A Case Analysis: Mahalo Company Mahalo Company, founded in 1953, has been playing a leader within the U.S. financial industry for several decades. Mahalo is well known for providing its high quality financial services, its major clients from banks, investment companies to insurance companies in the United States. Mahalo Company has a total of 3000 employees working nationwide from the west coast to the east coast of the United States, and 500 employees work at the headquarters location- the South of Florida state. Unfortunately, the beginning of July, 2008 a tremendous flood has damaged its headquarters, and its information system at headquarters has suffered a severe loss. Thus, the head of the headquarters has decided to move to a new office space. The current important task is to repair Mahalo’s basic information systems as soon as possible in order to protect its customer base and investments. The next important task is to create a disaster recovery plan for the future. Analysis the Current Damages Following the principle stated from Marakas & O’Brien (2006) to estimate the current damages, there are five basic components of information system that are involved; people, software, hardware, data, and networking. With the headquarters being moved to the new place, the headquarters staff are all ready for any further repair movement ordered from the top of the managers. Besides, the lost data is available from the off-site backup system to restore. So far, the major challenges Mahalo Company is facing are its damaged computer hardware and damaged system software. Moreover, Mahalo Company has to reset the disconnected networking systems that link with its venders or customers quickly. From the preliminary estimates, most damages are the devices located at the first and second floors of the headquarters, including desk computers, touchpads, keyboards, printers, scanners, faxes, phones, disks and data wiring. Actually, most of them are unusable anymore. Most badly, 10 out of 30 network servers in the server room are not salvageable. The rest of the 20 servers have been moved to the new office already. Mahalo Company is trying to deal with the difficulties caused from the flood very carefully and make the most effective decision. Besides, although Mahalo Company’s application software and system software were lost while the flood damaged hardware, most of them are available to be restored once they obtain the supports from the other branches. The networks, such as Internet, intranet, extranet, client/server, and network computing, they also are waiting for the hardware facilities getting ready and being restored again.
The project will bring several changes to the company; it will first expand the current physical IT environment. It will provide the ability to increase the storage capacity of the current storage requirement and expected growth of data, while establishing a new data warehouse and business analytics applications and user interfaces. The project will also improve security by establishing security policies and it will leverage newer cloud based technology to provide a highly redundant, flexible and scalable IT environment while also allowing the ability to establish a low cost disaster recovery site.
McDonald’s Corporation started out in the way that many businesses do, with one idea and a brilliant mind or two. The year was 1948, when two brothers by the names of Mac and Dick McDonald, set forth with the idea to provide a low cost, quickly produced meal. Thus, the restaurant we know today was born. The menu consisted of only nine items such as: hamburgers, cheeseburgers, soft drinks, milk, coffee, potato chips, and pie. The staple of this menu was the hamburger for only 15¢. In 1954, a milkshake salesman named Ray Kroc stopped by the brother’s hamburger stand to sell them more milkshake machines. Upon learning that the brothers were looking for a national franchising agent, he quickly realized his future would be in
BBS Computing is located in Greece New York It is a Computer Sales, Service center that also does some Networking systems. Paul Saussa, Ron Bess and John Bonacci are both owners and employees of the business. It is a relatively small business that mainly does computer sales and repair with some occasional networking jobs. The actual business consists of a show room and a workshop. The showroom has different models of computers that customers can have built to buy. There are 4 different types depending on a customer’s budget for a computer. The low-end models consisting of a Pentium III processor and 256 Mb of RAM and the basic keyboard, mouse, monitor, printer, and speakers, and the high-end models consisting of a Pentium 4 processor or equivalent with 256 or more Mb of DDR RAM and premium speakers, keyboard, mouse, printer and monitor. Thus, meaning you get what you pay for. The display models allow you to show a customer some of the features of the different types of computer systems that are offered. Such things as operating systems such as Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, and Windows XP, and also programs like Nero for CD burners, All-in-Wonder TV tuner cards and applications such as Microsoft Office. This was my first opportunity to work with Windows XP.
Behind every product manufactured there are parts, fasteners, gloves, welds, holes that are drilled, and maybe a headache or two. These are all products that are sold and manufactured by the companies W.W. Grainger and Fastenal Company. Both of these companies are in the top ten in revenue for the industrial supply industry and I just so happen to work at one of them, that being Fastenal Co.
OPPORTUNITIES: McDonalds has many opportunities to change its look, menu, and customer service. McDonald’s started building newer building incorporating the arch, along with more modern furnishings. The menu has changed by adding more breakfast items and introducing the McCafe in certain areas.
Macy’s is one of the America’s largest retailers – a department chain which sells a variety of low-cost to mid-range goods such as apparel, shoes, household goods, home décor and appliances, cosmetics, jewelry, and accessories. Established by Rowland Hussey Macy in New York in 1858, the store has become an iconic name to mane generations of Americans. Macy’s operates about 730 physical stores, as well as available online at www.macys.com and through a mobile application (Macy’s, 2016a). The department chain also operates the Bloomingdale’s, an upscale department store chain, where more upscale and fashionable offerings are sold. Macy’s operates 38 Bloomingdale’s stores and 16 outlet locations,
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Fletchers started their business in the construction sector in 1909. Timber weatherboard house in Dunedin, New Zealand was their first project and they built it. They remain the leading construction company in New Zealand until 2001. In late 2001, they change their name The Fletcher Building Company on the stock exchange of New Zealand. Their main office is in Penrose, Auckland. They have near 20,000 employees working for them. They are dealing with mainly six different sections of construction work, heavy and light both building products, panels, and laminates distribution in New Zealand; they also distribute construction products in Australia and constructing the new big buildings there.
Disaster Recovery Planning is the critical factor that can prevent headaches or nightmares experienced by an organization in times of disaster. Having a disaster recovery plan marks the difference between organizations that can successfully manage crises with minimal cost, effort and with maximum speed, and those organizations that cannot. By having back-up plans, not only for equipment and network recovery, but also detailed disaster recovery plans that precisely outline what steps each person involved in recovery efforts should undertake, an organization can improve their recovery time and minimize the disrupted time for their normal business functions. Thus it is essential that disaster recovery plans are carefully laid out and carefully updated regularly. Part of the plan should include a system where regular training occurs for network engineers and managers. In the disaster recovery process extra attention should also be paid to training any new employees who will have a critical role in this function. Also, the plan should require having the appropriate people actually practice what they would do to help recover business function should a disaster occur. Some organizations find it helpful to do this on a quarterly or semi-annual basis so that the plan stays current with the organization’s needs.
The history of the Carnival Corporation begins in 1972, when Ted Arison set up Carnival Cruise Lines as a subsidiary of the American International Travel Service. The first ship ran aground, but Arison remained steadfast in achieving his vision of a cruise line offering affordable vacation packages to middle-income consumers. By 1977, Carnival had three ships, and ten years later, as the industry leader, the company went public. In the early 1990s, Carnival began to diversify into land-based entertainment, thus changing its name to Carnival Corp. The company is the world's #1 cruise operator with about a third of the market.
This is one of the risks that the company usually takes very carefully because it takes a lot of efforts, time and money to build again if it is lost.
The XYZ Corporation was established in 2004 and their main office is located in Vancouver, BC. The company’s main objective is to create new innovating technology for media devices, computers, and digital music players. They deal with the design, manufacturing and marketing of the products. XYZ Corporation has been providing Canadians with groundbreaking technology throughout the years and continues to create new technology to provide others with top-level technology. Although, recently their success rate has appeared to drop rapidly due to a number of factors that will be explored throughout this case study. Their main objective is to target the problems so that they can work towards having the issues resolved as quickly as possible. If they do not take any course of action, the state of the company may be in extreme danger. This case study is designed to explore the areas of the company and discover the problems blocking the XYZ Corporation from success.
Across the whole business, it has participated in technology in the other areas too to recover its abilities and performance. In the recent years, it augmented its deal in marketing and whether old-fashioned approaches or digital marketing, it is capitalizing millions to recover its mark
Microsoft is the leading and the largest Software Company in the world. Found by William Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 Microsoft has grown and become a multibillion company in only ten years. It all started with a great vision – “a computer on every desk and every home” - that seemed almost impossible at the time. Now Microsoft has over 44,000 employees in 60 countries, net income of $3.45 billion and revenue of 11.36 billion. Company dramatic growth and success was driven by development and marketing of operational systems and personal productivity applications software.