IT330 WEEK 3 HELP

1--- Thinking about stakeholders in terms of our project, what issues and concerns do you foresee arising? There are many issues and concerns that I see arising from the stakeholders. One of the highest concern I foresee would be the issues with managing the new store's inventory and orders properly. Owning a new business itself is difficult, moreso when it is a change of ownership and you are making drastic changes to the system. Employees and customers alike can have problems adjusting and the business can take a hit in the change. What questions should we ask the owners? We should ask how their current customers feel about the business and what are some frequent requests they have for the business. How would you anticipate attending to the issues and concerns? I would get a feel from the customers and current employees first to hear what they would say to the changes and what they think is going to need addressed first. What are the strengths and weaknesses of our database? The strength would be the eventually benefits from business and from the increase in sales. The weakness would be the hiccups could cause a loss in sales or delayed orders from customers as the database is implemented and people are trained on the new system.

2---- The most significant issue I can think of when it comes to this project is maintaining new and the constant changing of inventory.  Book and periodicals frequently change even for a small bookstore.  The fact that they not only have to keep track of two locations plus e-commerce could pose an issue to maintaining the database.   Another concern would be who would have access to the information and who would have access to alter the database.  As an example, Working for The Home Depot, I do not have direct access to alter the inventory on hand counts.  Our merchandising team, however, can do that to make sure our data is accurate.  Another concern would be if the data provided to the associate being changed in real time or at the end of the day.    I think that the biggest strength of this database will be the integration of the three shops.  Moreover, the ability to know at a glance what are their top sellers and where they need to consider pairing back.  The biggest weakness is the ability to gather information from other locations.