IT Globalization | Complete Solution

ASSIGNMENT
THIS PROJECT IS ABOUT INTEGRATING A COMPANY CURRENT IT STRATEGY INTO THEIR NEWLY ACQUIRED GLOBAL LOCATIONS TO FORMULATE AN IT GLOBAL BUSINESS STRATEGY TO INTEGRATE THE FOREIGN LOCATIONS INTO THE CURRENT ERP IT SYSTEM CALLED MATERIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS.

HERE IS THE ACTUAL ASSIGNMENT PROVIDED BY THE LECTURER( BUT THE QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED ARE BELOW)
 
I HAVE SUMMARISZED THE BUSINESS INTO THIS;
A Brief Overview of New breed
The Company: New breed is a growing American electric car manufacturer. It operates a car manufacturing plant in California, battery plant in Nevada and various dealership locations across the United States. It’s primary objective is to designs, manufacture and sell electric vehicles and its components.
History: Founded in 2000, the headquarters and main plants are located in Los Angeles, California. It first became prominent and well known for its production of the New Breed fully electric sports roadster before subsequent production of its fully electric luxury sedans and SUVs. Its recent cash influx has resulted to the production of the all new electric armored truck.
Mission: To produce energy efficient cars while developing a global/local IT strategy that will enable New Breed to service the firm’s mission on a global basis.
Public Offerings: Trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol NEWB and has recently gone Public in 2015 which gave rise to a huge amount of cash from investors leading to the acquisition and investments in foreign countries.
Acquisitions: New breed recently acquired parts manufacturer in Germany and South Korea, Key Mines Lithium battery Element provider in South Africa and a New Delhi Call center company to provide consumer related services and complaint resolutions.
Market and Chains: New breed’s market due to its new acquisition spans over different continents and Countries such as North America-US, Europe-Germany, Asia-Korea/India, and Africa-South Africa giving new breed a wide spread Advantage and broad edge in the Electric Car Manufacturing Industry.

Products: Electric cars, Trucks and Batteries.
CIO’s Global Objective: To integrate new breed's IT strategy with their global business strategy by enabling changes in the ‘Current’ ERP Architecture to ultimately incorporate the international locations into their ERP System currently known as ‘Material Management Systems’.
This document will seek to provide an interim report to Management and Executives detailing the IT strategic global plan. It will begin with an outlook of the Technical, Legal, Tax, Regulatory, Cultural and other Environmental bottlenecks/differences encountered when working across borders. It will also identify New Breed’s NEW IT and Business strategy by understanding the effects of globalization, ways in which IT Architecture can be revised/changed to meet the needs of newly acquired companies with a deep exploration into offshoring.

THE EXACT WORK/ASSIGNMENT;
Question 1.  Identify Technical, Legal, Tax and Regulatory Considerations
         Research CREDIBLE sources on technical considerations when working across borders  including expanding to a global ERP platform. Be sure to review our textbook.

APA citation format required where necessary.

Learn about legal/tax/regulatory considerations in foreign lands and how they differ from those in the U.S. using these sources.

KEY to note: Discuss ways to overcome any related issues
Deliverable: Interim report summarizing technical, legal, tax and regulatory considerations that are applicable to New Breed in terms of the development of a new global business strategy.

I WILL PREFER QUESTION 1 ANSWERED IN THe FORMAT BELOW
EXAMPLE; (Please note that the countries where acquisition took place was provided above. So Technical, Legal, Tax and Regulatory  consideration should be addressed by countries.
TECHNICAL ACROSS BORDER CONSIDERATIONS
Europe(Developed): Germany: Frankfurt: (Discuss/summarize technical considerations to developing a new global business strategy-IT in Germany)
Ways to overcome related issues:
Asia(Developing): South: Korea: (Discuss/summarize technical considerations to developing a new global business strategy-IT in Germany)
Ways to overcome related issues:

Asia(Developing): South: India: (Discuss/summarize technical considerations to developing a new global business strategy-IT in Germany)
Ways to overcome related issues:

Africa(Underdeveloped): South Africa: (Discuss/summarize technical considerations to developing a new global business strategy-IT in Germany)
Ways to overcome related issues:
Comparison of all countries to the United States:
Provide a brief comparison about the united states and link it with the other countries .
TAX ACROSS BORDER CONSIDERATIONS
LEGAL ACROSS BORDER CONSIDERATIONS
REGULATORY ACROSS BORDER CONSIDERATIONS
NOTE:USE THE SAME FORMAT USED FOR TECHNICAL OR PREFERABLY CREATE A TABLE IF ITS MUCH MORE EASIER FOR YOU.

This sections is a Mininum of 400 words. It can be more. Turnitin would be used to grade this to avoid plagiarism as such originality is required!
Provide 3 references .

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Question #2
Recognize Cultural/Ethnic, Environmental and Other Considerations
Research references on cultural/ethnic ramifications when dealing with foreign countries.
One reference is “Information Technology and the Ethics of Globalization”: HYPERLINK "https://books.google.com/books?id=0Fk7pHWGERoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:1605669237&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2kxFVfCAF9CHgwTtoIGoCg&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA%23v=onepage&q&f=false" https://books.google.com/books?id=0Fk7pHWGERoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:1605669237&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2kxFVfCAF9CHgwTtoIGoCg&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
Determine any local environmental issues in the international locations that could impact the IT plan using these sources.
Identify other relevant considerations related to globalization such as the use of offshore outsourcing.
Deliverable: Interim report summarizing cultural/ethnic, environmental, offshore outsourcing, and other considerations that are applicable to New Breed in terms of the development of a new global business strategy.
WHILE TALKING ABOUT OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING, I WOULD REFER TO “new breed outsourcing their call centers to New Delhi india
I WILL FOLLOW THE FORMAT IN QUESTION 1 OR YOU CAN JUST COVER;
I will discuss each extensively as Culture alone is huge with important key points. But I will site the different countries above(Germany, korea, india, south Africa)  as my examples during the discussions to at least point to something unique to describe by point.
CULTURE/ETHNIC CONSIDERATION
Ways to overcome related issues:

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS
Ways to overcome related issues:

OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING CONSIDERATIONS:
Ways to overcome related issues:
This report is for management. Minimum: 400 words with 3 references
Questions#3
Identify New Breed’s new “Global Business and IT Strategy”
1. Based on your understanding of the effects of globalization on New Breed, provide a revised set of business strategies for the company.
2. Also, describe how the IT architecture needs to be revised. For example, cover how New Breed’s ERP architecture needs to be changed to handle the acquisitions in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Address the fact that the new acquisitions will need to integrate their system into those supporting the US operations.
3. Furthermore, explore the ramification of using offshore contractors in working with the foreign acquisitions.
Deliverable: Capture and compile the key findings from this step in the “Global Business and IT Strategy Report.” This report is for the corporate executives.
You might want to look at the FBI’s IT Strategic Plan for ideas: HYPERLINK "http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/itb/it-strategic-plan-2010-2015" http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/itb/it-strategic-plan-2010-2015
Minimum length: 600 words.

QUESTION#4
Prepare the Summary Presentation
Deliverable:
Executive-level presentation that addresses all of the above. Be sure to address:

Current Situation
Impacts due to Globalization
Revised Business Strategy
Revised IT Systems Architecture (including the ERP adjustments)
Conclusions
The presentation should consist of 10-15 PPT slides. It should include audio narration (directions are found at: HYPERLINK "https://support.office.com/en-au/article/Add-narration-to-a-presentation-0b9502c6-5f6c-40ae-b1e7-e47d8741161c" https://support.office.com/en-au/article/Add-narration-to-a-presentation-0b9502c6-5f6c-40ae-b1e7-e47d8741161c). The narration should also be captured in the slide notes.
As an alternate method of delivery, you can create a video using YouTube Capture ( HYPERLINK "https://www.youtube.com/capture" https://www.youtube.com/capture) or a similar tool.
PLEASE LEAVE THE AUDIO PART FOR ME TO NARRATE;

A Summary of Final Deliverables
1. Interim report on technical, legal, tax and regulatory considerations
2. Interim report on cultural/ethnic, environmental, offshore outsourcing and other considerations
3. Global business and IT strategy report
5. Final PPT 10-15 PAGES SHORT presentation.

I will prefer to receive the First Report as Soon as it is complete so I can start my own personal reading, arranging and structuring where necessary so I can meet deadline instead of just send all at the same time when complete and I only have a short time to submit.
IT IS DUE AT 5PM ON SUNDAY. EST TIME