8.Timberline Technology manufactures membrane circuits in its Northern California plant. In addition, all circuit design and research and development work occur at this site. All finance, accounting, and human resource functions are headquartered at the parent company in the upper Midwest. Sales take place through six sales representatives located in various cities across the country. Information systems for payroll processing, accounts payable, and accounts receivable are located at the parent office while systems for inventory management and computer-integrated manufacturing are at the California plant. As best you can, list the locations, units, functions, processes, data entities, and information systems for this company.
9. For each of the following categories, create the most plausible planning matrices for Timberline Technology, described in Problem and Exercise 8: function-to-data entity, process-to-data entity, process-to-information system, data entity-to-information system. What other information systems not listed is Timberline likely to need?
10. The owners of Timberline Technology (described in Problem and Exercise 8) are considering adding a plant in Idaho and one in Arizona and six more sales representa-tives at various sites across the country? Update the matrices from Problem and Exercise 9 so that the matrices account for these changes.
FIELD EXERCISES
5. Write separate mission statements that you believe would describe Microsoft, IBM, and AT&T. Compare your mission statements with the real mission statements of these companies. Their mission statements can typically be found in their annual reports. Were your mission statements comparable to the real mission statements? Why or why not? What differences and similarities are there among these three mission statements? What information systems are necessary to help these companies deliver on their mission statements?