Ideas in this flowchart

• Analyze technology, automation, resources, and operations in organizations.
• Examine automation in service organizations.
• Identify how technology and automation are used at school.
• Identify how technology and automation are used in the local supermarket.
• Identify how technology and automation are used at the doctor’s office.
• Discuss how automation affects the service received from each organization.
• Explain whether one organization’s automation could be effectively used by another.
• Analyze resources and supply-chain management in a small business.
• List the resources critical to the business’s production and operations.
• Explain what would happen if the business could no longer acquire any critical resource.
• Discuss strategies that small businesses can use to manage their supply chain.