II. Articulating a Strategic Framework

Table 2: Gap analysis


CURRENT STATE

The Cultural Environment
Centralized decision-making
Information closely held
Resistant to change
Organizational territoriality

The Business Environment
Multiple transaction approvals
Central office driven
Paper intensive
Information scarcity
Focus on controls
Labor intensive

The Technical Environment
Mainframe based
Homegrown software
Batch processing
Technical homogeneity
Stand-alone systems
Table 2 figureFUTURE STATE

The Cultural Environment
Distributed decision-making
Distributed information
Embraces change
Collaboration

The Business Environment
Online transaction approvals
Distributed authority
Reduced paper
Distributed information
Focus on service quality
Automated wherever possible

The Technical Environment
Client/server based
Vendor-developed software
Online transaction processing
Technical heterogeneity
Integrated systems


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