Computer Concepts and Applications-GS July 2015 Final Project You have been hired by a medium size (approximately 200 employees) widget manufacturing company to do a complete evaluation of their computer needs and make recommendations to them about an information system to support their business. Currently several of their support departments are using manual processes and they wish to automate their accounting and human resources business processes. They also want to harness the power of the Internet in their business. Making Your Company Greater Through Technology As we head into the future, it important for any business organization to be prepared. The evolution of business technologically is rapid, and it’s important to …show more content…
Networking communication, such as the intranet and Internet, provides a collaboration platform that allows business employees to share and edit documents and projects across the organization. Successfully introducing these components into the widget company will make business a lot easier to manage and will help increase productivity. Picking an Operating System An operating system is the software that supports a computer’s basic functions, such as planning tasks, performing applications, and controlling peripherals. When choosing and introducing the best system for a business such as this, it’s important to make sure it fits the needs of the business while being easy to install, set up, manage, and understand. For this reason, I decided that the Apple OS X Server would be a good choice for this business. The OS X Server allows for more power, governing, and alliance throughout an organization. It has many features that would be a valuable addition to running a company. For example, file sharing makes it easier than ever to share and exchange documents between personnel and helps protect against tampering and spying by encrypting data. The Profile Manager feature easily creates profiles to set up user accounts for mail, contacts, calendars, and messages. It also enforces constraints and password guidelines. Another feature, the Caching Server, speeds up the download and delivery of software quickly and safely. With these features, and many others, setting up and
One frequently asked question in business today that is least answered is, as stated by David Chaudron, PhD (2003), “What can we do to make our business flourish, survive and grow?” With the rapid changes in technology and the rise in the globalization of markets, we must have a game plan in place for adjusting to these changes. It has become increasingly difficult to predict what is going to happen, and there are thousands of obstacles and opportunities along the way. To add to the confusion, there are thousands of products, solutions and methods for dealing with these changes. With many brands, sizes and varieties it is very difficult to choose what is best for your organization. Add to that,
In today’s society, we live in a time of increasingly rapid change in business for both personal and professional. Technology, business, and our culture are all evolving in fast and remarkable ways. Scanning forward and anticipating change is a complex task that takes the right combination of perspectives brought together in just the right way. Numerous businesses don't embark on the challenge at all but could benefit from a strong strategic plan and quarterly updates to track both increase and decrease of profits, trends and expenses.
Businesses today operate an environment that differs greatly from anytime millennia, centuries or even decades ago. The pace of businesses has increased exponentially with the continuous improvement of information technology, telecommunications and geolocation supported by satellites and progressively more efficient modes of transportation and mechanization. The ability to move products globally overnight, increasing levels of automation, and collaboration instantaneously via virtual means has forever changed and reduced traditional barriers businesses face while creating a myriad of new challenges, risks and opportunities.
Organizations must carefully invest in changing technologies to earn a profit. It is hard to estimate the technical success of a product and its market success. It is necessary that organizations recognize opportunities and threats, and generate moves that can facilitate successful commercialization. It is impossible to predict what will happen next in the market, so organizations must carefully invest and should be prepared for both the positive and negative outcomes as well as some surprises. To foresee the future and manage uncertainty organizations follow certain frameworks like following trends, relying on an expert’s opinion, conducting industrial analysis, searching for analogies from the past and constructing scenarios. All these frameworks rely on the past patterns and the present market conditions to analyze the future, but its certain that past does not fully reproduce itself in the future. These frameworks also help us to compare the events in the past to the events in future
In today’s society and in the future, everything is fast paced, technology is constantly changing and advancing, which means new equipment and services are always coming about. As a company that strives to better our customers, we are always purchasing new
Technological up gradation: the organization must look for latest trends and technologies for manufacturing products and assimilate the modern technologies for making standardised products. The computer era has arrived and it is offering integrated platform for business processes so the recommendation is to have integrated system for better access and synchronization among different departments.
Manufacturing depends vigorously on spreadsheets and word preparing applications. Every staff station is to be furnished with a 27' iMac and enchantment pac, and every station will be configured together as a subnetwork for the department. These frameworks offer more than sufficient review on their substantial screen, so staff can keep different windows open at a solitary time. Profitability will be significantly expanded, as OS X and the track cushion will permit staff to swipe through different things, without the need to open and close separately. Organizing each of these frameworks together allows staff to in a flash get to a required archive from another Mac, without the need to get to Widget
In chapter 4, “Ride the Inflection Rocket”, a central point that Bill Gates bring out is that businesses need to change and adapt to the new digital way of business. There are many people that will one day use computers at work, at home, and at schools. Those businesses will one day, be customers going online to shop while only using customer service for support. Customers’ service is going to be valued a lot more as the internet grows bigger with technology.
We live in an ever-changing world and the future appears to be less and less a projection of the past. Change is inevitable even though it can be relentless, multidimensional, subversive, and even on occasion shocking. Today, venerable companies are at risk because many are not changing as quickly as the world around us.
The present time is dominated by changing customer behaviours, different wants and needs and a fast evolving world. This is a challenge for current businesses. They need to adopt to quick changes, confront current business processes and bring new innovative products on the market. In order to keep the company on course successful businesses establish a mission, clarify values and identify a preferred vision.
Intranet is an inexpensive yet powerful alternative compared to other forms of internal communications. With Intranet, many of the paperwork and documentation can be converted into electronic form on the Web and constantly updated to provide real-time information of all types to the users.
Your technology isn’t keeping pace with the growth of your organization. As your company grows, your technology should be an asset, not a burden. Maybe your IT guy is fantastic, but he has his hands full juggling day-to-day issues. As your company grows, so will the demands on your systems and technology and someone with a strategic mindset and the right expertise should be assessing your future needs and how to leverage technology.
In this chapter Solis has discussed about the need for transforming business from adaptive to predictive. Business Strategies in today 's era need not be adaptive to situation, boss, employee, market or the market but they strongly need to be predictive, about their work force and work area. The kind of services or products a particular firm is providing is needed to be innovation, new and creative not that its been selling off since last so many years and will continue now also, no it won 't because as the people are changing, mindsets are changing, people are becoming more aware about to buy what not to buy. Likes dislikes are growing; major population today demands different items not the longer awaken ones, Antonique Koning & Monique Cohen (November, 2013).
Technology-intensive organizations are contributing to economic growth of any country. These companies are facing a lot of difficulties and competition. This article is mainly focused on how managers can control technology intensive work in order to sustain the competitive advantage. Organizations can achieve this by adding economic value to their products when compared to competitors. They should develop products that offer profitability in terms of value, price, and costs. This article also explains the challenges that technology intensive organizations are facing today. Paradigm shifts are also discussed in this article which are helpful for managers to win big and create competitive advantage. Value Driven Change Leadership is one of the effective techniques of modern project management approach. It consists of three themes such as value/outcome over budget/schedule, business solutions over architecture framework, and human change over repeated activities.
IT Computing Agency is confident that the computing proposal will provide your business with modern, cutting edge technology. Our chosen systems cost came in well under the budget of $15,000, which allows for possible addition from your wish list. The spreadsheet is accompanied with the proposal, breaks down all the equipment and software needed