Your proposed information system is still a contender. The executives, however, are asking whether it is too limited to prevent the shadow IT projects that continue to take place throughout the organization.

They believe that you have considered what the organization does now, but how will your system adapt to new products and processes? The following video is an example of two companies – Apple and Google – adapting new products and processes in spite of multiple challenges.

• How Apple and Google Formed one of Tech’s Most Powerful Partnerships. (8:03).

You’ll have to quell their fears, so it’s time for another memo. Please focus on these points:

1. Identify any significant changes that your organization might reasonably make in its product offerings in the next three years. Explain the competitive benefits of this change.
2. Explain how your information system addresses or can adapt to the introduction of these new product offerings.
3. Give one reason why capabilities for the new product offerings should or should not be incorporated in the initial information system design. Justify your reason.

This memo should be 3–5 pages long.

Part two: on a separate word document 

Please respond to the following:

Read the article, “Business Value Dashboard.” Then, find an organization that has adopted a real-time dashboard for its internal use within the last three years. Do not repeat examples from the textbook or that have been posted by other students.

Please respond to the following:

• What are the most important parts of this dashboard?
• How do these parts help the business managers? How do they help the individual contributors?
• Have real-time dashboards replaced the traditional business report? Justify your answer.
• Be sure to respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.
• Valera Mixon wrote Sac State ScholarsDashboardThe Sac State Scholar dashboard connects the Sac state community with other scholars and collaborators. It is a place where thesis and dissertations. It also “auto-populate faculty profiles with little invention.” (Sac State)The dashboard shows how many downloads have occurred by Country.  It also shows how many research outputs are available, how many have been viewed, and how many research outputs were downloaded.PurposeThe ability for the dashboard to populate the faculty profiles allows for an easy way for the faculty to maintain their profiles and not add additional work to their schedule.  It also serves as a “research networking tool where Sac State research, scholarship, creative activities, as well as teaching and service activities will be highlighted.”  The dashboard will allow for individuals to find faculty that they can partner with for “research projects, grants, scholarships or instructions.” (Sac State) It also will allow government agencies or entrepreneurs to gain access to experts in specific fields.ReplacementThis dashboard did not replace a report; it is replacing a database, not a report. The database held only thesis and dissertations. It did not house the faculty information and did not lend itself to a portal that allowed those outside the campus to connect for further scholarly pursuits.References:https://csu-csus.esploro.exlibrisgroup.com/esploro/https://csus.libguides.com/sacstatescholarshttps://csus-dspace.calstate.edu/
• Kelly Rutheuff  wrote Why Every Government Needs a Covid Dashboard – Bloomberg
  UK Summary | Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK (data.gov.uk)
  • What are the most important parts of this dashboard?
    • The data is updated daily to report on COVID-19 with cases, vaccinations, and deaths. The dashboard view is easy for viewing the data without having to look at spreadsheets. The dashboard is very visual on the eyes while still providing the data that is needed.  The use of maps and multiple charts makes finding the data easy to read and analyze. 
  • How do these parts help the business managers? How do they help the individual contributors?
    • The business managers in this case would be the government officials in England along with the World Health Organization who were monitoring trends and data from all around the world. As governments, all were tasked with standing up dashboards and collecting the data for their country.   The data collection made it possible for officials to be able to know when to put policies in place to help stop the spread of the virus.  
    • For individuals, it becomes a place to see the trends and numbers for Covid. The maps offer a way to see the visual representation of the Covid outbreaks in the area. The maps also offer vaccination rates by area which for many people helped with planning for personal travel as well as business.  The dashboard also offered links on where to locate vaccination locations.  
  • Have real-time dashboards replaced the traditional business report? Justify your answer.
    • The fast-paced and ever-changing dynamic of the pandemic would have never been afforded the time for a traditional business report. In the article, they reference how quickly many of the sites had to stand up dashboards for reporting and used out-of-the-box software which they later realized did not offer everything they needed. The Public Health of England did have a designed and coded site and was able to expand the team supporting it from 3 to 17 during the pandemic. Real-time dashboards are easier for individuals and executive teams to view and absorb data quickly on a daily basis without having to read through an entire business report.