You are consulting for a beverage distributor who is interested in determining the benefits it could achieve from implementing new information systems. What will you advise as the first step? A. Perform a strategic systems analysisB. Benchmark existing systemsC. Implement a strategic transition to the new systemD. Identify the business ecosystem the distributor is in.

The correct option is A: Perform a strategic systems analysis

Explanation:

Strategic systems analysis provides an overall analysis aimed at providing your business with a lasting business advantage. It gives a firm the tool for survival and allows a firm or intending firm to understand what is needed for future success. This provides an alignment with IT and the business and information systems is effectively used to provide you with what other competitors are doing out there and the ways in which you can be competitive in the market. Hence, this is the first step required that needs to be done by the distributor if he wants to see the benefits of implementing new information systems.