HRMIS

There are jobs for everybody in this world and chances are that many graduating students will be working jobs that are not even in existence today. There’s even a job out there for a person to get these new hired people and then manage them, as well as the current workers. This job goes to the human resource department. “The worksite administrator of the Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS) will manage HR processing and workflow.” [1] The HRMIS makes sure the company is in order and that all employees roles and logistics are kept in control. It is up to the HRMIS to also hire new employees that would benefit the company and help it prosper. The HRMIS needs to be organized and have a plan ready all the time. Without the HRMIS, businesses could be at a loss and out of order. This is very related to what a manager does as well. We will face the department that is HRMIS as we go to job interviews and try to become part of successful companies. With the HRMIS in charge of hiring, it has been proven that a good hiring system leads to more profit. "The survey strongly suggests that specific hiring practices and tools are linked to an organization's success." [2] Studies are proving how important HRMIS is for a business. “The study shows that in the past year the organizations with the more effective hiring systems ranked higher in financial performance, productivity, quality, customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and retention. "This is further proof of what HR professionals have long said: Success is based on finding the right people for the right jobs." [2] Having a person in charge of all this shows what a good system is. These HRMIS even have their own system of finding certain people. “Human resource planning, personnel selection and recruiting, training and skill inventory, scheduling and job placement, wage and salary administration, outplacement” [3] are all part of the HRMIS department. Though hiring is trial and error, higher-level companies cannot afford error. These people are highly trained at what they do and need fresh faces and brains to be part of their company’s team. When students graduate, the HRMIS will determine if that person is qualified to be part of the company and help contribute to increased profits. The list above states what all-new employees go through and what the HRMIS go through. The HRMIS is a crucial part to a company that the average person does not know about. Though technology is prospering, people still run companies and a computer cannot hire a person. The average person will always go for a job interview or possibly be interviewed via video conferencing, but there is still someone that will be asking the questions and training new employees. The HRMIS could be considered a huge foundation of any company. [1] http://www.det.wa.edu.au/professionallearning/detcms/professionallearning/professional-learning-website/resource-files/human-resource-management/human-resource-management-information-system-hrmis.en?oid=MultiPartArticle-id-11021817 [2] http://www.inc.com/articles/2002/01/23815.html [3] Page 287: Fundamentals of Information Technology by Ralph Stair and George Reynolds. 6thEdition.

Electronic Commerce and the Food Industry

It’s 1950 and you want to grab a bite to eat for dinner. You could not text friends to get together and head out and had to wait to get to the place to order the food. Now it is 2013 and you want to grab a bite to dinner. One could text their friends and ask them what they want to eat from the local food place. You then could text in your order from home so it is ready when you get there. This advancement of technology is just a part of a whole called electronic commerce. Electronic commerce is business conducted through the use of computers, telephones, fax machines, barcode readers, credit cards, automated teller machines, or other electronic appliances without exchange of paper-based documents.” [1] This has changed the way we carry out business. Aside from ordering food on the spot at a restaurant, local super markets are taking advantage of electronic commerce changes. “At Stop & Shop, customers are selecting products in the store and then shopping for them online. Wal-Mart is also revising its online strategy, offering same-day delivery for food items in select markets that are ordered online. General Mills has a strategy that offers gluten-free products on the Internet that cannot be found in traditional food stores.” [2] These businesses are in the shadows of Amazon and other online stores, yet they are striving just as much with the advancements of electronic commerce. Retail food stores are changing at the fastest rate. It could be said that presenting food online may be a challenge for electronic commerce. “Without the benefit of smell or taste, selling food and beverage products through the digital channel presents a host of challenges.” [3] This should not be a problem in the world we live in today and the way people eat. People know what they want from the supermarket and could easily order their groceries online without heading to the store. This argument is very weak because a person could easily browse for other foods. People are on Facebook browsing around for hours, therefore a person could search a grocery store itinerary on the Internet. It would be very interesting to see the lines at the local grocery stores begin to wane as online shopping through electronic commerce grows. I am even curious to see what it would be like to shop online for these items. By doing this assignment alone, it has already swayed me into how things are beginning to shape for the future. Electronic commerce is the direction that all businesses are being pushed toward. _______________________________________________________________________________________ [1] http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/electronic-commerce-E-Commerce.html [2] http://www.supplychainbrain.com/content/industry-verticals/food-beverage/single-article-page/article/e-commerce-has-explosive-impact-on-food-beverage-industry/ [3] http://www.gorillagroup.com/Our-Work/Areas-of-Expertise/Ecommerce-Food-Beverage

Hardware/Software

Being mobile is so important in the business world. There are countless new devices being made that make businesses strive on the road. It started with the Internet and email and has grown in unimaginable ways. One item would be operating systems. Each operating system varies depending on the computer being used. With laptops, such as a Macintosh, you upgrade to new operating systems that improve what you could do on them. If a company has all their operating systems up to date of their items, they will have the advantage with their systems. File storage websitesalso are useful with companies working with clients. When they need an item or information from a client, each party could share information on a closed website. Display monitors are important due to the information that needs to be viewed. When using tablets and smart phones, the display is incredibly important. With the correct display of LCD or whatever the case, users on the road while traveling can view emails and all types of documents due to the advancements of visuals. External hardrivesare very important when it comes to mobility because tablets and notebooks could easily break during travel. Being able to bring a small and portable item that could hold a massive amount of data to back up is very convenient and important. If someone were to lose their laptop or tablet on a business trip, that could destroy whatever business is taking place and a company could lose out on an opportunity. With this all, the storage capacity is very important to tie it all together. As stated, these mobile devices need to be able to hold lots of data. Storage capacity has been around but to be able to put it on such a small piece of equipment is perfect for the mobile journey.

Gadget

I added the +1 Gadget to my page. I went to my blog and then into the layout and into the add gadget feature. I picked the area and size I wanted and previewed my page. I placed it right under my name so if people like what they read, they could +1 it. After, I saved it. The reason I chose the +1 feature is because the idea and concept of going viral is what works today. Whether it is music or a blog, your item could make you something overnight. You want users to have instant access to your page and instantly be able to share it. The internet is limitless when it comes to making yourself worldwide and your goal should be to make it as easy as possible for people to share your page.

Social Network Monitoring

Social Network monitors are key for a lot of companies. As stated, Comcast even has professionals in the social network field that spend time strictly on these sites to find users that are talking about their product. To be more specific, they look for negative comments so they could assist the complainer and make them happy. The ability to find something based of a post is part of the AI of searching tools. This is key for the business tool I would create. Using a company, such as Radian6, Alterian, or the others listed, I could hone in on the people using my product. This idea is very similar to what Comcast does. However, mine would be from a recruiter standpoint. As stated in my Info post, which is about who I am, I stated I am going to become a coach for Beachbody.com. An idea to recruit people for my group to coach is by monitoring social networks. What I would do is search hashtags of relevant items on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, Facebook itself, and Twitter. For example, I just completed Insanity so I would see if anyone tagged #Insanity or #Digdeep or #MaxPlyo, etc. These are all popular terms related to the program. I could then message these people and recruit them. This does not allow me to provide customer service as Comcast does, but actually grow my business and group as whole by being a recruiter. Social Networks provide endless information on anything you have to look for. When I first was getting into these workouts and programs, I used social networks to find actually people who could provide results and their personal thoughts on these systems. You cannot necessarily trust a commercial or brochure that says "Day 1" and "Day 60" with two pictures because the company will post their only success story or even lie. However, using social networks, I was able to connect with actually people who experienced the programs. These social network monitors let you create personal relationships with users and brings you deeper into the world of whatever your business or idea is.

Value Chain of a Record Label

For an online CD store, a value chain is very important. Before even reading the assignment, the first thing I thought of with a value chain was selling cd's as a record label so this makes sense. Starting with upstream management, getting the cd's themselves are the raw materials. Since this company will be selling used cd's, there won't be a need to build the cd's from scratch. The inbound logistics would be dealing with where these cd's are coming from. Whether you are selling all of your friends cd's, or are buying them from somewhere and reselling them, just retrieving these items are the inbound logistics and inbound tracking systems. The final part of upstream managements is the warehouse and storage of these items. With selling items online, there is the luxury of not having to store each item i one location. With sites such as Half.com or Amazon, the items come from all over the country. For the purpose of keeping it simple, the warehouse and storage of these items could be in one place. However, if the cd's are being shipped out from different locations, then an inventory and control system would be more effective. Inventory would take place in one location regardless, but it is even more important when your items are in separate locations. Next is the production of the cd's. SInce they are produced, the production would be creating the collection that is stored and even sorting them in a certain way, if they are all in one location. If they aren't, then sorting is not going to happen. After production, downstream management begins. This begins with the finished product storage. As stated several times about location, the items will be in their own location or one location and there will be a catalogue to go through this automated storage so there is an easy retrieval system. Next is outbound logistics. This is getting the CD to the customer. This part is complicated because the outbound logistics is really getting the finished product to the store selling it. With this being an online store of a used product, it changes what exactly happens in each stage. The variables make it slightly trickier than having a brand new item go through this value chain. The marketing and sales part, which is next, should come before the outbound logistics in a used item value chain because it makes sense to promote the cd's before they are sold. The final step is customer service. Taking care of problems and making sure sales and customers are satisfied is very common and completely obvious for any business. Making sure the used cd works and that each customer will come back again is a great way for a customer to know how friendly and personal a business could be. The value chain is a system that is very common in the business world for any line of business that is creating a product that is going to be sold.

Flexible Information

Flexible Information seems to be the most reliable source of information in my opinion. Many of these options have flaws to them or have loopholes the make them weaker than flexible information. Flexible info can be used for a variety of reasons that capture everything the other options do as a whole. Every other option is very specific and does not overlap, whereas flexible info can take care of three or four of the other options at a time. Information Systems are “sets of interrelated components that collect, manipulate, and disseminate data and information and provide feedback to meet an objective.” Some of these IS do not allow all these to happen, but flexible information lets it happen. If you look at the music industry and record sales, you could figure out predictions of sales or how to make strategy based on past sales or tours. This falls under flexible information. Some other IS, such as timely information, plays a huge part in the music industry. The book states “knowing last week’s weather conditions will not help you…” However, this is false in different situations, such as music. Last week’s sales are just as important as the future sales or as a competitive labels sales of similar artists on their roster. Flexible information is very versatile in business. The flexible information contains the data, the information, and leads to the process and creates knowledge of the whole situation. The input, process, and output can be put together with flexible information.