Introduction to Information Technology - Morrison

Introduction to
Information
Technology

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
1.1 Purpose..................................................................................................................................1
1.2 Background...........................................................................................................................1
2 Literature review...........................................................................................................................2
2.2 Information Technology and its role in retail business in general........................................2
2.3 Network Technology, different types in general...................................................................2
2.4 Ethics and social issue of using technology in general.........................................................2
2.5 The importance of Intranet and Internet in business in general............................................3
3 Analysis and Discussion...............................................................................................................3
3.1 Role of information Technology in Morrisons.....................................................................3
3.1.1 Type of different information system in Morrisons...........................................................4
3.2 Types of networking Technologies that used in Morrison ...................................................4
3.3 Ethics and Social issue in Morrisons ...................................................................................5
3.3 The importance of Intranet and Internet in Morrisons.........................................................6
3.4 List and explain the different stage of system development life cycle ................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Information technology is defined as a business sector which deals in hardware, software
and communication that is concerned with transmitting of the information which ease the
communication process. In other words it can be defined as the use of computer, networking and
other devises that help in securing and storing all forms of electronic data (De Vries, 2016). IT
also includes the data of management in the from of text, image, voice etc. Moreover it also
involves the things related to internet. To study this report, Morrison a largest chain of
supermarket is taken which deals in product range like clothing, books, food and drinks. The
following report will cover the importance of information technology in retail sector along with
social and ethical issues that concern to business. Further importance of internet and intranet will
be discussed along with different stages related with system development life cycle.
1.1 Purpose
The main purpose of this report is to increase the knowledge in context of information
and technology. This study will tell about the different information system in Morrison and how
the company is making use of such technology in order to attain long time success.
1.2 Background
Morrison is a largest chain of supermarket in UK. It was founded by William Morrison in
the year 1899 having the headquarter in England, UK. William has first started a small business
of egg and butter in England and then this company was took up by his son. Thereafter he
opened s small self service store in Bradford (Devaraj, Ow and Kohli, 2013). Then the company
was successful in opening the first supermarket by the name of Victoria in 1961. In the year
Morrison become a public limited company and got listed in stock exchange of London
(Company History, 2019). The company is having around 498 superstores all across the
England. Wales and Scotland. Morrison is employing approx 110,000 employees all over the
world and is also successful in serving 11 million of the customers. It deals in products like
clothing, books, magazines, food and drink etc.
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2 Literature review
2.2 Information Technology and its role in retail business in general
According to Emily Pribanic, 2018 Information technology plays a great role in retail
industry. As technology is moving at the fast pace it is required for the company to move
accordingly in order to attain success. With the help of information technology in retail sectors,
customers are now able to get satisfied as they don't have to wait for a long in the line to make
the purchase. Moreover the payment process too become very easy which results in fast
transaction and increased sales volume. Moreover earlies a lot of time was wasted in prie
auditing but now with the help of IT, products are automatically scanned which creates more
accurate pricing of the products. By this practices customers are not over or under charged which
help them to retain for a long period.
2.3 Network Technology, different types in general
According to Margaret Rouse, 2019 Networking refers to the practice in which the data
are exchanged through a medium of a information system. Networking technology enables the
exchange of data between lrge and small information system and is used by many business but
commonly used in educational institutes. There are three different types of network. LAN refers
to the local area network which is owned privately by the companies and covers only a small
area like office, school etc. MAN refers to metropolitan area network which covers the large area
than a local network which means they extend upto 100 km of the area. Lastly, WAN refers to
the telecommunication network that covers a wide area. They connect the country or can say
across the world. All these three network are beneficial to the organisation in different context as
this make sharing of file from one place to another very easily and it no time which will benefit
the organisation to share information easily.
2.4 Ethics and social issue of using technology in general
According to Job Timmermans, Catherine Flick, 2016, ethical issues are those problems
where a business firm is required to choose a single alternative out of two choices where as
Social issues are those aspects which harms society and people living in it either in a direct or
indirect manner. Both these issues affect the working of an organisation and also decreases the
brand image of the company. The information shared by the company must be valuable to the
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