Introducing New Software and Hardware

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Introducing New Software and Hardware

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Identify:

Mr Smith, who is the owner of JC SPORTS, has discovered three main

problems with his shop's basketball sales, these were due to:

1. The old-fashioned manual systems in his company. (Manual system).

2. The lack of interest for the latest new products on the market.

(Marketing system).

3. The lack of a new hardware & software systems. (Computer system).

Surprisingly, because of poor product handling, out of all the sales

in his sports and design shop, the amount of basketball sports goods

sold dropped massively over the past six months.

At the time, I happened to assist Mr Smith as he was recording down

his sales. Mr Smith was not very clever when it came to using

computers. He needed a quite a lot of helping out.

Due to the fact that I was one of his best customers, Mr Smith then

showed me his most baffling results that he recently found out. The

problem was that Mr Smith was pretty old fashioned and used the

ancient, long gone manual technology like the typewriter to sort out

his business instead of using the modern day computer software and

technology such as the word processor and the spreadsheet.

Since I was compiling this project, I offered to help him solve this

very problem by myself doing a series of analysis on the sales,

marketing and systems later on in that very same week. It was a

challenge. Mr Smith was very much obliged and gave me his sales report

immediately. I also advised him to shape up and use the latest

up-to-date, business & industrial technology around him and not use

his very old, former technology.

Later on at home, as I assessed the report, I took into consideration

any possible alternative solutions and objectives of the following

concerning a sales analysis, marketing analysis and a system analysis.

These were

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1. Write a questionnaire: Write questionnaire in Microsoft Word. (For

the customers- Customers will fill it in)

2. Do a survey: Plot survey results in Microsoft PowerPoint. (For the

customers- Questionnaires will be sent out to customers as part of

survey)

3. Enter all information and data into both Microsoft Word and

Microsoft Excel.

4. Cut down prices: this will help by attracting customers who would

like to buy the product at an affordable price.

5. Include deals: this is making special offers to customers that they

will find hard to resist.

6. Advertise: this will help more and more people, customers and

business associates know more about the product.

7. Introduce new appropriate hardware and software.

Analyse:

Continuing assessing my project, I conducted a feasibility study on

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