3rd Assignment

Question 1:

	EXPLANATION	IMPACT
1.        BUYERS	The power of buyers describes the effect that your customers have on the profitability of your business. The transaction between the seller and the buyer creates value for both parties In this situation, buyers are refer to parents, they have power to decide whether they want to send their kids to our kindergarten center, or they will go to other kindergartens. If parents have more economic power, our ability to capture a high proportion of value created will increase. So with that, we can gain higher profit.	low
2.        COMPETITORS	The competitors will give pressure to our business especially other kindergartens, they will promote or give a best service compared to other kindergartens. Besides, they will also give a best price for parents so with that, parents will go and sent their kids to other kindergartens.	high
3.        NEW ENTRANTS	The new company or new firm especially will give us pressure that they will do more promotion with the lowest price and good quality of service, and do more advertisement in all mass media The new entrants also will give a special price and service to make parents interest to send their kids to a new kindergartens. In addition, some parents might be want new environment and new building, with this new entrants company, it will affect our business too and parents will not choose our kindergartens to send their kids	high
4.        SUPPLIERS	Suppliers are refers to company that will serve a raw materials for the building for example, fan, chairs, tables. The supplier will increase the raw materials because of the global economic situation in the country. The supplier also increase the cost and gives a poor service if our company choose a lowest raw materials. This will affect our quality for our kindergartens	low
5.        SUBTITUTES	In this new era if globalization, other kindergartens will serve their workers to take care our kids in our house This new transformation decision that the other kindergartens make will affect our reputation and it might affect our profit will decrease in future.	low

Question 2:

STRATEGY	EXPLANATION
1.        COST LEADERSHIP	Cost of leadership is providing products or services at the lowest cost in the industry. In this situation, the kindergarten management need to take a step forward by using IT to substantially reduce the cost of business process For example : company Strategic use of IT Business Benefit kindergarten Online registration The owner of the kindergarten don’t have to spend more money to higher their workers, it is easy, save, and faster. Market leadership kindergarten Online payment Easy for the management level of this kindergarten company to manage their account Market leadership kindergarten e-mail The management don’t have to send a letter to give an order to their employee, it is easier, faster. Market leadership
2.         INNOVATION	Innovation are refer in developing new products & services, and also find new ways of doing business In this situation, the kindergarten’s owner needs to make some change to make this kindergarten stand strong by create new services that include IT components For example : company Strategic use of IT Business Benefit kindergarten Online package registration Easy for the kindergarten to make the registration for new students Market leadership kindergarten Online report card Easy for the management to communicate with parents and sent the latest performance of their son in the class. Market leadership kindergarten Online full service parents system Kindergarten will accept new message from parents in  real time about their kids Market leadership
3.        DIFFERENTATION	The product or services must be unique and outstanding to sustain customer preference and loyalty In this situation, in order to make the kindergarten in better place and popular, the kindergarten needs to offer their service and quality that would require the satisfaction of the user especially parents. For example: company Strategic use of IT Business Benefit kindergarten Online parents feedback The kindergarten will get the feedback, what they need in order to improve the quality of education in the kindergarten kindergarten Online home exercise The kindergarten can help  by giving exercise for those student who miss the class that day kindergarten Live cam class Easy for the kindergarten to make sure all the children will get what the kindergarten has planned
4.        DEVELOP ALLIANCE	Working with business partners to create synergy & provide opportunities for growth. In this situation, the kindergarten management needs to use IT to manage and identify join ventures opportunities For example: company Strategic use of IT Business Benefit kindergarten Online insurance The kindergarten company will save more time to manage insurance. And the feedback will get faster. kindergarten Online banking system Easy for kindergarten management to settle all payment either with supplier or other company kindergarten Online transportation service Increasing in market share
5.        PROMOTE GROWTH	Increase market share, acquiring more customers or selling more products. Expand company’s capacity to produce, expand into global markets, diversity into new products or services. Use IT to manage regional and global business expansion For example: company Strategic use of IT Business Benefit kindergarten Internet advertising gain more customers Increase market share kindergarten Open new branch Increase profit

Question 3:

Geetha Raj:
For Example:

When Miss Geetha Raj enter the website and lo-gin her account, she will know the whole detail about the child who entered to her casual care center .She will also know the updates about the fees collection of the month and this can make Miss Geetha easily to identify which ever child haven't pay the fees with a click on the hyperlink at the bottom right and it will send her to the specific places.

Mrs Doubtfire:
For Example:

When Mrs Doubtfire entered the portal by her account it will send her to the specific link which is her own site. It will list out the medicine or precautions that must be given to the specific children according to their age as shown as above so that Ms Doubtfire can giving out the right medicine on time to the right children.

Mr & Mrs Smith:

For Example:

When Mr & Mrs Smith lo-gin it will send them to their respective site which they register upon registration. This is to ensure that Mr & Mrs Smith will know every detail about the information in this portal. Mr & Mrs Smith will be prompt to click the hyperlink so that they will further understand about the details. This is to ensure that Mr & Mrs Smith will understand more about their child kindergarten education and facilities.

Maggie Tan:

For Example:

When Maggie Tan lo-gin to the portal, it will automatically send her to her page. From there, she will know which children is under her care, parent’s info and their background. She can clicked the link bottom right to go Activities and Interaction page. She will know the special needs of the children and also can enhancing relationship with the activities. 

Question 4:

Top 5 potential issues:

1. The selection problem. Say a company has decided for many reasons to launch a managerial information system implementation project. The very first question that managers will face is what type, size, and scope of the future system they actually require and how to choose the most suitable solution among the hundreds offered on the market. There is no single answer on how to find what you need. Eventually, this selection problem will arises for all businesses without exception

2. Technical issues. How to successfully select a software package is important but not the last problem that will appear on the thorny path toward getting all of the system of software and hardware working together and bringing any value back to the company. Another set of implementation issues is related to the technical part of the project, and covers the servers and workstations to be revised and probably the new and modern ones to be ordered, purchased, and replaced. The internal network also has to be analyzed and modernized if required. If these questions are underestimated, they can dramatically impact the overall result of the project.

3. Data quality issues. This issue is particularly symptomatic of companies that are implementing IS for the first time and transferring their legacy data into the new system from Excel spreadsheets, manual records, or old disparate applications. Basically, the question is that old data that have been used and stored for years can for many reasons appear approximate or even incorrect in the new system.

4. Business philosophy changes. IS implementation brings significant changes into a company’s conventional business model and the day-to day practices it has been using for years or even decades. With the new system, information that a user enters in one screen becomes immediately available to another user; an employee’s level of responsibility is dramatically increased as it is more difficult (sometimes impossible) to fix erroneous data or typing errors; new approaches to data reporting and mining and, thus, new managerial principles and practices have to be established; and finally, real business models and business processes might require massive changes because of new real-time opportunities and data availability.

5. Psychological issues. It is really difficult to describe or classify the possible troubles in this topic, actually, any question can appear. The potential negative impact of users’ possible contrast-collaboration activities.