Dirt Bikes promotes itself as a “learning company.” It encourages employees to undergo training to help them advance in their careers. As employees move on, their positions fall vacant. These positions must be filled quickly to maintain the company’s pace of production. Dirt Bikes’ human resources staff would like to find a way of quickly identifying qualified employees who have the training to fill vacant positions. Once the company knows who these employees are, it has a better chance of filling open positions internally rather than paying to recruit outsiders. Dirt Bikes would like to track each employee’s years of education and the title and date of completion of any training that each employee has attended. Dirt Bikes’ existing employee database is limited to basic human resources data, such as employee name, identification number, birth date, address, telephone number, marital status, job position, and salary. Dirt Bikes’ human resources staff maintains employees’ skills and training data in paper folders.
On the basis of this information, prepare a system analysis report describing Dirt Bikes’ problem and suggesting a solution that can be implemented using database software. The report should include the following points:
1. Description of the problem and its organizational and business impact
2. Proposed solution and solution objectives
3. Information requirements to be addressed by the solution
4. People, organization, and technology issues to be addressed by the solution, including changes in business processes