ICT Report 2b: ICT in Organisations
ICT Report 2b: ICT in Organisations The following report is on how a particular company employs ICT in their everyday running. The company that I am going to review is named Boots Plc. I will examine how Boots uses ICT in the four main functional areas of the company: sales, purchasing, finance and operations (logistics) and how ICT helps the business. I will be looking in detail at how ICT is used by Boots Retail to manage the operation of its stores in the UK. I have visited the Boots branch in Kilburn (on Kilburn High Road), and also gathered information from the web. Boots has been established since 1849 when founder Mary Boot, selling herbal remedies to the cities, opened the first Boots store in Nottingham. In 1892 boots first "department" store opened, with an extensive new merchandise range, at Pelham St, Nottingham. Now with over 63000 employees and 1400 stores, Boots Plc is the UK's leading provider of health and beauty products. As well as retailing, Boots Plc develops and manufactures products and markets many worldwide. On top of their range of health and beauty products, Boots Plc are now becoming a provider of complementary services and advice, offering customers a comprehensive mans of meeting their health and beauty needs. Boots Plc is a retailing business, which consists of - Boots the Chemists, Boots Opticians, Boots Dental care, Boots Hearing care and
Computer Hardware, uses, advantages and disadvantages.
Hardware Hardware is all the physical parts of a computer. These are the parts you can see and touch. A computer system consists of inputs, outputs, processing and storage. Types of hardware The following are the main types of hardware: Input Something that goes into the production of output Process In computing, a process is an instance of a computer program that is being executed878798 a result Storage A storage device may hold information, process information, or both Output End product: final product; the things produced I used the following hardware during this task: Input Microsoft QWERTY Keyboard Microsoft Optical Mouse Scanner Process Intel Core Duo Processor Storage 20GB SATA Hardrive GB RAM 4GB transcend USB Output DAEWOO 17" Monitor (CRT) Printer The following table shows how a device works and also the advantages and disadvantages of the device: Name of device Price The way it works Advantages Disadvantages Keyboard £10.00 A keyboard is an input device used to enter textual information into a computer system. Computer keyboards are provided for many different languages and dialects, with different layouts for each. The most commonly known keyboard is a US Standard 102-Key Keyboard. This keyboard uses the QWERTY layout. The
Full Course howard health centre
Contents for howard health centre website Introduction and analysis 2 Hardware Report 6 Using software 9 Data Input 13 Systems Output 17 Design 21 Time plan 22 Initial design 23 Final design 25 User guide 26 Testing 35 Implementation 37 Benefits and drawbacks to the new website 38 The ICT effects of the internet and new communication methods on society 41 Evaluation 42 Introduction and analysis Introduction Howard Health Centre is a new general health centre located in upper street. Howard health centre is a centre which has combined four successful health related practises a dental surgery, doctor surgery, an opticians and a baby clinic. Problems Howard health centre is a newly established centre which needs to be advertised through out the country. The health centre is experiencing some problems advertising their new centre which they aim to solve by using a new approach of advertising. They are now planning to use a new website which will allow patients to identify the advantages of the new centre. This will also allow easy access to booking appointments, general information etc. They have already tried alternative methods to promote their centre. They have used basic advertising methods; they handed out leaflets which had unsuccessful effects on the customer. This lead to wastage of paper and increase in costs. Information about bookings was not
A2 ICT, Task 3 - St. Anthony’s Hospital
Charles Sonnex A2 ICT, Task 3 St. Anthony's Hospital Introduction The application that I have decided to report on is the system at St. Anthony's Private Hospital. . St. Anthony's is situated on the A24, London Road, North Cheam, Surrey and is well served by road and public transport services. Close to the A3 and the M25, it is easily accessible and convenient for both Heathrow and Gatwick airports. The parking facilities at St. Anthony's are good with ample spaces. The hospital can arrange for an ambulance service should it be needed. St. Anthony's is a private catholic hospital, which provides private health care for over 200 patients. The company has a huge plot of land, where many buildings stand, including offices, wards, an incinerator, conference centre, restaurant and others such as theatres, x ray rooms and treatment centres. Within the main building, a pharmacy, gift shop and a morgue are also present. There are a number of departments within the organisation. Many perform few tasks using ICT therefore I will look only at the two main departments, which have the greatest use of the computer system at St. Anthony's. These being the Hotel Services Department and the Finance Department. Both have very different roles within the organisation. The role and function of the hotel services department are as follows: * To provide, safe, hygienic, high quality
ICT (double award) - Business systems portfolio.
FINHAM PARK SCHOOL ICT DEPARTMENT GCSE IN APPLIED ICT (DOUBLE AWARD) BUSINESS SYSTEMS PORTFOLIO Centre Number 20444 Centre Name Finham Park School Candidate Number Candidate Name Daniel Chapman Specification Code and Title 494 - GCSE in Applied ICT (Double Award) Unit Code 4873 - Business Systems Portfolio Date Set 03/03/03 Hand In Date 1 0/03/03 Signed (Teacher) Returned Date 1 7/03/03 Signed (Student) Hand In Date 2 24/03/03 Signed (Teacher) Returned Date 2 31/03/03 Signed (Student) Final Hand In Date 07/04/03 Signed (Teacher) SECTION A Grade Criteria Evidence Verified Mark GG FF EE Identify and make brief comments about one use for each organisation. State the information requirements of some of the systems. List hardware and software used for at least one system. DD CC BB Produce several sentences on each use of ICT for each organisation. Produce several sentences about the info requirements, hardware and software needed for most of the systems discussed. BB AA A*A* Recognition of why the organisations need to use ICT. Clear explanation of how the organisations use of ICT meet those needs. Detailed explanations about what the systems consist of. Total Section A Introduction I will be looking at two company's that I have had chance to study there ICT systems. I will be trying to see how ICT has improved their work
GCSE Database Project ICT
Checklist for Database Project ALL THESE MUST BE USED AS HEADINGS IN THE PROJECT Title Page Jack Jones, National Surgery of Dentistry for Any Purpose Project Using Microsoft Access 2008. Identify (5 marks) Identifying the user, Background Details The user will be the receptionist of the NSDAP who needs a way of making the system more efficient. The NSDAP was set up a few years ago and is a dental surgery with few patients. The user would like a way of arranging the patient's details easily as the number of patients is increasing rapidly. Currently the secretary is asking the new patients to fill in a hand written form, of which she copies onto another paper form. This form then is moved into a back storeroom, which is roughly kept in alphabetical order. When a patient wishes to book an appointment the receptionist gets the calendar, which has patient's appointments and views, which dates/times, are free. Once the patient has chosen a time, the secretary writes in the patients name for reference. On the day of the appointment, the secretary copies the calendar for the dentist or his assisting nurse, and then she finds the patient's information from the name off the calendar. These are kept in a box in time order, which the assisting nurse takes them in order and reads out the patient's names calling them to be seen by the Dentist. The dentist writes on the personal notes
In this (2b) report I am going to investigate software application, Input and Output devices, Processor, Ports and Cables and finally Storage devices that Sainsbury used them,
Unit 2b INTRODUCTION In this (2b) report I am going to investigate software application, Input and Output devices, Processor, Ports and Cables and finally Storage devices that Sainsbury used them, I am again briefly introducing this Supermarket with its aims function and some purposes and how Sainsbury uses technologies, and why Sainsbury uses these different technologies, In this report I am investigating different technologies, and some other technologies that we used every day in our life, for example: Keyboard, mouse, PC, etc. J Sainsbury plc is a leading UK food retailer with interests in non-food and financial services. The group comprises Sainsbury's Supermarkets, Bells Stores, Jackson's Stores and Sainsbury Bank and employs more than 153,000 people. Sainsbury's businesses is built on a commitment to quality and service that dates back to 1869 and its desire to give customers the "best butter in the world" at prices they could afford. Sainsbury aims to be the customer's first choice for food, delivering products of outstanding quality with great service at a competitive cost. More recently in 1996, the company started formal reporting was broadened to CSR as a response to greater demand amongst its stakeholders. Sainsbury's estimated that it recruits around 50,000 people a year and, in May 2005, launched a drive to hire 10,000 over-50s by the end of the year. This
Creating a computer system for a video rental shop
sis Introduction ABZ World is a video rental shop, located in Stoke Newington town centre. It is a relatively small shop and has 300 members, who live in and around Stoke Newington. The shop is owned and managed by Abdullah Elgayar. He set up the business two years ago and has two other staff working in the shop on a part time basis. Abdullah currently has a filing system that occupies a great deal of space and is very time consuming to analyse. He gives his members cards and has to manually record which video members are hiring. The old paper filing system is very inefficient in notifying when members are overdue with bringing the videos back. This in turn means other customers are unsatisfied when the video they want isn't in stock and so Abdullah loses out on revenue. His shop has not got much space and the filing system is taking 1/4 of the shop floor, more spaces are needed for videos and the shop at the moment is looking crap and tight costumes feel isolated and do not get to look around and look at covers of videos as the shop can get cramp, card board standing posters have been scraped this makes advertisement of movies hard. Costumers will not know when the new videos have arrived this make business in his shop go down. More and more children are coming to the shop and Abdullah says "I have very little movies for young children if I don't sort it out they
For my Project we have to solve a problem through communicating, using computers.
DESCRIPTION OF THE TASK TO BE ATTEMTED Introduction E-mail is the new modern way to Communicate. Most people have access to the internet Now meaning that they can send e-mail to anybody in the world for example you can meet people over the internet and then get to know them better by E-Mailing them. You can use e-mail to buy things of the Internet anything from a Television to a new car. In this project I will investigate how I can communicate with people by using different methods. Ideas Of Task For my Project we have to solve a problem through communicating, using computers. The problem could be anything; the main ideas are openings of clubs. For example communicating to people, through computer means, about a new opening of, say a new football club. This is not the only choice though; you could just make a presentation, for say pupils who are starting secondary school, telling them about the secondary school, its teachers, and the facilities. We have to communicate ideas to a decided audience, it could be advertising, or simply information presented in either a presentation, or website. Chosen Idea The problem, which I have chose, is that a company wants to make more Kung-fu clubs around London because they feel that the area is not exactly safe for children to go out by themselves, and so children need to learn how to defend themselves. The company needs to get
GCSE Excel Project ICT
Checklist for Spreadsheet Project ALL THESE MUST BE USED AS HEADINGS IN THE PROJECT Title Page Jack Jones, Custom Made Computers and Parts by WARLORDTF using Microsoft Excel 2007. Identify (5 marks) Background Details, Identifying the user The user is the owner of a computer construction and maintenance shop, which runs under the name of WARLORDTF. WARLORDTF is a shop, which makes computers and performs maintenance on all computers whether they are Windows or Mackintosh. The Specialist, Alex Heather owns the shop and manages it on his own. Currently he has 5 business contracts for his computers and approximately 35 Private customers a week. When business purchases are made, they are treated almost like private purchases. He gives them a piece of paper with each of the specifications of all the components the person then specifies the components and then Alex checks his stock and checks what he has to order then informs the business customer that they will be in stock and then writes down the order and files it into his folder. The customer then pays for the product and informs Alex of times they are available to collect. After the customer has left and he has closed shop, Alex then checks his inbox and constructs the computers to the specifications to the inbox sheets after the computer has been built he moves the sheet of paper that was in the folder to the top of the
