Information Systems for Managers assignment
"Failure and success of the information system for invoicing"
Created by Dejan Bogoeski
Individual assignment
Information systems for Managers
New York University in Skopje
BRIEF CONTENTS
1. Introduction ..3
2. A brief description of the mobile telecommunications industry . .4
3. MobiMak and its Master dealers ..5
4. The NETFON's system for ordering, delivery and storage of MobiMak's products, and for issuing invoices ..5
5. The failure and the success of the information systems for invoicing related to the practice ..6
6. Conclusion 10
1. Introduction
The Republic of Macedonia has been an independent country for 15 years. As many of the countries in the region of South-east Europe, Macedonia has been passing through processes of radical transformations in its economy. Perhaps the most radical were the basic changes in the proprietary structure with a primary aim to strengthen the private property, abandoning the communist model of economy, and the promotion of the market economy as a supreme principle. This process, which was marked as "not so successful" in most of its segments, besides its generally accepted aims, has produced traumatic consequences in the social sphere as well (a 38% rate of unemployment), has slowed down the development of the economy (Macedonia reached the level of its 1990 GDP in the past year), low level of direct domestic and foreign investments in the economy, as well as losing the pace with the development and the practical use of the technology's achievements. This general ambient, with other negative consequences of the war conflicts that lasted from 1991 to 2001 in different parts of the former Yugoslavia, had its strongest affect on the feeling of safety and the prospective of any kinds of