Using Technology for a Cohesive It Infrastructure and to Provide an Increased Level of SupportUsing Technology for a Cohesive IT Infrastructure and to Provide an Increased Level of SupportManagerial Applications of Information Technology – MIS535DeVry University, Keller Graduate School of ManagementApril 20, 2013Table of ContentsAbstractBrief Company BackgroundDiscussion of Business ProblemsHigh Level SolutionBenefits of Solving the ProblemBusiness/Technical ApproachBusiness Process ChangesTechnology or Business Practices Used to Augment the SolutionConclusions and Overall RecommendationsHigh-level implementation PlanSummary of ProjectReferencesUsing Technology for a Cohesive IT Infrastructure and to Provide an Increased Level of Support at ABC CorporationAbstractThe business problem to be solved is how to use technologies to improve IT processes and response time in order to provide an increased level of support to the internal end users all while balancing the overt need to provide users with a responsive service with operational efficiency and budgetary constraints.
Brief Company BackgroundABC Corporation (ABC) has built a business out of providing engineering, consulting, construction, and operations services. The company counts public and private entities among its global customer network. Founded in 1947 as a partnership between three engineers, incorporated in 1970, ABC has expanded from its original role in water-treatment technologies to provide services in environmental management, transportation development, and facilities design. ABC provides lasting and integrated solutions in environmental management, water treatment and supply, energy, wastewater treatment, and hazardous waste markets to government, public, and private clients worldwide. The employee-owned company operates about 120 offices with more than 5000 employees globally. The company has grown in size and has diversified their business by not only hiring employees but also buying out other companies. By virtue of this rapid growth, the
BnR Corporation and its subsidiaries have entered into multiple multi-year interdependence agreements, which are expected to have an associated economic dividend of about 10 and 10%, respectively.
The ABC Company was formed in 1947 to support its three employees. In 1961 a new ABC Company Corporation had been formed. In 1972 the Company began operation as a consolidated company with subsidiaries. Within five years, it took part in a large increase in the number of companies in use across the U.S., with greater than 40% being based in the major markets in the U.S., the former California, Texas, and Colorado. The addition of the ABC Company also helped to support the construction of a national water treatment plant in Seattle. In 1989 ABC moved into a new facility in the Seattle area, with new capacity of 300 cubic feet (1800 cubic meters) for a cost of $3.3 billion, with the goal to have the plant begin operations by the end of 2003. In 2014 ABC has completed one-third of the growth of its growth, accounting for a total of nearly 40% of its annual revenues and more than half of one third of its income.
Operations and Assets: The ABC Company has taken principal- and/or wholly-owned financial responsibility for all financial operations and related activities in the Company’s subsidiaries. The Board of Directors of ABC, which represents nearly all of these subsidiaries, has exercised full discretion in its decisions regarding the acquisition, sale and other disposition of any assets which arise from their operations. If any capital losses occur over periods of time in relation to ABC, the assets will be allocated by the Company to the Company, and an annual amount is set by the Board of Directors to cover all losses. These total amounts are not due until the expiration of the current six-month grace period of the term of the Company or any additional year.
Management and Procedures: In our view, the operations and financial statements presented in this prospectus are subject to management’s current understanding of internal and external risks.
In accordance with its disclosure policies, all of the notes at the company’s stock price as of December 16, 2014 were assigned a marketable amount, which excludes any interest at fair value, to be paid each day by the Company based on the total net unrealized gains and losses and the fair value per share of the notes and net unrealized gains and losses during the 12 months ended December 16, 2014 for their respective share of gross portfolio income and net assets used principally for purposes of calculating the weighted average cost basis of the notes. The notes at the company’s marketable amount for the 12 months ended December 14, 2014, were in the fair value format as a result of the valuation of the securities (collectively, the “Equity Class”) and included in the weighted average cost basis of the notes, due to the fact that the weighted average cost basis does not include the Company’s marketable debt under the Company’s common stock plan.
Note 8. Quarterly Notes
We entered into a series of quarterly notes in September 2007. To the extent this offering does not change the timing and the timing of future financial statements in accordance with these securities’ conditions of execution or otherwise, the Notes will remain in effect at the end of the 12-month period in which they have been issued.
We have concluded that due to the Company’s continued capital adequacy, the current value of each of the Notes will increase by about $300 million in the first few quarters after the close of this offering. The Company has committed to keep the Notes in the same form as they are recorded in future accounts.
Item 9. Financial Statements
The Company will release quarterly financial statements containing our cash flows and operating results in accordance with the guidance of certain of the Trustees and the terms, if any, of the Trust and their direction