The articles has stated that Josh and the peoples working at IFG will have to work in harmoniously with a lot of coordination so that they can achieve the IFG requirements. In discussion of the obstacles that Josh and his team faced the research here below is not limited to also offer provisions for the recommendations that Josh and his team have to use in achieving their goals. International Food Group being one of the provider of food products globally assigns Josh to be a manager after the merge in Chicago office. Josh is opposed by his colleagues immediately he start his first assignment and he finds himself under a lot of scrutiny as the commendable plans that he had initiated were not supported and this makes Tanya who is the immediate boss after Josh to come in and analyze the problem with Josh.
When big and small businesses merges there always arise an issues which might be very hard to overcome. As we know this small business require to have a structure that is very solid and much support by backing up by their consumers so that they can survive in the same market with this big businesses. Josh successful ideas and ways of running the Glow Food attracted the attention of IFG which led to them abducting the company by merging the two to one and offered Josh Novak a job at Chicago offices as a manager to help in developing his brilliant ideas to that demographic location. Josh is very much excited and over ambitious towards achieving the plans unlike the way he would have when still at Glow food.
In discussing with Josh, Tonya has foreshadowed some obstacles that need to be overcome and many of this lies in the organizational and much more in the leadership of IFG. Some of the obstacles analyzed by josh are discussed as below.
Josh in this context he was seen to be hesitant in some ways. The first concept that comes in to this context is that the IFG is the big business while the glow foods was just a small business. Many are times situations arise when small and big businesses merge and initiate a given agenda. Small business like Glow Foods needs to have a structure that is very solid and thus this will enable them to have large system of customers backing the others especially consumers in surviving against the big businesses such as the IFG. The reason to as why Josh Novak was abducted by IFG from Glow Food was the way he coordinated Glow-Foods. His IT plans at Glow-Food made him IFG to be impressed and thus led to them liking the idea of his implementations and thus leading to them offering him a job in the department of IT. Josh was given a working team that was to help in the demographic.
The idea of john being abducted made him to feel so much excited though a little bit hesitant as the idea caught him unaware and he knew that working in IFG was nothing like to be compared with the Glow-food company. The transition of him from Glow-Food to IFG to Josh it was going to be difficult as now the tasks and responsibilities were to double. He was to use his Team once he joined the IT department, Tonya warned Josh that there were some problems that they would face when interacting with others. When there are some considerations with regards to the merging of the two companies there will be expectation of such from the two companies as they aim to make their objectives met.
The obstacles that were most in the team that was old and that bumped ahead in the season within the big businesses of IFG personnel. The team warned Rick Visser who is the CTO (Chief Technology officer) of IFG in accessing the social media sites which preapproved from the first group. The transition was to corporate on how the world has become difficult when Ben Nokony arguing the team that they need to go through the CTO Rick Visser where they used to go directly to the product teams. Sheema Singh, who is the IT Finance Officer give issue to a request to all the teams in regards to the budget set in terms of plans for the next fiscal year.
In this concept all the offices concerned with IT were valid and it was difficult for Josh and his young team to see it in that manner. The young team of Josh needed to use social media like Facebook and instant messenger in communication and researching of the data and ideas. Rick Visser who was familiar with all his workers and they asked for permission when accessing such sites. However, the team of Josh was not familiar with the idea and that they felt it as annoying. The team of Josh was used to using such social media sites.
Ben Nokony did not like the idea of Josh Team going directly to the product team. Ben in most cases he just by passed all what he was familiar with in the office in going through with such and anticipated needs. The team wanted to be bouncing backs with few idea of them, but Ben pretended to be so formal in the manner that he made the members feel obsessed.The organization Size. The International Food Group being a food business leading company globally has a structure that is hierarchical. When we compare IFG and the small business (Glow Food) of Josh Novak we see a lot of differences as IFG is large as it has many branches globally making it to be very large in terms of the structure of the organization and thus required various procedures and regulations to be adapted and followed before they are implemented when new policies arise. In addition both Tonya and Josh have discussed the differences of how the culture in working between IFG and Glow food is an obstacle as IFG being a large company with many departments with a lot of employees who are supervised by different head will have a very different culture at work compared to that of glow food.
The other idea behind the size of the organization is the culture of the organization which is one of the major component that other leaders in IFG may be lacking. The good thing is that Josh has understood the culture of glow food and this can be put in to implementation. Josh needs to implement all the components which must be understood by all leaders that must be understood in achieving all the maximum effectiveness. If a leader is good and has some organization culture with regards to the size of the organization. Josh is a good leader from what we have learnt on his dedication on the glow food company. Josh has impacted the long term cultures of the organization and the values through which behaviors of individual were self modelled, created a lot of expectations and formally communicating the expectations of culture (Rihal, 2017).
Leadership. Ben Nokony argued with Josh team and other colleagues that they need to pass and talk directly to him before they go to the product teams in the production level. This transition is based leadership. Here we see that the IFG members see that Josh plans to be an obstacle and making them look inferior and much more they argue in ways that make them to look as if they are fighting for leadership. Ben is undermining the leadership of Josh by telling him that his team should be passing through before they get to the product team. Leadership is an element that must be adhered and followed. Management in a small organization is very much different and very easy when compared to managing a bigger organization.
This can be further seen when Singh the IT finance officer issued a request to teams regarding the plan for the budget of the year that followed. Ben in this case is an obstacle as he is very unhappy especially when Josh Team went directly to the product team. He feels oppressed and undermined as he used to in the IT office and sees Josh as a threat as what Josh is doing he was also familiar with. Josh team idea was to set the road right and bringing in new ideas but ben in his argument in the previous meeting which were formal sees the idea if Josh as a threat to his position. Josh team is so angry about Ben for he is so much aggressive and according to them they need to remind him that there are specific protocols that need to be followed while working at IFG.
Leadership is often defined as the ability and much more willingness in taking ownership of any given organization which may have a combination with some intrinsic drive in doing what is best for a given organisation. The capabilities in leadership that’s what IFG saw in Josh which led to them appointing him to lead the IT department in the bigger organization other than working on glow-foods. The one reason that made IFG organization to be appointed is because Josh could understand well on their mission which is thee reason to as why IFG existed. The idea behind producing the best to the organization in terms of the food they interact with from production, marketing all the way to sales.
Josh knowledge in the food disciplines developed in to him having a vision which was a conceptualization to the future. As seen in the case study with regards to what Josh had already done in Glow-food it will be true to say that his visions had systematically formulated on the way the demographics trends were analyzed and the scientific as well as technologies advanced in glow food which heightened in needing him to work for IFG. Another strategy that Josh had positioned to was that he had some strategy and tactics. In the context of the strategy was that Josh had complete knowledge of planning the way to be followed by IFG in it becoming so successful and competitive and much more givings steps which are specific in achieving and implementing the said strategies.
The Articulations of Terms from Glow Food to International Food Group (IFG). The case of articulating the terms from the small business organizations to those of big or large business organizations is very hard especially when it comes to budgeting and using of resources. The team of Josh was struggling to come up with the costs and the benefits of the work that was proposed by Shema (Smith, 2012). The reason to that was because they lacked awareness of the financial cost until they could understand and realize the exact amount they could raise. There were a lot of difficulties for Josh team to outline a budget that was exact, but they could be able to prepare an approximation of a budgets that estimated the benefits and costs for Sheema. Josh team sat down with Sheema explaining their possibility worth of the ideas that were proposed to avoid bothering them when they are executing their processes at IFG.
Lastly but not least is that the above issues can be summarized and explained from the readers point of view and understanding to be as listed below.
When josh and his team are ready to do a presentation they are picked to be apart the office of IT. They have exploited every point in their 3-point plan. Sheema who is concerned with values of business and their initiatives will need to give them support. In this case josh is worrying about the reviews that might be bad to the customers. Rick is concerned with the security of the cloud and in order for Josh to show his 3-poin plan he will need to slow the roll of the ideas that might help as the recommendations as explained below.
For Josh and his team to have success in their plan then they will be needed to make their business to be of small scale version that have an interactive site and cloud as they used to do when they had not merged to IFG. Josh has the mandate of updating his members in the office of IT at various stages of the project that is being implemented in particular. This will help in outlining all risks that are potential to security, fiscal cost estimations and the benefits of project.
Secondly when finished with updating the other members he can clearly show the office of IT the ways of covering the surveys of communities which are very different and at the same time still able to test his work. With his rolling to the three-plan point Josh is able to please all people in the department where he will make it safe and very affordable (Chegg, 2016).
The idea of John plan is connecting directly with his customers and hence or these to achieved then the IFG sites that has been blocked such as the Facebook, twitter and the real time support will have to be unblocked so that Josh team can be able to communicate and converse with their clients.
All of the above recommendations can be summarized in to the below explained areas. This will be connection that is directly to their customers about any new products or ideas that needs to be developed and thus they will need access to sites such as the web, Online-interactive chats and the Facebooks. A market research on the basis of computer deeds and the needs of future plans. Last three-point plan is the maintenance of the Dbs. over the cloud for easy accessing and making of decisions. In this approach in making the above Three-point plan suggested by Josh to come to fulfillment we will need understand the advantages of the proactive approach in connecting customers directly other than them being reactive (Ryan, 2013). Some of this advantages as such as the.
This study is basically asking us to explain how Porters principles can be applied to states and explain the current and future challenges that might be encountered when doing the alignment of IT functions with those of the business strategy. The idea in understanding the alignment will be based on two things and that will how the management of the organization and that of the business strategy reciprocally influence each other and the process they will use when aligning the management of the organization and business strategy (McFarlan, 2013).
In the history of there before we understood that business strategy and alignment to be a responsibility that is governed by the senior managers such as Josh Novak and planning of the project where they also execute all processes that need to be performed within the project.
In aligning the business strategies an empirical literature will need to be performed in all ways in that they will be used suggest the nature of the alignment of IFG and its business strategy and the process they use in aligning such projects and their strategies in the business. In the porter’s understanding of the value chain and the business strategy we analyze the IFG analyses of the business strategies to be namely the leadership cost, differentiation and the best cost that they need to set for their consumers. This can be clearly be shown in the diagram below.
Figure 1 Degree of differentiation
In analyzing the business strategy of IFG it will be good to look at it in the following characteristics such as the differentiation strategy, cost leadership strategy and the best cost strategy.
The degree of differentiation can be explained in terms of being high and low in other cases. In the case where it is low the strategy of cost leadership comes in where there are things like the improvement of the process. The emphasis is placed on the strategy cost where the project success of company can be measured. The organization should be flexible in terms of structure in adapting to changes such as Glow-food adapting the changes at IFG in improving of the process. The process can be highly standardized and there must be built in templates.
The other idea is explaining the degree of differentiation with reference to the high cost. The first one is differentiation strategy where it may need time in marketing and differentiating the quality. The emphasis placed on schedules of strategies in measuring the success of the organization.
For any organization that need to be successful then it has to be able to identify the threats and challenges that may make it not be able to determine the alignment of IT functions with the business strategies. In order for one to identify such business challenges and risks like those of IFG we will need to associate ourselves with the use of information technology. IFG will need to have a view of the challenges of aligning IT functions to be broader by going beyond all traditional standards that aligned the IT strategic directions of such business. Some of the challenges that need to be noted and explained are such as follows.
If the above challenges currently experienced by IFG can be easily addressed then in future we can directly align the Business strategies of IFG to Information Technology Functions by easily documenting all of the above in the Key Performance indicators (KPI) and the other document is that of risks which is known as the Key risk indicators (KRI). The other idea in addressing such challenges in future will be prioritizing the risks that are based on the impacts and significance of the goals of IFC strategies. Lastly if the business is able to follow the above then we can be able to balance a better risk management plans, where we will employ clear communications that are well planned and continually setting standards that are easy to monitor the stated risks or challenges even in future.
In the past the Job of IT function was understanding the strategy of the business and then figuring out a plan that can be used to support it.
Many are times when we confuses the models and strategies of an organisation like in the case of Josh and Ben IFG (Ross, 2002). Business model at IFG is structured by explaining the different pieces of a single business together. Understanding the business model of IFG will help in ensuring everyone in IFG is focused on the kind of values that it wants to create. The willingness of many managers and the organisation themselves has brought an urge for many to understand the technology implications in the real world, thus this has helped in translating the basic ideas and concepts in IT world in to business language (Smith, 1996). From the above we can recommend the use of IT in aligning with business strategies because they will help in understanding and putting all their focus on the business as stated by the IT manger group Josh Novak.
IT strategy was known there before to be of projects of individuals. The rise of IT in business has made many to understand nowadays that its focus is developing the specific business capabilities. If these strategic themes are adopted then they will give IFG and Josh the IT manager a broad focus on the interests that are known for challenging the moves that are beyond the operations currently in use (Richardson, 2002).
Many are times that we are unable to distinguish the factors of IT business value and the managers performing the leadership role. When we abdicate it becomes the responsibility of recipe disaster (Weill, 2002).
For the successful integration of the business strategies there will be a need for the true partnership and that is between the IT and the IFG leadership. In understanding good partnership then we have to dwell our focus on the how effective it is when strategizing and how continuous and dynamic it is when determining the synchronization capabilities (Krishnan, 2002).
There are so many challenges for developing an effective IT strategy is the fact that technology that are used in many ways (Aral, 2006). The opportunities are known to be too less. There were five recommendations that were put across by the IT focused team group and this were the improvement of business, business-enabling, business-opportunities, opportunity-leverage and the IT infrastructure (Subramani, 2002).
In understanding the concept on the innovation at the international foods group we came up with some of the following findings that has made Josh three-point plan to be hard to implement in all corners of the organisation. The first findings is that there has been a lot of conflict between the leadership making it hard for Josh and his team in implementing the proposed plan. When there are leadership issues between the departments it may become hard for the part involved in making the best out of what they do in the respective departments. The idea that comes across here is that Josh may be facing leadership problems as now the hierarchy has become so large in that he and his team must report to a certain individual even before the problem reaches to management. There is a protocol that need to be followed when there are some issues that need to be addressed. Josh and is team are facing this problems and this is making it hard for them to work freely in the organization. This has been seen when the IT team led by Josh want to make the social media sites such as Facebook and twitter open for marketing and there seem to arise an issue on that as the marketing side seems to be against that as it thinks members might start using them for personal issues.
Restricting such sites to be precisely working on what one is supposed to be done by the staff at IFG is very hard but Josh who is a good leader and possess some leadership skills says it will work and that if it worked in Glow-Food then it will work here also. Josh intelligence in the way he handles other staffs motivates other people and the other heads see him as a threat in their positions. His intelligence is beyond what one can think with regards to what his team could produce through his leadership as the IT head.
Secondly is that there are so many reasons and challenges that make it hard for smooth running when a small company and big company merges. Acquisitions and adapting the technicalities and functions of the other is always a problem. This is because the two organisations had different business values and models and hence a lot of differences making it very hard when they are merging as one uses small scale while the others is using the large scale. The idea of using two different scales may make it hard for the smooth running of the two as glow Food may be trying to adapt to the large scale business.
By Large scale the idea that come in that everything that is down in all the departments is paramount in that the production levels are very high which will need large networks when marketing to boost higher number of sales. With this in mind and having people like Josh and the team appointed to work with him it will be easy for the two companies to merge and be successful. When a firm deals with small scale technique then it means that even the size of the organization is so small and thus reducing the hierarchy and thus supervisions become easy for the project managers as the products produced are small in number. The workers can be easily supervised.
Third findings is that the structure of the large scale like for the case of IFG is that of a hierarchical while that of Small scale is that it is Flat so when it comes to leadership and management becomes a problem. Lack of understanding the right procedures to follow will be a problem. This has resulted too many conflicting in the manner that nothing should be done without my notice or nothing should be attempted before I have been authorized like in the case of Ben who is asking Josh team to first inform him everything before they contact the product team. The idea of the two firms having two different types of leadership maybe another challenge that may affect the amalgamation of the two. The reason behind this sometimes it may take more time adapting to another style of leadership from what one is used to have. Josh and his team may have some hard time when adapting to the leadership of IFG especially when it comes to following the procedures that are set to be followed in consideration they had their own rules and regulations.
Last findings is that all of the above has resulted to major challenges which are affecting IFG at whole. This issues can be addressed by accepting that IT is part of IFG and that it plays a major role in running the organization. If we understands then it will be easy to align the business process with the IT functions and the business strategies (Madison, 1995). Accepting changes in the modern era has made the working of different organizations very easy. This has helped in developing the ways a firm has been doing its things from managerial section to production section. Managing a big organizations like IFG may come with its so many challenges and considering they are not used to the information technology infrastructures Josh may have a problem convincing them its significance in details. Technology if applied in IFG will increase the level of production and much more boosting the number of sales as the use of social media in marketing will greatly influence the number of sales made daily. Increment in the number of sales will help in improving the organization infrastructures in terms of the staff and the resources and much more improving the relationship between them and the customers. In every business the first priority is giving the customer the attention he or she may require.
Conclusion
This report has based its argument on the phase of IFG Company which has been very significant and thus making it to be a global leading and much more one of the best food products providers. On the basis of the arguments in the article there is a transition change at IFG where a guy named Josh Novak joins the management team being the owner of a company named Glow Foods that was abducted and merged with the IFG. After joining IFG Josh Novak see so many differences in the cultural way of working that seems to be more rigid and much more conventional in comparison to what he used to have at Glow Foods. In this cases the idea that has brought about is discussing some of the problems that he encounter with his team and how he challenges and overcome this problems in his first assignment.
Josh and his team has faced a lot of issues and much more problems that they never used to experience there before as they try to familiarize themselves with the new environment life. Josh and his team must come up with some ideas which must be brilliant in the manner that they will be used in supporting the strategies used in marketing majoring its concepts for the youths as to them it was very hard to convince the management in authenticating the ideas and plans they had in their mind. In conclusion with regards to this case study of IFG and Glow-Food the idea that is brought about is coming up with some recommendations with all the steps which are needed to achieve the goals as they try to show the significance and benefits that will be enjoyed if the processes of businesses are aligned with IT.
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