Argos: Information Systems, Data Management, and Strategies

This report provides a critical evaluation of the information systems and data management strategies employed by Argos. It begins with an overview of the company's business processes and organizational structure, highlighting how information systems contribute to work efficiency and data analysis. The report then explores how business intelligence and analytics can support and improve decision-making within the organization, emphasizing the use of various information systems to analyze data and identify business opportunities. Furthermore, it critically evaluates the ethical and social issues associated with information systems, including ethical dilemmas and social implications. The report concludes with recommended strategies for data security and integrity, advocating for advanced software and employee training to protect confidential data. Overall, the report emphasizes the importance of information systems in enhancing performance, improving decision-making, and ensuring data security within Argos.

Information systems and data management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
1) Critically evaluation of the business process and organizational structure of the company.......1
2) The way business intelligence and analytics can support and improve decision making in
organisation......................................................................................................................................3
3) Critically evaluation of the ethical and social issues in information system...............................4
4) Recommended strategies of data security and integrity..............................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Information system are the system that helps to increase the work efficiency in the world.
There are various IS that gives higher data security to the firm and also helps to compare data
effectively. Argos gives appropriate and good quality products to the clients in the world. It has
good brand image in the world because it provides innovative items to a customer. Decision
support and expert neutral network information helps to take appropriate decision based on the
accurate results. This report includes business process, company structure, business intelligence
and analytics improve the decision making system in a firm, ethical and social issues of
information system.
1) Critically evaluation of the business process and organizational structure of
the company
There are different types of information systems which help to give more efficiency to
work and get desired targets in the world. It compares the data and produce appropriate results. A
manager can easily take appropriate decision based on an outcome. Argos provides good quality
products and services to the customers to increase overall firm’s performance and productivity in
the world. Based on consumer needs, it gives innovative items to the clients. There are different
types of problems that have a negative impact on the overall firm’s performance such as
management issues, data security and technical barriers. They use various advanced and
enhanced software to manage the data and use appropriate methods as well as techniques to
protect them (Berger and Lafferty, 2017).
Business process
Different companies have various processes to get higher performance and desired targets
in the world. Companies uses strategies of pricing and promotional to increase a productivity in
the world. It also uses the social media and internet to promote their products in market. Manager
gives appropriate training and development to the employees to innovate an item to increase
overall performance across world. Manager of firm follows different types of information
systems to increase the work efficiency and analyse data of an entity. By analysing the data of a
company, they can easily know the condition of current market and firm can take effective
decision to solve them. It also uses advanced security software that helps to protect and secure a
firm’s data. It has high number of shareholders and stakeholders that give more profit to them
(Bronstein and et.al., 2012).
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It has a positive brand image in the market as firm is providing effective and innovative
items to the clients. Based on the consumer needs, it gives appropriate items to them. There are
different types of clients and Each have different preferences to buy an item in the market.
It uses the problem solving process model to identify appropriate issues and take
effective decision to solve them. In their process, a manager can easily find out the problem and
then apply various strategies and information systems for effective solutions.
Company structure
Argos has many shareholders in the market that gives more profit to an entity. Firm
follows various strategies and approaches to increase their productivity in the world. The also
use advanced information system to increase a work efficiency and they can easily analysis the
data. By getting accurate results, they can prepare effective annual report of an entity. One of the
major problems in firm is they are not able protect the data of the firm so company should
follow decision support systems that helps to analysis a firm data and also helps to make
decision for improvement. It provides the products and services based on customer needs. It uses
information system which helps to transfer effective information in company.
Manager uses various techniques to solve an appropriate issue related to the technologies.
They use problem solving process model that helps to know their actual barriers in the company.
It has many shareholders that gives higher performance to the company and firm can easily
expand their business in a world. By using decision making support information system in the
firm, they can easily compare data and get accurate results. Based on the results, firm can adopt
innovative technologies to overcome an issue. It has a positive impact on the firm, manager can
take decision for the enhancement of a business in world (Lafferty and Zhai, 2017).
It uses various approaches of promotion and pricing that give higher productivity in the
world. It uses social media and internet to promote products and services in the market to
increase productivity in world. By using social media for the promotion, they can easily connect
large number of consumers across world. It gives more profit and helps to get the desired targets
in a world.
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2) The way business intelligence and analytics can support and improve
decision making in organisation
Business intelligence provides an effective way to enhance and increase the overall firm’s
performance and productivity in the world. BI tools and techniques help to identify innovative
business opportunities that give higher profit to an entity. It also helps to expand their enterprise
in an industry. Argos uses different types of information systems to analyse the data and take
decisions based on outcomes such as transaction processing system helps to get accurate
information of each transaction of the consumers. By using business intelligence in the company
the can easily get higher performance, higher productivity, increment in goodwill, create
effective business model to increase overall performance in the world (Laudon and Laudon,
2013).
Manager needs to identify the issues in a firm and based on the results, they need to give
effective training and development to employees. It will also help in innovating products and
services that give higher profit to the entity. There are different types of information systems that
help to create an effective annual report for the firm. Argos follows various technologies and
strategies to increase the firm’s overall performance in the world. There are different ways to
improve a firm’s performance. Argos uses various information systems that help to increase the
work efficiency in an entity. There are different types of issues that can occur during the
implementation of an information system. Management has the responsibility to identify barriers
and take effective decisions that help to solve them. There are various main key players in
company that have a responsibility to create effective information system in the firm.
There are different types of ways that gives more profit to a firm to increase overall
performance in the world. Manager is responsible to apply advanced technologies and strategies
that helps to increase productivity in the world (Lim and et.al., 2013).
 Define appropriate strategy: Manager needs to identify the techniques and information
systems that gives more efficiency to the firm. There are different types of information
systems that have various characteristics to give protection to a data of the company. By
defining the appropriate information system they can easily get higher performance in
the world. Manager needs to give training to an employee so that they can easily
implement the system in an entity.
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 Personalize the sales strategy: Business intelligence is the best technology to set the
desired target and sales approach. It gives higher performance to the firm and it also helps
to increase a sales revenue in a company. By using innovative sales strategy in a firm
they can easily higher productivity in the world. There are different types of sales
strategies that helps to get higher performance in a world.
3) Critically evaluation of the ethical and social issues in information system
There are different types of information system and each various characteristics to give
advantages to the company. All firms uses various technologies to increase overall performance
in a world. During the implementation of an information system in the firm company can face
different types of problems such as technical and other barriers. To solve an appropriate barrier
from the workplace a manager has a responsibility to provide effective training and guidelines to
an employee to create efficient software. By giving an effective instruction to the employee it
helps to them for the creation of the technology. Argos uses management information system and
transaction processing system to mange the data and get accurate results. By getting accurate
outcomes from the IS company can easily get higher performance in the world. From the
information system entity can face many issues such as ethical and social problems. When the
problems are occurred in the firm the management needs to take appropriate decision based on
the issue. They must give effective and efficient instruction to the employee so that they can
easily implement an information system (Prajogo and Olhager, 2012).
 Ethical issues: there are different types of ethical issues that can occur in the firm during
the implementation of information system in the firm. It includes the individual actions
that are taking by an entity member. For the specific action the manager needs to create
appropriate plan. Based on the action plan they need to give appropriate guidelines to the
employees so that they can easily implement the technologies in the firm. By preparing
an effective plan they can easily get desired target and higher performance in the world.
 Social issues: if the action are taking by the firm is not effective then it directly affects
the firm performance in the world. Manager has a responsibility to give training and
development to the employee so that they can easily implement an information system in
the company. If the action will wrong then it will create a social issues in the firm. Argos
manager needs to create appropriate and free environment for the employees then it will
give more efficiency to maintain employee relation in an entity (Sayers and et.al., 2012).
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By applying different types of information system in the firm then it will give more profit
to a company. It helps to increase overall performance and productivity in the world. Manger
needs to take appropriate decision based on the employee issues. There are various IS which
helps to increase work efficiency in the firm and also helps to get accurate results by the
comparison of data. For the data security and integrity there are many systems such as decision
support and advanced software that helps to get actual outcome in the firm. Argos entity are not
able to protect their company data so they ned to use enhanced information system which helps
to get higher performance in the world (Venkatesh, Thong and Xu, 2012).
Information system is the best way to collect, store and analyse the data that helps to get
accurate results and based on the outcome a manager can easily take appropriate decision for the
improvement. Top overcome an issue they need to give appropriate guidelines and instructions to
the employee so that they can easily implement the information system. Social media and
internet is the best way to promote their products and services in a market. Argos use these
technologies to increase their productivity in the world.
4) Recommended strategies of data security and integrity
There are different type of methods for the data security and integrity. Information
system is the best way to increase firm performance and productivity in the world. It is very
necessary to secure the company data because it must be confidential. Manger gives the training
and development an employee to control the data security in a firm. There are various ways that
helps give higher security to the data. Argos must use advanced and enhanced software that gives
higher security to protect a firm data. Some of the strategies that are helpful to protect the data
security and data integrity as follows:
data entry training and accountability
There are different types of methods that gives more efficiency to the correct all the
errors. Manger needs to give appropriate training and development to an employee so that they
can easily correct the errors by applying advanced technologies. Information systems is the best
technique to increase the world efficiency sand get desired result in the company. By using the
IS in an entity the manger can get accurate result and prepare effective annual report. There are
much information system that helps to protect the data integrity and security (Ware, 2012).
Data validation rules
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Manager needs to set desired rules for the data so that an administrator can ensure data
integrity by controlling the values that user can enter into their systems. They must need to use
appropriate software for the data security. It is necessary to give training and development to the
employees related to the software then they can easily identify the issues and set the desired
criteria for the test.
Data security is most important in the company because by providing the security to the
data then only firm can easily generate effective annual report. Different types of information
system are helpful for an entity because it gives the way to get accurate outcome and also helps
to increase a work efficiency in a firm. There are different types of methods and technologies
that helps to secure a data of an entity. During the implementation of the information system in
the company, there can be many issues such as technical, ethical and social issues., so the
manager needs to identify the issues by applying different types of methods. By knowing the
barriers they can easily give training to the employee to overcome the issue (Weske, 2012).
Argos provides good quality products and services to the customers that helps to maintain
brand image in the world. Manager gives training to an employees to implement the system in a
firm. For the data security and integrity there are various technologies and approaches that gives
higher security to the firm. Information system are helpful for the data comparison and also helps
to increase a work efficiency in the company. Argos use different types of technologies to
promote their firm products and services in the market. Based on the client preferences they give
innovative items to them. They conduct a market survey to know the consumer preferences and
based on the feedback they will give appropriate items. There are different types of methods and
techniques that helps to increase overall firm performance and productivity in the world (Zissis
and Lekkas, 2012).
CONCLUSION
Information system are helpful to increase a work efficiency in the company. There are
different types of information systems that gives various benefits to a firm. Argos provides good
and effective products to the customers. Based on the client needs it gives appropriate and
innovative items to the consumers. There are various IS that is used by the company such as
management information system and transaction processing system. But for the data security and
data analyse they must need to use decision support system that helps to compare a data and
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information and it will give accurate results to the firm. It also helps to prepare effective annual
report of the company.
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