...an IT department to take on a strategic role in the company and to indicate actual value generation in IT decisions within an environment where pressure and business decisions are critical. Structure of these principles This article was developed with the purpose of proposing certain principles that must drive an enterprise architecture initiative. The main motivation that led to the development of this list is the difficulty of implementing enterprise architecture in an environment as hostile as the financial market. There is great pressure on the technology segment, which is usually not perceived as strategic. An even greater challenge is showing that IT decisions can add value and differentials to businesses. This list was organized and developed based on the selection and adjustment of the most relevant principles established throughout my experience in the financial market. Despite being selected within the financial segment context, most of these principles apply to any type of industry after only a few minor adjustments. Definitions Principles are high-level definitions of fundamental values that guide the IT decision-making process, serving as a base for the IT architecture, development policies, and standards. The principles of architecture define general rules and guidelines to use and implement all information technology (IT) resources and assets throughout a company. They must reflect a level of consensus between several corporate components and...
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...Topic and Outline Team A Team Members Loretta Abbott Brandon Ballesteros Dalyn Bell Byron Carter Phillip Cleary Abraham Contreras Kristina Paver Cell Phone Technology and the Dangers It Present To Society Cell phones are a growing and continuing trend that has presented many hazards and dangers, since creation. Group A will discuss multiple and popular patterns that society has grown accustomed to, while utilizing cell phones. We will discuss the negative affects it has on society. Although the dangers are present, known, and many proven, the popularities of these trends are steadily rising, and causing tremendous detrimental issues today. This project will shed light into serious concerns associated with cell phones, and hopefully enlighten, and open people minds to ways of preventing many ongoing issues that currently exist. We will research, inform, and furnish our audience with detailed information regarding the dangers, risks, and threats associated with cell phone technologies that occur on a daily basis. Group A want to reveal ways to reduce the number of incidents and injuries related to cell phone usage. By doing this, people minds will ease knowing their loved ones will go home, the same way they left, safe. Cell Phone Technology and the Dangers It Present to Society Distractions • Texts 1. Vehicle Accidents 2. Vehicle Fatalities 3. Road Rage • Social Media Networking ...
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...As Genetic technology evolves it has become one of the most controversial scientific developments. Some of the Genetic Technology controversial topics include the cloning and genetic redesigning of human beings. Cloning has been used strictly for animals, and this process has been done on a regular basis. There has never been a human being cloned to date, except for the form of natural cloning of identical twins. Genetic redesigning for human beings pertains to the option for parents to create a child in their perception. The parent can also choose to eliminate genetic problems such as Alzheimer’s. The problem with these aspects lies within the crossing of ethical boundaries, and how it will eliminate bio diversity for humankind. Advancements in genetic technology have become part of our lives in many unexpected ways. Genetic technology is used for prenatal screening to help determine if the fetus will be born with abnormalities. There is even a proposed benefit for eliminating disabilities in the future. Genetic technology is also used to help modify agriculture. Most of the food we eat has been genetically modified unless it is organic. Individuals, who criticize these genetic technological advancements, believe there is not enough time to fully evaluate how it will affect the human race and the ecosystem in the future. The topic of DNA Structure and Function relates to genetic technology. When developing new genetic technologies, it is important for...
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...reduction in revenue, the city must find ways to cut cost in all operational segments included Information Technology. In its current state, the city operates 72 physical servers, a storage environment and 350 end-user computers. The IT director has been tasked to identify where the elimination, replacement, or addition of technology would result in cost savings to the city. In order to save the city money, it has been determined that the best solution would be to implement a virtualized IT environment in the city of Seabreeze. Virtualization is the means to create a virtual version of a device or resource, such as a server, storage device, network or even an operating system where the framework divides the resource into one more execution environments. (Virtualization, n.d) a1. The virtualization of the IT environment would have a big positive impact in terms of long term cost savings for the city of Seabreeze. The city would have a benefit of reducing capital and overall operating costs. As the servers and storage environment is consolidated and virtualized, fewer devices would be needed. Fewer devices means a smaller power requirement which is an immediate savings for the city. This also means less space would be needed. Virtualization allows for multiple devices to be managed from a single device. Less administrators would be needed to manage the environment, this would save the city on payroll. Fewer servers being used also means the less space is required. ...
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...Unit Title: The Business Environment Guided Learning Hours: 160 Level: Level 5 Number of Credits: 18 Learning Outcome 1 The learner will: Understand the significance of the environment on business activity. Assessment Criteria The learner can: 1.1 Explain the features of business activity. Indicative Content 1.1.1 Explain the business organisation as a transformation process. 1.1.2 Describe the different ways in which a business may structure its activities. 1.2 Discuss the complex interactions that operate between a business and its environment. 1.2.1 Discuss the complexity, volatility and uniqueness of an organisation's environment. 1.2.2 Explain the influence of shareholders on the internal environment of an organisation. 1.2.3 Outline the nature of the external environment (PEST). 1.3 Explain the need for change and its management within an individual business. 1.3.1 Discuss the need to monitor changes in the external environment. 1.3.2 Discuss the implications of environmental change for a business, its stakeholders and society. 1.3.3 Explain reasons for resistance to change by firms, managers and employees. 1.3.4 Describe ways in which resistance to change may be overcome. Learning Outcome 2 The learner will: Understand the structure and organisation of business. Assessment Criteria The learner can: 2.1 Discuss the impact of industrial and legal structure and size on organisational behaviour. Indicative Content 2.1.1 Classify businesses...
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...Marketing Environment Analysis for India We would see on what is the marketing Environment analysis with the PESTAL ANALYSIS, which stands for Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environment, all areas affecting a business. * POLITICAL: The capital market of India is very vulnerable. This is because of its democracy way and also the extremely unbalanced growth and rampant corruption. India has been politically instable in the past but it is a little politically stable nowadays. The political instability of the country has a very strong impact on the capital market. The share market of India changes as the political changes took place. This is clearly seen in the Hindus and Muslims crisis between 2003 and 2004. The capital market of India is too weak and is based on speculations. The political stability of the country is very important for the stability and growth of capital market in India. The political imbalance or balance of the country is the major factor in deciding the capital market of India. The political factors include: 1. employment laws 2. tax policy 3. trade restrictions and tariffs 4. political stability * ECONOMICAL: The economical measures taken by the government of India has a very strong relationship with the capital market. Whenever the annual budget is announced the capital market goes up and down with the economical policies of the government .If the policies are supportive to the companies then the...
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...Unit Title: The Business Environment Guided Learning Hours: 160 Level: Level 5 Number of Credits: 18 Learning Outcome 1 The learner will: Understand the significance of the environment on business activity. Assessment Criteria The learner can: Indicative Content 1.1 Explain the features of business activity. 1.1.1 Explain the business organisation as a transformation process. 1.1.2 Describe the different ways in which a business may structure its activities. 1.2 Discuss the complex interactions that operate between a business and its environment. 1.2.1 Discuss the complexity, volatility and uniqueness of an organisation's environment. 1.2.2 Explain the influence of shareholders on the internal environment of an organisation. 1.2.3 Outline the nature of the external environment (PEST). 1.3 Explain the need for change and its management within an individual business. 1.3.1 Discuss the need to monitor changes in the external environment. 1.3.2 Discuss the implications of environmental change for a business, its stakeholders and society. 1.3.3 Explain reasons for resistance to change by firms, managers and employees. 1.3.4 Describe ways in which resistance to change may be overcome. Learning Outcome 2 The learner will: Understand the structure and organisation of business. Assessment Criteria The learner can: Indicative Content 2.1 Discuss the impact of industrial and legal structure and size on organisational behaviour. 2.1.1 Classify...
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...CURTIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SARAWAK CAMPUS COMMUNICATIONS 100 ASSESSMENT 2 SUBMISSION TO LOCAL NETWORK SEMESTER 1 2013 Tutor’s Name: MS. NOR AFIFAH MOHD SHUKRAN Tutorial Time: Wednesday, 10am-12pm Student Name: WANG LEE YEN Student Number: 17132220 Student Email: leeyen25@live.com Company: Sime Darby Word Count: 1012 Table of contents Contents | Page | Mission | 3 | Recommendation 1 | 4 | Recommendation 2 | 4 | Recommendation 3 | 5 | Recommendation 4 | 6 | Challenges | 6 | A Success Story | 7 | Reference | 8 | Mission “We are committed to developing a winning portfolio of sustainable businesses, subscribe to good corporate governance and high ethical values, continuously strive to deliver superior financial returns through operational excellence and high performance standards and provide an environment for our people to realize their full potential”. (Sime Darby 2013) This statement shows that Sime Darby has a very high target to be the top one in the business market and to shows their responsibility to maintain and improve their commitment towards their consumer. It is their difference that makes Sime Darby to be successful today. This report will basically talk about the recommendation for Sime Darby to improve in this global community and for the other companies to follow the good things and to avoid the mistakes that the company had done in the previous years. Besides, this report will also analyze two...
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...December 2007 Dr. Frank Ruff Daimler AG Society and Technology Research Group Berlin, Palo Alto, Kyoto Agenda A Why Corporate Foresight? B A closer look at Corporate Foresight C Implications for UNIDO D Q & A, Discussion UNIDO 5 December 2007 / Dr. Frank Ruff 2 Why Corporate Foresight? History of Future Studies/Foresight Foresight embedded in enterprises First Think Tanks in enterprises (e.g. Shell, Toyota, Daimler-Benz) Corporate Foresight: Innovation and Technology Analysis Establishment of new (e.g. Daimler-Benz, variants and diffusion Siemens, Philips) of concepts of future studies and analysis Consumer and marketing-oriented trend research Future Consulting (e.g. Z_Punkt) Emergence of systematic resp. scientific future studies Journalists/Entrepreneurs/Expert-Networks/Consulting Warning future studies „Doom-Saying“ (e.g. Club of Rome, Robert Jungk) Economic and political future studies (e.g. Faith Popcorn, (e.g. Alvin Toffler, Trendbüro, John Naisbitt, Dan Coates, PROGNOS) Matthias Horx) „Premodern future view“ Delphic oracle Spiritual and religious foresight Outsider (e.g. Nostredamus) State-run/scientific/supranational institutions Military futurologic research MIT) Technology assessment Economic, political, Science and Technology resource-oriented (e.g. RAND Corporation, Forecasting (e.g. Delphi future research (e.g. UN studies,offices for technology Millenium Project, assessment) OECD, political Think...
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...BUSI 3704 A: The Environment of International Business Topic Review What does Population Ageing mean for International Business? December 2014 What does Population Ageing mean for International Business? (see also lecture notes on this topic) (1) Manifestations of Global Population Ageing (2) What is population ageing? (3) What are the patterns of population ageing across the world? (4) What countries are specifically affected by population ageing? (5) How do societies experiencing population ageing compare with those not experiencing the phenomenon? (2) Dynamics of Population ageing (a) What are the key factors giving rise to population ageing? (b) Who are the key actors in international business and public policy processes with regard to population ageing? (c) How do these key actors interact with each other? (d) What measures have been taken to mitigate against population ageing per se? (e) What measures have taken to alleviate the impacts of population ageing? (3) Impacts of Population Ageing (a) What are the short-, medium- and long-term impacts of population ageing on individuals? (b) What are the short-, medium- and long-term (economic, political, legal, social, cultural, technological, environmental, etc.) impacts of population ageing on societies/countries? (c) What are the short-, medium- and long-term impacts of population ageing on the international business environment? (d) What are the short-...
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...potentially change the world as we know it. Through further research and development, this technology has the potential to save lives through medical uses, equip military members with necessary tools, reduce manufacturing costs, and help the environment. 4) INTRODUCTION h) Today, 3D printers have evolved to make a variety of objects using a laser or extruder (the material output part of the printer, best described as a futuristic hot glue gun) that move along an X, Y and Z axis to build an object in three dimensions, layer by layer, sometimes only microns thick at a time, depending on the desired resolution of the object. This method eliminates a lot of wasted materials. For example, in ship manufacturing any leftover powdered substrate can be immediately used on another project, alleviating the need for injection molding, setup costs, cutting, sanding, drilling and having scraps of material left over, as is common with traditional manufacturing methods. (Hart, 2012) i) The history of this technology must first begin by briefly describing the history of all printing methods. Without those first basic principles, the inception of this technology would not exist. Following that, we will answer the following questions: (1) What is 3D printing? What is the science behind it? (2) Who were its creators? (3) When was the technology first seen? What are the key historical points in its development? j) There are a number...
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...Heritage Railway Industry -‐ Market analysis Content 1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 1 2. The Five Forces of Porter .................................................................................................................... 2 2.1 Threat of new entrants ................................................................................................................. 3 2.2 Power of suppliers ........................................................................................................................ 3 2.3 Industry competition ..................................................................................................................... 4 2.4 Power of buyers ............................................................................................................................ 4 2.5 Threat of substitutes ..................................................................................................................... 4 3. STEEPLE Analysis ................................................................................................................................. 5 3.1 Social / Culture...
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...external and internal factors that shape overall marketing environment for the business. PESTEL strategic analytical tool can be used to study the impacts of external factors to the business where the abbreviation stands for political, economical, social, technological, ecological, and legal factors. Political factors affecting the implementation of GSK marketing strategy include possible changes in international trade regulation and competitive regulation likely to be introduced by the governments of China and India. Economic factors impacting GSK marketing strategy include high rate of economic growth in China and India. Moreover, current economic uncertainties associated with European markets might have negative implications on the marketing strategy Social factors with potential implications on GSK marketing strategy are changes in consumer lifestyles, shifts in consumer attitudes and opinions etc. However, Cameron (2012) specifies increasing level of customer resentment towards large amounts of profits made by pharmaceutical companies and sliding images of large pharmaceutical companies as the most significant social factor in the current environment. Technological factors include breakthroughs in pharmaceutical industry, issues associated with licensing and patenting drug manufacturing technology, as well as, the level of development of industry technology. Ecological factors also have specific implications on GSK marketing strategy that include problems related...
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...examine the impacts of improvements in technology, the effects of externalities which will lead to the increase in cost, price discriminations and competitive structures. We discuss about car industry which is an oligopoly structure, and the recent environment of economic. Besides that, we also concert about the effect of externalities, on the other hand, the effect of the technological advancement and price discrimination. Finally, in conclusion, we conclude our views of the structure of oligopoly industry and how it’s changing competitive environment that will affect the market and consumers. CURRENT ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENT Global rescission influences most of the automobile manufacturing companies to cease production due to the short demand in the market. Microeconomic market factors have lowered demand and increase elasticity of demand in the car industry. For example, in Figure 1, it demonstrates the demand for the sales of cars [D1] has decreased and also become more elastic [D2]. It becomes flatter, showing the higher price change responsiveness. This is represented by a decrease in price from [P1] (at [E1]) to [P2] (at [E2]). Oligopoly industry will reduce supply when it is motivated by changes in demand. FIGURE 1 EFFECTS OF EXTERNALITIES - GOVERNMENT POLICY OPTION In 20 years time, there has been a dramatic fall of economy in the car industry. Government introduced an aviation tax on cars to control the environment damage which is relatively increasing...
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...THE NEGATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE ATHABASCA OIL SANDS “The modern era began with the discovery that started the most brilliant, inventive, and destructive age in the history of mankind. The age of energy.” The Athabasca oil sands were founded in the late 1960s and have now developed into a major player within the Canadian economy, acting as its prominent supplier of crude oil. With roughly 2.5 trillion barrels of oil in the ground, the oil sands are one of the largest deposits in the world. However, a problem arises with the extraction process, as it is both expensive and cumbersome with the presence of bitumen within the oil (a highly viscous, black hydrocarbon). Therefore, the extensive extraction process that is required by oil mining companies leads to negative environmental implications. As a result, this paper will discuss the extent of these environmental implications in terms of escalating greenhouse gas emissions, the depletion and contamination of water reserves, and the destruction of terrestrial ecosystems within the Boreal forest. In addition to this, the underlying notion of Alberta’s unlikely future for a sustainable environment. Greenhouse gases (GHG) are emissions within the atmosphere that absorbs and emit radiation, thus damaging the ozone layer. Taking this into consideration, the expansionary development associated with the Athabasca oil sands are rapidly increasing the level of pollution emitted within Canada. The oil sands alone are a...
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