McFarlan+Analysis+(final)

McFarlan analysis = = = REDANG ISLAND RESORT =

WHY? use McFarlan.
McFarlan is basically a tool that is used to assess the strategic importance, the particular character, and the inherited situation of IT for an enterprise. (Earl, 1989). we used this tool to improve the understanding of how the information system function and how IT should be managed Redang Resort.

After all the research was carried out we derived this conclusion from the analysis:

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.

with all that being said it is appropriate to say Redang beach resort organization is in the TURNARROUND quadrant.

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

**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.

Information system is important to an organization in having competitive advantage, and it is essential for organization’s current and future growth. Information System in Redang is currently being used to automate certain business operations, the impact certainly is beneficial to daily operations. However in all likelihood, Information System will certainly have a high strategic impact in the future of Redang Resort where it will be an essential tool in the future growth and survival, and giving competitive advantage to the organization.