Hi guys :) Welcome to our final blog, hope you have enjoyed the past three weeks. Each week has been full of different blog posts which have hopefully given you a better understanding about Information Systems for salons. For this conclusion post, I will be bringing you through a summary of what each member discussed each week and we’re hoping this will let you see how much you have learned about this topic.
Caoimhe Week One: The Salon Introduction: MECCA SALON. This post introduced our readers to our salon of choice, which is MECCA. Caoimhe also brought the readers through our team members and the services and products available in MECCA. “MECCA have embraced the dramatic change in male grooming in Ireland over the past few years and have adapted their services in order to cater to the market demands.” Week Two: Challenges MECCA May Encounter. In the first blog of the second week Caoimhe discussed problems that MECCA may encounter when introducing Information Systems into their salon. “With the changes being technological, this could mean that older staff who are perhaps not as comfortable with technology may feel uneasy and uncomfortable in using the technology and may protest to using it.” Week Three: Data Involved in Information Systems. For Caoimhes final post she discussed functions involved in Information Systems such as feedback and control and the data involved. “Data by itself is of no use but when inputted into an information system it can provide us with great knowledge and information. Data can be used in organisations in decision making, creating policies and in improving the general business.” Eve Week One: Strengths and Weaknesses MECCA Hair and Beauty Salon. This post discussed MECCA’s strengths and weaknesses and our recommendations of how Information Systems could benefit their business. “The weaknesses which we believe MECCA hair and beauty salon possess can all be helped with the benefits information's systems have to offer.” Week Two: Risks Involved with Changing Quo in the Work Place. Eve discussed risks that may be involved for the salon when introducing Information Systems. One of the main concerns involved is the staff resisting to change. Week Three: Network Involved in Information Systems. Eve’s final blog post focused on the theory of Networks in Information Systems. “Networking involved with information systems is basically, an information system for managing networks”. Charly Week One: Welcome to Information Systems. This blog post aimed to give the readers of our blogs a better understanding of what Information Systems are. “Information systems help any business reduce paperwork, reduce errors and overall improve business performance.” Week Two: How to Manage and Control Risks/Challenges involved with is… Under this heading Charly discussed three different subheadings, these included, Management Challenges, Human Challenges and Technical Challenges. Week Three: How Information Systems Will Work and Succeed in our Salon. In Charly’s final post she brought us through the successful usage of information systems in our salon MECCA. “A POS System first and foremost is very crucial for our success in MECCA as an operations must have. It helps MECCA to keep day-to-day tasks quick and easy.” Molly Week One: Similar Industries Using our Chosen Technologies. For this blog post Molly discussed other salons in the same area as our chosen salon that are using Information Systems. The salons Molly talked about were Eyre Hair and Shapes and Shades. Week Two: Classifications of Information Systems. For Molly’s second blog post she discussed the five components that are involved in Information Systems five common Information Systems. Week Three: Future of Information Systems. Molly discussed the trends that are important when trying to predict the future for information systems. The trends are Global, Social, Mobile and Personal. Meg Week One: Benefits of Technologies in the Salon. For this blog post I discussed benefits of information systems such as Scheduling, Loyalty Programmes, Profits and Inventory. Week Two: Software and Hardware Involved in Information Systems. For my second week blog post I discussed the different components involved in the software and hardware in Information Systems. Week Three: Conclusion. In my final blog I aimed to concise a summary of all our blog posts over the last three weeks. That concludes all of our blog posts :( Hope you all enjoyed reading them as much as we enjoyed writing them. Thank you for taking the time to read through our blog posts and supporting our social media accounts. Meg :) References *All quotes/references from our original blog posts.
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Hi guys welcome to Wednesday’s post 😊…
I’m looking today at the successful usage of information systems in our salon MECCA. In previous posts we detailed what IS are and named a few systems that are used in house in the salon. A POS System first and foremost is very crucial for our success in MECCA as an operations must have. It helps MECCA to keep day-to-day tasks quick and easy. It’s a main credit to MECCA’s success as it runs all the little tasks like transactions and back office systems and records organised and accessible when needed. Any business (retail) without a POS system really is setting itself up for failure. A quote borrowed from a business blog really nailed the essence of a POS. “With POS systems however, they are designed to be user friendly, with a sole purpose of making life easier and business better. They allow staff to focus their attention on the customer, as well as the physical preparation and sale of products, cementing the most important values of retail.” (Yourcash.com 2013) A data – driven DSS (Decision Support Systems) works well in salons. Salons have a huge need for multiple databases to hold their data; inventory data, stock/warehouse data, product and client data. Timely and Timepoint success speaks for themselves they are integral in the salon. Timely reduces no shows, due to constant customer reminders and provides an opportunity to cancel with notice this allows the salon to utilise the free slot again generating more business and wasting no potential business hours. Having the option for customers to choose their own slots frees up time for staff to work on customers as Timely cuts out some of the receptionist’s duties and work load. Timepoint works well as a time keeping software making ease of payroll and keeping track of employee’s hours/late arrivals etc. Excel is one of the most important software applications in any business as well as our salon MECCA. It’s a key ingredient in the background work of the business, its allows our reports and data to be easily organised and filtered into cells and columns that are simply presented and have a visual impact. Excel works well to help the salon track patterns and trends appearing in the datasheets. Overall a key to a business success is to implement and maintain the key information systems that are needed and crucial and tailored to your business needs. Thank you guys!! Charly x References Yourcash (2013) The importance of POS systems for business. [Online] Available at: https://www.yourcash.com/the-importance-of-pos-systems-for-businesses/ |
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