...Information System Strategic Impact Hi Mr. Tom, I will like to first congratulate you on your new position as the Chief Executive Officer, of this amiable and well respected leader in the Healthcare logistics industry. It’s good to have an ambitious and goal oriented person like you in charge of this company. Decision Support System (DSS) is a type of Information System that are into specifics, it helps in the strategic decision making of the Top Executives in an organization, by gathering and analyzing both internal and external information. A good way to understand this type of Information System is to visualize the executive management in an aircraft cockpit with the instrument panel guiding them about the status of all key business activities. A special type of DSS, referred to as Executive Information System (EIS), is structured to support the information needs of the executive management. EIS information is presented in charts and tables that show trends, ratios, and other managerial statistics. This type of Information System would certainly help provide a strategic impact on the business of this company by gathering data on competitors’ customers. Advantages of Decision Support System 1. It improves personal efficiency as it’s very easy to use, as the user do not have to be a computer geek in understanding how it works. 2. The information produced by is quick and timely, as many decisions that executives have to make are quick. With EIS, an executive...
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...Technology is neither good nor bad, nor is it neutral. Melvin Kranzberg, 1986 Technology is a powerful force in the modern world. It has been hailed as a way to cure everything from world hunger to bad breath. Nevertheless, technological development is not an unqualified blessing: Technologies frequently have negative effects for some people, at some times, in some circumstances. Some negative consequences are unanticipated, some are predictable, and some are intentional features of the design or implementation. But because technologies are rightly seen as indispensable for solving problems and improving the quality of life, societies invest in the design and development of technologies, hoping to shape and direct it. This class will explore the relationship between technology and society to understand where technologies come from, how they are used, and how they may be shaped to create better futures. It is not a class where memorization is the primary goal. Instead we will develop skills for critical analysis and argument development. As we do this we will continually pose four important questions: First, where do technologies come from and why do they work as they do? Technologies are human creations, and so their forms and uses reveal the interests and purposes of the people, institutions, and societies that build them. Second, how do technologies shape our world? We will explore the variety of ways by which machines and techniques become embedded...
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...Book Review Name: Institution: Course: Date: Book Review In the article, Bowling alone, Putnam examines the culture of the modern Americans and the good life that has been eroded off the society. He points out that America has a nostalgic feeling which the people of America have not understood the context. The feeling is one that a person feels that there is something wrong within the American society. One yearns to go back to the ancient times when people care for themselves and others, where there was no crime and everyone was happy. He argues out that, such issues are important in the transformation of the modern society to one that is socially, economically moralistically and politically at peace with the people’s intrinsic perception of a collective utopia. Putman points out that the current trends in the social capital and civic engagement have been wiped out to a critical level. He explains that the modern society has become a cesspool of crime, immorality, inequality and utmost poverty among the American people. He goes further to relate the deviation of the social capital to the earlier mentioned ill activities in the society, while he associates the social capital increase to the some positive aspects like economic prosperity, education, democracy, children welfare, productive neighborhoods, safe welfare, proper healthcare and happiness to the people. The evidence that Putman mounts is unquestionable with regards to correlation, and he cautions that even mere...
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...Purpose: The purpose of this article is to describe gene-based therapy and how it transforms the way doctors treat and prevent disease, revolutionize the way we view illness and health and may eventually alter the way we perceive the normative human state. Gene transfer technology will inevitably spread to the world of athletics, bringing with it myriad medical, social, ethical, and philosophical challenges. This article explores some of these issues, with particular attention paid to concepts of harm and privacy. Problem: The problem with gene therapy is that using certain genes like would greatly benefit individuals with anemia and kidney failure or aggressive treatments of cancer but some of these genes are commonly abused in sports. The...
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...2/ed Melissa A. Schilling Copyright © 2009 - The McGraw-Hill Companies srl CHAPTER 1 The Importance of Technological Innovation SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTER The purpose of this chapter is to set the stage for the course by establishing the importance of managing technological innovation strategically. First the chapter overviews the importance of technological innovation for a firm’s competitive success and the advancement of society in general. The chapter points out that 1) many firms are relying on products developed in the previous three to five years for large portions of their sales and profits; 2) globalization has increased competition putting more pressure on firms to compete through innovation; 3) advances in information technology have enabled both process improvements and the efficient generation of product variants which facilitates the execution of a differentiation strategy at a reasonable cost; and that 3) the residual growth in the GDP can be attributed to technological change. Both the positive and negative effects of technological innovation are described. Advances in food production are an example of the first and pollution is an example of the latter. Next the innovation funnel is introduced to show students that on average 3,000 raw ideas must enter the funnel in order to arrive at 1 successful new product launch. Gestione dell'innovazione 2/ed Melissa A. Schilling Copyright © 2009 - The McGraw-Hill Companies srl Second, the chapter discusses...
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...inflation arises when the price level is pushed up by increases in the cost of production. A common cause of this is a faster rise in wages and a rise in the cost of raw materials eg a rise in the cost of oil will cause fuel costs to rise therefore increasing the costs of distributing goods in turn increases the cost of many household products. There are many costs associated with inflation some problems are larger than others, a relatively small cost is that of ‘menu costs’ this is the cost of changing your prices eg new labels/price tags. This is more of a problem for small businesses as large companies such as supermarket chains constantly change their prices with special offers and such on a regular basis, they have sophisticated technology to do so inflation does little to affect this and could even raise...
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...today’s business environment, highly trained and committed employees are often a firm’s main real sustainable competitive advantage. 24 HR’s Changing Environment • Globalization – refers to firms’ tendency to extend their sales, ownership, and/or manufacturing to new markets abroad 25 HR’s Changing Environment • Technological advances • Nature of work – service jobs – outsourcing – human capital 26 HR’s Changing Environment • Growing emphasis on “knowledge workers” and human capital • Human capital – refers to the knowledge, education, training, skills, and expertise of a firm’s workers 27 Environment of Human Resource Management Legal Considerations Marketing Society Operations Unanticipated Events Human Resource 1 Management Finance Customers Safety and...
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...Strategy Dollar General’s mission statement is “Serving Others.” To carry out this mission, the Company has developed a business strategy of providing its customers with a focused assortment of fairly priced, consumable merchandise in a convenient, small-store format. Our Customers . The Company serves the basic consumable needs of customers primarily in the low and middle-income brackets and those on fixed incomes. According to AC Nielsen’s 2005 Homescan® data, in 2005 approximately 48% of the Company’s customers earned less than $30,000 per year and approximately 26% earned less than $20,000 per year. The Company’s merchandising and operating strategies are primarily designed to meet the need for basic consumable products of the consumers in these lower income groups. Our Stores . The traditional Dollar General store has, on average, approximately 6,800 square feet of selling space and generally serves customers who live within five miles of the store. Of the Company’s 8,019 stores operating as of March 3, 2006, approximately 4,580 serve communities with populations of 20,000 or less. The Company believes that its target customers prefer the convenience of a small, neighborhood store. The Company believes that Dollar General’s convenient discount store format will continue to attract customers and provide the Company with a competitive advantage. In 2003, the Company began testing a Dollar General Market concept. Dollar General Markets are larger than the...
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...Inside The National Infrastructure Marvin Phillips Jr. Professor David Belva SEC 310 Homeland Security Organization and Administration 2/4/2013 A computer attack may be defined as actions directed against computer systems to disrupt equipment operations, change processing control, or corrupt stored data. Different attack methods target different vulnerabilities and involve different types of weapons, and several may be within the current capabilities of some hacker groups. A general overview of these attacks can be categorized into a physical, electronic, or computer network attack. These attacks could actually prove more damaging because they involve disruptive technologies that might generate unpredictable consequences or give an adversary unexpected advantage. A physical attack involves conventional weapons directed against a computer facility or its transmission lines and can cause much damage to the infrastructure of our company. For an electronic attack it uses the power of electromagnetic energy as a weapon, but more commonly as an electromagnetic pulse to overload computer circuitry in a less violent form in order to insert a stream of malicious digital code directly into an enemy radio transmission. Finally, for a computer network attack this usually involves malicious code used as a weapon to infect enemy computers so that it can exploit a weakness in software in system configuration or in the computer security practices of an organization. It will be...
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...Cultural Challenges When Entering the Global Market Prepared by: Dennis M. Reilly, Regent University, LDSL 724, Cultures & Values I. Executive Summary Globalization can be defined as the inevitable integration of markets, nation-states, technologies and people in a way that is enabling individuals, organizations and nation-states to reach around the world farther, faster, deeper, and cheaper than ever before. Culture has become a highly significant factor in determining the success in today's international business environment. In particular, organizations entering the foreign markets either by expansion or mergers and acquisitions (M&A’s) are known to suffer at a high failure rate due to not understanding and preparing for cultural differences. Studies suggest that failure is due to different and often controversial relationships between cultural differences, integration and performance. The purpose of this white paper is to examine the cultural concerns when American corporations/organizations enter foreign markets and the impact cultural understanding or the lack thereof has on their success or failure. II. Culture “Culture is not only all around us but within us as well”. Each individual within an organization comes with a unique background and culture. Culture can be defined as the blending of values, politics, beliefs, behaviors, customs and attitudes that distinguishes one society from another. Since culture is a learned behavior that encompasses...
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...Evaluate Ulrich Beck’s social theory of risk society with reference to globalization and cosmopolitarianism Ulrich Beck’s thesis on ‘risk society’ has created a foundation for many sociological debates on the social theory of late modern society and its endemic production of potential risk. Beck’s thesis speaks about the condition of modern times which has been acknowledged by many writers to provide theoretical and rigorous critique of late modern society degradation, his idea speaks to both social theorists and environmentalists and at once echoes an explanation to help explain the growing ecological awareness and concern. Unlike previous social theorist in the likes of Durkheim, and Marx- those who attempted to understand the broader forces of society by examining the different junctures for its collapse, political capture, economic recessions and radical transformations, Becks is most fascinated by the success of modernity and how the changes has transformed all mannerism of human thinking, from the ways we communicate, to our social activities. Therefore to understand Beck’s thesis is to understand the nature of industrial modernity and its mysteries over nature. According to Beck, modernity is a world that introduces global risk which previous generations have not had to face. Placing the answer to the fact that modern societies have failed to control the risk they have created e.g ecological crises, global warming, health issues. (AIDS). In addition, Becks also...
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...Basic Institutional Review Board (IRB) Regulations and Review Process Content Authors Ada Sue Selwitz, M.A. The University of Kentucky Norma Epley, M.S. East Carolina University Janelle Erickson, MPH Institute for Systems Biology Introduction The purpose of this module is to provide a basic understanding of the human subject protection regulations that govern the participation of human volunteers in research in the United States. Learning Objectives By end of the module you should be able to: Describe the role, authority, and composition of the IRB. List the IRB requirements for conducting research involving human subjects. Describe the types of IRB review. Describe the process of working with the IRB. Identify other regulations and regulatory groups that require compliance based on the type of research being conducted. IRB Role, Authority, and Composition The Role of the IRB An Institutional Review Board (IRB) is a review committee established to help protect the rights and welfare of human research subjects. Regulations require IRB review and approval for research involving human subjects if it is funded or regulated by the federal government. Most research institutions, professional organizations, and scholarly journals apply the same requirements to all human research. Although federal regulations refer to IRBs, an institution may have chosen a different name for this committee. To clarify when IRB review is required, let's define some...
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...Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine The impact of medical technology on healthcare today LTH Tan and KL Ong Introduction Rapidly changing medical technology and availability of high technology diagnostic and therapeutic equipment together with changing practice pattern of doctors has revolutionized the way health care is being delivered today. Without doubt, medical technology is indispensable for people's health and better quality of life in some areas; and contributes billions of dollars to the economy. Some would go so far to say that the practice of medicine these days is inherently dependent upon health technology. This is probably based on the observations that clinicians use a wide variety of technologies in diagnosing, treating and assessing the care of their patients. Today's medical technology is more advanced, more effective, and in many cases, more costly than ever before. Furthermore there is an ever increasing demand for high technology diagnostic and therapeutic health care facilities and their availability may come into conflict with medical necessity, social justice and cost effectiveness. There is increasing pressure on health care resources that is driving more explicit and public decisions regarding the best use of these resources. The complexity of modern technology and its high marginal cost suggest to us that testimonial reviews of new technologies are no longer sufficient.1 Current trends in health care decision making favour a transition...
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...of ways to access these websites, makes them almost a necessity to be a part of. How does this current trend affect the society of the world today? This trend extends worldwide with instant access to almost anyone anywhere. What are the consequences for this new technological trend? Certainly, any new technological addition to the current culture has to affect the psychological thought processes and actions with those who are involved in it. With a whole generation of children born in the middle of this “information age” are there psychological repercussions that are apparent? Social Networking has truly taken the world by storm. Online communities and interaction is prominent within our current culture and affects our everyday lives psychologically. Implications of how this form of communication has affected society are all around. Social Networking has been linked to causing adverse behavior amongst children and teens. “Facebook can be distracting and can negatively impact learning. Studies found that middle school, high school, and college students who checked Facebook at least once during a 15-minute study period achieved lower grades (Social Networking’s good and bad effects on kids. 2011).” The dominate emergence of this technology has shown that teens who are overly active on social networking sites can develop narcissistic tendencies (Social Networking’s good and bad effects on kids. 2011). This can be logically determined due to the amount of time that is spent...
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...Evaluate the obligation Flayton Electronics has to its customers to protect their private data. Flayton Electronics does have a moral and legal obligation to its customers to protect their private data. Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, prohibits deceptive and unfair trade practices. Under the FTC Act, businesses must handle consumer information in a way that is consistent with their promises to their customers such as what they say in their online privacy policy, and avoid data security practices that create an unreasonable risk of harm to consumer data. Other federal laws may affect a company’s data security requirements, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which applied to health data; the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which apply to student records; and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (DPPA), which applies to information maintained by state departments of motor vehicles. As concerns over identity theft and data security have increased, many states have passed laws or regulations to protect their citizens. In addition to complying with federal laws, businesses should look to state laws to make sure they are in compliance (Kappler 2007). The Federal Trade Commission Act has tried to develop a single basic standard for data security that strikes the balance between providing concrete guidance, and allowing flexibility for different businesses’ needs. The standard is straightforward: Companies...
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