IT Consulting Skills unit 5

Project Instructions: Your client, a large European holding company, has acquired chains of do-it-yourself (DIY) stores in Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. The chains in each of these countries had developed their own software application suites. Your holding company client had initially asked you to evaluate the IT systems in each country and recommend a course of action for merging the disparate systems onto one system which would serve the needs of the stores and distribution centers in all five countries. However, after the initial meeting in Paris with the IT Directors from each of the countries, the IT Directors in England and in France persuaded the upper management of the holding company to begin by merging the systems of just England and France (since they were the largest chains, and presumably had enough functionality in their respective systems to support all of the chains). Click on the Rubric Icon below for complete details and the grading rubric for this project. Then, using MS Word, write a 3-to-5-page single spaced paper in which you Identify which of the four possible roles you would play as a consultant (coach, partner, reflective observer, or expert) and explain the reasons why. Be sure to address the three questions set forth in the project instructions.