Assignment 1 MIS

Our first assignment in MIS(Management Information System) we were asked to choose a local organization or any company and we must study there best practices about Information System and Information Technology. The local company that i chose is 1 of the big retailer industry, National Book Store.

National Bookstore is the largest bookstore chain in the Philippines with 92 branches in the country.[1] It was set to open its first overseas branch, in Hong Kong, in September 2007.

Luck is only a small part of National Book Store's success. Through the hard work and powerful leadership of Socorro Cancio-Ramos and the late Jose Ramos with their family, the company has evolved from its humble beginnings into the biggest and strongest bookstore chain in the Philippines.

Before I start to describe there best practices in IS/IT, I'll give some information about the company and just a brief history about this company.

The first National Book Store started as a stall shop in Escolta before the Japanese occupation selling supplies, GI novels, and textbooks. When war broke out, strict book censorship forced them to shift their trade to soap, candies, and slippers. They bought their merchandise from wholesalers and peddled them to smaller retailers.

Liberation came, but the whole Escolta area was burned to the ground. Having all their stocks reduced to ashes left the couple with nothing but determination and an undying drive to succeed. And their persistence paid off. They were able to rebuild a barong-barong in the corner of Soler and Avenida Rizal in time to catch the post-war business boom. They went back to business using their door as a counter for selling textbooks, notebooks, pad paper, and pencils. Business went very well because during that time, there were only a few stores that sold school supplies and books. National Book Store's opening was strategically timed to welcome the first postwar school year.

Information System (IS) refers to a system of people, data records and activities that process the data and information in an organization, and it includes the organization's manual and automated processes. In a narrow sense, the term information system (or computer-based information system) refers to the specific application software that is used to store data records in a computer system and automates some of the information-processing activities of the organization.

National bookstore began practicing their IS/IT as for now, because of this practices, there company become very popular in every place here in Philippines. As they use technology for their means of selling some of there products, it became efficient on handling each of their succeeding projects. It will be more productive and may easy to convey clients.

National Book Store ONLINE
-a web application that manages activity information about every products and news for everything. The administrators are able to enter activity information (including contacts, new franchise stores, collective books and everything) and provide reports on the progress of there company throughout the year for their grants.

Network Management
-this is consider as the best practices of this company, this manages the company and there network as the system launches enhancements for there work. Another thing to consider is the High-end computers, sophisticated software, and other devices are being used to speed up everything which involves the online processes of the company.

As the company acquired Information System in there work spaces, it's totally visible in the company because as what I've research, the growing of National Book Store franchised stores speeds up to higher level. From a simple, not too big company to a productive and progressive one.

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