Enterprise: One of the three 'sub-businesses' or 'bases' of Innovative Plastics, divided into three countries, France, England and Spain.
             Technical issues: Issues/problems with the 'hardware side' of Innovative Plastics
             People issues: Issues with employees of the company (ethical and lawful issues)
             Innovative Plastics co-operative is a business with enterprises in England, France, and Spain. The aim of this report id to develop a new computer system to integrate into the company, supporting all areas of their business activities. Innovative Plastics' existing system is not fulfilling all their business needs and is resulting in several problems falling into two main categories, 'Technical' issues and 'People' issues, listed below:
             Poor communication, a major problem for Innovative Plastics, is both poor internally, i.e. within the enterprise in England (for example), and externally, i.e. between all three enterprises in the different countries. This leads to other problems, such as an unharmonious set of working practices. This is both a technical and a people issue, as without up-to-date efficient technology, communicating abroad (such as via. E-mail) can be made virtually impossible, yet internal communication is clearly breaking down somewhere, possibly suggesting a problem with the chain of command (for example) or low-morale de-motivated untrained employees.
             Working practices used by the three enterprises in England, France, and Spain are working more as separate groups against each other, rather than together as one company. Therefore, these need to be harmonized so that the company can become more efficient in handling data inquiries, updates and additions, as well as becoming more efficient from the consumer's point of view.
             As a result of the upcoming expansion and increases in joint sales from all three enterprises, the current system installed is incapable of an increased 'workload'. This requires them t...