Your Choice Furniture

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Executive Summary

“Your Choice Furniture” established in 1992 was a family business with long history, which has been handed down from generation to generation. As like most of the tradition businesses, the method of management for the shop was usually used manually.

According to this situation, we found out the various essential elements of “Your Choice Furniture”.

1 The Brief main issues :

1.1 “The book-keeping, invoicing, stocktaking, payroll functions and customers’ details, weekly wage bill employee’s details are kept manually.”

1.2 “The manual system is extremely time-consuming” and difficult to manage the track of inventory.

1.3 There is no fixed staff but need to extend the opening hours, which needs labour-saving.

1.4 The shop needs to be possibly going online.

2 Evaluate Feasibility :

2.1 Operational feasibility:

Most of these problems would be by the information system to help to increase efficiency.

2.2 Technical feasibility:

Customized approach to provision the “Your Choice Furniture” of net technical requirements, most of the problems they face by the information system to help them solve.

2.3 Economic feasibility:

Information system can replace the previous manual handling operations to save a lot of time and labor costs.

Base on the case of “Your Choice Furniture”, we marked this system's analysis to formulate solutions in this report; it assisted in evaluating the impact of recent change information technologies of “Your choice furniture” business system for evaluating how well the firm will be performing.

The deeper part of this report has shown the need of "Your Choice Furniture" for new business system, which will help the company to support their customers and employees, also more ef...

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... to develop comparative advantages and conduct the uneven competition and make a joint effort to accelerate its advancement, and therefore, increase their respective competitiveness on a global scale.

References

Laudon, KC & Laudon, JP 2010, Management Information Systems: Managing the digital firm, 11th Global edn, Pearson Education, Inc, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

Mustaffa, S and Beaumont, N 2002, “The effect of electronic commerce on small Australian enterprises”, Technovation, Vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 85-95. (online ScienceDirect)

Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. 2006, Cases on information technology : lessons learned,Vol 7, Hershey, Pa. : Idea Group.

Marshall, KP & Swartwout, N 2006 “Marketing and Internet Professionals' Fiduciary Responsibility: A Perspective on Spyware..” Journal of Internet Commerce, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 109–126. (online EBSCOHOST)

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