| Exhibition display designer | |
| Business | Exhibition display stand designer and manufacturer. US subsidiary. Existing systems comprised Novell PC network running Pegasus accounts. Apple Macs for designwork. |
| Size | £4m, 50 employees, 3 locations |
| Functions | Finance, logistics, job costing, job scheduling and tracking, office automation |
| Project | Assess the appropriateness of the planned US IS Strategy to the UK operation |
| Issues |
US
parent imposing software
- The US Parent planned to impose a US accounting software package on the
UK company
US
software concerns -
Problems with the US sourced software included few users outside the USA,
very limited local support in the UK and the product not fully converted
to the UK business environment UK business case - Assisting the UK subsidiary to put a sound business case to the US parent justifying locally sourced accounting software |
| Outcome |
UK locally sourced packaged software |
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