Final-Blogpost #1

Research one company from the Internet and describe their MIS strategic plan in 1-2 paragraphs. Discuss too the impact of this strategic plan on the company's management, competitors, customers and the company as a whole.

Toyota Motor Companies having MIS Strategic Plan:

Everyone agrees that having a management strategic plan for IT is a good thing but most ... companies throughout Europe, are already using the on-demand service.

Toyota Motor has standardized on Salesforce.com's multitenant on-demand service in less than three months to enable full integration of its sales environment.

The carmaker said its migration onto the service means it can now automate many day-to-day sales processes, allowing its sales territories to work together more efficiently and improve responsiveness to customers.

Account managers at Toyota Motor headquarters in Belgium, as well as Toyota National Sales and Marketing companies throughout Europe, are already using the on-demand service to target, acquire and manage day-to-day relationships with multinational fleet customers.

The firm said one of the main reasons for choosing the on-demand application lay in its ability to integrate with back office systems and external sources of information regarding vehicle data.

Impact of the strategic plan on the toyota company management, competitors, customers and the company as a whole.

Toyota is famous for lean manufacturing, but the No. 1 automaker applies the whole lean philosophy way beyond the production floor. Lean is a “knowledge environment,” says Nick Dieltsien, who’s responsible for strategic planning at Lexus Europe.

The information systems for the Toyota Motor Company (TMC) can clearly be evaluated by using SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats). The biggest strength of Toyota's information systems is their ability to integrate their company goals globally by using their systems effectively. For example, Toyota reaches its customers in different markets by using different online web systems for different world regions. Although, there are multiple websites and systems for each of the world regions, such as North America and Europe, the systems all link back to a worldwide website.

Reference: www.toyotamotors.com

Name: Glendale J. Alicaya

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