Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Expediting IS implementation


"You were invited by the university president to prepare an IS plan for the university, discuss what are the steps in order to expedite the implementation of the IS Plan."

Honestly, I am a bit of confused by the question above, whether is refers to me having to "sell" my IS plan for it to be implemented or it is already approved, but "expedite" being defined as "speed up the progress of" I would just assume the latter.

Given the question above, I will now assume that the Proposed IS plan is now approved and now subject to implementation. Therefore, all that is left to think about is how to ensure successful and fast IS plan transition from its paper-plan stage to the implement stage.

Key considerations to do:

Project management:

In this step, it refers to considerations such as where would the project/system suitable to be
implemented or placed in, budget on executing and maintaining it, who are going to manage it and are they suitable to handle implementation of the project?

Such inquiries are supposed to be answered even before it was approved and even before the project completion. The answers are going to make implementation faster since all grounds are seemed to be covered already like personnel to be hired, placement of system/project and its needed support and back-up.

Data Conversion:

In this step, questions such as is there data needed to be put into practical terms or layman terms than the technical terms the development team used. Data or the information on how to use the project should be stated in a clear and understandable manner, it must be remembered that the user of the system might not understand the professional jargon used.

Training of personnel:

User of the project are not IT professionals that is why time and training has to done to guide them in how to use and manipulate the project. If the person is knowledgeable or has received appropriate training then implementation if IS plan will be done faster.


2 comments:

Kate said...

i'm also confused with the question... i searched the meaning of expedite and it means to accelerate or advance... i wasn't quite sure whether the question is asking for ways to make the implementation faster or just to plain implement it.

but, anyway, thanks for your input... i learned something. hehe

*i'd appreciate your comments, too...*

snage said...

hi han, why not develop both the definition.... implement and then make implementation faster?

its much better i think... as what RSG said.... FUTURE!!