Read the attached file; it is for a management information systems class assignment.

Instructions

Milestone 3 – Improving the Efficiency of Information Systems

XYZ LLC is a small paper company that sells paper to ~200 businesses in a tri-state area. They handle most of the infrastructure in-house, but their servers are aging and due for replacement. Their technology stack consists of an internal network with voice-over IP (VoIP), a web portal for customer logins and orders, a second web portal for internal employee logins (email, document storage, etc.), and a project management application. All of these are hosted internally and on-premises. XYZ currently has 50 employees and no plans for growth. XYZ currently handles most of its inventory, financial, and customer tracking in massive spreadsheets, which no one in the company appears to know how to navigate or use apart from the CFO.

As a project manager, you have been tasked with analyzing XYZ’s current position and giving them suggestions on their next move. XYZ would like to streamline its technology use, both in terms of time and financial efficiency.

XYZ would like you to craft a proposal that covers your suggestions for them. In doing so, please reference course materials as well as outside professional and academic sources where applicable. Feel free to draw on information from previous modules and offer suggestions that are holistic in approach. Your proposal should address the following question that XYZ has for you:

Should we as an organization replace our dead and dying enterprise hardware? Or is there another path we should take? (including justification)

Is there any way to improve our tracking of inventory, financial information, and customer relationships? (including justification)

How can we make our interaction with our technology more effective and efficacious?

What are some general suggestions you have for us regarding our use of technology?

Get creative! Don’t be afraid to branch out into niche solutions and suggestions; really inherit the role of the project manager for this assignment.

Your submission should be 500-750 words and formatted according to APA 7 guidelines. Please submit your proposal as a .docx or .pdf.