In my IT a-level class, i was thinking of making something for a football club, like a form guide, but thats all i could think of... any ideas?
RE: The Brief i was told to... Think of a project for a bussines that could use IT and that is based around numbers. i think that there is more but thats all i wrote down
How's about a decent IVR / online ticket booking system for the box office as I nearly.... ....went through the roof last week. I tried for 3 days last week to get through to speak to someone on the hot line as the voicemail box was full. I'd previously tried and failed to book tickets using our online booking system. After the 2nd day of trying I followed the instructions on our website and I e-mailed my request through (because I don't own a fax machine) I received the following back... "Many thanks for your e mail. Tickets for the Burnley game are available to purchase on the internet if you would like to visit our website. Kind regards Ticket Office" ...so I phoned the reception and asked to be put through to a human. Finally after much waiting I did get the ticket but it must have took at least 1.5 hours of effort on my part to do so. It has to be said that the lady in question was very polite and apologetic, saying there was only her on the desk and it would probably be better in future if I could 'pop in' to pick up a ticket. I then went on to give her my address details and I think she nearly fell off her chair when I told her I lived in Glasgow!
Don't bother doing it You're obviously not interested in the subject if you can't be arsed to concentrate for two minutes whilst the Tutor tells you the assignement
RE: The Brief I mean, are you supposed to be developing this system or designing it? From scratch? I'd be wary of aiming the scope too wide, particularly if it's development. My personal recommendation would be to choose a relatively small project but demonstrate a wide variety of skills rather than choose a project so large it's all you can do just to get it up and running. And work out what you're trying to demonstrate before you get started, don't just wade in and hope that what comes out the other end will impress. If you're keen on the football angle then a form guide isn't a bad idea and there are a lot of stats pages around for ideas. One nice thing about this is that you can generate a variety of stats from a single set of data, i.e. the results to date, meaning that you can start with a relatively small scope and increase it to include more analyses if the time (and your interest) permits. This is verging on plagiarism, I suppose, but there's nothing new under the sun . . . Perhaps something that demonstrates business benefit more directly might be worth thinking about? The booking system already suggested is a possibility but you've got to design carefully around the contention for resources, i.e. a finite number of tickets. It might be more trouble than its worth at this level. Maybe another aspect from Weegie Red's post: targetted marketing for a football club (based on a simple customer database of distance from Oakwell, number of kids, etc.) with some analysis of response, i.e. return on investment from extra ticket sales for a campaign. Then again, as Durkar Red pointed out you've probably not read this far . . .
Or A bulletin board system that can keep track of the latest post and number of responses. What is up with this thing???
A football ticket purchasing system. You pay online and pick your seat. The system remembers who you like to sit near. you can cancel up to a certain time before the match, the electronic gate system, which uses id cards with fingerprint, iris and other forms of recognition, automatically disallows those on bans. It's paid for by the savings on ticket offices and traditional sales systems. You can book all your seats at the begining of the season choosing to be debited for them say a week before. the syetem could recognise other users mutually listed as favourites and seat people together. It could place families together and other demographic goups. </p> I don't think there's a present preblem that this system couldn't solve. It would be worth millions to operate and save each club a considerable amount on an ongoing basis. There would be an initial cost in hardwre but it would be offset in weeks by a reduction in staff costs.</p> The bottom line is you could manage your season online and your id card would be your ticket and almost of of the associated problems would be sorted out.</p> I think they'd like it because it's radical, it's big and it's an earner.</p> PS I'm a bit drunk.</p>
RE: A football ticket purchasing system. I added the "bit drunk" bit because I can't find me specs so it's probably riddled with typo's but I have complete faith in idea.</p> I'd like to see it thrown open to suggestions of possible problems.I don't think there's a single conbut there arecountless pros.</p> Like i said I think they'd like it most for its commercial viability. it wouldn't actually cost that much but the rewards would be huge and ongoing.</p>
