Select an Organization
If the technology running the company infrastructure were to fall behind, it would also affect the company on multiple levels. If their security cameras were a generation or three behind, that would mean lower resolution, less control, perhaps even a worse user interface for the associates behind them. It would become harder for security to keep the theft down, and the company’s stock would shrink far more than they could have projected. If the associates in the backrooms scanning and ordering new inventory had older handhelds it could take them longer to do their jobs, it could be more frustrating for them, and perhaps the handhelds would have issues with their wireless connections in certain areas of the store, causing a lot of difficulties. This would mean less stock would be replaced on a day to day basis, less stock being re-ordered to fill the shelves. They may even have to hire more associates to try to pick up the slack of their failing hardware, another drain on the individual stores available payroll. And of course, what do they all have to lose? Money. A lot of money. From the store employees to the CEO, they would all lose out. Many would lose jobs, those coming in new would see fewer incentives and less raises. The higher ups would be facing store closures, lower or even no bonuses. The company as a whole would shrink, and falter.•
For this Im going to go with an organization thats fairly large and general. Were going to go with Wal-Mart, whose stakeholders are, well, anybody who has anything to do with the company. Employees, stockholders, customers, they all hold a stake in the company. If Wal-Mart were unable to keep up with new technologies, it would be disastrous on multiple fronts. Their products would fall behind the times – lets imagine they only have the iPhone4 in stock, and everyone’s clamoring over the iPhone5. That would be a massive loss in sales, loss in customers, and due to the loss of profits