...Assignment Questions: 1. What is Amazon’s business and what factors are critical to its success? [list or table] Amazon’s Businesses | Critical Success Factors | Retail Goods | Operational Efficiency | | - Disintermediated the retail process | | - Largely automated and information intensive fulfillment centers with huge inventories | | Control | | - Information systems that provided information that managers used to squeeze every last drop of productivity out of their processes | | Innovation | | - Created a new type of facility that allowed Amazon control the transaction from start to finish | Cloud Computing Services | Innovation | | - Developed own methods and built Web-enabled information systems from scratch | | Dedication to collecting and using information to run the business | | | | | | | Supply Chain Management | Operational Efficiency | | - Disintermediated the retail process | | - Largely automated and information intensive fulfillment centers with huge inventories | | - Destroys virtually every other retailer’s turnover rate | | | Back-end Fulfillment Services | Dedication to collecting and using information to run the business | | Control | | - Information systems that provided information that managers used to squeeze every last drop of productivity out of their processes | | | | | 2. What challenges did Amazon face when it first entered the marketplace? [list] a....
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...utexas.edu Dr. Information, Risk, & Operations Management (IROM) Dept. Office CBA 5.228 Office Hours MW 4:00-5:00 pm or by appointment Qian Tang - qian.tang@phd.mccombs.utexas.edu Teaching Assistant CBA 1.308B Office TBD Office Hours Course Description Information technology (IT) has transformed all aspects of 21st century business and everyday life. New IT investments continue to be staggering. Worldwide, over $2.5 trillion is invested in IT. In the U.S., over 50% of capital expenditures are related to IT. Information systems influence business processes, organizational structures, and the ways people do business, work, and communicate. Emerging technologies have triggered new forms of organization and business process innovation; they have also impacted organizational structure, culture, politics, decision making, and society as a whole. IT is transforming how physical products are designed, how services are bundled with products, and how individuals interact with businesses and with other individuals. A silent transformation is occurring as more and more physical products use embedded IT to improve customer experience and product performance. The pervasiveness of IT is expanding global trade and changing how and where work is performed. It is vital that future managers—in every area of business—have a working knowledge of modern IT, practical experience in its use, and management perspective on how IT is used in organizations. MIS 301 will focus on three...
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...Week One Student Guide This week, you will begin to explore how information systems play a role in the work environment. Information systems rely on procedures for collecting, storing, manipulating, and accessing data to obtain information. You will discuss the benefits of information systems, as well as the underlying ethical issues that can undermine the effectiveness of information systems. Information Systems and Word Processing Tools OBJECTIVE: Explain the benefits of information systems in the work environment. Resource: Ch. 1 & 2 of Introduction to Information Systems Content • Ch. 1: The Modern Organization in the Global, Web-Based Environment of Introduction to Information Systems o Business Processes and Business Process Management o Information Systems: Concepts and Definition • Data, Information, and Knowledge • Information Technology Architecture • Information Technology Infrastructure o The Global Web-Based Platform • The Three Stages of Globalization o Business Pressures, Organizational Responses, and IT Support • Business Pressures • Organizational Responses o Why Are Information Systems Important to Me? • Information Systems and Information Technologies Are Integral to Your Lives • IT Offers Career Opportunities • IT Is Used by All Departments • Ch. 2: Information Systems: Concepts and Management of Introduction to Information...
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...The team's project charter, developed through individual team efforts and team collaboration, should be submitted by all team members in their individual assignment area, u05a1. Each team member must also attach a separate document in that same submission that briefly describes his or her specific contribution to this assignment. The instructor will evaluate this assignment using the Project Charter Scoring Guide included in the Resources list below. In this first team assignment, the team will submit a project charter that details: The goal of the project. Conduct research to expand NewwDeal into three key areas: Mobile Applications, Wireless Security, and Cloud Computing. The intended business impact. Business Impact is: The consequences to the business (financial, reputational or operational) that could result Increased market share Customer Satisfaction The team members and their roles. For Week 5, team 3 member roles are: Mark Wetzbarger – Group Lead / PM Marlowe Jones – Deputy Lead / PM & Research Coronda Wilson - Complier Sudharma Thikkavarapu - Researcher Latoria Wilson - Researcher The scope of the project. http://www.tutorialspoint.com/management_concepts/project_scope_definition.htm http://searchcio.techtarget.com/definition/project-scope Should we have a scope statement, vice a scope in terms of time & money? Thoughts? The estimated cost. SWAG @ $100,000 The schedule, including the major milestones and a...
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...Technologies Software Engineering Data Base Technologies Programming for Mobile and Remote Computers Information Technology for Management of Enterprise TOTAL Week 4 Scheme of Examinations Theory T/W Practical Oral Total Hours Marks Marks Marks Marks Marks 3 100 25 -25 150 Pract/ Week 2 Tut/ Week -- 2 4 2 -- 3 100 25 -- 25 150 3 4 5 4 4 4 2 2 2 ---- 3 3 3 100 100 100 25 25 25 --25 25 25 -- 150 150 150 6 4 24 10 1 1 3 -- 100 600 25 150 -25 25 125 150 900 INFORMATION AND NETWORK SECURITY CLASS T.E. ( INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY) HOURS PER LECTURES : WEEK TUTORIALS : PRACTICALS EVALUATION SYSTEM: THEORY PRACTICAL ORAL TERM WORK : SEMESTER VI 04 -02 HOURS 3 ---- MARKS 100 25 25 1. Introduction What is Information Security? Security Goals. 2. Cryptography Crypto Basic, Classic Cryptography, Symmetric Key Cryptography: Stream Ciphers, A5/1, RC4, Block Ciphers, Feistel Cipher, DES, Triple DES, AES, Public Key Cryptography: Kanpsack, RSA, Defiie-Hellman, use of public key crypto- Signature and Non-repudiation, Confidentiality and Non-repudiation, Public Key Infrastructure, Hash Function: The Birthday Problem, MD5, SHA-1, Tiger Hash, Use of Hash Function. 3. Access control - Authentication and Authorization Authentication Methods, Passwords, Biometric, Single – sign on, Authentication Protocol, Kerberos, Access control Matrix, ACLs, Multiple level security model, Multilateral security, Covert channel...
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...wrtg101 Writing Assignment 3 Writing Assignment #3: Research-Supported Essay Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwaid.com/shop/wrtg101-writing-assignment-3/ Writing Assignment #3 will be a research-supported essay. Courses that fulfill the General Education Requirements (GERs) at UMUC all have a common theme—technological transformations. In following this theme throughout this semester in WRTG 101, we have read the analyses of various authors on innovations and technological transformations in education and in other fields. In this essay, you will continue this theme of technological transformations. You have two choices for your essay topic. Please choose one of the two choices. Please note that both choices are identical to the choices you had for writing assignment #2, the cause-effect essay. You may write on the same topic that you wrote on for writing assignment #2; however, you may be asked to adjust the topic in some direction in order to write a more successful research paper. In addition, of course, you will expand on the number of sources you use to defend your argument. 1. TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION Analyze the impact of a particular trend in technology on education. Our discussions in the class up to this point might be helpful for you as you consider ideas for this topic. You might analyze any one of the following. These are just examples. Many approaches are possible for this topic. a. The potential effects of Massive Open...
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...INTRODUCTION TO THE CORPORATE ANNUAL REPORT: A BUSINESS APPLICATION 2cd edition Complete the following before you submit your assignment. This step is required to validate your compliance with sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act. 1. Remove the front cover of the workbook and identify: * Name: Oskar Diaz de Leon _. * Term: Spring1 2010 . * Company: Apple Computer Inc (AAPL) _ . * Instructor: Natasha Bell-Scott _ . 2. Print out your completed electronic template. 3. Attach the following: * This front cover (completed) * Electronic solution template * Company annual report Chapter 1 - Introduction * Chapter 1: Select a Company and Gather Documents—Question 1Fill in the page numbers on the annual report where the following are located. | Required information for this workbook project. | Page No. | Required information for this workbook project. | Page No. | Financial Highlights (Not absolutely necessary, but very common in annual reports.) | 36 | Statement of Cash Flows | 59 | Chairman’s Message (President’s, CEO’s or other top official’s message or letter to the shareholders) | 36 | Notes to Financial Statements | 60 | Management’s Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) | 36 | Report...
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...E-Learning: Emergence of the Profession Jason Drysdale, Jackie Flynt, and Shauna Hannon-Johnson 24 July 2011 The e-learning profession has grown leaps and bounds over the past two decades. Despite being slow to take hold, e-learning is now rapidly increasing in universities: “Today, almost all institutions of higher education offer some form of distance teaching and learning in the U.S.” (Saba, 2008). The historical timelines of instructional design and technology (ID&T) and distance education inform practices in place today. In this paper we track the development of these two traditions, each of which has contributed to current e-learning practice. Instructional Design and Technology: Parent Field Instructional design and technology (ID&T) is the term Robert Reiser (2001) uses for the field also known as instructional design, instructional technology, and educational technology. The core of ID&T revolves around two related practices: use of media for instruction and use of systematic design processes—known as instructional design or instructional systems design (ISD) (Reiser, 2001). We briefly trace below the development of these two strands of the field. Instructional media has been used since the early 1900s in school museums with movable exhibits. These museums appeared first in St. Louis in 1905, primarily using visual media such as photos and slides. This was known as the visual education movement. Movies were used, as per Thomas Edison’s expectation, beginning in 1910...
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...MICRO-ECONOMICS ASSIGNMENT Group 24 VINEET KHANDELWAL | FT161105 | ANKIT GUPTA | FT161016 | CHANDAN | FT161030 | KUSHAL RAVEENDRA | FT161046 | Question Number 1: You run a small firm. Two management consultants are offering you advice. The consultant A says that your firm is losing money on every unit that you produce. To reduce your losses, the consultant recommends that you cut back production. The consultant B says that if your firm sells some additional units, the price will more than cover your increase in costs. In order to reduce losses, the second consultant recommends that you should increase production. 1. Explain which consultant/s is/are factually true and who is offering the correct advice? 2. Explain your answers by drawing the relevant diagram/s. On a broader view, both the consultants seem to be factually correct. The key thing is to look at the relationship between Marginal cost, average cost and the price per unit. The first consultant is in a way right in his advice because the average cost to produce is higher than the selling price .Hence factually he is right to say to cut back production. Since the price is greater than the marginal cost at Q1 the second consultant is also correct in saying that the increase in production will more than cover the costs incurred. Hence taking the advice of second consultant seems more practical as it will lead to profits once if the production is increased up to a point (Q3) where the...
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...CHAPTER 1 Managing in the Digital World CHAPTER OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, you will be able to do the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Describe the characteristics of the digital world and the advent of the information age. Define globalization, describe how it evolved over time, and describe the key drivers of globalization. Explain what an information system is, contrasting its data, technology, people, and organizational components. Describe the dual nature of information systems in the success and failure of modern organizations. Describe how computer ethics impact the use of information systems and discuss the ethical concerns associated with information privacy and intellectual property. CHAPTER OVERVIEW This chapter helps the student understand the role of information systems as organizations move into the digital world, and how they have helped fuel globalization. The student will learn what information systems are, how they have evolved to become a vital part of modern organizations, and why this understanding is necessary to become an effective manager in the digital world. The student will also learn how globalization evolved, and what opportunities globalization presents for organizations. The importance of ethics as it relates to IS is discussed especially as it relates to information privacy, accuracy, property, and accessibility. A number of cases and illustrations are used, for example, Apple products and how they have evolved over time (such as...
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...Formula for weighed mean: X ̅ = (∑fx)/N Where: − ×=Arithmetic mean ∑= Summation of symbol ƒ=Frequency ×=Score/Mean Ν=Number of Respondents Data Organization Table 2 Likert five point- scale Unit weight Equivalent weight points Verbal Interpretation 5 4.50-5.0 Strongly Agree 4 3.50-4.49 Agree 3 2.50-3.49 Minimally Agree 2 1.50-2.49 Disagree 1 1.0-1.49 Strongly Disagree Study Habits of CS 1 Students: What do they do outside the classroom? Donald Chinn Institute of Technology University of Washington, Tacoma Tacoma, WA, USA 98402 dchinn@u.washington.edu Judy Sheard Faculty of Information Technology Monash University Victoria, Australia Judy.Sheard@infotech.monash.edu.au Angela Carbone Faculty of Information Technology Monash University Victoria, Australia Angela.Carbone@infotech.monash.edu.au Mikko-Jussi Laakso Department of Information Technology and Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS) University of Turku, Finland milaak@utu.fi Abstract In this paper, we report the results of a survey of the study habits of CS1 students. In this survey, students were asked how much time they spent on course-related activities such as reading the textbook, working on problems outside class, using online learning tools, and consulting with their instructor. We identified factors that influenced student study habits and how those factors affected students’ final course score...
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...Salesforce[Document subtitle] | | 5/31/15 | Customer Relationship Management | | CRM ASSIGNMENT #1 Salesforce Business Model: Salesforce.com used the Software as a Service (SaaS) Model to provide services to its customers. What SaaS model does is it gives the customers the option to save upfront costs without the need of installing hi-tech servers in their premises, instead all their data is stored in the external cloud space managed by the service provider. Salesforce provides its customers with a variety of cloud based applications that can be used by them and customized by them as per their requirement. Salesforce has made it easy for the companies to adapt to their software as a single version of software which is enough to accommodate their business operations requirement. Also the companies can subscribe to the services that they want and not the whole software in itself. This helps to keep the cost in control. To understand how salesforce does it we can have a look at the short video. Some of the various services offered by Salesforce are: 1) Service Cloud: Due to this the customers of the client can get support where ever required. 2) Desk.com: This tool can be used by business to offer personalized services and solution. Enables to easily survey customers from within Desk.com to measure customer satisfaction (CSAT) and adjust your products and services over time. 3) Marketing cloud: This helps the clients to provide their customers tailor made services...
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...Module code: Computing and it In The Work Place | CT006-3-1-CITW Lecturer Name: Ms. Saeedeh Alsadat Tabatabaei Intake: UC1F1301IT Group Members: 1) Hussein Fuad Alkumaim | TP029806 2) Mohammed Salah Salem | TP028367 3) Loh Shi Sheng|TP030703 Contents Abstract 6 1.0 Introduction 7 2.0 A current scenario 8 2.1 Tracking at DHL 8 3.0 Functionality 9 4.0 Advantages 10 4.1 Security and transparency 10 4.2 Customer satisfaction and revenue 10 4.3 COMPLETE Visibility enhancement 10 4.4 Reliability 10 5.0 Disadvantages 11 5.1 Accuracy 11 5.2 Poor Location Determination 11 5.3 Indoor usage 11 6.0 The impact of the smart sentry tracking to DHL 12 6.1 Increase organization performance 12 6.2 Organizational Productivity 12 6.3 Quality management 13 7.0 Identify and discuss the similarities and differences 14 7.1 Internet application 14 7.1.1 Domain name 14 7.1.2 World Wide Web 15 7.1.3 URL 15 7.1.4 Internet and DHL 16 7.1.5 Technology and DHL 16 7.2 Mobile computing 17 7.2.1 Similarities 18 7.2.1.1 GPS (Global Positioning System) 18 7.2.2 Differences 19 7.2.2.1 RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) 19-20 7.3 Application Security 21 7.3.1 Similarities 21 7.3.1.1 SSL (Secure Socket Layer) 21 7.3.1.2 Backup System 22 7.3.1.3 Virus attack...
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...[pic] WAC II: Group Assignment Microsoft Search– Competitive Analysis 2010-2012 [pic] Group 9, Section E Ankur Gupta – 2010PGP050 Arunkumar Pasi – 2010PGP069 Manish Mahakalkar – 2010PGP177 Pranabesh Chatterjee – 2010PGP254 Pritom Pangging – 2010PGP267 Swapnil Kumthekar – 2010PGP403 Vikas Deswal – 2010PGP416 INTRODUCTION Microsoft Corp has been around for more than 30 years now and still continues to have high profit margins in software segment. As the company is maturing, its growth has slowed down as compared to initial stages, but the power the computer software maker has over the flow of the world's information is very formidable. On the other side we have Google Inc., a company just a decade old but with power that rivals Microsoft in many ways. In a sense, Microsoft provides the river, and Google provides the current. That's probably not what we (Microsoft executives) had in mind, but that's reality. Now it’s time for us to weigh alternatives for improving the company’s position in the market for Internet Searches and related advertising. PURPOSE OF THE REPORT In this report we are going to discuss the issues faced by Microsoft, the opportunity available to Microsoft and the analysis of the issues. Further we will list the options available, their evaluation and then we would propose our recommendations. ISSUES and PROBLEMS • Microsoft has not been able to achieve considerable market share in Internet Search Engine...
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...Strategic Management: Case Study – Sony Corporation – Future Tense? Table of Contents Table of Contents ………………………………………………………1 1 PART 2 – INTRODUCTION ………………………………………2 1.1 CASE STUDY ………………………………………2 1.2 COMPANY BACKGROUND ………………………………2 2 PART 2 – QUESTION 1 ………………………………………………4 2.1 TOPIC ………………………………………………………4 2.2 ANALYSIS … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 4 3 PART 2 – QUESTION 2 ………………………………………………9 3.1 TOPIC ………………………………………………………9 3.2 ANALYSIS … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 9 4 PART 2 – QUESTION 3 ……………………………………………………15 4.1 TOPIC ……………………………………………………………15 4.2 ANALYSIS ……………………………………………………………15 5 REFERENCES ……………………………………………………………21 6 ATTACHMENT – FORUM POSTS…………………………………… .23-63 Part 2 Assignment OSC1: Strategic Management: Case Study – Sony Corporation – Future Tense? 1 PART 2 - INTRODUCTION 1.1 CASE STUDY I have chosen the case study - Sony Corporation – Future Tense? (2009) to complete Part 2 of the assignment. 1.2 COMPANY BACKGROUND Sony is a diverse Japanese based corporation, founded in 1946 to manufacture telecommunications devices. In its first five decades Sony grew from its humble origins to become a world leader in the areas of electronic equipment, gaming, motion pictures and music. The company is considered to be an innovator and developed a number of new technologies through that time, most notably the Walkman and Blu-ray disc players. Its natural expansion to film and music was to allow it to not only have...
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