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Analyzing IT Acquisition Strategies, Performance Gaps, and Contract Modifications in Organizational Success

An assessment of IT acquisition strategies and contract modifications.

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    Analyzing IT Acquisition Strategies, Performance Gaps, and Contract Modifications in Organizational Success 1 - 1. Write a brief statement describing an IT acquisition by an organization about which you have knowledge. State whether the organization believes the acquisition met its objectives (e.g., improved the performance of the organization). State why you believe the acquisition was successful, unsuccessful, or partially successful and the principal reasons for this result. Answer: Here I will explain about Levi Strauss which have done IT acquisition in 1990s to boost its sales. Levi Strauss jeans as known is one of the leading and famous jeans company. In 1996 it has its peak sale of 7.1 billion dollars. But after that, the company sale started falling. It started losing its market share. From a sale of 7.1 billion dollars its sale fell to 4.1 billion dollars having a mere 12% market share. Now they started thinking to do something to cope with the problem. Then after some time they developed a strategy which helped them to increase their sale and market share. The company started selling the jeans with mass market retailer like Wal - Mart. Earlier the company sell its jeans to small department stores but now it was a giant step for the organisation to sell with Wal - Mart. The requirements of Wal - Mart are intense price control, on - time and just in time deliveries and micro level catering to the customer preferences by constant development. Levi’s transformed its demand restock system and its supply chain into an Information Technology based system so as to meet the Wal - Mart’s rigorous challenge. Levi’s also upgraded its database which contains the information about its existing customers and the in - store sale. The data from the database is fed to an advanced forecasting system. The company has made the information related to its

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