Situation: In 1977‚ Debbi Fields opened her first Mrs. Fields ’ store in Palto Alto‚ California. The Mrs. Fields store concept quickly expanded to a national and international level. With more than 500 Mrs. Fields ’ cookie stores in 25 states and five countries on four continents‚ Mrs. Fields ’ Cookies was dependent on a corporate structure that was technologically advanced. The company ’s organizational strategy included a flat organizational structure feel and a management control system that
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Mrs. Fields Cookies is a small company selling freshly baked goods through privately owned specialty stores (each store sells only Mrs. Fields products). The company has about 8‚000 employees worldwide and less than 150 information systems people for a unique leverage of MIS resources. The company uses information systems extensively in its processing‚ communications‚ and other management functions‚ including operations of the stores and hiring sales employees. 1. Would you describe Mrs. Fields’
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Case-Study 1 : Analysis and Report Mrs. Fields’ Cookies By‚ Group 7 (Section B) Richa Sethi (11DCP091) Rishabh Chaudhary (11DCP092) Sandeep Satishchandra (11DCP094) Sashi Kanth (11DCP095) Sourabh Gehlot (11DCP096) Shalini Mukerji (11DCP097) Sudhanshu Sharma (11DCP098) Contents General Overview................................................................3 Practical Implementation of the Information System in Mrs. Fields Cookies............................................
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Q.1) Describe Mrs. Fields’ Cookies in term of its complexity‚ formalization‚ and centralization. Complexity: Basically‚ as such there is not much complexity with in an individual store of Mrs. Fields’ cookies‚ as the organizational structure is flat‚ but spatial differentiation is definitely there as the location of an organization’s facilities are personal are dispersed geographically. It is mention in the case that Mrs. Fields Cookies is operating in 37 states the location of the organization
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Mrs. Fields’ Cookies – Case Analysis. Mrs. Fields’ Cookies is a case that was initially created in 1989 and revised in 1993. Even though it is nearly two decades old it contains a lot of educational value by providing look into an international company that has grown from just one small store to a huge organization with over 500 stores in 25 United States‚ and five countries on four continents. The company was created by Debbi Fields who opened her first store in Palo Alto‚ CA and grew her business
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Question#1 Describe a typical day at work at Mrs. Fields’ Cookies for Store manager‚ District manager‚ Regional director of operations‚ Store controller and for Debbi and Randy Fields. Answer to question#1 Store manager performs the following tasks at work: ➢ Enters workday characteristics for the system to structure overall tasks. ➢ Schedules production‚ including inventory management. ➢ Hires new employees. District manager performs the following tasks at work: ➢ Manages 6 stores (6
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Mrs. Fields’ Cookies 1. Would you describe Mrs. Fields’ Cookies as more of a functional hierarchy structured along traditional functional lines or more of an IT-enabled network consisting of tailored business processes? I would describe Mrs. Fields’ Cookies as more of an IT-enabled network. In the text it says the Fields’ believed that the less hierarchy the better and they acted upon that. There weren’t a lot of employees who had to answer to different managers. They kept it pretty simple
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The Role of Information Technology in Education The Role of Information Technology in Education The Role of Information Technology in Education explores the potential for technology to redefine the terms of teaching and learning. Can the tools of technology break through the barriers to educational progress? What inhibits the effective use of technology? What are the perceived and the real limits of these tools? Thirteen grantees are helping to answer these questions. In 1998‚ we noticed that computers
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