storing current data. (Patel, 2008)
Performance -Test all hardware to ensure 20 percent Growth Scalability
It is paramount to assess the performance of all hardware to determine which ones are exhausted and thus require upgrade to accommodate extra tasks. To enhance effectiveness in hardware performance, hardware should not over or under perform its tasks. Such occurrence will spill the expense on the gains of the company leading to loss. Therefore, as project management experts, we shall overhaul all hard wares to accustom them to the current tasks and save on cost and time resources.
Implementing changes to employee benefits System
Develop Backup and Recovery Strategy
Loss if data in many companies has been a challenge that has cost your company and others a lot. As experts, we shall install a system that will restore lost data and back up the system in case of uneventful loss of data. We shall link the company’s system to our system, whereby in case data is lost in your system; it will automatically be saved and retrieved from our system. Further, we shall provide with microchips that will be inserted to the systems and enable automatic saving of data. Data will be coded to protect the information form undue influence. In a case of interference, alarms alert will inform the whole management of such an act and enable Auto lock.
Implement Supply chain management system
This is an effective approach to centralize production and distribution of products of the company. As project managers, we shall incorporate a list of all distribution agents, their addresses and contacts and their geographical points of sales. This will enable sales managers to assess areas that have higher demand than others. Consequently, measure to revive low-responsive areas can be achieved. In addition, the system will facilitate a platform for direct and online request for orders by individuals and supply agents at ease. Among notable systems used include Interchange EDI and Enterprise WMS among others. (Schragenheim, Dettmer and Patterson, 2009)
Upgrade Customer relationship management systems
This system will enhance monitoring of customers through recording of their conversation for future retrieval. Further, the system shall create a platform for customers to converse with the management or employees through the phone or internet to request for customized products or report defects in their products. Besides, the system will act as survey to assess the response of customers about the company’s products. This system will be time and resource saving.
Build Executive information System for CEO.
This is comprised system that enables easier and effective communication form the executive to the junior employees. Since the evolution of the system in 1970s, most companies which have adopted the system have registered exemplary results in cost saving than those without the system. In your company, we shall integrate the CEOs office system with that of the employees to ease communication and performance observation. Integration will occur through networking the whole system to deliver information as commanded. It will also provide a chance for easier communication of employees to the chief executive officer. (Wysocki, 2002)
References
Patel, V. N. (2008). Project management. Jaipur, India: Oxford Book Co.
Bodnar, G. H., & Hopwood, W. S. (2001). Accounting information systems. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall.
Schragenheim, E., Dettmer, H. W., & Patterson, J. W. (2009). Supply chain management at warp speed: Integrating the system from end to end. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
Wysocki, R. K. (2002). Building effective project teams. New York: Wiley.
