McFarlan+analysis

=McFarlan analysis = = = = REDANG ISLAND RESORT =

Within researching the current using of information technology in the company( Redang beach resort)we come up with this conclusion that the usage of it is not that much as I’m going to explain as below:

The System dependency in the organization is low.

The IT/IS impact on the Organization is high for example they can implement a new online reservation system to their website and the users( tourists)whom concern to visit Redang ,they can directly reserve their rooms from the Redang beach resort website. and pay by their credit cards.

From the above understandings we discover that the Redang beach resort organization is in the TURNARROUND quadrant.

**Factory**: payment and billing system, nowadays the beach resort organizations are going to expand. and as this business is a day to day business and everyday they are people and checkout and some of them are checking in so the payment system is very important for these organizations.

Also they can use inventory systems to check their inventories for example to keep track of how many towels shampoos and etc they have.

**Strategic**: The most important thing for visitors or tourists is to ensure that they are safe in the Redang beach resort in the day of the events or in their rooms cause our organization is beach resort and its capable to provide big events along the beach so it needs some serious security systems on of them is the cctv systems.

**Support** : low operational impact, low strategic impact. This quadrant is about local process improvements for individual users. Online reservation is the one of the thing that Redang Beach Resort has. It means individual user can reserve a room online.

**Turnaround** : low operational impact, high strategic impact. This quadrant is about exploiting new technologies to provide strategic opportunities. Network service should be improve in a resort, sometimes tourists that stay at the hotel need a computer and high speed internet to send or receive something or do something important for them.

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Why use McFarlan's Strategic Gird
We used McFarlan's Strategic Grid because it a very useful tool for improving the understanding of how the information systems function and how IT should be managed in an organization (Earl, 1989).

What is McFarlan's Strategic Grid
It is a tool that is used to assess the strategic importance, the particular character, and the inherited situation of IT for an enterprise (Earl, 1989).

What do the grids represent?
According to Earl (1989),
 * **Support:** Information systems are of little impact in the present or future.
 * **Factory:** Information systems are crucial to the current operations and the organizations management but not at the heart of the companies strategic development
 * **Strategic:** Information Systems have always been extremely crucial to the organization and the future s dependent or shaped by them.
 * **Turnaround:** Information Systems that could help provide strategic opportunities and that are important in achieving future success.