What is Strategic Information System (SIS)?

Strategic Information system is the information system that is developed in response to the corporate business function.  The purpose is to provide a competitive advantage to the company.  SIS is a salient feature in the company that distinguishes it from the rest.  The software helps business to categorize, store, process or transfer the information in an effective way.  This tool helps in managing the information in a systematic way. The company applies metrics and analytical tools in order to keep an eye on the information repository (Almalki, Al-fleit and Zafar, 2017).  This is a way to improve the growth and efficiency of an organization. Most of the Information system is used as a support mechanism.  They are developed for the purpose of developing an effective organizational capacity.  They help in improving the organizational efficiency and profitability   it is a process through which a business organization can gain effectiveness in order to earn long term sustainability.  SIS is an integral part of a business that allow in resolving effective issues.  The system directly affects the organization and helps in arranging effectiveness.  They do affect the organizational competency and hence are one of the reasons behind developing organizational competency. There are many possibilities that require an effective organizational effectiveness in order to maintain a balance. This is one of the most effective business strategies that require individual efforts in order to gain organizational value and programming. This is necessary for generating better and effective supply chain for meeting pre-requisites.  The development of the strategic information system therefore improves the organizational growth. This allows in improving the existing value in order to match up with the organizational expectations (Arvidsson, Holmström and Lyytinen, 2014). 

Woolworths Supermarket is an Australian Supermarket and grocery chain owned by Woolworths Limited.  The store is known for selling groceries like (vegetables, fruits, meat and packages food). Currently Woolworths is operating more than 1000 stores across Australia.  Apart from that Woolworths Online is known for carrying out online shopping.  Technology is a game changer for a retail organization and creates a distinguished result.  It has helped in improving the technology by implementing effective software. This has helped in offering customers with distinguished options (Woolworths Ltd (WOW.AX), 2017).  The IT sector has collaborated significantly in order to create better opportunities.  It is important enough for giving better organizational opportunity and developing results in order to gain competency.   The SIS helps the company in getting effective organizational goals.  It is important from the point of gaining effective knowledge in order to arrange effectiveness and developing a proper information system that allow in gaining competitive factors. It is therefore necessary for arranging effectiveness that has helped in gaining competencies (Chen, Mocker, Preston and Teubner, 2010). It is important for arranging factors that are effective in order to disburse the array of issues that specialize in managing data. Big data is important enough to deliver business efficiencies that allow in increasing the customer engagement in an organization.  The business has to understand customer’s expectation in order to attain structured data (Defoe, 2013).  Woolworths has developed inner capacity that has allows store managers to take decision.   The managers have drillable reports, dashboards that allow in providing direct information.   The technology is important enough for a business organization in delivering necessary data. This will help in acquiring effective information and priorities.  The IT infrastructure is important enough for gaining organizational effectiveness and arranging necessary growth (Cassidy, 2016). 

Woolworths Supermarket: Overview

The information system has focused on managing integrated concept.  This is necessary for a business organization in making a dynamic and iterative process. In order to manage the process, this is necessary to retrieve the important information.  This concept is important for arranging information system in an effective way.  The purpose is maintaining the business model in order to organize effective results. The information system helps in framing out the strategy in order to attain business operations and gaining supply chain adequacy (Chugh, 2017).   Most of the companies are directly and indirectly dependent on the Information and Technology in order to gain competent results.  Information system is necessary for the business organization in order to gain innovative service. Leading brands like Microsoft and Google are dependent on coordinating information and technology. It is necessary for developing a better infrastructure that will allow in gaining sustainable results. For a business organization, it is important to arrange effectiveness by synching the IT infrastructure (Galliers and Leidner, 2014).  

The technology is used in order to develop organizational effectiveness to motivate the employees in a better way.  The company is using big data in order to increase customer engagement.  This is important for a business organization in order to gain effectiveness.  The purpose of implementing superior technology is important enough in order to arrange information for the purpose of attaining long-term sustainable results (Peppard, Galliers and Thorogood, 2014).   The IT infrastructure is important enough to broaden the product superiority. It is necessary for the purpose of implementing an effective decision. This is important enough to deal with the organizational effectiveness.  The Real time connectivity is important for increasing the mobility in an organization (Jarzabkowski and Paul Spee, 2009). This is necessary for implementing a broad corporate program that will help in adding value to the employees.  Woolworths has significantly added the IT structure in order to gain effectiveness. The purpose is to attain effective results in order to arrange long-term growth. It is important for gaining effectiveness for the purpose of attaining an effective infrastructure.  This is important from the point of generating effective results and substituting it with the better structure.  It is necessary for strategizing the organizational requirement (Pearlson, Saunders and Galletta, 2016). 

There are several challenges in the SIS due to the wide gap in strategic implementation of results.    The system is identified as the process through which the company can gain goals.   The information system is important enough for managing the requirements in order to mitigate the gaps. For the reason it is important to develop a process that allow in arranging the best results.   The plan related to the information and technology is necessary for generating better result. There are gaps in meeting the organizational targets in order to attain effective role and responsibility. This is necessary for arranging effective organizational goals and attaining effective growth by matching up with the expectations.  This is necessary enough for matching up with the gaps and looking onto the best possible opportunities. It is necessary enough for matching up with the budget allotted In order to gain sustainable objectives (Peppard and Ward, 2016).

Role of Technology in Retail Industry

 The human resource issue is common to the organization with a lot of issues that need to be met by defining the strategies in a better way. The organization has to identify the issues in order to manage the organizational needs which will allow in substituting the effective long term growth. The purpose of initiating the organization is to utilize the demands that will allow in arranging effectiveness.  The technical challenges in the organization is creating gap in meeting up with the strategy in a better way. This is important enough for regulating the goals and managing the best possible strategy in order to arrange the gaps (Chung, 2016).  This is important enough to manage the systematic growth in order to define sustainable strategy. It is necessary for the business organization to implement the strategy that will help in sustaining the changes.  The big companies are looking forward to manage the system in order to organize the factors in the best possible way.  This is necessary for arranging better opportunities. This is necessary for maintaining systematic factors in order to gain results. 

In order to manage the changes it is important to figure out the most appropriate strategy that will allow in gaining effective results. This is important enough for gaining effective results and responsibilities in order to meet the targets.  These targets are important enough for developing an infrastructure that will allow in meeting the target with the purpose of gaining insight. This is important enough for calculating the effectiveness that is associated with the information and technology. It is necessary for matching up with the expectations of the customers and deriving a better portal which will allow in gaining effectives. This is important enough in dealing with the long-term goals with the purpose of generating better opportunities that will allow in building a strong infrastructure. This will surely allow in building a strong capacity which   will certainly allow in generating better results.  There are possibilities that allow in managing the systematic growth in the infrastructure plan. It is important enough to deal with the challenges and applying the better results. It is necessary for arranging the most applicable software that is necessary to mitigate the deficiency. It is necessary for the business organization in dealing with the ineffectiveness. It is important from the point of gaining effective knowledge in order to arrange effectiveness and developing a proper information system that allow in gaining competitive factors (Somasundaram, 2017).

Importance of SIS for Woolworths Supermarket

The strategy is to build systematic software and network which allow keeping sync in between the different stores. It is important to keep an effective supply chain management. This is necessary enough for regulating systematic growth and development. In order to understand the long term purpose it is evident to look after the possibilities in order to generate sustainable results. For the reason it is important to organize systematic growth and development that will surely allow long-term sustainable result (Low, 2016). It is necessary to align the organizational structure with the information mechanism. The purpose is to manage the effectiveness by aligning the goals with the organization. This however helps in meeting the targets. While expanding the business oversea it is one of the important targets that are necessary to be kept in mind.  This strategy will surely allow in managing the result and applying them in the best possible way.  It is important enough for generating sustainable results and organizing the effectiveness that will up-grade the organizational requirements. It is necessary for arranging organizational effectiveness in a better way which will allow in gaining results that are important for matching up the organizational effectiveness. It is necessary enough for generating Bette opportunities and matching up the expectations of the customers in order to gain relatable results. The benefit resides with the organization and matching up with the expectation of the customers. Information system is necessary for the business organization in order to gain innovative service. Leading brands like Microsoft and Google are dependent on coordinating information and technology. Challenges experienced in developing an Information Systems Strategy. This is important enough for arranging the needs and requirements so that the organization can gain effectives. In order to match up with the expectations it is necessary to look onto the arising individual needs. This is necessary for matching up the changes that are taking place in the business surrounding. It is necessary enough for enhancing the individual capacity and organizing the results in the best possible way. This effective strategy is necessary for mitigating the gaps in order to attain results. Woolworths is a well-known brand in Australia.  In order to carry out the operations more efficiently it is necessary to identify the goals in order to arrange organizational goals. The purpose behind focusing on the strategy is to attain effective organizational results and generating the possible outcome. This is necessary to challenge the poor management and gaining the outcome by focusing over the results. It is necessary for meeting the results and understanding the outcomes.

Challenges in SIS and how to manage them

The poor coordination in between the factors is one of the major reasons behind the poor performance. In order to attain systematic growth, it is important to figure out the most appropriate strategy. This will surely allow the organization in mitigating the gap and attaining the best possible results (Liguori, 2012).  Woolworths focus on managing the relation with the employees. This will help in achieving the targets and looking onto the possible results. The infrastructure can develop necessary results in order to manage the most possible results. This is however important for an individual in order to match up with the expectations it is necessary to look onto the arising individual needs. This is necessary for matching up the changes that are taking place in the business surrounding. It is necessary for managing the requirements and creating opportunities which will allow in arranging the most evident results.  This is necessary for the business to arrange the most effective policies that has the capability to attain result.

The possible problem that might arise in the organization is related to the systematic IT infrastructure development. This will surely creates the gap in meeting the resultant growth and arranging the most effective results. The necessary purpose is to manage the outcome and defining the most effective results (Hyam and Ong.2016).  The purpose is to manage the continuity in the organization and helping in meeting the effectiveness in the organization. This is necessary for meeting the expectations of the people around. It is therefore necessary for meeting the effectiveness and arranging the most desired results for matching up with the individual expectations (Goolsby, Reed.2016).

In the above section the major challenge is regarding the commitment in the senior management. In order to reduce the cases of failure, it is important enough to find out the most possible outcome in order to arrange effectiveness. This is necessary enough for managing the issues which will allow in gaining sustainable results. In order to organize the results it is necessary to mitigate the issue and to look after the possible role and responsibility that will allow in arranging effectiveness. It is necessary for managing the long term goals and representing the needs of the people.

Conclusion 

To conclude, the report highlights the IT strategy and the requirements that are related to the long term sustainable results. In order to arrange effectiveness the purpose is to accelerate the business strategy and to gain effectives. Being the second largest retail outlet it is important enough to gain better results.  It is necessary for the purpose of aligning the IT infrastructure with the organization and look onto to the upcoming business opportunities occurring outside the business organization. This is necessary for matching up with the expectations of the customers and looking onto the necessary IT infrastructure. 

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