Wednesday, 1 February 2012

StreamBox (Karim Mualla, Bhavna Malhan, Dipti, Mobel)



Benefits

-Explore consumers with a varied interest in media; whether be it those who enjoy listening to podcasts on the radio, or those that are always "on-the-go", so can access the site as an app (e.g. listening to CNN sport live whilst on the treadmill at the gym)
-The choice available to those consumers is vast. Almost anything they wish to watch or listen to will be attainable and with a simple click of a button, they can stream it
-We are also welcome to suggestions; if there is an aspect of media that is unavailable, then our team will examine this and explore if we can indeed add this to our platform

Risks

-Hackers and copycats: obviously with such a unique and brilliant concept, many others will try and steal our purpose. Therefore we must ensure we have the highest security measures in tact, such that our source code cannot be accessed and any copycats must pay licensing fees to us
-If there is a fault with the internet connection, the consumer will be unable to stream or download immediately


The Technological Factor (SLEPT ANALYSIS):

Technology is constantly changing, and businesses must manage and incorporate new technologies to survive. The internet has demonstrated that those firms who ignore technology risk alienating customers. However, investing in technology is expensive and therefore, firms must spend their money wisely. Studies have shown that businesses who invest research and development can often gain a big advantage. for that reason this entrepreneur project would rely greatly on the technological aspect as one of the main factors of the SLEPT analysis.
We will offer the following:
-          A mobile software that is compatible with Mac and Android systems.
-          Free texts obtained from the learned knowledge provided by customers behaviors.
-          The content offered by this enterprise will not only include movies and TV series (sorted by its genres) but also live streaming sport games (different kinds, depends on customer’s order), World News (again, depends on customers’ channel/Network request), Entertainment events such as the Oscars, Golden Globes, TV night Shows… etc.
-          Technological upgrade must take place on the mobile software constantly on a pre-scheduled basis.
-          Integrating customers’ behavior by implementing artificial intelligence algorithms designed specially to make the application as user friendly as possible.  

More Technological Analysis for the Internet TV project:

Some factors that cause company's actual results to differ materially from the expected results are as follows:

1-      The effectiveness of company's advertising, marketing and promotional programs. The new technology of internet and television which use special effects for advertising through media. They make some products look attractive. This helps in selling of the products. This advertising makes the product attractive. This technology is being used in media to sell their products.

2-      Introduction of cans softwares have increased sales for other companie.

3-      As the technology is getting advanced there has been introduction of new legal and illegal streaming providers all the time. Due to introduction of this phenomenon the production of this company should increase tremendously in terms of services and features to make it as tempting as possible for customers to use our product.
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Organisations needs strategy in order to remain competitive and strategy needs to be driven by the future of the organisation which is the objective and the vision (Chaffey, 2011, p.275), for organisation to do strategy planning it needs to invest into the right place.
Google is the most used search engine and it is important to advertise using google so that more people can discover our T.V product . Facebook is the second most visited in the world with 500 million users.

THIS IS 7 TOP MOST VISITED WEBSITE
1. Google - Enables users to search the world’s information, including webpages, images, and videos. Offers unique features and search technology.
2. Facebook - A social utility that connects people, to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and videos.
3. YouTube - YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share your videos worldwide!
4. Yahoo! –  A major internet portal and service provider offering search results, customizable content, chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager.
5. Blogger - Free, automated weblog publishing tool that sends updates to a site via FTP. (Owned by Google)
6. Baidu -  The leading Chinese language search engine, provides “simple and reliable” search experience, strong in Chinese language and multi-media content including MP3 music and movies, the first to offer WAP and PDA-based mobile search in China.
7. Wikipedia - A free encyclopedia built collaboratively using wiki software. (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License).

The following above analysis justify reason for choosing google and face book for advertisement.


Pay per view in hotels: Hotels is part of our sell side and it important to lock-in customer as part of our strategy. Customers will be able to steam data using the Wi-Fi of the hotels when lodging in their rooms and the enviroment.
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In our group we are wholesalers taking orders and delivering to retailers and ordering from distributors.
  1.   The first problem we encounter as a group is not getting to work with all the group members.
  2.   In the first week we received an Order of 10 from the retailers and we panic not to run out of stock and we double our order from the distributor which raises our stock and cost
  3.   Week 15 the retailer ordered 30 and there was a delay from the distributor which made us out of stock.  And left us with back orders
  4.   At the end of week 20 we are out of stock with cost of £76 and back order of 3
  5.   There was no adequate communication from the distributor and the two week delay does not help

  

(Wholesale  inventory from the beer game)

THE POSSIBLE SOLUTION
ü  Know the demand: By studying the consumer behaviour we can understand what to order from the distributor
ü  Interact: Interaction with both the retailer and the Distrubtor is vital and would help to reduce our cost
ü  Communication: Communication is essential in supply chain and this would have help with the stock level and cost.

  1. Explore the use of ICT applications in the supply chain, and relate their features to the problems you encountered

The technologies that that can be use to solve the problem we encounter are(Radio-frequency identification)  RFID and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).  The reasons are for the following:

BENEFIT OF RFID
·        The main potential benefit is improving, efficiency, accuracy and security of both the supply chain management and inventory management and also cost savings
·        Another benefit for the use of RFID technology is its real time capability.  RFID provide an accurate inventory database enabling greater efficiency in shelf replenishing and forecasting and resulting in less out of stock occurrences.
·         The use of RFID will simplify the collection of information needed to drive category management and retailers will not need suppliers to collect data for them and this could further strengthen the retailer’s understanding of the category management at the expense of the supplier
Watch this video link to understand how RFID helps in supply chain

BENEFIT OF EDI

·         1- Reduce or eliminate the need to send and receive paper purchase orders, invoices, and other documents which are routinely exchanged between you and your trading partners
·         2- Execute transactions quickly via the internet
·         3- Improve negotiating leverage with vendors by making it easier for them to do business with