Question: What are the four information technology components ? Kylie's parents have retired, and she has been put in charge of the family business - a successfulrestaurant which showcases the family's regional food. Dishes are based on her mother's deliciousrecipes and they are fully booked almost every night of the week. Kylie and her team regularly getasked why they do not expand so that more people can enjoy their superb food. The family are veryproud of their success and expanding the business offers them many opportunities. Kylie knows thatexpanding a business is very tricky, even a successful business like her family's.There are many challenges that Kylie has discovered as she has taken over the day-to-day running ofthe business. Many of the business processes are manual – it took Kylie many months to persuadeher parents to even get an EFTPOS machine for the credit and debit card payments of theircustomers. Her father took care of the accounts in a paper cash book and ledger at home whichfrustrated their tax accountant and inventory management was based on her mother's estimation -if anything ran out one of the waiter's would be sent to the supermarket down the road. If businessslowed her parents would photocopy some flyers in the library across the road with specials and getthe waiters to do letterbox drops in the local area or put them under car's windscreen wipers.Kylie feels like she is trying to run the business with a blindfold on. She knows that there are greatopportunities, but she will need to make some changes to how the business is run. Her parents ranthe business on hard won knowledge but it will take Kylie time to build that knowledge - everytransaction is data which she knows she can be used to run the business better if she can organisedata into information with meaning and value. She especially knows that inventory management isonly one of her challenges where she could save money and make sure that she does not lose sales.She knows that information systems can help however, it isn't her area of expertise.Her friend, Methat, is doing a bachelor's degree in information systems and has offered to help hermake sense of what computer-based information systems a business needs, to replace the manualsystems and procedures her parents did on paper or via estimation. Methat reassures Kylie that it isa good idea to understand the key concepts of computer-based information systems and that shewill make better decisions to support the family business. Methat suggests that they review andwrite up a report including:

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Description: Question: What are the four information technology components ? Kylie's parents have retired, and she has been put in charge of the family business - a successfulrestaurant which showcases the family's regional food. Dishes are based on her mother's