Sainsbury's: IT Role, Ethical Issues, and Networking Tech

This report delves into the critical role of Information Technology (IT) in the success and potential failures of Sainsbury's, a major multinational supermarket chain. It explores how IT facilitates efficiency, reduces costs, and enhances consumer reach. The report examines the importance of IT in decision-making, marketing strategies, effective communication, and sales growth. Furthermore, it addresses ethical and social issues pertinent to running a business, such as security concerns, software piracy, and job displacement due to technological advancements. The report also differentiates between various networking technologies like PAN, LAN, WAN, WLAN, SAN, and MAN, highlighting their roles in business operations. Through analysis and discussion, the report evaluates Sainsbury's IT achievements and shortcomings, emphasizing the impact of IT on business success. It concludes by summarizing the significant role of IT in controlling and evaluating company information, and its contribution to the quality and quantity of goods and services, while also acknowledging the financial challenges faced by organizations in the global market. The report is based on the provided text and references.

Introduction to
Information Technology

Table of Contents
ASSESSMENT 1.............................................................................................................................3
Covered in PPT.......................................................................................................................3
ASSESSMENT 2.............................................................................................................................3
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................3
Role of Information Technology (IT) in the success or failure of Sainsbury's......................3
Ethical and social issues that pertain to running businesses...................................................5
Identify and differentiate between various types of networking technologies.......................6
ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION...................................................................................................7
FINDINGS.......................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

ASSESSMENT 1
Covered in PPT
ASSESSMENT 2
INTRODUCTION
Information Technology is crucial in this fierce competitive world in different business
lines. IT helps in improving efficiency and reduce cost and resources that organisation bears
when reach towards the consumer base by accessing needs an demands. This assignment focus
on describing functions and role in achieving success and failure in organisation to achieve goals
and objectives. Sainsbury is an multinational organisation which chain of supermarkets in U.K.
This firm is avails best technology to accomplish its tasks. It also defines ethical and issues
related to society that helps in smooth operations of businesses and it also defines distinction
between different types of networking technologies that enables to allocate resources and
outcomes in organisation (Eason, 2014).
LITERATURE REVIEW
Role of Information Technology (IT) in the success or failure of Sainsbury's
Information technology avails information and data through collection, transferring, and
access to accomplish business objectives. Importance of information technology is completely
rely on many factors such as change in process, supportive management, reforms in system that
help to change working system in organisation. It also measured that such firms not interested to
invest lot of money and time on technology and not innovate new things in their organisation to
expand in new market, to clarify market share and competitiveness to market. The importance to
information technology is to give opportunities by measure potential data and information with
the appropriate organisation activities (Piotrowicz and Cuthbertson, 2014). It is use for to
manage all issues that are connected with technological breakdowns in organisation to
appropriate works in Sainsbury's. Majorly it also helps in communication among different
departments in Sainsbury's to operate in organisation to gain objectives and goals for
appropriate results.
Decision Making:

Organisation have to take decisions regarding the speed and accountability of system. In
firms managers have to choose path of investigation that helps in taking right and appropriate
decisions at right time. Sainsbury's avail web and other online modes to access information and
data accuracy in organisation (Voogand et. al., 2017).
Marketing and business growth:
Achievements and success lies with marketing strategies that helps to access recent trends
and behaviours in Sainsbury's . The overall marketing strategies covers and focused on ads and
promotions that helps in gain business knowledge and goals that impact on business success.
Information technology helps in communication to different customers regarding products and
services that directly connect with growth.
Effective way of communication:
In organisation if system of information technology is effective enough to communicate
in business to accomplish their goals and objectives. That helps in reducing mistakes and errors
when communicate with other person in deal to attain goals and objectives. Sainsbury's have to
reform systems and correlations to increase productivity and reduce drawbacks in production
process that helps in gain business objectives and gain opportunities.
Increase in sales:
With the help of information technology sales of products and services instantly increase
due to it satisfy needs and wants of consumers in a proper manner. With information technology
the quality and services could be enhance by marketers in Sainsbury's to increase sales of
products. With IT it gives its customers to enhance their satisfaction level of consumers
(Silverstone, 2017).
Ethical and social issues that pertain to running businesses
Their are various ethical and social issues that occur in Sainsbury's organization, some
major of them are describe below:-
Ethical Issue:
Security:- It is one of fierce problem that arise in enterprises is not up to mark in
securities at company. For hackers it is very easy to hack information related to firm and they do
it by using IP address for hacking companies computer system for collecting information data for
selfish and illegal purpose. In the case of e-commerce, hacker interrupt the computer system in
between a person is doing monetary transaction and transfer all amount to their potential account

which affect directly bank and customers who are using technologies. So to avoid this situation,
Sainsbury's focus on their security and related issue because it damage their management when
respective company computer systems get hacked by hacker for illegal purpose (Gattorna, 2017)
Software Piracy:- This term is avail for maintaining the acts of illegal copying,supply
and use of software without having legal rights. For Sainsbury's it is risky because hacker can
easily hack their software and acquire all information and data for wrong activity. If hacker steal
legal protected software device data it will majorly affect on respective company operations.
Social Issue:
Job Displacement:- This refers to involuntary loss of job for reason of different
economic factors like economic downturns and that made efforts for the improvement of data
across worldwide. For Sainsbury's loss in jobs impact business growth badly because for
gaining high income and profitability the employees of respective organization are performing
task.
Using networking to advancement:- For an organization it is one of major social issue
because it play initial role for the smooth functioning of business operations and its functions. If
there is poor networking in Sainsbury's it will impacts bad on all important customers details
and informations. Networking help respective company to develop its connections of business
with buyers worldwide. But if Sainsbury's not eradicate and minimise such issues and problems
it will affect on customers day to day transaction and customers get irritated due to poor network
(Xiang Magnini and Fesenmaier, 2015).
Identify and differentiate between various types of networking technologies
In network techniques and computer system are liable to manage all business operations
and proceedings to achieve business goals and objectives to lead in market. Networking
technologies helps in give strength to company by providing and installing personal area network
,Local area network, Wide area network and wireless local area network and other networks that
helps in achieve business objectives and goals in organisation. There are number of networks
that helps to achieve business objectives that are as follows:
Personal area networks (PAN):
It is the most useful and accessible way of network that develops with modem,
computers, phones and other devices that help to achieve goals of organisation. It satisfy needs
of organisation and objectives. It basically resides in small area or offices that can be managed

in small organisation and by one person can be handle (Ricci, Rokach,Shapira, 2014). It does not
exist in wide areas where large no. of networks and devices exist in Sainsbury's .
Local area network (LAN):
It is distinctive from Personal area network that is established in local areas that have
connection of computers and less voltage devices in local area network. This helps in transfer
data and information from different modes. The medium and moderate level of organisation can
handle the local area networks. That share information in limited area. In LAN by using different
devices such as routers, it provides data and information safety to organisation.
Wide area networks (WAN) – It is comparatively harder than networks of LAN, a wide area
networks connects and transfer information with computers over long distance in area. This give
information computers and less voltage technology which directly connect with each other where
large area of networks help in sharing information and data over different channels. Internet is
most well known example of wide area network, which enables to directs all computers world
wide in effective manner (Eason, 2014). It is maintains multiple channels of communication to
Effective cooperation.
Wireless local area networks (WLAN) – it work similar to a local area network ,
WLANs enables to develop avail of wireless network of technology ex: Wi-Fi. It similar as
system of LAN, that type of network not require to device which depend on cables and
networks to connect various systems.
Storage area network (SAN) – It is fast pace network that link and distribute huge
number of storage and information to vary networks. Such kind of networks need not to depend
on Local area network or Wide area network . They go through with different networks and keep
them in the highly performed network. There are many types of backup area network such as
virtual, unified and converged.
Metropolitan area network (MAN) – It is computer network which directly link with
clients with varies computer networks in vast area that connect local network. Although it is
basically smaller than taken by WAN. It is different from local area network that it is no. of
group of computers and link with one other with same works and wide area networks connect
with large area.

ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION
It will be evaluated that achievements and loop falls of Sainsbury's during evaluating IT
for achieving growth and development. IT is most obligatory method which enables
Sainsbury's in collecting and distributing all essential information in proper way. This helps in
deal with potential consumers in worldwide and it gives accessibility to enterprise to deliver
every activity efficiently. (Taylor, Fritsch and Liederbach, 2014).
Moreover, major drawback of information technology is that its businesses faces cost.
Since Sainsbury's collect their data and information on cloud server that can be apply through
websites with clients and username so it eradicate risk that will be threat for organisation.
FINDINGS
It will be evaluated that IT is a group of tools and accessories which helps in giving
accurate information and data along with right resources within time frame. The enterprise
achievements is rely upon making decisions that take out effective results that are beneficial for
organisation to achieve goals and objectives. It will be analysed that there are varies of ethical
and societal issues that faced by the organisation while deal in business organisation. Then with
help of data and information it can contribute in business success. So these all factors such as
technology and data and information helps in contribution of goods and services quality and
quantity with their effectiveness. There are many types of techniques that helps in operations and
practices in business operations to gain effectiveness. There is lack of investment that is faced by
organisation while operating in whole world that financially they are enough sound that harms
their business reputation and behaviour.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that that IT helps controlling and
evaluating information of company in systematic way and doing. The role of IT is access in
evaluating achievements and degradation of goods and services . Information technology is use
for collecting , transforming, giving data and information in perspective of enterprise . The IT is
totally rely on varies factors. By identifying drawbacks that exist in and hinder in organisation
progressively run their business operations or its works. Information technology help and play a
major role in successfully implementation of operations that are very essential for business
proceeding.

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