Thursday, 21 October 2010

Tesco's Use Of New Technology

New technologies in Tesco
- Heat Sensing Technology = Monitors the lines at tills.
(-Improved Scanners
-Better Self Service Tills
-Checkout Camera) = Used to decrease queues at tills.

New Tesco Clubcard App for the Iphone.
1) Features the on screen barcode that can be scanned at the till. It also allows you to see your live Tesco balnce.                             










2) Features the ability to calculate how many Tesco club points you can accumulate in a year.
3) Features the ability to calculate the amount of money you will spend based on your shopping habbits. E.g weekly shopping, monthly shopping etc.
4)Features the ability to allow the user to browse through all the items available in the store and see availablility and quantity in stock.

Thursday, 14 October 2010

Threats To Business System

Security-Hack-Customer Details-You open to fraud
                                                 -The organisation is open to prosecution-loss of image

Crashes-Chaos
            -Loss of Profit{Loss of market share}
            -Loss of Image{Loss of market share}

Risk Analysis
List threats-
Asses Impact of each threat- How much money might they lose?
                                          - Will their image suffer?


Likelyhood of Prosecution