INF 340: Business Systems Analysis and Design
Instructor: Robin Jones
June 9, 2014
Starting a business of their own someday had been a dream of two college students back in the 70’s, Bob and Thelma Mellankamp are those two people. The dream was sparked by going to an economics class one day where the two of them saw a “for sale sign” in the window of a local restaurant that was up for sale. After being in business all these years, both Bob and Thelma just want to improve things from the way they are now. They have discovered the areas that needs to be addressed, hence hiring Build a Better Systems for the Hoosier Burger Case Analysis. Bob and Thelma have dreams also of expansion, but many issues must be handled before any of this can proceed. The implementation of a SDLC (systems development life cycle) this new systems development will help Bob and Thelma improve the areas of the business that will be mentioned in this paper, along with helping them achieve both short and long term goals. (Valacich, George, Hoffer, 2009) The owners of Hoosier Burger, has identified some issues in inventory control, customer service, food prep and marketing, hence where the Hoosier burger information system project got its name. This was to help support the above names issues and to help the owners focus on improving the day to day operations of the organization. Within the SDLC there are four key steps which are planning and selection, analysis, design and lastly implementation and operation. The owners had a current system which was just plain old paper, but yet they wanted to try to bring this to a modern up to date system, which could improve their inventory control, ordering for the restaurant and a reporting system, all this had its issues since paper was the only system in place. (Valacich, George, Hoffer, 2009) Bob wanted to bring the restaurant into the modern era, with changes in