E-media Operations Control System

Abstract

In coming up with a study on the e-media operation control System, a research was set up, phases in five distinct groups. The major drive of the research was the inefficiency of the patriot newsprint on the market compared to the other established media organizations due to delays in the internal operations of the production of the newsprint caused by long article movement channels and also much use of manual processes on the production process before print.

To tackle this problem, the research was guided by a set of five clear objectives. The objectives included to design a system that enable efficient transfer of articles from one designated desk to the expected recipient from the journalist to the editors, managing the recordings of stock levels from the printed material to the distribution procedures ,meaning the distribution process would be managed electronically ,a system that grants the management the view of all the operations of the organization, making the management process effective the link between the accounting department and the distribution department in terms of the monetary return expected values from the distributed printed material and developing a system that will create an opportunity for the establishment of an I.T department within an organization.

Perfect information was needed in to aid the problem solving (carried out in the second phase of the study). This information was however, not from a single repository or source. As a result, the research conducted the gathering of the required information using three techniques, namely questionnaires, interviews and observations. Interviews, for example, were used on the users of the current system, management and the local readers of the print media done by The Patriot.