...Table of Contents Ethical and Social Issues In Information System 1 Chapter one 3 Introduction to the Study 3 Context of the Problem 4 Statement of the Problem 5 Research Questions 6 Introduction 6 Research Question 6 Research Question 7 Research Question 7 Significance of the Study 8 Research Design and Methodology 9 Organization of the study 9 Literature Review 10 Introduction 10 References 14 Chapter one Introduction to the Study Ethical and social issues in information system is a combination of the benefits and disadvantages of using computer and computer related devices, social networks versus our ethics, morals and beliefs. The importance and reliability of computer in our day to day running of human life cannot be over emphasized. Social networking platforms may allow organizations to improve communication and productivity by disseminating information among different groups of employees in a more efficient manner, resulting in increased productivity. While it is not meant to be all-inclusive, there are a lot of problems faced by its usage in younger generations, businesses use, and the even medical field. The social media comes with risks as it opens up the possibility for hackers to commit fraud, launch spam and virus attacks, and also increases the risk...
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...International Journal of Information Science and Technology THE ROLE AND EFFECT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE A. Talebnejad[1] Faculty of Management and Accounting Shahid Beheshti University Email: taleb149@yahoo.com Abstract -By the appropriate use of information technology, organizations can achieve sustainable competitive advantages. This technology because of including some characteristics such as being up-to-date, fast and precise and having different geographic localities all the time, has improved organizational efficiency, effectiveness and performance. In this article, we intend to investigate the role and effect of information technology in the creation and maintenance of sustainable competitive advantages from two different approaches: market-based approach and the resource-based approach. In the Market-based approach, meeting customer's and creating values for them, using information technology and the issue of achieving the competitive advantage and position in the market by organizations are addressed. In the resource-based approach, compatibility of the organization's resources such as those of information technology and organizational skills, particularly managerial ones are investigated. Amongst different organizational skills and resources, only managerial skills of information technology can create a sustainable competitive advantage. Keywords: Information Technology, Sustainable Competitive...
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...“ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN RETAIL SECTOR AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN INDIA AND ACROSS THE WORLD” INDRAJIT MITRA B.Sc. LL.B., 4th Sem. 1B-57, KIIT LAW BOYS HOSTEL, CAMPUS 16, KIIT SCHOOL OF LAW, KIIT UNIVERSITY, PATIA, BHUBANESWAR- 751024, ODISHA. Email- imitrakls31@gmail.com Mobile- 09438173993. Abstract Technology has transformed the buying behavior of customers everywhere. Technology in the store is all moving toward integration and more and more savvy customers. Point Of Sale is undergoing major changes because of broadband access, the need and ability for inventory visibility, customers ordering online, returns and pick- up in the store and also the movement toward an ASP (application service provider) model. It is broadband that will help to transfer the information fast and help retailers to serve their customers on time. Business Intelligence & CRM: Learning from International Markets-Customer service and customer satisfaction are the backbone of customer relationships. If an organisation can accurately monitor and measure customer service factors and customer satisfaction, it is easier to make appropriate corrections and ensure customer retention, good client references and new customer acquisition. POS (Point Of Sale)-Point of Sale is a place where actual sale of goods or services occurs. It often refers to the physical cash transfer that takes place between the customer and the seller or the service provider. Third...
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...Information technology in business practices Introduction Information Technology systems have expanded in all the companies. Information Technologies include hardware and software as well. Besides, IT may consider telecommunications networks, the management of data and many technologies based on the use of the Internet. There has been in this essay a try to show the strategic value and the utilization in production of Information Technology in business practices. Many believe that IT has a controversial value in strategic arrangement of organizations and productivity implementation, while others believe that IT affects enterprises in all the above mentioned sectors and after all that it is the backbone of every modern company. Nobody can deny that Information Technology plays important role in strategy and productivity of companies who use it. However there is a growing opinion that Information Technology has become a commodity and that has already lost its competitive advantage. The alternative opinion is that speed and flexibility may occur, via IT, into businesses. Moreover improvement of organizational structure is one more of the benefits companies can gain by the proper use of Information Technology. However in any occasion companies should innovate in continuous matter in order to conserve the strategic value of Information Technology. Main body Nicolas Carr's article “IT doesn't matter” (May 2003) expresses the opinion of senior managers concerning...
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...855 ERPA 2014 Role of technology in accounting and e-accounting Aysel Güneya* a Bilecik Şeyh Edebali UniversityApplied Sciences Faculty, Bilecik, 11210, Turkey Abstract Technological developments changed methods for carrying out tasks within the scope of accounting activities and transactions related to accounting was started to being carried out through electronic media. Growth and development growing rapidly in information technologies day by day have brought digital revolution in economic, social and cultural fields. Our era is information era and when we acknowledge that accounting is an information system, the way and processes of transacting businesses of enterprises have changed with usage of information technologies in enterprises and this influenced accounting closely. Necessity of keeping up with changing conditions of accounting led educators and practitioners to new pursuits. Enabling inclusion of information era and technologic factors in education by benefiting from digital resources as well as theoretical information in accounting education provided in universities and generating an interactive environment to keep student wakeful and preferring educational model in which information technologies are used is necessary. In order to achieve that, students should be provided to take target-driven accounting courses and an educational order should be generated in which students can evaluate and interpret information beyond recording and make difference...
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...Bath BA2 7AY, U.K. Phone: +44 (1225) 32-33 19, E-Mail: t.ritter@bath.ac.uk Hans Georg Gemünden Institute of Technology and Innovation Management Technical University Berlin, HAD 29, Hardenbergstr. 4-5, D - 10623 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 (30) 314-23 796 E-Mail: hans.gemuenden@tim.tu-berlin.de Abstract To strengthen their position in today’s highly competitive and fast paced business environment more and more supplier firms engage in relationships with their customers. These inter-organizational relationships have proven to create value for both parties involved. However, the management of such relationships requires resources and is a complex task. Recent advances in information technology offer new ways of managing inter-organizational relationships. The impact of those intra-organizational and inter-organizational information systems for creating value in business-to-business relationships has not been explored so far. In this paper, a conceptual model about the impact of information system deployment on value-creating functions of inter-organizational buyer-seller relationships is developed. Based on an empirical study with 60 German firms engaged in customer-supplier relationships this paper also gives some empirical evidence for the developed framework. It is argued that with regard to relationship management intra- and inter-organizational information technology deployment has different effects on relationship atmosphere (i.e. trust and commitment) and on the value creation...
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...Characteristics of Accounting Information Systems Craig L. Granville ACC 542 April 15, 2013 Edgar Coronel Characteristics of Accounting Information Systems Introduction In the San Diego, California area there is a gourmet food store company named Kudler Fine Foods. This company was founded by President Kathy Kudler a few years ago and has three different stores located in various areas of California. Location of these stores are located in La Jolla, Del Mar and Encinitas. Her dream of the store was to create a wide selection of the freshest ingredients as well as all of the tools a gourmet cook could and would want in their pantry (Kudler Fine Foods, 2013). However, she would like to expand the business by improving the operation of the business and to increase the ability to have a better purchase selection for the customer’s within the next year. For Kudler to be able to obtain these objectives the company will need to get a better grip on the changes in technology and to create a better business opportunities for their competitors and the is very interested in giving their company identity of the generic strategy and tactics. The company is interested in finding ways of continuously scanning the fine foods and seeing if there is any updating software that is out there. The answer to the company questions are described in this paper below. Scanning of the fine foods industry The business environment is continuously changing. New competitors, products, services...
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...a Capstone in Information Technology Jon A. Preston Assistant Professor Scott Taylor Instructional Assistant Department of Information Technology Clayton College and State University Morrow, GA 30260-0285 ABSTRACT Universities interested in keeping pace with the rapidly changing field of Information Technology (IT) are often pulled in many directions. Because Information Technology is such a popular field of study and work, educators must manage rising enrollments in an era where the ubiquity of information technology demands an ever-increasing number of specializations. As a result, industry and students expect a wider range of courses and specializations in their upper division coursework. E -commerce, one of the most promising of these maturing Information Technology specializations, affords an excellent opportunity to draw together the fundamentals of the field into a capstone series of courses. E -commerce fulfills a present demand from industry, provides a wonderful project and group-based “studio-style” learning environment, and is quite popular with students. This paper discusses our e-commerce degree specialization as a capstone to undergraduate Information Technology coursework. We also discuss the motivation for, design and execution of, and results from our courses. Keywords: E-commerce, information technology, capstone project, studio -style learning 1. MOTIVATION E-commerce degrees and Computer Science/Information Technology specializations...
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...documents. It’s terrible right? In this nature of job, you might be filing a resignation letter a week after because of irritation. Human errors are commonly observed on this. And imagine how long will the company need to wait before a business transactions and operations be summarized for study. With the advancement made in technology almost everything now is in the tip of our fingers. Processing hundreds, thousands or millions of data will no longer take a week but a minute to process for analysis. In this innovation of information technology it give a big impact to society; particularly to business sector that in the past try but now emerge IT to its day to day operation to gain efficiency and better service. As mentioned in the writings of Irmhild van Halen entitled Introduction to Planning and Implementing Information Technology in Small and Growing Businesses, he states that although the introduction of IT has not been a priority for entrepreneurial company in the past, now IT is no longer an option but increasingly sees as a key to the survival of new businesses and critical to the successful growth of entrepreneurial ventures. Information technology is now aligned to most area of the business not only to provide a central system that support comprehensive management to eliminate manually rolling up hundreds of individual spreadsheets, but to adopt the fast moving and constantly changing industry. II. Statement of the Problem General Problem The problem to be...
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...National Seminar A National Seminar on "Leveraging Technology- An innovative way to improve the quality of Higher Education" was organized on Saturday, 9th April, 2011.The chief guest for the event was Prof. Naveen Rajpal, University School of Information Technology, and Dr. Sanjeev Mittal, University School of Management Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University and other key speakers were Mr. Ashok Bagrial from Shivaji college from University of Delhi, Prof. Meenakshi Gandhi from Rukmini Devi Institute of Advanced Studies, Mr. Anup Girdhar, CEO and founder of Sedulity solutions and technology, and Mr. Om Prakash Sharma, Director, National Centre for Innovation in Distance Education, IGNOU. The aim of this seminar was to highlight the immediate need for improving the quality of higher education by adopting and using the Information Communication Technology to the maximum. National Workshop A National Workshop on “Recent Advances in Research Methodology & Data Analytical Tools” was organized by our college on 14th May, 2011. The key speakers for the workshop were Prof. Ajay Pandit, Faculty Management Studies, Delhi University and Mr. Sudhansh Sharma, Associate Professor, Jaipuria Institute of Management Studies. The objective of this workshop was to make faculties learn the recent research methodology and research analysis tools with the help of SPSS software PLacement PUBLICATION AND MEDIA COVERAGE [pic] Annual Journal “CPJ Global Review” The...
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...IBM Reduces Energy Costs and Environmental Damages International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is the world’s largest information technology (IT) corporation. Also known as “Big Blue”, IBM was formed as the result of a merger between the Tabulating Machine Company, International Time Recording Company and the Computing Company of America. The merger took place in 1911 and shortly after Thomas J. Watson Sr. came aboard (IBM, 2008). He is accredited with transforming IBM into a leader of innovation and technology. Currently IBM provides business, technology and consulting services to its customers. In particular they offer consulting, delivery and implementation services, enterprise software, systems, microelectronics and financing. Direct competitors of IBM include: Accenture, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft. Whalen (2010) states IBM’s operations expand globally to over 170 countries. IBM headquarters are located in Armonk, New York. General Environment Social Cultural - IBM’s reputation was previously based on control. “Big Blue” controlled the mainframe market (hardware, software and applications). Presently, IBM has the reputation as an enormous, innovative information technology company (Blankenhorn, 2005). Their reputation is no longer based on control but the quality is experienced by customers. Their expansion has reached not only mainframe customers, but customers and businesses across the entire IT market. It is the opinion of the customers...
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...Efficiency and Collaboration Proposal Information and communications systems technology are technologies and services that enables information to be accessed, stored, processed, transformed, or distributed in business all across the world. The use of information technology has improved the quality of business within organizations so significantly that information systems are the primary source for business growth, which is the result of why businesses are becoming so successful. During the last decade, information technology systems have changed greatly the landscape of the financial markets, competitive markets, productivity as well as government involvement. Therefore, Learning Team E will explain the new project that sales team at Party Plate, which is a company that manufactures decorative paper plates and napkins for special events, has been assigned to do in regard to improving the efficiency of the current information systems used in the sales department. However, Party Plate sales department is currently using Microsoft Excel to track all personnel data, but want to migrate to a relational database like Microsoft Access. In addition, Learning Team E will identify potential collaborative software that may improve internal communications and help streamline some of the work processes for the sales department at Party Plate Company. The Usefulness of Converting Data from Microsoft Excel into a Microsoft Access Database Microsoft Excel has been around for 25 years...
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...Regulations 4.3.4 Protectionism of Intellectual Property 4.3.5 Tax Regulations 4.4 Market/ Industry Conditions 4.4.1 Bargaining Power of Buyers and Subsidiaries 4.4.2 Bargaining Power of Suppliers 4.4.3 Threats of New Entrants 4.4.4 Competitive Rivalry 4.5 Other Contextual Conditions 4.5.1 Related and Supporting Industries 5. Major Findings of Comparison 5.1 Conclusion 5.2 Trends 5.3 Recommendation 1. Introduction In general, factbooks are conducted by decision makers within the fields of business and politics in order to gain insights about present-, as well as future conditions and trends in a specific country or country set. Therefore, factbooks can be considered as a sort of business tool, which supplies relevant information about a country´s business environment and if it´s in accordance with a particular company or industry. The essence...
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...Improving Medical Information Security A Term Paper IS 535 - Managerial Application of Information Technology Keller Graduate School of Management Table of Contents Introduction/Definition Company Background Current Business Issues Proposed Solutions Recommendations Introduction The security of patient data has been, and continues to be, a major problem for the US in achieving its goals for an interoperable healthcare system. In the same way, information communication technologies will increasingly make security in organizations more complex. It is particularly evident in sectors that already lack adequate security regimes. One such sector is healthcare, where information security is not their core business and the understanding of its importance is often underestimated. Poor implementation of medical information security is affected by more than the acceptance of technology; it is closely linked to human factors, culture and communities of practice, all under pinned by trust. It also poses a problem because within the healthcare arena the entire nation is trying to standardize and move into Electronic Health Records (EHR), which is simply a shift from the original paper format of a patient’s medical history and record to a computerized, electronic standpoint. This situation necessitates research into how to contextualize implementation of information security within...
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...They are about information and knowledge. The past librarianship has been associated with books only because books were the primary manifestation of information. In today’s world, information manifests itself in various media one of which is the most notable medium (Bajoyo, 2011). Technology has unlocked a universe of electronic information resources. Electronic resources and services have become the most popular tools for research and academic activities. These electronic information resources provide faster and reliable information according to Bhukuvhani, Chiparausha and Zuvalinyenga (2012). Libraries are now universally recognized as important social institutions for diffusion of knowledge and information. No community, institution or an organization is considered complete without the support of a library and its effective service. Library is a growing organization which requires constant change in order to maintain a high degree of relevance to the environment. Scarcity of resources, information and document explosion and the demand for consistent, responsive and prompt services for clientele pave the way for librarians to find out solution for effective and efficient management of libraries (Egberongbe, 2012). According to Gakibayo (2013), electronic information has gradually become a major resource in every University library. The emergence of electronic information resources simply referred to as electronic resources has tremendously transformed information handling and...
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