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A 6 page paper discussing the planning process that Smyth Printing should undertake in preparation for designing and implementing an e-commerce addition to the business. The paper discusses system (whether manual or automated) analysis; identifying all that the company would want from an e-commerce application; and the most cost effective way of going about achieving its goals. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSitSmythPrint.rtf
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has been some time - well before the fallout of the technology sector in 2000 - that businesses have been able legitimately to believe that the world would beat a
path to the cyberdoor regardless of the type of service they received. Strategic planning must address not only hardware and software needs for information systems (IS) operation, but also
issues of strategic outcomes. "Smyth Printing needs a map for its journey into e-commerce." The purpose here is to supply that map.
Beginning the Assessment A wise approach is to begin the decision-making process with a hierarchical decomposition of the current system, relative to identified
needs for both the present and the future. Martin, Brown, DeHayes and Hoffer (2002) give a concise definition of hierarchical decomposition that made sense to this reader who has
no technical background of any kind. The authors describe "the system" as "a set of interrelated components" (Martin, et al., 2002; p. 318), and that any one of the
components making up the larger system can itself be viewed as a system. In turn, this subsystem can further be broken down into a more narrowly-defined set of components,
which also may be able to be viewed as subsystems themselves. Martin, et al. (2002) explain that there are five primary goals of hierarchical decomposition: * Break the larger
system down into more manageable and understandable segments; * Analyze or change only part of - rather than all - a system; * Allow chronological design or construction of a
specific subsystem; * Allow targeted use of a specific subsystem; and * Allow more independent operation of system components. This necessarily involves both
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