...MGSC-590, Section 001 Information Systems Development (Topics in E-commerce) Spring 2014 Abbreviated Research Paper 1 Emerging Technologies in the Evolution of E-commerce by Jesse Matthews Submitted February 4, 2015 Management Science Department Darla Moore School of Business University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 Table of Contents Section 1……………………………….. Introduction Page 3 Section 2……………………………….. Analysis Pages 4-7 Section 3……………………………….. Results Pages 4-7 Section 4……………………………….. Conclusions Page 8 Section 5……………………………….. References Page 9 E-commerce is becoming increasingly more popular with each passing day as the technology around us continues to advance. Technology has advanced so rapidly just over the past ten years that basically every business has had to adopt some form of e-commerce just to stay in business. The use of different forms of technology by basically everyone on a day to day basis has greatly increased the importance and benefits of e-commerce as a whole. Companies can use technologies like our smart phones and the internet to reach customers with multiple forms of advertisement, customized to meet each individual customer’s preferences. “Internet technology has changed the supply chain by improving collaboration and efficiency, and adding value to products and firms” (Astuti, 2014). Internet technology has improved the supply chain because it has helped...
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...economy expands. Through time and as the economy grows, new ideas or ways of doing things are created. Most organizations are seeking to produce the new “It” item, an invention that will meet the needs of consumers and improve past inventions in an effort to outshine competitors. Each organization seeks to come up with a product that is creative and inventive. Organizations may come up with great inventions and creative ideas through trial and error. It is very common for initial ideas to fail however, these failures almost always tend to lead to greater outcomes and inventions. There are already many technological devices being produced such as, a cell phone charger built into a laptop, mobile cable provider app for smartphones, solar powered smartphones and a safe driving app. X’s innovation: Imagine yourself seating in a taxi, airport, waiting room, etc. doing something very important on your computer. You phone ringing - it is your boss, or client, or somebody very important that can change your life – and before answering you noticing that your phone says that you have...
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...Running Head: APP HOLSTER LLC App Holster LLC [Name of Student] [Name of Instructor] [Date] Part Three Based on your historical financial analysis, summarize your organization financial performance over past 3 years The financial performance of App Holster LLC is worst as compared to its competitor i.e. Digitilus LLC. The annual profit of App Holster LLC is $50,000, whereas, its annual profit increases over the time of three years as, $87,000 in 2014, and $240,000 in 2015. On the other hand the annual profit of Digitilus LLC is $ 340,000, which is 85% of App Holster LLC in 2013, and 74% and 29% greater than the profit of App Holster LLC. (App-Holster-LLC, Online). App Holster operates with the total capacity of employee which are 3 from 2013 to 2014, and increased to 6 in 2015 respectively, whereas as Digitilus LLC operates with the lesser number of employees i.e. 5. According to the revenue of App Holster, it is managalbe for the company to remain profitable with the current number of employee which includes outsource workforce too. The revenue per employee of App Holster LLC is $ 8,333, which is increasing by 57% in 2014, and by 73% in 2015. In 2013 the revenue per employee of App Holster LLC is 82% lower than the Digitilus LLC, improving by 57% lower in 2014 and further improved by 41% in 2015. The revenue per employee of Digitilus LLC is $68,000. To put this in perspective, a typical company in the United States brings in $57,500 per employee, suggesting that...
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...Assignment 3 (MCAP-303) Perform an Internet search on the phrase “green computing” and then answer the following questions. How would you define green computing? Green computing or green IT, refers to environmentally sustainable computing or IT. It is also defined as "the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems—such as monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems—efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact on the environment.” Green computing is the environmentally responsible use of computers and related resources. Such practices include the implementation of energy-efficient central processing units (CPUs), servers and peripherals as well as reduced resource consumption and proper disposal of electronic waste (e-waste). GREEN computing is the environmentally responsible use of computers and related resources. Such included the implementation of energy-efficient central processing units as well as reduced resource consumption and proper disposal of electronic waste. Modern IT systems rely upon a complicated mix of people, networks and hardware; therefore GREEN computing initiative must be systemic in nature. GREEN computing may comprise items such as management restructuring, energy use, virtualization of server resources, and return on investment. The term “GREEN computing” was coined shortly after the Energy Star program. The Energy...
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...Organization and Technology of Information Management (MCAP-303) Perform an Internet search on the phrase “green computing” and then answer the following questions. How would you define green computing? Green computing or green IT, refers to environmentally sustainable computing or IT. It is also defined as "the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems—such as monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems—efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact on the environment.” Green computing is the environmentally responsible use of computers and related resources. Such practices include the implementation of energy-efficient central processing units (CPUs), servers and peripherals as well as reduced resource consumption and proper disposal of electronic waste (e-waste). GREEN computing is the environmentally responsible use of computers and related resources. Such included the implementation of energy-efficient central processing units as well as reduced resource consumption and proper disposal of electronic waste. Modern IT systems rely upon a complicated mix of people, networks and hardware; therefore GREEN computing initiative must be systemic in nature. GREEN computing may comprise items such as management restructuring, energy use, virtualization of server resources, and return on investment. The term “GREEN computing” was coined shortly after...
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...given. Traditional and digital marketing are two types for promoting your business. Traditional marketing does not impact business: Traditional marketing includes displaying ads in newspapers, Television...
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...For all of the focus on global branding in recent years, the Super Bowl remains first and foremost a U.S. pop-culture event. Many of the 100 million-plus viewers watch in a group, whether at a party or with family. My student groups were asked to rate the best Super Bowl ads of all time using celebrities and animals. An overwhelming majority of their top picks were ads from iconic Americana brands such as Budweiser, Pepsi, McDonalds, Coca-Cola, Nike and Chrysler. This generalization makes a lot of sense–invoking “American” values and scenes at our ultimate pop culture event would seem to be a recipe for success. The students also found that ads featuring show business celebrities slightly outperformed athletes. Additionally, 75% of the endorsers were male, a much higher skew than the demographics of the Super Bowl viewership and suggests more opportunities to use female celebrities effectively. My students found that over the past five years, about 80% of ads used humor, compared to 30% using a serious approach. Ironically, they also observed that the serious ads outperformed the humorous ads on key effectiveness measures such as likeability (e.g. USA Today Admeter), and expert or industry ratings (e.g., Ace Metrix). Many of the top ads from the past five years, including Budweiser’s “Lost Dog” from last year, use serious approaches. Academic research verifies that humorous ads perform slightly below average. So while humor can work, using it does not guarantee strong performance...
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...Case study 2: The death of the iPod Module 2 - External environment Identify the industry, product segment and value chain Apple is a company based in the United States. Apple designs, manufactures and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers and portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software. mobile communication and media devices What is the current life cycle of the industry? Currently in the decline or renewal stage if its life cycle. What have been the key issues affecting historical industry growth? What was their impact? Key issues influencing historical industry growth using TEMPLES model |Factor |Issue |Nature of impact (+/=/-) | |Technology |Internet has enabled downloading and files sharing of music across the world. |+ | | | | | | | | | |Economy |Dotcom bubble |- | | | |...
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...Tweeter etc. Summary: Tweeter should focus back on its key target customers and get rid off the APP program. In response to the increase competition of low-cost retail stores, Tweeter launched the APP program to remain competitive and gain market share. Although initially successful, the APP strategy miscalculated the long term down side of it. The APP was created to help Tweeter compete on price, which is something that is not part of the company’s core competences. As a result, it lost focus on the 2 customer segments that were loyal to it. In addition, it became a financial burden as Tweeter had to send out checks back to customers more and more. Finally, the image Tweeter had developed over years was a high quality, good services company. It was viewed as a more upper scale price. Even with the introduction of the APP, customers still thought that Tweeter had higher prices than the competition. In order to regain sustainable growth, Tweeter must eliminate APP, rationalize the product portfolio, expanding the unique line of products, and continue focusing on the target segments of Price Biter and Quality/Service Customer, which they currently own 20% of the market and corresponds to 90% of their customer base. Customer Variables: Convenience, price and quality Market Size: Consumer electronics was 30 Billion in the U.S. New England market is 5% of it, which represents. $1.5 billion. Customer Segment analysis: 1. Entry level customer (need lowest price) – shop...
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...neighborhood pharmacy on a walk-in basis. The CVS Minute Clinic also has office hours 7 days a week, and are open during the evening hours. This is appeling to those who cannot miss work or school. They use television commercials, advertisements in magazines and newspapers, social media to include Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. They also offer an app for those will smartphones. When using the www.google.com search engine to look up retail clinic, CVC Minute Clinic is the first website on the list. The CVS Minute Clinic has been successful, since they started out in 2000 as QuickMedx in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, they have grown to over 800 clinics nationwide, and will open 150 new clinics over the next year. Walk-In Clinic Impact Urgent Care is serving the city of San Antonio from two locations, one in the far north central and then one in far northeast. They are open daily from 8 am to 8 pm, offering walk-in treatment for non-life threating injuries and illnesses. They also have a concussion clinic, where they will screen athletes can obtain a baseline screening. The clinic also offers occupational medical services. Impact Urgent care target patients who need to be seen and can’t wait for an appointment to open up with their family practitioner, but is not having a life threating medical emergency. They also offer patients the convince of checking in online and calling the patient to come into the clinic when it is their turn to be seen. They advertise through the...
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...University As a highly personalized computing device, smartphones present a unique new opportunity for system optimization. For example, it is widely observed that a smartphone user exhibits very regular application usage patterns (although different users are quite different in their usage patterns). User-specific high-level app usage information, when properly managed, can provide valuable hints for optimizing various system design requirements. In this article, we describe the design and implementation of a personalized optimization framework for the Android platform that takes advantage of user’s application usage patterns in optimizing the performance of the Android platform. Our optimization framework consists of two main components, the application usage modeling module and the usage model-based optimization module. We have developed two novel application usage models that correctly capture typical smartphone user’s application usage patterns. Based on the application usage models, we have implemented an app-launching experience optimization technique which tries to minimize user-perceived delays, extra energy consumption, and state loss when a user launches apps. Our experimental results on the Nexus S Android reference phones show that our proposed optimization technique can avoid unnecessary application restarts by up to 78.4% over the default LRU-based policy of the Android platform. Categories and Subject Descriptors: D.4.8 [Operating Systems]: Performance—Modeling and prediction...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 mission statement 2 Executive summary 2 organization 1.0 2 Organization description 1.1 2 industry 1.2 3 website 2.0 3 Website web development 2.1 3 impact 2.2 4 sitemap 3.0 4 cost/benefit/risk analysis 4.0 5 benefits and cost of application 4.1 5 tangible and intangible costs 4.2 5 impact risk assessment 4.3 6 project plan 5.0 6 project plan 5.1 6 project MILESTONES AND DEADLINES 5.2 7 WHAT COULD GO WRONG 5.3 7 MAINTAINENCE 6.0 8 WEBSITE MAINTAINENCE AND DEVELOPMENT 6.1 8 POST MAINTAINENCE 6.2 9 conclusion 7.0 9 bibliography 10 Mission Statement Kennesaw State University Dining Facility, Commons is to provide students, faculty, and staff with quality food and services. This is accomplished by practicing creative menu development, ensuring a friendly environment, incorporating variety, and convenience. Executive Summary The Commons at Kennesaw State University is very popular and has a meal plan that is required by all students with the exception of seniors. ……………………. It would be in the best interest of Kennesaw State University to fix this problem with the university growing rapidly. In addition to the meal plan already in place...
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...mp3 players, laptops and even televisions now. The biggest advances that always seem to hold the attention of people in this day and age are cell phones. These devices once used just for communicating now have the same technology as most computers and even are superior to them in many ways. The biggest feature that contributes to the cell phones popularity are little programs called applications also known as "apps". Applications are essentially pieces of software that directly benefit the user and broaden the functionality of your mobile phone, in essence they are exactly the same as the computer programs that you use on a PC. For example, if you have a PC, you probably have programs such as Microsoft Word, Paint, and Notepad; mobile phone apps work in the same way these do. Apps can help with business, your social life, travel, communication and much more. There are apps to monitor your expenses, identify flowers and give you first aid advice, as well as full documentation suites that let you view and edit spreadsheets and Word documents. As I'm sure you inferred apps in short can make completing everyday tasks far easier solely because of the convenience of being able to look something up right there and then, learn how to do something with the click of a button, find directions to your friend's house who lives in what seems like a labyrinth of a town and also just a good way to pass time when you have it. Now imagine instead of having to reach into your pocket for your cell...
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...has resulted into our last-minute mania and accordingly it has started to shape a way in which we make hotel reservations for our dream holidays. Henceforth, the proliferation of Smart phones and the Mobile Internet is finally beginning to have an impact on the way that people research and book their holidays. Though there are several Apps in the market which has enabled people to book flights and hotels on these several smart devices, but there has been scepticism about people that they actually book their next holiday on a mobile phone or other devices, where the size of screen is being seen as the main hurdle for such a high priced purchase. [1] ApiHolidays (2011) [Online] Available at: http://www.appiholidays.com/articles/mobile-holiday-bookings/ [Accessed 20 Jan, 2014] I chose this topic because nowadays technology is ruling the world and from work to leisure; people approach smart phones, mobiles and iPads. It is very obvious that in today’s busy world people do look for leisure activities. Therefore, I decided to choose this topic because I myself have a keen interest in holidays and look for leisure activities. I intend to create an App for people to book their dream holidays on all the available smart devices. My App would be named as “Dream Holidays” and would be absolutely free of charge. Dream Holidays will give an...
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...* APP update for ALDI * ` * Executive Summary This report involves how information system solves the issues experienced by a leading global supermarket chain and how the proposed plan will be enforced its targets of capturing more market shares and increasing company’s profits. Firstly, our team will describe the main problems to be confronted by ALDI. Then the goals and objectives of the project will be clarified, and the crucial factor for business future development is also listed. The following sector offers a full view of the business case. Specifically, this part contains the reasons and motivations for exploiting the new project, and the business case organizer. Additionally, the relevant environment conditions are described from several aspects in detail. Meanwhile, the current situation and opportunities are analyzed via SWOT model. After that a detailed description of assumption and obstacles about present condition and future projects is shown. Next, we provide two feasible options for ALDI, and we adopts several elements and methods to weigh both options. Then a constructive and enforceable recommendation and opinion is given through previous analysis. Finally, the implementation strategy of project will be identified briefly. * 1. Introduction Nowadays, online shopping in brick-and-mortar stores is a common consumer practice. Mobile devices, especially smart phones, have become a key tool for web shoppers (Turban, Volonino and R. Wood...
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