...D1 – Explain how software utilities can improve the performance of computer systems. Software utility | How can it improve computer performance? | Improvements that can be made to the utility | Anti-virus | When viruses enter a computer the performance will significantly decrease because the viruses take over all the system files and change their information. Antiviruses help improve the performance because they stop the viruses from coming in the computer before they make the computer slow as antiviruses scan in real time and whenever a file is downloaded it is always scanned. | Anti-viruses should be constantly searching for new viruses being made and should have constant updates where it will always remove the viruses and stop them from entering your computer. Instead of having scheduled updates they should be constant so new viruses can be detected. There should also be constant virus scans which do not slow the PC down. | Firewalls | Firewalls help improve computer performance because it stops connections from outside of the local area network coming in through ports and controlling the PC or taking files with important credentials stored on it. It is basically a barrier to keep unauthorised elements out of a network or a computer. They are filters for your traffic incoming to your computer so it can block incoming packets that are unsafe. | Firewalls can only protect what they can. It is impossible to stop every single virus that a software might have coming into the...
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...do you think are the prime advantages and disadvantages of Nike’s computer-based interviewing system? Advantages of computer assisted Interviewing system: a) Weeds out undesirable applications: In computer based interview system the applicants whom management thinks are eligible for the job according to qualification, work experience and achievement of an applicant in his/her career is called upon for the interview. This helps the company screen out un- important applicants and in turn save their time in interviewing only required applicants. b) Saves company’s administrative costs: Company during their interview season sees an increase in their administrative expenses which includes mainly the travel reimbursement that all candidates gets during their journey to interview location. Nike being one of the largest manufacturing & retail oriented company; it needs recruitment process almost the whole year. If they spend. Therefore company’s expenses would be very high and at the same time, may not be productive as out of huge number of candidates who have applied, only few would be matching the job profile. c) Time efficient: it saves time for both management involved in recruitment process & candidates who may have to undergo long interview process. Management can utilize that time for its productivity & handling its other important issues. d) No routing errors. If the system is correctly programmed, routing errors, that is, errors in the sequence of questions, skipping...
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...BU1410 Management Information Systems Unit 2 Assignment 1 Instructor: Willie Cooper Jr. Chapter 2 1. What are the major functions of a business that are important for understanding the role of information systems? * Define a business and describe the business functions. * According to the book “A business is a formal organization whose aim is to produce products or provide services for a profit.” * There are four major business functions. They are manufacturing and production, sales and marketing, human resources, and finance and accounting. * Manufacturing and production: assembling the product, checking product quality, producing bulls of materials * Sales and marketing: Identifying customers, making customers aware of products, selling the products * Human resources: hiring employees, evaluating employee job performance, enrolling employees in benefits * Finance and accounting: paying creditors and employees, creating financial statements, managing cash accounts * Define business process and describe the role they play in organizations. * Business process is the steps and tasks that describe how a business’ work is organized. A business process is important so that each employee follows the same steps and tasks when working for an organization. * Identify and describe the different levels in a business firm and their information...
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...Eagle Systems Replacement Project Date: 9 Feb 2015 prepared by: Fiona B Terry, Project Manager Australian Eagle(fterry@australianeagle.com.au) Case Study: Current State Assessment of Australian Eagle’s Situation: In this project Australian eagle is a Successful company that offers high quality clothing at reasonable prices there are 5 years old in the retail industry now there are trying to develop the sales of the clothes by introducing the online trading but already they have the pos, stock management, General ledger, Accounts Receivable and payable system and a payroll system but with these system there are struggling to keep up with the Australian Eagle Growth there are trying to improve the pos and back office system such that there anticipated benefits of the order of $150000 p.a. In the project there are trying to improve the new advancements but they don’t know what to be fixed and when to be fixed so there consult Getronics Consultancy and asked for the improvement of the pos and the back office systems but the company already have a pos which is built by the owner’s nephew but it is not up to the mark so there are trying to rebuilt the pos upgrade their systems to remain competitive and to mitigate the risk of the system failure arising from so many non-related systems supported by various people and there have to manage the system under control and currently system costs...
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...At my current workplace there is at least one system error that was apparent in this week’s reading regarding “Systems Thinking”. Seddon (2007) in part one of his six steps series stated that most organizations have managers who believe that their roles as managers is to manage people and budget. He also says that although most managers believe that people are their most important asset, they judge their people based on how they perform their work. Seddon (2007) in part one of his six steps series also states that managers should concentrate on the system or systems that people are made to work with. If the system is effective and constantly being worked on for further improvement, then the productivity of the people is bound to improve. In the Acquisition Management division of my organization, there are multiple systems the Contracting professionals have to work with. In order to initiate a procurement action, program offices need to put in a Procurement Request (PR) through the PRISM system describing the requirement and providing approved funding information. The contracting person needs to verify that funds are indeed available and have been set up for obligation by going into the TraMS system. Funds are to be obligated here upon execution of the contract. Once this is done the Financial Management folks have to then enter these obligations further into the DELPHI accounting system. This seems to be an inefficient system because one of the ways the contracting personnel...
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...4/4/2016 49004 Systems Engineering for Managers Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) - An Introduction Last Lecture 2 We completed our introduction to systems concepts: Definitions Characteristics Significance Feedback 1 4/4/2016 This lecture 3 We will give a brief description of Checkland’s Soft Systems Methodology (SSM); We will indicate where it is appropriate to use; We will distinguish it from “hard” approaches. 4 Lecture Relevant Reading Checkland P (1993), “The Development of ‘Soft’ Systems Thinking”, Jackson MC (2004), “Soft Systems Methodology”, Optional Reading: Staker RJ (1999), An Application of Checkland’s Soft Systems Methodology to the Development of a Military Information Operations Capability for the Australian Defence Force 2 4/4/2016 “Classical” Systems Engineering 5 One way of thinking suggests… engineering begins when a need is established. the engineer’s task then provides a solution ... A “how to” oriented activity the need is expressed in terms of a system with defined objectives If there is a current situation S0 and a future, desired situation S1, then select the best of the available ways of getting from S0 to S1 so that the process becomes one of evaluating alternative solutions using models and criteria However… 6 More often than not, for managers, the problem is ill-defined – or the need is not readily established “What is the issue?” is the relevant question before...
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... | |☐ System is disconnected from other departments. | |☑ Too much manual intervention in the business process. | |☐ Required information is not always available. | |☐ Information retention is inefficient or non-existent. | |☐ Poor use of available information technology resources. | |☑ Insufficient use of database technology or tools. | |☐ Poor communication. | | | |How could a proper database system and subsequent tools serve to improve the issues this department is having? (short answer) | |...
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...services for citizens and other stakeholders, and is that strategy communicated with clarity, both internally and externally? Do you have a disciplined way of choosing priorities among competing programs and services, under tighter and more stringent budgets? How are you keeping score and communicating progress toward the vision? If you need to make hard choices among competing programs and services for tight budget dollars, if you are looking to increase program and service effectiveness and improve operational efficiency and performance, and if you need to become a more strategy focused organization then a balanced scorecard may be the best planning and management framework for your organization. This article describes how to build a strategy-based balanced scorecard system, and shares some lessons learned from developing strategy-based scorecard systems in dozens of government and nonprofit organizations in 22 countries and from training over 5000 people from 150 organizations. “Balanced scorecard” means different things to different people. Balanced scorecards have evolved over the past decade from dashboard systems that simply measure financial and non-financial performance, to holistic, strategic planning and management systems that help organization’s plan strategically, and manage and track strategy execution. Strategy-based balanced scorecards align the work people do with organization mission, vision and strategy, and communicate strategic intent internally to employees and...
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...discuss rating system that judge employees on job performance. The rating systems that will discuss in this paper are the following: forced-ranking, absolute-rating and relative-rating system. The author will discuss weather forced ranking is a good performance management system, the different between the absolute-rating and relative-rating systems, an what would the author rely on as a rating system and can a absolute-rating system be devise that would guarantee differentiation among workers, Rank & Yank: Legitimate Performance Improvement Tool Or Ruthless and Unfair Management 1. Do you think forced ranking is a good performance management system? Why or Why not. The forced ranking system is not a good performance management system because it’s been proven to discriminate against workers, it fails to promote inclusiveness and teamwork among workers, and it is costly because it increases employee turnover. According to Gomez “the intent of the forced-ranking system is to improve the performance level of an operation by getting rid of the bottom ten percent of performers and hiring replacements that will perform at a higher level” (p. 231). Forced ranking has been employed by a number of companies but some legal challenges have been made (Gomez-Mejia, Balkin, & Cardy, 2007). For example, a lawsuit contends that Microsoft’s grading system is discriminatory. A class-action suit brought on behalf of African Americans and women states that the rating system “permits managers...
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...Structure of the Corporation……………………………………………………………………………11 8. Major Issues………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….11 9. Recommendations………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..12 10. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….17 References………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….18 Attachments……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….19 Executive Summary: Management practice relies upon case studies and the individual experiences of managers when dealing with workplace situations. In order to get a complete grasp of these practices, both theoretical and practical knowledge is required. To this end, Southern Management Corporations managerial practices were studied and analyzed to understand how the managements work practices affected its residents and also its employees. The outcome of our study has identified...
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...What are the current problems that the Event Coordinator is having? (multiple choice, multi-select) ☑ System is disconnected from other departments. ☑ Too much manual intervention in the business process. ☑ Required information is not always available. ☑ Information retention is inefficient or non-existent. ☑ Poor use of available information technology resources. ☑ Insufficient use of database technology or tools. ☐ Poor communication. How could a proper database system and subsequent tools serve to improve the issues this department is having? (short answer) Have no database to keep track of clients. Only way of customer feedback is through cards and they do not reply. Database could do all that for them. They schedule staff by previous seasons. Database could give accurate occupancy. Database could advertise and rent rooms. Front Desk What are the current problems that the Front Desk is having? (multiple choice, multi-select) ☑ System is disconnected from other departments. ☑ Too much manual intervention in the business process. ☑ Required information is not always available. ☑ Information retention is inefficient or non-existent. ☑ Poor use of available information technology resources. ☑ Insufficient use of database technology or tools. ☐ Poor communication. How could a proper database system and subsequent tools serve to improve the issues this department is having? (short answer) Recepts should be logged into computer at once for...
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...on its people and their performance. The organizational development functional management at CVS realized that sharing a common vision would assist each individual in understanding what the company stands for, commit to the same vision, and then work toward supporting the mission each and every day. The vision at CVS is simple “to strive to improve the quality of human life” (CVScaremark.com, 2010). Taking a look at two of the organization’s functional goals in the Technology and Human Resource business areas, it is easy to see how CVS is an industry leader. The organizational structure or team at CVS involved in working on this issue from the HR area include the Senior Vice President of HR, Training Specialist, nd local HR managers. From organizational operations there is the technology manager, and procurement managers. 1. The role of the organizational development team is to identify areas where issues remain unresolved even though there has been some changes made to management or system processes. The goals of the technology department are to remain at the forefront of the industry and continue to meet objectives set to improve operations quality with the organization. Specifically...
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...System Performance How do fragments do and can affect your file and disk performance? The impact of fragmentation on system performance differs based on the usage of the fragmented files. For example, a single infrequently used Microsoft Office document is unlikely to have an impact on overall system performance. However, fragmentation of a paging file, which provides virtual memory to all applications on a system, will likely have a more noticeable impact. Desktop Storage • Storing files downloads and programs on your desktop will affect the performance of your computer. Spyware • Spyware is another major factor affecting computer performance. Spyware is malicious software that attaches itself to your computer in various ways to advertise, monitor your Internet behaviors or collect personal information. System Registry • All Windows computers have a system registry that stores the settings of all software and hardware on the computer. The accumulation of these unused files will affect the performance of your computer. Disk Space • Every time you visit a Web pages through your Web browser the page is cached for easy access the next time you visit the page and a temporary Internet file is created on your computer. These files over time can clutter your hard drive and affect the performance of your computer. While there is little dispute among IT professionals regarding the impact of disk fragmentation on system performance, no independent guidelines exist to recommend...
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...QUESTION # 01: What kind of systems are described in this case? Identify and describe the business processes each supports. Describe the inputs, processes, and outputs of these systems. ANSWER # 01 There are several kinds of systems are described in this case study; Domino’s uses TPS , pulse evolution and SCMs which helps to increase customer satisfaction pulse is installed on two types of hardware first “thick-client “in which all order (TPS)“pulse “are installed on pc’s and other is “thin-client “model that is network with small clients. Domino’s defined point-of-sale system, Pulse, which is an important asset in maintaining consistent and efficient management functions in each of its restaurants. A point-of-sale system captures purchase and payment data at a physical location where goods or services are bought and sold using computers, automated cash registers, scanners, or other digital devices Domino’s applied pulse in a huge slice of its store, and those stores conveyed better-quality customer service, reduced mistakes, and shorter training times. Since then, Pulse has become a essential of all Domino’s franchises The inputs, processes, and outputs of these systems are as follows; Inputs: The customer orders that define the type of pizza which they want to eat as they customize its size, sauces and toppings, and delivery location data, these are the inputs. Processes: By receiving an order all the data is stored in the database recorded in their machines and by...
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...Gabrielle Ware Appraisal System Human Services Management November 17,2013 Ruth Ann Ristow Individual Performance A performance appraisal system is a very important part of any organization in order for it to be successful. An appraisal system is very beneficial, it offers feedback and rewards to employees’ who perform well and meet the expectations of their job. It also provides a way for employees to accountable for their actions. They set goals for employees to improve performance and increase productivity within the organization. The purpose of an appraisal system is to provide an evaluation on the employee’s performance. Many organizations perform appraisals yearly, as the director of an organization I would have an appraisal done every three months, that way employees have room to improve in the areas that they may struggle in. Appraisal systems identify good and bad performers and provides written record that supports the decision to terminate and individual who doesn’t respond to the attempts to improve performance. The benefits of an appraisal system is that employees will be noticed for doing a good job which will allow them to know that their work is appreciated and doesn’t go unnoticed, but on the other hand the appraisal system is in set in place to show employees the areas they need improvement in, that way they will be able to complete their jobs to the best of their abilities. Managers and or supervisors shouldn’t wait until...
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