Digital Technology Adoption in Small Enterprises

This assignment examines the impact of digital technology on 3COM, a small enterprise seeking to enhance productivity and product quality. The report analyzes the organization's strengths and weaknesses regarding digital technology adoption and provides recommendations for effective implementation based on a sample survey. It emphasizes the importance of digital transformation for small businesses to compete effectively in the modern market.

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INTRODUCTION
To operating a business activity, business owners and employees are use digital
technology to conduct organisation activity effectively. These technologies are used through
various sources like mobile, internet, computer and different communication resources to
increase productivity easily. Technology affect business activities in both positive and negative
way but it is important for companies to apply these activity in ways that put them in advantage
and increase their business structure easily. Digital technologies are require specific skills and
knowledge to use them at various placers effectively and get its advantages easily. This project
report is based on 3COM which is a digital electronics manufacturer and known for its computer
network products. The company was founded in the year of 1979 by Robert Metcalfe.
Digitalisation in 3COM is print their core business system and administer its activities in sharing
information, introduce to people with new technologies as well as connect the people with their
products. The assignment is highlight aim and objectives of the organisation and its management
plan for growing in rapid way in future. At last the report is going to show suggestion to remove
conflicts and barriers that can affect on their structure and procedures.
TASK 1
P1. Aim and Objectives
When a organisation is established in the economy they set their aim and objective to
survive in the economy easily. These aims are provide them different planning and strategy to
get them easily and effectively. The planning is provide them effectiveness and growth for future
as well as competitive advantages easily. In other hand, this is the purpose of business for future
that what they want and serve in market. Aim and objectives are very different to each other
because aim is define the what the business want in the future and objectives are stated for their
targets or its planning of how to achieve aims effectively. These both activities are provide them
purpose as well as motivation to their employees to improve their ability according to
organisations need. In order to get important objective of organisation easily they need to use
digital technology. Thus, main objectives of this report are as follows-
 Analysis the requirement of tools and techniques and innovative ideas in the company
and economy.
 Understand the use new technology and and its impact on society.
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 Identify the usages of digital technology in 3COM, others industry as well as for society
to improve their level.
 Provides brief knowledge to employees and society about digitalisation, its innovation as
well as its positive impact.
After know the objective and aim of 3COM, it is very important to analysis on research
question to collect more information about digitalisation and its impact. The data will be
provides specific research on this topic-
 What are the uses of digitalisation in 3COM ?
 How the innovative ideas and technological equipment is beneficial for the organisation ?
 Is there any requirement of changes in digitalisation for 3COM ?
 Utilisation of various resources or techniques for organisation's growth ?
After analysis of digitalisation and innovation organisation can easily make planning and
strategy for their objectives and goal to achieve them effectively. The need of this plan to
provide effectiveness in their products as well as plan that helps to introduce digitalisation in the
economy. Through this process 3COM is raise their organisation structure and economy standard
easily.
P2. Project management plan
Planning for a organisation and their objectives, provides effective ideas and design to
create something new to achieve them easily. This is use for all small scale and large scale
organisation to provide them desire growth and effective outcomes. Project management is
formulate ideas and thoughts to the organisation toward corrective path so the they can manage
and handle their activities in better way. Plan is being made for growth of the organisation as
well as to get higher benefits or achieve organisation's aims and objectives. This is helps to
reduce risk factor from the firm and provide them effectiveness to grow in future. There are
some factors that can affect in developing plan such as-
Cost- This is effective thing to attract customers toward the products of the organisation.
In this process organisation need top manage their cost according to their customers need and
their capacity that they can easily afford. For this process 3COM need to use some techniques
through this they can easily reduce wastage from the organisation and manage their cost
effectively. For a small enterprise it is very important to connect lost of customers to their
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products that help them to get maximum profit and growth. Cost is the thing that effectively use
to attract the costumers easily and provide them higher satisfaction as they always want.
Scope- It is necessary for small scale organisation to landscape their size in the economy
through their products and innovative ideas. This is provide them a scope to represent their
innovative ideas and products in front of their customers without any threats. Scope is provides
growth and maximum profit to 3COM and a specific structure in the market or economy.
Time- Time is all about produce various thing on a particular time and according to
customers need. Digitalisation helps to reduce time factor from the organisation and provide
various opportunities to serve different products in market. Through this process 3Com easily
reduce wastage and get high productivity easily. For this organisation, it is very important to
manage their things according to innovative ideas and technological support. For a organisation,
it is very important to manage their time effectively to make their own value in front of their
competitor.
Quality- It is a need for organisation to provide quality products to their customer to
fulfil their demands effectively. Quality is all about the value of the product in the economy.
Customers never want to purchase cheap quality products that can not provide them satisfaction
as much they want. In this process digital technology helps to to produce quality product in less
cost and at a particular timing. So it is a management plan and requirement of 3COM to manage
their product quality according to their cost that they serve in the market.
Communication- It is a necessary for the organisation to communicate effectively in their
organisation as well as to their customers. Through this process they can easily get information
that what their customers want from them as well as their employees need that organisation need
to fulfil for a particular time period. This is a effective method that use to provide information
and message to each other that would be beneficial for 3COM. This think is help to reduce
barriers and conflicts from the firm and help to build positive environment in the company.
Risk- Risk is determine a term which is directly affect on function and operational
activities of the organisation. For this organisation need to manage their activities in a
appropriate manner that reduce risk factor from the 3COM. The management plan of this
company is use various tool and technologies to reduce risk factors as well as its negative affects.
For this process manager of the organisation need to make various strategy to minimize risk that
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can effect on its procedure as well as need to tech their staff member hoe to face these risk
situation.
Resources- This is all about utilization of various assets, manpower and other resources
that helps to provide future growth and effectiveness in the organisation. These all things help to
build quality product in the organisation through various technologies. It is important for the
manager of the 3COM that introduce or design innovative products in their organisation that help
to provide them growth and maximum benefits as well.
P3. Work breakdown structure and Gantt chart
As the word identify the meaning of work break down is to dividing the work and task
into various department in the organisation to reduce burden over a individuals and improve
others skills an capacity of working. In this process manager is deals with different segmentation
of the organisation to manage activities with potential effects. In this process organisation is
divide into different department that operate various activities of the organisation. So for them,
it is very important to manage their services in the firm to earn higher productivity and profit at a
particular time period. Work breakdown structure is the key project deliverable which conduct
team works into manageable parts. It is deliverable oriented which decomposition of work that
has to be implemented by project team members.
The work break down structure is a hierarchical list that defines major elements of the
project. It is used to divide complex projects work load between team members into manageable
parts. This type of structure needs to use by 3COM to mage their technical activities in effective
manner into the organisation. It is very helpful and useful for every association because it is help
to distribute role and responsibility between workforce of the company. 3COM is use this
technique because they are deal with digital technology and provide various technical support to
their customers, so they need to use this to minimize their work load that can be over the
individual employees and provide responsibility to their each candidate. This is help to increase
their working skills and capacity of adapting new techniques in effective manner.
The Gantt chart represents a project report in which a company can come to know that
which task took the most time. For those task who take most the time and for such, the
organisation bring effective policy and decision which help the firm to reduce time taken. All
such help entity to attain their aims and objective in effective manner and thus with coordination
and collaboration among the departments can be seen and efficient work can be done which is
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going to help to develop and bring growth in industry. Major objective of this chart is to
represent necessary data or information which was accumulated by researcher team for making
corrective decision. Gantt chart refers to bar chart which frame proper schedule of projects which
start and finish data of the terminal components and concise the factors of projects.
TASK 2
P4. Small scale research
This is a research technique which is provide effective outcomes of small scale
organisations. 3COM is also a small scale enterprise that provide innovative tools and digital
terotechnological products to the customers. So for these type of organisation it is very important
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to gather all the information about market need and customers want to reduce waste and loss
factor from the organisation. This will helps them to maximise productivity and profitability
factor in the company to get future success. 3Com is used cloud storage where they can save and
store where the digital information is stored in logical pools, also the physical storage serve as
multiple. So physical environment is basically operated and managed by hosting firm.
For this process they use different type of modes while collecting various data and these are as
follows-
Qualitative research- This is effective research method which is used to gather data
through name, number, nature and literature etc. This is the bes research strategy among all
because this is help to provide brief information about each and every aspect of society. Fro this
organisation is various techniques for gather maximum data such as interview, open-ended
survey, own perception which is provides specific information. This is provide non-numerical
data that seeks to interpret means from theses data that help to understand life of society through
this study of targeted population. This will help to 3COM to provide their products to specific
people who can effectively use them.
Quantitate research- This is also a research method which is used to measurement of
different objectives through statistical, mathematical and numerical analysis to collect various
data. These data is deal with numbers, logics and further objectives in numerical form. This
research is provide large data to organisation which need to maintain in effective manner. Fro
this 3COM is mange specific department which is known as finance division of the organisation
which is deal with theses things. This research is clearly define different questions to which
objectives answers provide specific idea. For this organisation can use various tool such as
questionnaire, computer software as well as numerical data tools.
Primary research- This is the first hand information which is collected by the
investigator. In this research mediator are not present to provide information and research toll
because investigator collect data directly to the customers. In it report is purely based on new
data and new research which is not copied by old records.
Secondary research- This report is purely based on second hand data which is already
collected by someone. In this term investigator take help of mediators and provide them a report
which need to take research of others. This is provide data which is already used by someone
previously.
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Sampling- This is a process with statical analysis in which complexity and determination
of numbers are taken from large population. It include a research process which is depends on
analysis methods and how its being performed. They uses to manage a larger group of data in
smaller statical analysis with easy and simple manner which should be define each and every
content clearly. A sample is a relevance number of observation that is taken from population in
another words we can say it is a specific portion, a part or a fraction of whole group.
Between the large number of population this research is done on 30 selected candidates
who provides their feedback toward the use of digitalisation and advance technology for 3COM.
There is effective questionnaire is made to highlight main issues such as-
Questionnaire
Name-
Email ID-
Contact No.-
1.) What type of affect the technology is having on the company ?
a.) Positive
b.) Negative
2.) Digitalisation is effective tool for development of 3COM ?
a.) Yes
b.) No
3.) Does digital technology provides long term benefits for 3COM ?
a.) Yes
b.) No
4.) Is there any impact of the use of technology on 3COM's goodwill ?
a.) Yes
b.) No
5.) Which technique is more effective in current scenario ?
a.) Traditional
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b.) Modern
6.) Is there any requirement of training and learning for employees ?
a.) Yes
b.) No
TASK 3
Theme 1: Technologies having impact on the performance of the company.
What type of affect the technology is having
on the company ?
Frequency
Positive 25
Negative 5
Findings- According to above graphical representation it has been identify that the affect of
digital technology is in positive form. In this process out of 30 individual 25 are believe that
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Positive Negative
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digital technology is provide them more satisfaction in products as they want. While 5 individual
are not believe that this will positively effect on products as per their demand. But the ration
between them is highlight positive sight of digital technology and this impact is in the favour of
3COM. The use digital technology is provide them higher productivity and profit in short period.
So they have to use this technology in their existing and new products.
Theme 2. Effective tool for development of 3COM
Digitalisation is effective tool for development
of 3COM ?
Frequency
Yes 20
No 10
Findings- According to above graphical representation it has been identify that digitalisation is
effective tool for development of 3COM. In this process out of 30 individual 20 are believe that
digital technology and its tools are helpful in the developmental of 3COM. While10 individual
are not believe that this will provide them effective development. Form the brief it is concluded
that this will help in the organisation and products development. Through this process
organisation can effectively provide their services and products to customers. So customers of
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the economy is provide favourable result to 3COM for the use of new techniques in their
organisation for future growth.
Theme 3. Use of digital technology for long term
Does digital technology provides long term
benefits for 3COM ?
Frequency
Yes 10
No 20
Findings- As per the above graphical representation it has been determine that digital technology
can not provide long term benefits to 3COM because al the organisation is need new techniques
and ideas to produce their products. In this process out of 30 individual 10 are believe that digital
technology will provide long term benefits to 3COM. While 20 individual are not believe that
this will provide them long term benefits. So the ration is in concluded negatively. For this
organisation need to adapt new idea and technologies according to various changes I the
economy. This will be help full for them.
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Theme 4. Impact the use of technology on the goodwill of 3COM
Is there any impact of the use of technology on
3COM's goodwill ?
Frequency
Yes 25
No 5
Findings- From the the above presentation it has been identify that the impact of digital
technology is helpful for increase the Goodwill of 3COM. In this process out of 30 individual 25
are believe that digital technology help them to improve their good will in the market because
satisfied customer's are always provide positive feedback and increase competitive advantages in
the market for them. While 5 individual are not believe that this will help them to improve
goodwill in the market. These people are believe that there are further things are also required for
this. The organisation need to consider this things.
Theme 5. Techniques of current scenario
Which technique is more effective in current
scenario ?
Frequency
Traditional 10
Modern 20
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Yes No
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5
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25
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Findings- According to above graph it has been identify that traditional technology can not be
more effective than modern technology. In this process out of 30 individual 20 are believe that
digital technology and its modern uses provide more effectiveness in the organisation. While 10
individual are not believe that traditional techniques will be more effective Because all the
people and industries have their own perception for the digitalisation some of them are uses
modern technology for the new changes and some people are currently use traditional techniques
to produce new products. This is all depends on customer how much they affect from their
products and services easily.
Theme 6. Training and learning for employees
Is there any requirement of training and
learning for employees ?
Frequency
Yes 25
No 5
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Findings- As per the above graphical representation it has been determine that to effectively use
of digital technology organisation need to provide effective training and learning to their
employees for use it effectively. In this process out of 30 individual 25 are believe that
employee of 3COM is need for specific training and learning for use it in proper formation.
While 5 individual are not believe that this will need for specific training and learning in the use
of this technology.
P.6 Recommendation
After the brief research of digitalisation it is determine that 3COM need to use advance
technology in their company to improve their productivity and products quality in the market.
Through this they can build their goodwill in the market as well as make new customers. Digital
technology is landscape their size in the economy so it is very important for small scale company
to manage theses things in their company to get competitive advantages easily. It is support
them to maximise their income sources and enhancing knowledge criteria of their employees as
well as customer. In this report, cloud storage method is helpful for storing important data and
information in proper manner. Also the firm will analysing the primary, secondary, qualitative
and quantitative method for find out proper techniques. New techniques and innovation always
helps to know something different and innovative which nobody can easily imagine. But for this
it is very important to use it in effective manner for this there are some recommendation are-
 For this organisation need to train their employees for effective use of digital technology
in their organisation.
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Yes No
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 They need to conduct seminar and conferences to better know about its use and their
equipments usages.
 3COM have to focus on their customers need and demand for specific product.
 Digital technology is help to reduce wastage and time factor from the organisation, so
need to concentrate on various opportunity that can provide them extra benefit in future.
TASK 4
P7 Reflection
After a research of this project report, I discover advantages and disadvantages of
digitalisation for 3COM. According to me use of new techniques is always provide higher
satisfaction to organization because this is help from manufacturing till the end of provide
satisfaction to customers. This is landscape their size in the economy and everyone is want to
use something different hat they never use before. But for this 3COM need to know how to use
them effectively because if they can help to provide help than its improper use can be provide
negative result that organisation can not afford easily. So I recommend them to provide effective
training and learning to their employees who know the effective use of them in their products.
This will provide them help to implement their ideas according to customers demand and their
need. To achieve future goal and objectives effectively, they need to know effective use of this
techniques and utilization of various resource which is available in the firm.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that digital technology is require for all the
organisation to improve their productivity and product quality. This project report is based on
3COM organisation which is small enterprise and want to use digital technology in their firm.
This project is represent its strength and weaknesses that will be useful for them. For this
organisation is use sample survey to use it effectively.
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Template for Performance Review
Template to be attached with the
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