This article discusses the challenges faced by Dominos in implementing Management Information Systems (MIS) and how it affects the operations of the company. Connectivity issues, misleading reports, and complexity of the system are some of the challenges discussed.
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Management Information Systems2 Challenges of MIS in Dominos A Management Information and Systems is crucial in gathering information from various online systems and then analyzing the information to make reports that assist in decision-making (Lucey, 2004, pg. 69). To many organizations, an MIS provides many benefits such as increased efficiency and great reliability. However, an MIS also brings about challenges in different organizations. For instance, Dominos uses a Management Information System to analyze its environment, workflow, and formulation of the organizational operations. The system also assists the company to analyze and process its voluminous information regarding the market and changing consumer needs. However, in all this, the MIS presents different challenges to the company that affects the operations of the company. To begin with, the Pizza Builder & Pizza Tracker MIS system brings some challenges. This system allows customers to order pizza online. However, at times, connectivity issues cause system lags hence customers are unable to place order effectively (He et al., 2013, pg. 466). This costs the company because the lags mean that no sales or deliveries are made. In addition, the operations get slower hence customers are forced to buy from other competitors such as Pizza Hut and Papa John’s Pizza. In the long run, forecasted revenues are affected since they reduced by specific percentages when connectivity issues arise. Secondly, reports generated from information supplied into the MIS may generate misleading information due to changing market conditions. For example, In 2010, Dominos made huge losses due to poor comprehension of customer needs because of adopting a wrong market strategy (Lewis et al., 2005, pg. 27). This means that an organization should not just depend on the reports provided by the MIS system but should also have other means to compare the data. This ensures effectiveness and forecasted objectives are met in time. Besides, in Dominos, prediction of future performances may be affected since the tastes of consumers changes every day since the company operates in a fast-moving food market. Thirdly, the complexity of the MIS system is also a challenge. Since the MIS system revolves around complex technology, Dominos staff face a hard time driving business goals (Tilvawala et al., 2011, pg. 192). Since Dominos gives customers the freedom to make the virtual pizza online either through the mobile application or website, it is expensive and challenging to
Management Information Systems3 ensure the smooth running of the business. This has also brought about extra costs that affect the profits at the expense of providing a smooth experience to the customers. In conclusion, due to the new advancement of the MIS system, Domino’s Pizza is still learning ways of which it can incorporate new techniques in order to make service delivery efficient. Due to competition from both huge pizza industry and new pizza restaurants that are coming up, technology has been a crucial component in gaining a huge market share. For example, although the Pizza Builder & Pizza Tracker MIS system brings challenges at times due to connectivity issues, it has ensured a competitive edge due to the delivery success.
Management Information Systems4 References He, W., Zha, S. and Li, L., 2013. Social media competitive analysis and text mining: A case study in the pizza industry.International Journal of Information Management,33(3), pp.464- 472. Lewis, B.A., MacEntee, V.M., DeLaCruz, S., Englander, C., Jeffrey, T., Takach, E., Wilson, S. and Woodall, J., 2005, June. Learning management systems comparison. InProceedings of the 2005 Informing Science and IT Education Joint Conference(pp. 17-29). Lucey, T., 2004.Management information systems. Cengage Learning EMEA. pp. 67-78. Tilvawala, K., Myers, M.D. and Sundaram, D., 2011, July. Design of Ubiquitous Information Systems for Digital Natives. InPACIS(p. 192).