Transcript P3 - Responses:

Adapting business processes – (Remember Business Functional
Areas?)
o sales and marketing strategies for global opportunities
o purchasing strategies for automated ordering
o customer support processes for online systems
o financial systems for secure funds transfer
o automating manufacturing processes
25 minutes to research and produce a poster that explains “how businesses have
responded to developments in IT”. Be prepared to share your answers with the class.
Explain what the response is, identify any advantages and disadvantages.
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sales and marketing strategies for global opportunities ..e.g.
use of e-commerce to provide new ways to buy
new product development e.g. iTunes, kindles,
loyalty cards,
targeted emails,
viral marketing & social media,
Danny - new ways to buy
purchasing strategies for automated ordering e.g.
JIT systems and stock control
Elijah - new product development
customer support processes for online systems e.g.
etc…….
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financial systems for secure funds transfer e.g.
Paying on-line for goods
Banking on-line
automating manufacturing processes
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Other responses could include:
1. No response not cost effective
insufficient skills;
2. Other staff training
redundancies
Scenario:
Mrs Burton is aware that there has recently been significant developments in
the IT that is available to schools that could possibly speed some of the
everyday processes that happen within the school. You have been asked by Mrs
Burton to identify at least three areas within the school where the introduction
of new systems could possibly improve the efficiency of that area.
Task 1
You are to produce a short report for Mrs Burton that identifies 3 areas within
the school that could be improved with the introduction of new IT systems. For
instance, you could take examples of current practices such as the manual
recording of figures and show how technology could present and store larger
amounts of data and provide results more quickly.
You might also consider how the introduction of new systems might present
information in a more readable format that makes the results of any processing
more informative.