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The Impact Of Standard Bank On The Development Informatics Program Student Field Trip

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This essay will consider Standard bank as one of the organisations which have been visited during the development informatics programs student field trip in January 2017. The essay is in four parts, which provide the information about organisation’s background, problems that occurred in it, what should be indicated for the future research and how it could be done.
1. Background
Standard bank is one of the core banks in South Africa, which was formed in 1862. It operates throughout different countries in the world with more than 45 000 employees working for it. This wide geographical allocation is reflected in its strategy to connect capitals and people of these markets (Standard bank, 2015).
Standard Bank has a mission to make a …show more content…

However, despite such a positive intention, there are problems in the process of its implementation as CRM part of the SAP platform has not been implemented so far, thus nowadays Standard bank are not able to achieve stated goals (Ferley, 2017). Therefore the further research is needed to be conducted to identify why it is happening in such a way.

2. Research Problem Statement

The research problem could be considered as a gap between the desired SAP platform implementation indicators and the current ones.
During the process of SAP implementation Standard Bank was faced with an escalation of the project’s time frame and budget. Initially launched in 2007, the project was restarted in 2010. At the moment of the field trip in January 2017, it has been postponed to the third quarter of 2017, which means the escalation of the overall project’s schedule in 40 percent and budget in 2,25 times (from R 8bn to R 18bn) (Ferley, 2017).
However, nowadays we still are not able to predict the real outcome of the project- whether it will be a success or a failure and why.

The SAP implementation project team has investigated major problems when they initially have been dealing with a waterfall approach, for example, the out-of-date information about system requirements, wrong resources allocation and isolated business process. Therefore, they shifted to the agile approach, suggesting it will cope with the arisen difficulties more efficiently (Ferley, 2017).

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