Strategic Information Management – Barley Construction Digital Strategy

Part A: What new digital technology(s) should Barley Construction look to invest in to help facilitate its new business strategy? (70% of total mark)

Barley Construction’s current information technologies have been developed individually over the last 40 years and are getting increasingly unstable, leading to unacceptable operating inefficiencies. The existing website is also over four years old and has not seen any significant changes besides minor modifications.

With your detailed understanding of the new business strategy, thanks to your group work in tutorials (a copy of the business strategy slides should be placed in the appendix), what new digital technology(s) and/or information management practices should the company look to invest in to help facilitate this strategy? (i.e., The strategy proposed by your group). The Board is expecting the following key questions to be addressed in the report – feel free to add to the list as you see fit.

a. What new digital technology(s) should Barley Construction be investing in and why?
b. How do these link to and support the proposed strategy?
c. What improvements can they expect because of this investment?
d. What rough timescales would the implementation require?
e. Would there be any organisational issues? (e.g., structure, change in job roles/communications required/training, etc.)
f. What key issues/actions/risks should be considered in the implementation plan?
g. What impact would these changes have on their key suppliers, if any?
h. What impact would these changes have, if any, on their customers?