Privacy and Information Technology
Geoffrey Graves MG3700 Mid Term Exam 4/24/2000 In order to produce an upwards swing in revenue, Toy World must track its customer's buying trends with more accuracy and more detail. The Point of Sale system that they are currently working from can be improved and made to reduce after-market inventory. Trend data can be used for a wide variety of purposes. One of the first problems is the store design and layout of items. Sale items and hot merchandise must be as strategically positioned as possible to allow a prospective customer to locate and remove the item from the shelf quickly and painlessly. By analyzing customer data, the new system must be able to sort items not only by popularity, but also by genre. Once data is collected, new stores can be quickly designed around the products. Some trends never die, seen by the toy world market data. Comparing one toy with another is extremely important in order to decipher just why it's a big seller. The POS system should be able to lay out all pertinent information about a toy obtained from sales data, and compare it next to a variable number of other "hot" sellers. Data can be compared with toy descriptions after a
) Increase the number of stores to expand leverage from overhead and support expenses3. They must be competent in ANSI C, C++, SQL, Visual Basic, ORACLE, UNIX (AIX), and any other database systems. Toy World's IT budget decreased, while more stores were to be created? Increasing the number of selling points should means more funds needed at the IT level to support the growing need for communication and support the volatile expansion of store volume and customer base. Criminal activity is also an issue pertaining to security and the decrease in privacy. Most law-abiding, tax paying, citizens feel disgusted and let down by political corruption. Although video is extremely reliable, sometimes it is not appropriate. After all, they are the personnel that will ultimately be benefiting from the POS IT system. Toys are the perfect product to purchase online for tech savvy moms and dads at Christmas time. "Vendor Ticketing" and the "Electronic Shopping Aid" are methods that consultants should come up with, especially when they are tailored to the exact needs of that particular IT division. Learn from the past, and in turn, computers can save the boy's life. Similarly, the role of the external consultant should be to guide the MIS department at Toy World with solutions to problems and methods of IT that have been proven to work. Through the web, information is passed faster than the speed of light. Who wouldn't want a government that is almost corruption free? By using technology and decreasing personal privacy, everything important can be caught on camera or recorded. One of the major ideas that were worked into Toy World's "electronic future" was e-commerce.
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