Kucera Clothiers

Proposal The implementation of a collaborative System was chosen because as a distributed organization with octuple units in different geographic locations, with a semi decentralized decision making structure involving a large degree of autonomy in individually organizational unit, quislingism among all these multiple units, collaboration and confabulation between these multiple units is of utmost importance, according to Munkvold (1998). Also, Stahl (2001) notes that increased collaboration strategies grass help increase sales, create opportunities, improve customer benefit and hang costs.According to a white paper by Cisco (Enhancing Business with Smarter much Effective Communications, 2006),Communication-caused delay or disruptions are major problems faced by most clientele. A Sage Research report found that in a survey, 36 percent of respondents said they typically were unable to ease up remotely primed(p) colleagues on the first attempt, with 52 percent verbalism t hat they had to use multiple means of contact on a quotidian basis.Communications complexity affects long-term productivity, financial performance as well as business processes reform. Poor communions affect strategic initiatives such as lean or just-in-time production, supply chain optimization and customer affinity management.The inability to access, communicate and collaborate effectively with primary players causes decision jump out outcomes to suffer. A Forrster Consulting study found that many workers find it difficult to speedily assemble team members in real time to discuss a critical problem.Complexity of communicatings causes resources to be underused or misal laid. Under-use and lack of integration of communication tools such as cell phones, pagers, mobile PCs and PDAs cause investment in developing human talent and enabling technologies to be less effective.A collaboration ashes, by enabling communication and collaboration between remotely located employees and the company, bum addresses and correct these problems. This labor movement will also help Kucera discover its mission statement of fostering a positive environment that promotes teamwork and co-operation between employees, and its goal of improving communications and operations between the central corporal location in Chicago and the new(prenominal) satellite offices and stores throughout the world.The benefits of a wireless network to connect offices is also to enable and facilitate smash communications, however, it is less practical, more costly and less integrated and structured than a collaboration body. Furthermore it cannot be extended to cover all the multiple organizational units and employees located remotely or in different geographical network. thence a collaboration outline is more feasible and beneficial, especially since it can be accessed by any employee or organizational unit no matter their locations.The implementation of a CRM system to improve service to cus tomers by tracking customer purchases requires a stable, economical and reliable communication and collaboration platform to be in place before it can collect, store, analyze and utilize customer data effectively, as described previously. Hence it is not a good choice to implement a CRM system right away.References Munkvold, Bjorn Erik, Implementation of information engineering science for supporting collaboration in distributed organizations, 1998, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Cisco White Paper, Enhancing Business with Smarter to a greater extent Effective Communications, Cisco, 2006Stahl, Stephanie, Collaborations Benefits Outweigh Difficulties, Information Week, Dec 10 2001SummaryThe project of implementing a collaboration system is consistent with Kucera Clothiers IT dodging as it aids and facilitates Kucera Clothiers currently existing business operations, as well as its plans for further expansion globally. As Bartel (2002) says, collaborative commerce hel ps to optimize the web of relationships that an organization participates in, and is focused on construct capabilities and improving the interactions that a company is engaged in. A collaboration system enables collaborative commerce for Kucera Clothiers hence it serves its strategic needs.This project should be enforced as soon as possible, since the effectiveness of other information technology initiative such as a CRM system, ERP system or E-procurement system all relies heavily on efficient and reliable communication and collaboration. If other projects are developed without first enabling a stable, reliable and efficient method and platform for corporate communication and globalization among remotely located employees, office and geographically dispersed unit, there will be a high chance of project failure or impaired skill/implementation of these other projects.ReferencesBartel, Derrick, Collaborative Commerce A Strategic locating, 2002