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TOPIC 2 - ICT
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- 1Human Resource CostThe costs of any staff performing data entry, the costs of training these staff, the costs of specialist staff needed for programming etc.
- 2Financial CostData may need to be transferred from one place to another using expensive communication lines.
- 3Time CostThe entry of data, especially using keyboards, takes time. This can slow down the whole process from collecting the data to the production of the final information.
- 4Creating Data Collection SheetsE.g. Pay someone to create the forms.
Take time to trial the sheets before using for real - 5Data CollectionE.g. New staff have to be employed to go and ask people questions.
Training needed to show the team how to collect the data - 6Data EntryNew staff have to be employed to type in the results of the data collection.
OMR devices have to be purchased
It takes time for someone to type in the data which takes them away from another job. - 7ProcessingE.g. New software/hardware has to be written/purchased to allow the results to be obtained before the data gets out of date
- 8Maintenance/UpdatingStaff have to be employed to keep the hardware running and to modify the software when legislation changes and bugs are found.
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