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A 15 page paper discussing several points of consideration first in determining whether a hotel should convert manual systems to an automated one, then evaluating items such as the relative worth of maintenance contracts, data security and the ability of the automated system to increase efficiency and customer service. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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15 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSitHotel.rtf
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IT function formerly was the "poor relation" of the corporate world, responsible for reporting and recording past events and business results, but taking no part in current business function.
It certainly filled no strategic role, but that situation has changed dramatically over the past decade. Some of the current issues in IT include globalization of the IT function
and guarding against spending too much on IT systems in order to gain little benefit for the additional costs. The purpose here is to assess the benefits a hotel
can expect to gain from automating its office and reservations systems. General Considerations Broadening Reach
One of the facts of corporate life in todays business environment is that of globalization of business. Even if the hotel has no plans of "going global," chances are
great that it will have international contacts, correspondence and financial transactions. Of course increasing numbers of organizations are expanding to include international presence, and those operating outside the home
country need to maintain constant contact between headquarters and the remote site, as well as between remote sites. The information that various sites add to daily records combine to
give accurate real-time views of current business results, which can be invaluable in todays hypercompetitive and fast-paced business environment. In the hospitality environment, this situation can apply in terms
of increasing opportunities with travel agents and those individuals making their own travel and accommodation arrangements. Hackney (2002) notes this emergence of the
IT function out of the recesses of the "number crunching" operations to "the centre of critical organisational change" (p. 3). The author notes that "There is an increasing dependency
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