Panasonic Company IT management.

Interview of a Business General Manager and Employees

This week, you will use the questionnaire developed in Week 5 to interview the business general manager and employees identified in Week 4 and then present the findings from the interviews.

You may conduct the interviews on your own or as a group. Follow these guidelines to conduct the interviews:

As an ethnographer, remain ethical during the interviews.
Inform the interviewees about what you intend to do with their responses and about your resolve to protect their anonymity.
Avoid asking questions with yes or no as answers. The point of the interviews is to get your interviewees to talk extensively.
Tape-record the interviews and, later, transcribe them.

Perform the following tasks on your own or as a group, depending on how you conducted the interviews:

Note five excerpts from the interviews.

Provide analytical comments to the interviewees’ responses. Your comments should include answers to the following questions:

What are the interviewees’ views about good IS design?
What are their goals for establishing IS?
How do the interviewees’ perspectives match or contradict the theories and issues you have learned so far?
How does their experience map to the theories you studied?
Do the lessons learned go beyond the theories?
Do you feel that some of the theories and notions presented in the course were confirmed or rejected by your research?
What instances helped you arrive at these conclusions?

Write a 6-page report in APA style with answers to the listed questions.

Use the Groups area in the online classroom or make alternative arrangements for collaboration with your group members. An appropriate collaboration tool for this Group Project might be the Wiki. You can find many sites on the Internet on which you can use a Wiki to collaborate on a document as a group.

This will form part of your overall Project Report, which will be submitted by Day 7 of Week 7.

When you have completed the Week 6 assignments, please proceed to Week 7.

The Preparation of a Questionnaire

1. As Senior Vice President, Mobility Group, Panasonic System Communications Company of North America describe your experience with IS innovation?

2. Explain the process of IS implementation in your organization.
3. What was the most important lesson you learn from the implementation?

1. Who is in charge of overseeing IS Implementation in the department?

1. What are the requirements for a probably IS Implementation process?

6. Would you like to have a more efficient inventory control system that you can consult through a web platform?

7. Do you manage an information system to know inventory availability ?: Administrative Manual or Software

8. What platforms would you like the system to be on?

9. On average, how many units of products are sold monthly?

10. How often do you order?