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Senior Management Case Study

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Senior management have also only grown within various levels of management, meaning there is a lack of industry experience at senior management level. This lack of experience could be why YNG has then made the decision to have their strategic focus only on marketing and categorising IT infrastructure as being unimportant and a low priority. Hence why they didn’t seem to care all too much as YNG obtained companies and simply incorporated their IT functions into the YNG data centre based. They did this purely based on better functionality, not taking into consideration issues such as weaknesses, compatibility and security. YNG has also made the mistake of running applications independently to one and other (such as DBMS), which in turn …show more content…

The general ledger system is also very old and is consequently difficult to trace. The payroll system is running of different versions which are two to five generations old at each of its operating companies. No programming standards were used for the food product R&D application, and because of this it was modified significantly by the R&D staff. (ISACA,2010) For each of the key issues identified in phase I, how would you apply specific COBIT enabling processes from APO02, APO03 and EDM01 to address these issues? Larry needs specifics and requested that you cite the control objective and explain how it would remedy the situation. APO02.01 Understand enterprise direction This practice will help YNG to start to look at what they are doing right and wrong in comparison to their business strategy as well as their business environment. As they are in a very competitive industry, this practice will help them understand what other business’ are doing and start to manage in a way that has proven to be effective within their market. If the business develops a better understanding of not only their company, but their market, then they can make cultivated decisions in regards to IT applications that will help support their business. They can fulfil this practice by focusing on the activities in which they need to “develop and maintain an understanding of enterprise strategy and objectives, as well as the current enterprise

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