You are going to interview the local manager of LDI, a national tire retailer, who
has asked you to work as a system analyst on a management information system to
provide inventory information. (45pts…15pts. per pyramid, funnel & diamond
shape)
Here are five questions you wrote to prepare for the meeting:
1. What are the five physical strengths and five limitations of the end users with
respect to performing the national retail inventory processing on a daily basis?
2. What are the top ten high-level needs to make the new inventory system
user-friendly, accurate, reliable, and secure?
3. Do you have year-to-date demand and supply metrics that were gathered in the
last three months?
4. How often do you update your tire inventories?
5. How many retail stores do you currently have that carry your tire inventory?
List each above listed question in the proper sequence
(1) pyramid structure
(2) funnel structure, and
(3) diamond-shaped structure
C. You are a project manager at L & D Inc., specialized in information technology and
network engineering. One of your junior systems analyst came to you for an advice of
a technology to capture user information requirements. He described to you that he
had talked with his client several times in the past week to define user information
requirements. Each time he thought he had captured user information requirements,
they’ve already changed. Finally, he thinks his clients do not even know what they
want for their system.
Give your junior systems analyst an advice of several types of technology that he
could use to capture user information requirements and explain to him how this
technology can help him to better define users’ information requirements.