Wild Wood Apartments owns 20 different apartment com- plexes in Washington, Oregon, California, and Idaho. Each apartment complex contains anywhere from 10 to 60 separate apartments, of varying sizes. All apartments are leased with a 6 month or yearlong lease.
It is the company’s practice to hire one of the tenants to manage each apartment complex. As manager, he or she needs to admit new tenants to the building, collect rents from existing tenants, and close out leases. The manager also needs to main- tain the apartments by executing any repairs, replacements, or renovations. These can be billed back to the parent company. For acting as manager, the tenant gets free rent and a stipend. The stipend varies depending on the size of the apartment building.
Each manager is expected to send a report to the Wild Wood Apartments company headquarters in San Francisco every quarter. This report summarizes the occupancy rate, the total revenues in rent, the total expenses in maintenance and repairs, and so on. Currently, managers fill out a paper form and mail it back to headquarters. Many apartment managers have complained that preparing this report is a very difficult and time-consuming process. Also, the managers at corporate headquarters have expressed concerns about the accuracy and verifiability of the reports.
To allay these concerns and to improve the ease and effi- ciency with which the apartment managers conduct their daily business, the company is proposing to develop a centralized database that can be used by the managers to track the daily business of their apartment building and to prepare their reports.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Organization
A. Problem: Analyze the organization to determine the problem/challenge, business requirements, and limitations of current system(s).
B. Departments and Operations: Explain how the various departments and operations within the organization are impacted by the issue or challenge.
Format:
Four Pages – Microsoft Word document using appropriate modeling language and/or diagrams. It should use double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. It should include at least three sources, which should be cited in APA format.
