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Part- A
Q1: Information system can be a strategic weapon
.Comment.
Ans: - Using information technology as a strategic weapon is the
highest level of application information technology can help build and
enhance strategy by providing better data and information within the
organization (internal application) as well as help the organization
redefine and support relationship with customers, suppliers and other
organization (external application). Internal applications include
networking, intranet, and enterprises resource planning (ERP) systems.
Extranets, e-commerce, and network structures are external
application.
Networking, which links people and departments within a particular
building or even across corporate offices, enabling them to share
information and cooperate on projects, has become an important
strategic weapon for many companies. Networks may take many
forms, but the fastest – growing form of corporate networking is the
intranet, a private companywide information system that uses the
communications protocols and standards of the internet and the World
Wide Web but is accessible only to people within the company. To view
files and information, users simply navigate the site with a standard
Web Browser, clicking on links. Although the intranet looks and acts
like a Web Site, it is cordoned off from the public with the use of
software program known as firewalls. Because intranet is Web-based,
they can be accessed from any type of computers workstation. A single
company may have many types of computers and software with
traditional networks, organization faces a challenge of how to enable
them all to communicate with one another. One solution is a category
of software known as middleware, which medicated among myriad
types of hardware and software sand enables these varied components
to communicate on a network.
Part-B
Q4: Is there any need of having three stages of
feasibility study? Which step of feasibility study is
considered to be the most important and why?
Ans:- The feasibility study is basically the test of the proposed system
in the light of its workability, meeting user’s requirements, effective
use of resources and .of course, the cost effectiveness. The main goal
of feasibility study is not to solve the problem but to achieve the scope.
In the process of feasibility study, the cost and benefits are estimated
with greater accuracy.
In order to determine whether or not a given project is feasible, there
must be some form of investigation into the goals and implications of
the project. For very small scale projects this may not be necessary at
all as the scope of the project is easily understood. In larger projects,
the feasibility may be done but in an informal sense, either because
there is not time for a formal study or because the project is a “must-
have” and will have to be done one way or the other.
When a feasibility study is carried out, there are three main areas of
consideration:
Important Innovation
Considerations
Accelerated
Development Maturity
Moderate Extensive
Moderate Moderate
High Competitive
Long Moderate
Decline
Steadily decreases
Slow or negative
High
Moderate
Shopping Moderate
center
developer Neglect or extensive
strategies reformatting
Extensive
Low
Short
Retailer- Moderate, to
tenant remind of sale price
strategies
Extensive
Reduced variety
and assortment
Scaled down
Caretaker