1.
What
where the main deficiencies of the paper system? What was wrong with the fact
that a human remembered where record could be found?
Answer:
Having a paper system for some reason
will be quiet good because you’ll have the vintage feeling of having in your
hand the actual paper or the information. But the obvious problem of the paper
system is that as the volume of records increases thus the paper/document also
increases. Until such time we got a lot of records more than we can handle and
manage. This now possess a problem to a company specifically in searching a
document from a bulk file of papers kept in a storage room or a closet. Even
having a best practice of indexing the papers/document when keeping it still it
needs an extra effort for the keeper to familiarize where a certain
papers/document can be found. The fact that sometime we just only remember
where a file could certainly be found we must consider some human-error factor
that could lead sometime to losing a file and more worst if that somebody be
replace by someone else it could be very difficult for him/her to locate some
un-index files.
2.
List
and explain the benefits of the RIMS system.
Answer:
Having Reforestation Information
Management System or RIMS in the business gives them
a.
Exact
inventory of the seedlings
b.
Employees
is provided with updated records
c.
Employees
are provided with the exact information about the seedling information such as
the time and date the seed was plant to ensure the seedlings receive the care
it needs to grow.
d.
Employees
can access the seedling information through mobile application.
e.
Searching
of records now is much more easily compared to a paper system before.
f.
Increase
in employees’ productivity by having accurate records of million seedlings
being planted and monitored. With the paper system it is impossible to keep
track of this information.
g.
Cost
efficient as the company only needs a few people monitoring the system compared
to old paper system.
h.
Valuable
information on how to plant a seed that has a maximum potential for growth can
now be recorded and analyze in later time to be studied by new planters of the
company.
3.
What
can be the benefits of analyzing employee performance by the system?
Answer:
The importance of analyzing employees
performance by the system is that the top level managers gives an incite as the
staff stays in the business for so long the staff accumulate an understanding
or expertise in planting a seed of a particular species and when this staff
retire all the many years of hard-work and knowledge will also gone if not pass
to younger generation of planters. So, there is a need for the company to
records the information needed to have an optical growth for a particular seed.
By doing analysis, there is a lot of lesson to be learned in nature of their
business as how it aspires from small scale seed planting business to a very
large scale business.
4.
Consider
the types of information systems discussed in the chapter. Which type of system
could probably help both the nursery and the Department of Natural Resources?
Answer:
The Nursery and Department of Natural
Resources needs a type of Information System that will monitor the type of
trees that needed to be planted in a particular place to fulfill its purpose of
reforestation in the area so that the Nursery department will able to plant a
seedlings that we be nurse to be planted in the area later. This Information
System should work hand in hand with both departments to make sure that the
Nursery is seeding a right species of plant and the correct number (quantity)
of seeds needed by the Department of Natural Resources for their reforestation
projects. The system must have features that will able to monitor the growth of
each seeds that has different seed details to ensure that the seed will not die
or gone to waste.
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