Which activities at dirt bikes create the most value

How do you know what information systems are really needed by a business and which are the most important?How should a company’s structure or culture affect the building and use of information systems?

Dirt Bikes’s management has asked you to prepare a management analysis of the company to help it assess the firm’s current situation and future plans. Review Dirt Bikes’s company history, organization chart, products and services, and sales and marketing in the Introduction to Dirt Bikes.

Throughout the course, you will be applying concepts and strateges learned to prepare a report that addresses an overall MIS strategy for Dirt Bikes.

The first part of your report should address these questions:

What are the company’s goals and culture?

What products and services does Dirt Bikes U.S.A. provide? How many types of products and services are available to customers? How does Dirt Bikes sell its products?
How many employees are managers, production workers, or knowledge or information workers? Are there levels of management?
What kinds of information systems and technologies would be the most important for a company such as Dirt Bikes?
Part 2:

As part of your analysis of the company for management, you have been asked to analyze data on Dirt Bikes’s financial performance. Review Dirt Bikes’s selected financial and sales data in the Introduction to Dirt Bikes, which can be found at the Laudon Web site. There you will find Dirt Bikes’s income statement and summary balance sheet data from 2012 to 2014, annual sales of Dirt Bikes models between 2010 and 2014 (measured in units sold), and total domestic versus international sales between 2010 and 2014 (measured in units sold).

Use spreadsheet software to create graphs of Dirt Bikes’s sales history from 2015 to 2019 and its domestic versus international sales from 2015 to 2019. Select the type of graph that is most appropriate for presenting the data you are analyzing.

Use the instructions at the Laudon Web site and your spreadsheet software to calculate the gross and net margins in Dirt Bikes’s income statements from 2012 to 2014. You can also create graphs showing trends in selected pieces of Dirt Bikes’s income statement and balance sheet data if you wish. (You may want to rearrange the historical ordering of the data if you decide to do this.)