...Club IT is a local music nightclub owned and operated by Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada. Recently, Club IT has changed the inside looks of the club and done some heavy remodeling that has improved the business and surely has paid itself off. Then next thing in need of change is the information department. Club IT has asked me to come in and review the club and decide what changes I feel should be made. Since I have arrived, I have had a chance to get to know the staff, and become familiar with the business. After careful considerations, I have evaluated the status of this business, resources, supply chains, and customers. I have found three business problems in need of change at Club IT, and will suggest how these issues can be solved. While analyzing and evaluating Club IT, I have found three business problems that could stand to see some solutions. The first and most obvious issue is that the name of this club is Club IT; meaning information technology is and should be available. The problem with this is, Club IT only offers to its staff and customers a dial up internet connection. With using a dial up internet connection, the bandwidth is slow, can only provide a maximum speed of up to 56 kilobits per second, and limits access to certain medial like videos. Also, if any kind of software needs updated, it will be difficult to do so. Second, the Club IT websites has been designed to make things easy for the customers to offer a wide variety of options for music, and shopping...
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...today’s business world, numerous emerging trends are causing business communication to change at an alarmingly rapid pace. Some of these trends are; technology, quality product focus and customers’ needs based management, entrepreneurship, teamwork, diversity, globalization, outsourcing, legal and ethical concerns, balancing family and work, job flexibility, and process improvement initiatives that have accelerated communication and access to information from executive board rooms to the frontline employees. What role does Business Communication play in your day-to-day activities at work? In the business world timely and accurate communication is a critically important factor in day-to-day organizational operations and is essential part of any successful business. Good communication information must be shared among all co-workers, supervisors, managers, and company executives to ensure goodwill and structured company mission focus. If communication is not shared among all the co-workers, then that is when the company infrastructure starts to fail. Likewise, good business communication produces strong working relationships between co-workers, supervisor, peers, customers, and all stakeholders. Furthermore, good interaction within an organization builds a stronger support in business. How does it help you manage your daily activities? Business Communication also helps in daily management by giving the tools to schedule work routines and utilization of time management...
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...Club IT Part One BIS/219 August 17, 2011 Club IT Part One Many people of different ages have a club or clubs that he or she go out and enjoy every Thursday, Friday, or Saturday night. The Club is a local happening music scene handled, directed, supervised, and owned by two people named Lisa Tejada and Ruben Keys. These two owners finished remodeling, a wide-range modernizing of the internal part of the Club. Lisa and Ruben undertaking of this club is to have a live entertainment, DJ, dancing room, refreshments, plus a variety of music that will go well with what the client’s want or lifestyle. The changes and remodeling of the club starts to pay off, but the information or advertising of the club was falling behind. Opening a club appeared like an exciting and fun venture to go on and both of them possess many years of experience in the club scene. This club has a jazzy atmosphere that clients enjoy and became the talk of neighborhood newspapers and magazines. Club IT has a high energy lighting, high-level ceilings, and this creates a revealing relaxing surrounding. Even though this business is a major hit with the clientele, and the club is running smoothly. Ruben and Lisa felt that there was something missing from this whole experience. Lisa and Ruben have employed an intern to lend a hand in making the club a better place to be. The purpose is to offer a feasible connection between data management and information technology to help improve the general efficiency...
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...Club IT Part One XBIS/219 04/28/13 Kimberly Wheeler Club IT Part One Downtown is welcoming a new businesse. Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada, business partners, own and manage a music venue located in the downtown area. With plenty of music and nightclub experiences, they decided to open their own nightclub called “Club IT.” With an exciting start with remodeling, live bands, and a live DJ, Ruben and Lisa realize that the information management has been their down fall. The mission of Club IT is to have their customers to enjoy their stay and night with fun and music. With the primary focus clientele of business people, students, tourists, and most important community people who love to meet regularly at club IT, Ruben and Lisa wants to suit the lifestyle of many. Club IT will have to develop a data processing plan that will be able to meet the needs of Club IT, employees, customers, as well as their own. The decision to hire someone in the area where they lack was a good business decision on their part. Business has been a good start but with the information management on the line business can easily turn for the worse, so software for Club IT is in process. As a small company, Club IT uses an intranet structure. A private network that allows the owners and employees to have access providing resources for the club. The clubs system may need to implement...
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...Final Project: Club IT – Part 3 XBIS/219 Final Project: Club IT - Part 3 Introduction From day one, the assignment given by Ruben and Lisa has been overwhelming, but fun. The excitement is getting to know the staff, their duties, and to watch them work a full house, as well as entertaining friends at Club IT. The overwhelming part is all the information and ideas that needs integrated and implemented into this club. As an intern hired to complete the needs of Club IT, the major focus is helping Ruben and Lisa expand, maintain, and continue to build its client list. Club IT is a nightclub of music and dance. Ruben Keys, a drummer and Lisa Tejada, a jazz violinist, both graduates with Business Administration degrees, decided to own and operate a nightclub ("Club It", 2000-2013). They have come to realize that running a business goes beyond having degrees and physical experience with nightclubs. Ruben and Lisa have discovered that there is a need for business information systems, more in the realm of full analysis of their information needs. This technology plan will give more insight and focus on what it takes for Club IT to get to the level of competitiveness in their market, the integration of customer relations management software and open-source software applications with their current systems, and a financial projection overview giving cost analysis, productive areas, and growth. Organization and Demographic Information Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada...
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...Club IT Part 1 Maria Acosta XBIS/ 219 December 20, 2012 Richard Vincent Club IT Part 1 Club IT is a night club that Rueben Keys and Lisa Tejada have put together, to provide some high quality entertainment for everyone to enjoy, especially their adult friends. The mission statement for Club It is “We, Ruben and Lisa, offer you live music, DJ’s, dance space, and refreshments that suit your lifestyle. You are our friends, and we seek to build a community that meets regularly at Club IT.” (R. Kelly Rainer & Turban, 2009) What Rueben and Lisa have done is take a 6000 square foot location, remodeled it to accommodate a 600 square foot dance floor, seating for 220 people, four wells and bar, a kitchen that serves appetizers and short orders. They have different music genres every week providing a variety of musical acts to fit a variety of consumers. They have a limited information system that provides just the basics for tracking, employees and information access and security. My goal is to provide the needed information that will guide Rueben and Lisa to make the necessary additions and changes to their technical and information systems that will ultimately prove to be profitable for them in the long run. First we need to address the security of their information system, we see that the employees and proprietors all have the same user name and password and can view the same information, personal and otherwise. Employees need their own...
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...Club IT, Part 2 Tina Bell XBIS/219 November 10, 2013 Katherine Escobar Club IT, Part 2 Club IT, Part 2 Club IT is a night club owned by Lisa Tejada and Ruben Keys. They are seeking advice and guidance on how to maintain their high energy, high-impact club. Ruben also wants to explore some new e-commerce technologies and applications to help build his clubs clientele and community and to help their business be more efficient. Their clientele regularly uses mobile technologies like the Blackberries, camera phones, PDA’s, and other wireless communication devices. Ruben wants to set up a web site to handle the ticket sales that he now sells on the phone or by person. Currently, Club IT has a dial up connection which makes it hard to do research for the club much less run a business. There are the resources, customers, and the supply chain to define and discuss how to resolve these issues, finally, a project development method to do a proper analysis of Club IT. Club IT’s Resources, Customers, and Supply chain Enterprise resource Planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), and the customer relationship management (CRM) are part of a system to resolve Club IT’s technological and management problems. To look at them as a whole will help see the problem as a whole then later we will break them down individually. Club IT has a website that sells items like baseball caps, t-shirts, mugs and, shot glasses if you are a member you get a 10% discount. Ruben and Lisa can have a website...
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...Club IT part 2 Xbis/219 12/16/2012 Club IT so far has managed to be successful so their reputation is good in the community that they serve. Although Club IT has managed to be successful with their current operating system it is necessary to improve business operations in Club IT in order to grow and also to expand to the next level. While noticing what areas that can be improved on and then developing a plan of action for those improvements Club IT will become more efficient in serving its customers and to attract new customers. Some of the things that I have noticed are that Club IT customers are mostly of the Net Generation meaning that they regularly use mobile technologies. I noticed that Club IT has yet to take advantage of the many e-commerce activities available in dealing with suppliers and guest. Finally Club IT sells advance tickets for special Friday and Saturday night concerts by phone or also in person. Upgrading in their information technology (IT) system can improve aspects of their business. Club IT can specifically use an upgrade in the Supply chain and Customer relationship management systems in my opinion. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that fully integrates the system can make the two IT systems more efficient. To have more control over inventory Club IT must implement the Supply chain management system (SCM). Reuben and Lisa are currently reordering supplies when they see they are low and sometimes they order extra surplus and sometimes...
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...Club IT, Part 2 Adger Matthews BIS/219 May 23, 2011 Steven Goldstein Club IT, Part 2 Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada have asked for a full analysis of their information needs in their newly established and remodeled club. Upon spending one evening at the club enjoying the wide variety of music, food, and social interactions it is clear to me that this club could greatly benefit from upgraded IT system (Rainer & Turban, 2008). Club IT’s Resources Club IT’s mission is to seek to provide a place where people can regularly meet and enjoy a wide variety of music and entertainment. The establishment also provides appetizers and beverages to add to a comfortable and unique setting. With its remodeled interior of high ceilings and high energy lighting, the club offers a prismatic and high energy dance scene that artistically adds to the energy of the club. The club focuses on a high energy dance scene that provides Hip-Hop, techno, electronic and a MP3 Disc Jockey. Live music is occasional on hand and only adds to the extensive atmosphere. The primary clientele seems to a younger and more energetic customer. Though the club does attract a wide range of ages, the younger group outweighs the rest, due primarily on the music selections and the fast pace of the night club (Rainer & Turban, 2008). The younger crowd, in this day in age is more in touch with using the internet and the other resources that are tied into World Wide Web, i.e. mobile applications...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix D Club IT, Part 2 To learn more about Club IT’s operations, you stayed until the 2:00 a.m. closing this morning to see how everything was tallied and accounted at the end of a business day. Although it was a late night and you had to wake up early this morning to report back to work, you now have a better understanding of the daily business cycle at Club IT. You are energized when Lisa asks you for suggestions on how to use club and public resources to keep Club IT’s edge as the high-energy, high-impact club it strives to be. The Internet research you have been doing for Lisa and Ruben has been eye-opening, but it is also exasperatingly slow on their dialup connection in their cramped back office. You have a lot of ideas for useful network applications at Club IT. There are many opportunities for discovery and collaboration among employees, members and business partners. You decide to take the initiative and research network applications for the benefit of Club IT. You have interviewed Ruben and the rest of the staff at Club IT and have compiled the following notes: • Club IT’s customers are mostly Net Generation and Millennials. They regularly use mobile technologies such as Blackberries, PDAs, camera phones, and other wireless communication devices. Online shopping is a regular part of their lives. • Not many nightclubs have taken advantage of various e-commerce activities, and Ruben sees this as an opportunity to gain...
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...Club It, Part One Rhonda (Asyur) Watson BIS/219 March 6, 2012 Larry Voss Club It, Part One Club IT is a downtown music venue managed and owned by Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada. They learned quite a bit about nightclub operations from experience, in addition to business principles learned from their studies. Club IT has high ceilings and high energy lighting that create an atmosphere of fun and energy. For music, they hire live bands on Fridays and Saturdays, and then have a live DJ Tuesdays through Thursdays. They are closed on Sundays. The DJ uses MP3 playlists to play hip-hop, techno, electronic, and some Top 40s. The club occupies about 6,000 square feet of space with a 600 square foot dance floor, seating for 220, a kitchen for appetizers and short orders, and a bar with four pour stations. Ruben and Lisa’s mission for Club IT is to offer live music, DJ's, dance space and refreshments. Ultimately they want to build a community that meets regularly at Club IT. As for staffing, Club IT has one assistant manager, four bartenders, six wait staffers, two stewards, two short order cooks, and four security guards. With regard to the information technology Club IT has a website as well as an employee portal referred to as an intranet. The information system is used as an organizational resource to keep track of employee’s personal and professional information as well as orders, sales, and budget. The data is stored in various formatted excel spreadsheets. It is also...
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...Club IT: Part One Club IT is a 6,000 square foot venue that provides music, dancing and a casual dining, experience for customers who desire to have a fun, and entertaining experience. Lisa and Ruben, co owners of Club IT are both business degree graduates who both seem to have a passion for music and they have began to realize their dream of opening up their own music venue. They recently remodeled Club IT and added booths and table setting in addition to bar seating and now have the ability to seat two hundred twenty guests, and with their 600 square foot dance floor, they provide plenty of space for dancing. Beyond your traditional bar, Club IT not only offers beverages but also offers both appetizers and short order food to their clientele. Club IT makes every effort to be appealing to the most people by offering diverse varieties of music so that anyone can find something that they will enjoy when they go to Club IT. They offer nights with DJs “spinning” records, live music in the form of local bands and several times of year they have bands from all over the United States scheduled to appear. Best of all, through Club IT’s open mike nights the community can really feel like they are part of the It family by testing out their musical skills. The mission statement of Club IT is simple and straight to the point, the owners have it written clearly on their website,” “We, Ruben and Lisa, offer you live music, DJ's, dance space and refreshments that suit your lifestyle. You...
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...Club IT Part 1 your name XBIS/219 date instructor name Club IT Part 1 Club IT is a 6,000 square foot downtown nightclub that offers music, dining, and dancing for customers who wish to have a good time with good friends in a great environment. After working their way through college as musicians and earning degrees in business administration the owners, Lisa Tejada and Ruben Keys, are living their dream of owning and operating their own nightclub. Lisa and Ruben recently remodeled Club IT which now has seating for 220 customers, a 600 square foot dance floor, a kitchen to prepare appetizers as well as short orders, and a full bar with four pour stations. Club IT offers different genres of music for a mixed customer base so that there is something for everything to enjoy. With all the improvements made Lisa and Ruben should have no problem upholding their mission which is “We, Ruben and Lisa, offer you live music, DJ’s, dance space and refreshments that suit you lifestyle. You are our friend, and we seek to build a community that meets regularly at Club IT”. Lisa and Ruben are currently using the intranet and networks as their primary business information system. There is a website where members and customers can gain information about the nightclub including Club IT music, dining and menus, merchandise, Club IT staff, and a club layout. On the website there is an employee portal which employees can access using a username and password unique to them. Each employee can...
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...Club IT, Part One BIS 219 Club IT, Part One Club IT is an up-and-coming downtown nightclub that caters to local musicians, DJ talent, and music lovers of all ages. The owners, Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada, endeavor to provide a comfortable, friendly atmosphere that keeps customers coming back on a regular basis. The goal is to move from a “brick-and-mortar” business to a “click-and mortar” business leveraging the Internet for marketing, customer service, sales, and information sharing (Rainer & Turban, p. 38). Embarking on business-to-consumer e-commerce strategy will broaden the company’s customer base and showcase what the club does best, music. Lisa and Ruben have a clear mission, “to offer live music, DJ’s, dance space and refreshments that suit your lifestyle.” They believe that customers are also friends and seek to build a community that considers Club IT a regular meeting place. The goal is to extend the company’s reach and provide a portal in which customers can get information, listen to song selections, and buy merchandise. This will enhance the customer experience and enable the club to market its artists and events. The customer demographics are young adults ages 21 to 35. The club specializes in Hip-hop, Techno, Electronica, and some Top 40 music. Friday and Saturday nights feature live bands and local talent. Weeknights, talented, local Disc Jockeys create a high energy atmosphere and play the latest dance music. Each month the club showcases...
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...Club IT Part One Ernesto Alcala University of Phoenix Business Information Systems BIS/219 Anthony Isom July 28, 2010 Club IT Part One Club IT as a new nightclub recently in business, showing its organization by a description of Club IT’s mission, primary clientele, the system’s management, the role of the IT department, and, competitive advantage strategy which would achieve them success in its business. As an entertainment company, Club IT establishes a mission announcement: "We, Ruben and Lisa, offer you live music, DJ's, dance space and refreshments that suit your lifestyle. You are our friends, and we seek to build a community that meets regularly at Club IT." (R. Kelly Rainer E. T., 2008). As a night club, Club IT remodeled its interiors presenting great energy and a great place to dance, eat, or relax. Offering 6,000 square feet of fun with a short order kitchen for appetizers and also a bar. The club offers a variety of music, such as: Live bands, hip hop, techno, MP3, and, electronic. By providing a variety of music and merchandise as t-shirts, baseball cap, short glass, and glass mug, the company tries to match everybody’s life styles including older adults, married couples, singles, and young-adults achieving and building a community of friends who meet at the club frequently. As a small company, Club IT uses an intranet structure. A private network who allows the owners and employees to have access providing an excellent resource for the club. However...
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