Like discussed in this weeks lesson, it is hard to justify spending money when money is tight. But as stated in this article, when facilities function properly and effectively through maintenance of facilities management, it optimisms business performance and makes the workplace productive.

Beo's are major roll players in the organization of parties and events. They are the template for how things are ordered from food, services, staffing to timing of how the event will play out. Without well put together BEOs, functions can be very disorganized, understaffed/overstaffed, or even run out of food due to lack of being prepared. These simple 5 items listed in this article lay out how well communication can be thought of when creating a BEO.

Human resources is a very important part of how businesses operate. In today's world, having HR systems in place is a must. But choosing the HR system to fit your need must be well thought out. It is not easy to choose what will be best for your business, but once you find the best option, it will assist in helping your business's success or better integrate your old system to new for maximized profits. A good HR management system allows for a lot of integration of information from your employees, time clock, taxes, monitor applicants,training and development and so much more. This article identifies how a good HR management system can assist your business's success as well as offers insight into ones that may be best suited for your business.

Anything worth INVESTING in that will assist in building your business is worth researching and looking into. Buying blindly is a very foolish thing to do. By doing your homework and comparing IT investments, you have the ability to see what is the best fit for your business. You can compare and customize what will be most beneficial for you and your company. This will force you to define what you need and see how it will benefit your establishment.

Restaurants are one of the most tedious and stressful businesses. Being diligent and focusing on attention to detail is very important. But with this comes being time oriented and managing every task at the upmost level. Sometimes, being a manager in the restaurant industry, you are pulled in many directions that human error is entered into many ways for money to be lost. Using POS systems assists in keeping track of any items not just ticketing systems from front of the house to the kitchen. Inventory can be kept track of with POS systems, to labor forecasting, to purchasing, etc. These functions assist taking a big part of human error out of the aspect to allow for more accurate documentation of revenue. This is also now freeing up time so the manager can focus on other items to assist in driving revenue.

Are POS systems truly helpful in our industry? As we can see, they clearly add massive value to our industries. There is an investment in them, but as we spoke about in our last class, trying to see trends and never going "all in" on the newest systems is key. This article studies where the trend may go from 2018-2028. It is using massive data from all over globally to investigate trends to assist in businesses being profitable.

Everything in life and business today is about how you can make big bigger, fast faster and everything more personalized. This article is giving suggestion about how GDS may evolve in the future to make it more personalized to the buying customer as well as making it more GDS more secure. GDS are starting to price compare with competing sites and businesses are offering incentive of not having service fees if you book directly through them. Where is this leading the GDS systems? Perhaps into the Blockchian technology, where a customer can purchase a token and essentially cash it in when they exchange it for the service being done. This is allowing for more secure transactions of moneys. GDS will never go out of business, but there is always a way someone is looking to make it better, Blockchains may be something of the future trend.

How Social Media is affecting E commerce. E Commerce is a growing business anyway we look at it. But like any business, how do you continue to grow it as times change. How do you market the business in a new way based on trends? This quick read article points out 5 great ways that social media is marketing e commerce and outlets on social media that are driving it.

Advantages will reign from the obvious such as being able to speak in real time to people across the country, therefore communicating messages faster. This helps businesses be more successful due to relaying data faster and more accurately, seeing trends in different areas sooner, to sending files at a quicker rate. Items shared on networks allow for more people to have access to information at a quicker rate along with information being shared more accurate due to being in real time. Time is money and network sharing helps save time which in turn is saving money. Along with saving money because time is being saved, the lack of software changes assists in saving money as well. If you are not having to replace software often, you are able to provide longevity of equipment to help reduce costs. On the other hand there are many disadvantages that can seem to outweigh the advantages if not looking at the entire picture. If a network breaks down, everyone working off of that network can be out of work for the time it is being fixed. Would this be worth taking the risk of calculating how many hours of work that is lost based on how efficiently the system works? Now to fix this issue this requires someone who is trained in this field at a high technical skill level to fix the network error which can cost a great deal of money to maintain.What if an employee is being distracted by the many things the internet has to offer and is using your network to look these things up? They are now being unproductive at work and putting your network at risk for malware, viruses and many other illicit practices. So once again, is the risk worth the reward.

Advantages and Risks of Networking Operating Systems NOS help connect people at a much faster and more organized rate than pen and paper- even email. But with this, there are threats that can come with this convenience. It is important to know the precautionary measures to take and when done properly, how with risk, can come reward. But if measures are not taken properly, the reward can be greatly sacrificed by data being stolen, information being taken and destruction of digital property. We learned that the server can communicate a lot of data to individuals at different locations at once and how this becomes a very big advantage and allows for an increase of productivity. There are also more ways to communicate data with technology as the intrAnet. This allows for a company to use their network to communicate messages between their devices. But when the inter-network is mixed with the internet, the security can become compromised.

MIS Systems are quickly becoming a way to remove the "human error" aspect and create a better guest experiences in the service industry. The "human error" is removed by collecting data and not only eliminating any mistakes a human may use in relaying the information, but also allowing the information to travel faster through "real time" conveying of the data. This helps significantly if the guest travels often and fast before the data could be submitted manually.

"Just in time"- ordering is fantastic because it takes a lot of thinking out of the matrix, although what happens when a recall happens? Well it can be good and bad. Bad because things happen so fast, and orders are sent once "it is saved by the bell", although, there is so much to be traced in the :"just in time" ordering that it actually helps tracing the source of the issue. So although something can travel faster , it can also be traced faster to help prevent the problem.

Technology has advanced us in many ways to make our society profitable monetarily, although is this what we need for our guests? Many mangers may see this new age of technology as a great way to maximize profits, but our consumers get annoyed by the "press one for x and two for z". It is a fine line between being productive and being profitable