3.02 - What's the Benefit?

An organization has a system in place that allows one salesperson to update contact information for a client, simultaneously updating the same information for all other employees.

• Maintains organizational consistency and credibility
• Helps businesses comply with laws and regulations
• Helps businesses serve customers more effectively and efficiently
• Maintains business continuity in case of disaster
• Preserves organizational identity and history

Government auditors visit a business and find all its accounting records available and in order.

• Helps businesses comply with laws and regulations
• Helps businesses serve customers more effectively and efficiently
• Maintains business continuity in case of disaster
• Maintains organizational consistency and credibility
• Preserves organizational identity and history

A business keeps records of sales, so it can offer customers appropriate discounts and coupons.

• Helps businesses serve customers more effectively and efficiently
• Helps businesses comply with laws and regulations
• Maintains business continuity in case of disaster
• Maintains organizational consistency and credibility
• Preserves organizational identity and history

A company has an original copy of its Articles of Incorporation from 1908.

• Preserves organizational identity and history
• Helps businesses comply with laws and regulations
• Helps businesses serve customers more effectively and efficiently
• Maintains business continuity in case of disaster
• Maintains organizational consistency and credibility

An organization keeps all its tax information, so it is prepared to pay its taxes on time each quarter.

• Saves time and money
• Helps businesses comply with laws and regulations
• Helps businesses serve customers more effectively and efficiently
• Maintains business continuity in case of disaster
• Maintains organizational consistency and credibility

A business experiences a major system failure, but because it has backed up all its important files, employees can perform work tasks as usual.

• Maintains business continuity in case of disaster
• Helps businesses comply with laws and regulations
• Helps businesses serve customers more effectively and efficiently
• Maintains organizational consistency and credibility
• Preserves organizational identity and history

A marketing manager must choose between two advertising layouts. They hold a focus group to gather information on which layout customers will like better.

• Supports decision-making
• Helps businesses comply with laws and regulations
• Helps businesses serve customers more effectively and efficiently
• Maintains business continuity in case of disaster
• Maintains organizational consistency and credibility

A client files a lawsuit against a company, and the company is required to provide relevant emails and memos. It is able to so do because of appropriate information management.

• Helps businesses comply with laws and regulations
• Helps businesses serve customers more effectively and efficiently
• Maintains business continuity in case of disaster
• Maintains organizational consistency and credibility
• Preserves organizational identity and history

A computerized order-processing program allows a company to ship customers’ orders as quickly as possible.

• Helps businesses serve customers more effectively and efficiently
• Helps businesses comply with laws and regulations
• Maintains business continuity in case of disaster
• Maintains organizational consistency and credibility
• Preserves organizational identity and history

Someone tries to copy a company’s logo, but because the company has kept track of its trademarks, it is able to prove ownership.

• Preserves organizational identity and history
• Helps businesses comply with laws and regulations
• Helps businesses serve customers more effectively and efficiently
• Maintains business continuity in case of disaster
• Maintains organizational consistency and credibility