Assignment: UMUC Haircuts Stage 3: Create a document that includes:

Introduction

At the top of your paper, show the strategy for competitive advantage that Myra selected and the business process she has chosen to improve, using the following format:

Strategy for Competitive Advantage: xxxxxxx (just name the strategy)

Business Process to Improve: xxxxxxxxx (just name the process)

Table of IT Requirements

Copy the table below into your paper
Rank each requirement as High, Medium or Low in Importance/Relevance or Not Applicable (N/A) to a system to improve the process
Explain each ranking, as described in the table, including explanations for N/A
Definitions of the IT requirements are listed in Course Resources table above.

	IT Requirement	Importance/ Relevance High, Medium, Low, or Not Applicable (N/A)	Explanation for Ranking (Write a minimum of 3 good sentences for each; both the process to be improved and the case study should be mentioned in each explanation; the data used in the process should be included in the explanation where applicable.)
1	Usability
2	Maintainability
3	Scalability
4	Reliability/ Availability
5	Extensibility
6	Portability
7	Security
8	Information Quality
9	Authentication
10	Business Continuity Plan
11	Cloud Computing
12	Enterprise Systems (ERP, CRM, SCM)
13	Communications
14	Database, Data Warehouse, Data Mining
15	Business Intelligence
16	Transaction Processing
17	Decision Support
18	Executive Information
19	Business-to-Business eCommerce
20	Business-to-Consumer eCommerce

Formating:

For academic writing, the writer is expected to write in the third person. In third person, the writer avoids the pronouns I, we, my, and our. The third person is used to make the writing more objective by taking the individual, the “self,” out of the writing. This method is very helpful for academic writing, a form in which facts, not opinion, drive the tone of the text. Writing in the third person allows the writer to come across as unbiased and thus more informed.

Submit one document that includes the Table of Requirements.
Table entries should be single spaced.
Use APA formatted citations and references for any external sources used.
Include a title page, and a reference page if references are included.
Compare your final work to the rubric to be sure you have met content and quality criteria.
Submit your paper as a Word document, or a document that can be read in Word.
Your submission should include your last name first in the filename: Lastname_firstname_Stage _3

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IT Requirement	Importance/ Relevance High, Medium, Low, or Not Applicable (N/A)	Explanation for Ranking (Write a minimum of 3 good sentences for each; both the process to be improved and the case study should be mentioned in each explanation; the data used in the process should be included in the explanation where applicable.)
Usability	High	Since the process to be improved is customer and employee scheduling, it has to be given a high importance as it is supposed to makes the shop more effective (Gadde et al., 2012). The shop has to use the system always to capture the specific details of the customers and thus its usability is high.
Maintainability	High	Systems are expensive and time consuming to create. They need to be maintained and in the most effective way possible. The high rating is because, if the system is not well maintained, then it will not work as effective as it should and the whole process would just have been a waste of time.
Scalability	Medium	UMUC Haircuts is expected to grow and thus the system should be scalable enough to allow such growth. The medium rating given is because at the moment the shot is looking at the current customers and thus the issue of scalability can come up much later. Thus it cannot be high.

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