Introduction & Overview of the Company Marks and Spencers is a large UK based retailer with 683 branches in 2 continents. Following the deregulation of the UK financial sector in the mid eighties the company decided to use its experience, capital, and brand power to branch into the lucrative financial services industry offering personal loans, life insurance & pensions, and savings & investments services such as Unit Trusts and ISAs through the company Marks and Spencers Financial Services. Financial Services …showed first 75 words of 2417 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2417 total…systems development. Any methodology adopted to be used within MSFS’ PM environment needs to ensure that organisational goals remain the objective of implementing information systems. It is with that in mind that any decision for methodology adoption should be taken. Isolated tactical incorporation of ISD methods for IT and planning will no longer meet our organisational needs, but within the framework we already use for projects, SSADM’s functionality will meet MSFS’ future ISD challenges.