3. Wireless Fitness Sandifer's Fitness Club is located in beautiful South Carolina. Rosle Sandifer has owned and oper- ated the club for 20 years. The club has three outdoor pools, two Indoor pools, 10 racquetball courts, 10 tennis courts, an Indoor and outdoor track, along with a four-story exercise equipment and massage therapy building. Rosle has hired you as a summer intern specializing in Information technology. The extent of Rosle's current technology Includes a few PCs in the accounting depart- ment and two PCs with Internet access for the rest of the staff. Your first assignment is to create a report detalling networks and wireless technologies. The report should explain how the club could gain a business advantage by Implementing a wireless network. If Rosle likes your report, she will hire you as the full-time employee in charge of Information technology. Be sure to include all of the different uses for wireless devices the club could Implement to Improve its operations.

BACKGROUND MGMT Boutique Inc. is a high-end retailer that operates a chain of boutique stores in significant hotel properties along the west coast of SanGre Island, including the famous fivestar Castle Height Hotel. Operating in eleven (11) locations, the company offers chic brands like Roberto Cavalli, Pain-de-Sucre, Versace, and Etro Milano. It is well known for its eclectic collection of designer swimwear, fine linens, cotton, and silk apparel for warm days and sultry evenings. A fine complement of shoes, hats, and handbags with hand-picked custom jewelry is included to embrace the very essence of luxurious fashion. The locations connect over a MetroE-wide area network (WAN) that FLOW provides. Each store has a local Point-of-Sale (POS), replicated to a central hub in the main office. Replication occurs once every 15 minutes, so the head office is virtually up-to-date, in real-time, and can see, at a glance, transactions in each store. Customers shop duty-free, paying in local Grees…

Case Study: You are an Information Systems (IS) expert who works as a freelance consultant, providing advice to Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) with respect to their IT needs. You have been hired by ABC Ltd, a London-based company selling electronic goods online. Its mission is to expand with distribution centres in Manchester and Edinburgh in addition to its headquarters warehouse in London. The company also considers expanding into the EU market and perhaps enter more international markets in Asia, Africa and the US. This year the business wishes to make online sales available to all EU countries. You are required to produce a report to encompass an analysis of the host company‘s strategic management of information and information systems. The report must discuss a number of issues that the organisation needs to reflect on. In your report you need to explain the strategic management principles the organisation needs to adhere to and explain the different types of IS that must be…