Blog 3.3-Cost Benefit Analysis

In a Cost Benefit Analysis,  there are various components, each of which denoting key pieces of data in relation to cost of starting a business and its returns from the first year and from several years. 

The first year you have non-recurring expenses, such as start-up supplies. The first year also is the time when a negative profit is recorded, since generally the cost of starting a business far out weighs the initial returns.

The table also shows monetary values for such expenses as maintaining the company and paying its employees. 

While the lower portion denotes the amounts gained, attributed to the profits and the error reduction based on each successive years' outcomes.

The total denotes the amount spent minus the amount gained.

Proxy Data is a valuable tool for indicating trends, it is non-profit based quantitative data that is helpful for determining trends.

3.2-Building A Business Case

Faith : If you use this Information System, then you can gain a competitive advantage over the rival medical firms  because of the fact that it has worked so well for everyone else and as your adviser you should trust in my judgment.

Fear: If you don't wish to go out of business or possibly go bankrupt, then you will need to implement my proposed Information System.

Fact: Due to the increase in sales last year, by several other private practice medical firms in the geographic area, the implementation of a the proposed IFS will be an enormous gain in profit, productivity, and efficiency. Allowing for better business practices and more productive outlook.

Blog 3.1-Value Chain Analysis

With a Value Chain Analysis diagram, one can represent many important factors dealing with various aspects of a company or organization, specifically the types of IFS involved in each step, coupled with the various support sections involved at the bottom.

When medical supplies are purchased, via a Supply Chain Management System (SCM) a web of inter-connectivity between the supplier, the medical firm, and the patient is established. The firm orders, or rather has set amounts of supplies automatically shipped to them to after a certain amount of the supply has been depleted. The requisition order for said supplies are sent when after a pre-determined number of supplies has been reached in the supply inventory.

  

When patients call to place their appointments a Management Information System is used to coordinate the appointments with times and the specific doctor.

Then when a patient arrives a different system is used called an office automation system.  This allows a log of waiting and attended patients to be made. which then is used to keep track of all incoming and outgoing traffic.

 When a patient has to pay for any visits and or medications, they are then using a Transaction Processing System. Which will process the everyday monetary exchanges for each visit.

With tech support and research and developement, new and more innovating systems can be devised, implemented, and maintained. 

Through the use of Human resources, people may file complaints and or determine the most suitable ways to approach inter-office relations and how to solve problems. 

In the the General Administration department, the decision making and planning for all areas of data and IS usage and implementation for the purpose of advancing future gains of the company is done here.

All systems are connected in an effort to correlate data and make the business more efficient and useful.

Blog 2.2-Automobile Industry

Many automotive companies, regardless of their base of operations, tend to have manufacturing as well as other various other company subunits located outside of their native geographic location.

Dependant upon several factors such as cultural, geoeconomic, and governmental differences, these companies have to tailor their products to their many different customer needs. 

With the introduction of the Internet in Globalization 3.0, markets became open and free, specifically in the auto industry, cars can be bought and sold on-line and factories need not be where the company originate, in fact in order to cater to a wider market base, tailoring the designs and features to a specific regional or cultural area can actually  be a beneficial financial move.

From a Geoeconomic standpoint, the factors including gas consumption, size, and production materials can, dependant upon the location, drastically increase or decrease the demand for their product.

When it comes to Governmental regulations, factors such as emissions come into play when dealing with the auto industry. In certain areas these regulations maybe lax and in others it may be regulated more severely and adjustments must be made.

Even with the enormous advancements of the technology, a bad economy and bad financial practices, a perfect plan can fail as easily as a bad one.

Blog 2.1-Globalization Enablers

Many online services have fueled globalization, through a network of many people contributing and gathering socially online, the global community has gotten smaller and more intimate. With social networking you can talk to and gather input from people across the world from your very own home.

With flicker.com you can upload pictures, with that you can freely express yourself from the lens of your camera.With the innovative ability to upload personal data, people are propelled into the ever flattening and interconnecting world. allowing people to communicate as never before such that those involved, regardless of their location feel as if they are just a block away.

Due to the advertising costs paid to flicker the service is free, however, there are bandwidth restrictions, but for a small fee those are waived, and you can upload as much as you like.

The feature set at Flicker.com is extensive: from tagging to counting the cash for your wonderful art, the possibilities are staggering!

You can simply "Tag" photos to give a brief description, or you can go even further and use a Clustering feature, which allows you to group similar items together in a common field.

Your personally uploaded photos can be made private or public dependent upon your personal preference; whether it be the whole world, or a small group of intimate contacts, the choice is yours.

With your photos public people can rate them, and daily a pick of the most popular will be displayed on a common page for easy viewing purposes.

You can also edit and change your photos at will. 

With the use of "...creative commons..."(Flicker.com Services and Globalization) a means of copyrighting ones work can be achieved, you can then  sell your work without worrying about someone else taking credit for your hard work.

Flicker.com also participates in Open ID, a free and easy way to log-in, making your log-in to multiple participating site log-on time hassle free and your fun time limitless.

Blog 1.3-IFS Organization Chart

There are three information system career positions that are vital to any successful IT organization, they perform duties ranging  from determining what people want, to making certain that all the IS are properly functional, to being there to fix any problems that may arise. Business Analysts, IFS Auditors, and Database Administrator are essential to the smooth sailing of any good company.

The Business Analysts act as a mediary between those who make the software or product and the customer. They contribute to the necessary network of people in an organization to allow smooth functionality and good business relations between the organization and customer. If a company doesn't know what people want, how can they make something people will buy?

When a program or Information System is in it preliminary stages or when a new product is being planned and there needs to be someone who you can count on to test it and give feed back as to its functionality and to test for errors, then you need and IFS Auditor. 

With all the information that swirls and gestates within an organization, you need a place to put it all and someone to manage it, someone to make sure everything is where it ought to be. Thats where databases and DBAs, or Database Administrators come in, they are in charge of maintaining the integrity of the databases and the data contained within.

These three professions combined make a well oiled machine and a profitable business.

Blog 1.2-Data Tracking for Ferrum Medical

The three pieces of raw data are as follows: Patients, Doctors, and Appointments.

Patients are assigned a Patient ID code, ex. 5555, this code is raw data which is then formatted into information as  55-55, which is then liked to the individual patient's name John Doe. So then the Patient ID code 55-55 is related to the Patient name John Doe; from that knowledge the Patients ID code and Name are liked to the other two data domains for Doctors and Appointments.

Doctors when hired are assigned a medical ID code to identify each individual Doctor, ex. 22222 this raw data is then formated into actual information, ex. 222-22  linked specifically to the individual doctor. The medical ID is then linked to Dr. David, from that knowledge he can be referenced by patients and appointment domains alike.

When a patient call's our front desk, they are given a date and time as well as the name of the doctor, from that point that number is entered into our database as random number set,  and the raw data of say: 19563 is formated to an appointment ID  to 19-5-63, that individual piece of information is then registered with the date and time of the appointment and the doctor, from that point the information from the Patient Domain can be accessed and correlated.

Fictional Company Introduction

"Ferrum Medical" is a small privately owned and operated general care practice, located in the heart of Ferrum Virginia. We serve the Ferrum community by administering quality medical care in a timely and careful manner.  Ferrum Medical is adequately staffed for its small size. Our check-in station contains two seasoned secretaries, with qualifications varying from data entry to medical file organization. In our treatment section of our practice we are staffed by four qualified registered nurses and two general practicing MD's. Since we are a small general care practice we can only serve normal ailments, all other more serious complications are to be referred immediately to the closest and most qualified emergency room as we cannot handle complicated procedures.
Through the administering of quality non-emergency care, we make a profit through medical insurance co-pays and normal payment and private donations for those who cannot afford their own medical care.