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Topic 1.1.1: The Context For Which A New System Is Planned

This document discusses planning for a new system. It outlines that planning should investigate the objectives, limitations, organizational issues, and importance of a new system. Planning should anticipate potential organizational issues such as lack of strategies, stakeholder participation, user ownership, training, cultural issues, job design, and system usability. A feasibility study should be conducted to evaluate the potential of a proposed project based on technical, economic, legal, operational and scheduling criteria to determine if the project should be pursued.

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Topic 1.1.1: The Context For Which A New System Is Planned

This document discusses planning for a new system. It outlines that planning should investigate the objectives, limitations, organizational issues, and importance of a new system. Planning should anticipate potential organizational issues such as lack of strategies, stakeholder participation, user ownership, training, cultural issues, job design, and system usability. A feasibility study should be conducted to evaluate the potential of a proposed project based on technical, economic, legal, operational and scheduling criteria to determine if the project should be pursued.

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Topic 1.1.

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The context for which a new system is planned
 Objective
 Investigate and outline the framework of a new system.
 Describe the limitations of a proposed system.
 Present various organizational issues that relate to the installation of a new
system.
 Identify the importance of a new system for various users. Outline the
technologies involved.
 A new system can be created in order to replace a system that is inefficient,
no longer suitable for its original purpose, redundant or out-dated.
 The purpose of a new system can also be to increase productivity or quality of
the output or even to minimize costs.
 The new system should reduce the errors or flaws of the existing one.
 The development of most large systems involves a huge amount of time and
effort and contains a lot of different stages
 A computer system includes hardware, software, people working with it or
using it
 So updating a computer system may Involve actions like training emp to use
the new system, changing the location of a server, or even firing employees.
 Planning a new system IS the process of thinking about various details and
organizing the activities required to achieve the desired goal.
 Planning should ‘anticipate potential organizational issues such as:
 - lack of guiding organizational and business strategies
 - lack of stakeholder and end—user participation
 - lack of end-user 'ownership' of system
 - lack of attention to required training
 - lack of attention to various organizational issues, such as organizational
culture
 - lack of attention to the design of tasks and jobs, allocation of information
system tasks, and the overall usability of the system.
 At this stage a feasibility report or feasibility study should be conducted. The
feasibility study evaluates and analyzes a project and its potential, based on
various technical, economical, legal, operational and scheduling criteria. It is
used to decide whether the proposed project should be pursued
 Question: A bookstore uses door—to—door salespersons to collect various
orders from various customers. The orders are taken to the company’s offices
and are input by a secretary. The bookstore has decided to change this
department and will ask the salespersons to input the orders at home, using
their personal computers. Discuss the various effects of these changes.
 Answer: The bookstore will no longer need the secretary or any physicai
space to accommodate the relevant department. Utility bills will be reduced
and probablya smaller office will be enough for the company. The secretary
will have to find a new job, or another position in the company. Salespersons
will have to acquire some computer skills and they will need to have a PC
with an internet connection. New computer software and hardware will also
have to be obtained by the company, which will also need to find a secure
way (network) to allow the salespersons to connect to the server. Staff
working from home may ask for extra pay.

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