Imt Custom Machine Company Case Study

Sept. 18, 2012

IMT Custom Machine Company Case Study

1.) The assignment given to Charles Browning was completely necessary in terms of development and sustainability of Custom Machines Company, Inc. (CMCI), a subsidiary of International Machine & Tools (IMT). He was asked to learn, investigate and develop a recommendation for the IS activities in the wake of CMCI tighten then expanding its operations over the past volatile decades in the custom machines industry. As one of the largest custom production machine companies in the world, CMCI was operating using under-supported, pieced together systems that required updating and revising before crisis would result that would affect production.

There were some major issues of his assignment to focus on. There were two groups supporting Fort Wayne’s information systems but they lacked interconnectivity to each other through the mainframe since they used different networks to share information. Several of the programs used to give quotes and process specifications were inefficient, causing staff to waste a lot of time and money using workarounds to get a customer’s job order completed. The entire HR department was segregated away from the other departments, many of the engineers were unfamiliar with the UNIX operating system employed, and information systems personnel were using workarounds to make the information systems work properly. Browning’s assignment was to fix these issues and improve the work-process flow by using information processes and technology more effectively.

2.) A mission and vision statement should define the organization’s fundamental purpose and primary objective, as well as define the organization’s values about how work should be completed. It’s meant to motivate employees to realize an inspiring common vision of the future in which they can all share in. Typically, the mission statement should also identify the key measure of success and desired result, while the vision statement...