www.hbr.org Studies of corporate performance reveal a growing link between certain kinds of technology investments and intensifying competitiveness. Investing in the IT That Makes a Competitive Difference by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 Investing in the IT That Makes a Competitive Difference 11 Further Reading A list of related
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BPA is to define and segment value based processes and link the processes to the strategy. It can be divided into many levels and activity is the smallest process. As shown in the “To-be” diagram, the quick customer responsiveness and effectively resource utilization can be achieved using business process management. When customer places an order, the value is created. Then the order is received by the sales department via customer database and decided to approve or not. If approved, the order becomes
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INTRODUCTION: The article chosen for the critical review is “ERP Training with a web-based electronic learning system: The flow theory perspective” by: Duke Hyun Choi, Jeoungkun Kim, Soung Hie Kim. The article built strengths from the limitations of previous studies. Based from their range of literatures, they have found a gap in the information delivery system which is the lack of theoretical background. Then, exploration and validation of relationships with its key concepts. Through these boundaries
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Define the following terms as they relate to XBRL. 1. Extensible: The XBRL language is able to be extended. Users can add new ideas and phrases to the basic XBRL without changing its fundamental purpose, structures, or existing terminology. This idea is critically important in any discussion of XBRL. The original creators of the language could not possibly have anticipated every term needed by every organization over the course of even a few years-let alone a longer time period. 2. Specification:
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PROJECT PROPOSAL FPT GROUP Date 18/1/2013 INSTRUCTOR * MSc. Tung Tran Minh * Thang Nguyen Minh SUPERMAN TEAM * Trinh Nguyen Thi Kieu * Truc Nguyen Thi Duong * Thuong Pham Thi Dieu * Trang Nguyen Thi Thanh * Thanh Nguyen Quang Contents 1. PROJECT CHARTER 6 1.1. Team ’s Information : 6 1.2. FPT Group information 6 1.2.1. General information 6 1.2.2. Mission 6 1.2.3. Vision 6 1.2.4. FPT distribution 7 1.2.5. Client organization
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Chapter One: Information Systems in Global Business Today -Information system: A set of interrelated components that collect, retrieve, process, store, and distribute info to support decision making and control in an organization –Six building blocks of computers: input, output, memory, arithmetic/logic unit, control unit and files. Control unit and arithmetic/logical unit together known as CPU (central processing unit). –Arithmetic/Logic Unit: carries out mathematical operations and logical comparisons
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Cisco was founded in 1984 by two employees of Stanford University and became a public company 6 years later. After the company became public, the founders of Cisco decided to sell their shares and leave the company. This allowed the company to have a more receptive environment for growth and new management. Cisco became a fast growing and fast moving company due to the consistency of strategy, goals, organization and management that was implemented. Cisco’s goal was to become a leader in technology
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Reference List 28 Appendix A. Final Scoring Matrix 32 Appendix B. Economic Feasibility Analysis 34 Appendix C. Seminar Work 38 Appendix D. Meeting Minutes 42 1. Executive Summary This report sets out to introduce the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software selection process in the purchasing department of a company “Choc & Choc”, which is a chocolate wholesaler established by the graduates from the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China. Considering the company’s future
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facilitates the planning, operational activities and decision making (Hardcastle, 2008). People, computers, processes and communication interact in BIS, and thus it is more than technology. Llett (2006) claimed that the value of the system should be led by business need rather than technology. Facing the challenges from business change, managers are expecting the BIS could satisfy the desired purposes such as increasing revenue and reducing cost. As one of the BIS, enterprise resource planning (ERP) attracts
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Data vs. Useful Information, Critical Systems, and Privacy Concerns Jever Mendoza University of Phoenix Abstract Data has become a very important aspect to businesses. By gathering vast amount of data on consumers, businesses are able to anticipate what they might purchase and what they might be interested in. This helps companies stay competitive and see future market trends. Within the company, their internal operations also play a role in their competitive advantage by investing in
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