Analysis of Stakeholder

Discuss about the Designing Discovery Learning Environments.

This assignment is a discussion of the development processes in form of an implementation plan which drove the reconstruction of an Australian Tertiary College. The main consideration in this discussion is the reassessment of the technological level of the institution; as well as the pedagogy which then develops the vision statement. The tertiary College’s vision statement provides a procedure that the institution would undertake to attain its development potential. The technological analysis involves the impacts on each and every stakeholder including the students, parents, the organization and the staff. Other aspect of analysis that would help in the determination of the level of development; brought about by the implementation of information systems include socio-ecosystem analysis. The preferred Socio-Ecosystem aspect of development happens in stages. They include:

In the assignment the change levers are also determined with regards to the stakeholder alignment strategies. The last stage of development in this case is a plan associated with change management.

The first aspect of IS Management is vision statement implementation. A vision statement is like a path or a roadmap to follow. In another way, it may also mean a compass point showing the direction of success. The vision of any organization focuses on the future of the same firm. The vision statement is one important factor that influences the creation of changes.

On the same, this assignment is going to discuss the educational vision statement of Australian Tertiary College on the basis of the institution’s pedagogy, curriculum, and mostly technological level. Regarding IS Management, the institution’s vision is: “Australian Tertiary College has fully integrated ICT in every bit of its educational processes.” Teachers have also adopted the use of ICT devices in their educational processes (Kamboj and Singh 2015). Through such developments, the institution has been able to provide online studies. Integrated in the educational system is the HS1 system for management. Through this system the institution has been able to provide academic content both to virtual and real students.

This is one system that has worked many institutions. Some of these institutions are federal governments. HS1 helps in the management of information of individuals. In our IS Management case, this system is employed by Australian Tertiary College to ensure that the information of all stakeholders of the institution is tracked and also stored properly. According to the vision statement, the system is centrally administered through twelve office areas. Such a way allows the institution to track, with a lot of ease, the students’ performances and the operations of the college.

The Payroll Cycle

In our study case, the stakeholders include teachers, students, the immediate community, management and the subordinate staff. Before the implementation of the information systems, the stakeholders have to come to a consensus that such systems will improve student performance. Talking of ICT integration, the institution will adopt the use of ICT teaching devices as well as management databases such as HS1 (Bingimlas 2009). On implementation, ICT will form the backbone by which students are taught on how to fight for work in the local and international markets. Such would be achieved through the employment of interactive and innovative techniques in the teaching field that would boost student performance. Some of the programs that would be implemented are computer aided designs, computer assisted instructions, and audio-visual aids. Also, as the digital age matures, the learning processes should be both digitalized and engaging (Bingimlas 2009).

On the basis of management of information of the college’s stakeholders, the VMM cloud computing management platform (which is a database management system) ensures that every piece of data is safe. This platform is also important in the development of a Human Resource framework of management. The creation of an excellent and professional staff is only possible if the Australian Tertiary College develops a proper human resource framework (Roy 2012). With a proper HR (Human Resource) department, the institution will be able to hire ICT experts. On the contrary, everything depends on a proper management and administrative system (Roy 2012).

In this IS Management discussion, Australian Tertiary College’s key stakeholders that would ensure a successful implementation of the identified system is a Project Team. The activities performed by this team include rotationalization of student record forms as well as change management. With regards to the anticipation of this stakeholder analysis, the chosen team should include:

1. Endorsement and funding approval from the Executive Committee or the board.
2. Appointment of the management team
3. Communication coordination and change management by an experienced project manager.
4. IT integration and Infrastructure compatibility with the technical environment that exists since the system requires an interface.
5. Security access levels availability
6. Ability to handle cross campus students.
7. Being able to resolve duplicate and merged URs.
8. Effective Staff’s Impact Statement

Each and every aspect of finance includes proper methods of payment that is managed through proper payroll cycles. Having ICT integrated into the system ensures that the management of the institution is able to monitor the payment of workers. The payment cycles have help several organizations form financial partnership platforms (Albugarni and Ahmed 2015).

Before, the institution’s Socio-Ecosystem was not as efficient as its level of technology. There were very few ICT devices used in the teaching and learning processes. Such lead to the need for technological advancements. During the initial stages of implementation, the institution employed the use of computers in particular levels of operation like the sector of administration (Roy 2012). By then, the institution used just one interactive board together with a few projectors to be used in particular occasions. As the need for more interactive boards, computers, projectors, and other gears for teaching arose, the institution added more. The intended goals were thus achieved. Australian Tertiary College then began offering ICT courses leading to the need for training more teachers on the pros and cons of technology. The number of students applying for ICT courses also soared. Earlier on, students would prefer doing business courses to ICT courses (Roy 2012).

Changes brought by the implementation of information systems

Australia Tertiary College’s socio-ecosystem happens to be one that the school has well furnished classrooms with full ICT equipment. Such an achievement is in line with the vision of the school. Regarding the institution’s vision, each and every classroom should have computers, interactive boards, and other ICT learning equipment. Earlier on, the institution didn’t offer courses associated with ICT. However, the vision states that the future of the learning and teaching need to integrate aspects of ICT even more. Each and every course will then have to integrate ICT. ICT will have to form the backbone of every learning process. Such is to mean that more information systems would have to be employed.

Among the myriad of changes include altering the stakeholders’ mentality as well as changing the framework of the organization. Regarding the framework of the organization, each and every sector need to be restructured in a way that ICT equipment are all integrated and also in full operation. Also, regarding changing the mentality of stakeholders, all the teachers have been able to change their strategies of teaching to have technology incorporated. Having technology added to the teaching practice would ensure that the learning process is made easy and interesting. Students would also learn about the importance of information systems and ICT. Teachers and parents, as stakeholders, would also have a better chance of tracking the performances and improvements of students (Kaur 2015). Still on the changes, research activities are performed now and again to have the reactions of the involved parties realized. Benchmark studies are also conducted for the purpose of determining the cons, pros, and impacts of having ICT integrated in the education processes.

A year after implementation, the school had already initiated sensitization programs that would teach on the pros and cons of integrating ICT into the institution’s operational framework in terms of the academic, management and administrative aspects. However, the institution needed more interactive boards.

Five years down the line, the institution acquired enough ICT equipment in form of laptops, computers, projectors, interactive boards and tablets. Also, the institution ensures that proper incentives such as government policies are employed in the facilitation of the ICT processes of learning. More ICT teachers are recruited while students interested in learning ICT course would be admitted.

Ten years after the implementation of the information systems, the institution would have made several positive changes. Such changes include the introduction of online courses. Another change is the adoption of a better database management system. Such a system would be used in three main sectors. These sectors are administrative, management and academic. The management system is intended to increase operations efficiency. At this time, the school would have effectively incorporated ICT in every offered course. The application for ICT courses by students would also be massive such is due to the fact that technology would have dominated the academic processes.

Those involved in the institution’s educational activities are sensitized on the benefits as well as the impacts of having proper information systems as well as incorporating ICT in the teaching processes. Every stakeholder is properly informed on the requirements of global markets with regards to training of ICT experts. Such a reason ensures that the institution teaches students under international standards of management and entrepreneurial skills that are needed to make them work anywhere in the universe (Kaur 2015). It is through technology and the aspects of information systems management that several countries have been able to boost their economies. Australia, for instance, uses more than US $8 billion annually to ensure that its economic sectors are improved. Such sectors include the education segment (Kaur 2015).

Australian Tertiary College has always employed government policies and incentives for proper information system management as well as the use of ICT to get protection from the law so as to avoid cyber-crimes and other computer technology associated malice (Kaur 2015). Each and every aspect highlighted in this discussion paper has been made possible by the availability of government funds. Teachers are as well given in-service training for the purpose of boosting their confidence when it comes to utilizing ICT teaching resources for such processes (Kaur 2015). The software and hardware information system resources have all been vital in the achievement of organizational goals.

Since the institution in question had the capacity to implement the suggested plan through its management, maintenance of the same organizational changes is unlikely to cause any problems. Such changes have had massive impacts on the operations of the institution. In case such changes would have not been initiated, the institution wouldn’t have been able to survive the current technological outlay in management aspects. On the contrary, the achievements of Australian Tertiary College depend on Team Corporation. Team corporation is whereby every stakeholder executes his or her role in processes that would ensure the sustenance of changes that are recommended (Vincent 1992).

Conclusion

As highlighted in the introductory part of this activity, this assignment discusses the implementation plan which leads to the development processes or rather, the reconstruction of the Australian Tertiary College. The main consideration in this discussion is the reassessment of the technological level of the institution; as well as the pedagogy which then develops the vision statement. From the College’s vision statement, a procedure that the institution takes to attain its development potential is discussed. The technological analysis involves the impacts on each and every stakeholder including the students, parents, the organization and the staff. Other aspect of analysis that would help in the determination of the level of development; brought about by the implementation of information systems include socio-ecosystem analysis.

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