Midsouth Chamber of Commerce Case

Introduction

Midsouth Chamber of Commerce (MSCC) made to assist businesses within the Midsouth region. Through the late 1980s, MSCC became the best influential professional assistance group within the area, with Jack Wallinford on board. Their ongoing use of computer technology became the backbone of their organization. This case study outlines what MSCC had been through when they developed a new method to handle their tasks.

Background

MSCC had several issues with computers that were not unified or nor documented, with little provision and maintenance in time, and the systems were not compatible. Leon Lassiter had ideas of unified systems that can help advance business in its full function. They appointed a computer programmer (Simon Kovecki), and started looking at software packages for the company.

While Lassiter was not in command of migration of the system, they appointed Jeff Hedges in charge of procedures. Lassister pressure the business to buy a new system from the organization called UNITRAK. There were employees concerned regarding the operation because they were others not involved in planning.

Discussion

The person in appointed of the system, was not in the situation to lead the system migration

• Issues: Hedges was too occupied to build the new system, and Kovecki was disappointed because he didn’t get appointed to build the system, so he wasn’t interested.

• Solution: Someone knowledgeable in IT department must offer support in this computer operations and consult all the people involved in an group before executing a new system

Data Stability

• Issues: The new system was based on isolated databases

• Solution:

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