IT for Business Assignment PDF
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Running head: IT FOR BUSINESSIT for BusinessName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
1 IT FOR BUSINESSExecutive SummaryThe purpose of this report is to analyse the business benefits that the Four Seasons greenhousenursery could achieve with the implementation of a new Point of sales system or POS. Thereport discusses the different business issues that the organization faced due to manual recordkeeping. The use of technology in automating the business processes of the organization hasprovided a number of benefits, which are discussed in the report. The report discusses thebenefits, advantages and disadvantages of the new point of sales system. The different securityrisks associated with the POS is evaluated and certain recommendations are made to mitigate therisks.
2 IT FOR BUSINESSTable of ContentsIntroduction..........................................................................................................................31. POS system-Advantages/Disadvantages.........................................................................32. The Competitive Advantage with POS............................................................................63. Centralized Database and its Advantages........................................................................64. POS in facilitating decision-making................................................................................75. Telecommunication Options............................................................................................86. Associated Risks..............................................................................................................9Conclusion.........................................................................................................................10Recommendations..............................................................................................................10References..........................................................................................................................12Appendix............................................................................................................................14
3 IT FOR BUSINESSIntroduction With the emergence of technology, the use of information technology has increased inevery industry and business. Even the small businesses can realize the positive effects with thehelp of technology (Pearlson, Saunders and Galletta 2016). Use of information technology is anecessary need in large organizations as without the use of Information communication devices,management of all the business process within the organization becomes challenge. Smallbusinesses may not have the resources and expertise of large organizations to implement properinformation technology strategies. Similar is the case of Four Seasons Greenhouse Nursery thatis located in Colorado. Four Seasons is a small nursery that used manual registers in order totrack and maintain the inventory. This manual record is further used to calculate which productwill realize more profit. Due to this, the profits of the nursery were quite negligible or it wouldrun on loss. These led to the adoption of a new point of sale system or POS in the year 2008. Theuse of POS considerably helped the organization in obtaining the robust functionality ofmanaging the different operational processes of the nursery. The report gives an idea of theadvantages and the disadvantages of the new POS system and the process by which this newsystem helps the organization in gaining the competitive advantage (Peppard and Ward 2016).The report further gives an idea of the different security risks associated with POS that areneeded to be addressed. The following paragraphs evaluate the business operation of the newpoint of sales system. 1. POS system-Advantages/DisadvantagesIn order to integrate and efficiently manage the different business process of theorganization, the Four Seasons nursery adopted POS system to automate the different business
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