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7- 7 What are some of the issues to consider in determining whether the Internet would provide your business with a competitive advantage?
7- 6 Should all major retailing and manufacturing companies switch to RFID? Why or why not?
7- 5 It has been said that within the next few years, smartphones will become the single most important digital device we own.Discuss the implications of this statement.
Define WSNs, explain how they work, and describe the kinds of applications that use them.Discussion Questions
5. Are you in favor of legislation enforcing network neutrality? Why or why not?
4. It has been said that net neutrality is the most important issue facing the Internet since the advent of the Internet. Discuss the implications of this statement.
3. What would be the impact on individual users, businesses, and government if Internet providers switched to a tiered service model for transmission over landlines as well as wireless?
2. Who’s in favor of net neutrality? Who’s opposed?Why?
1. What is net neutrality? Why has the Internet operated under net neutrality up to this point?
Who should have the authority to finalize a single companywide format for this information in the data warehouse?6- 9 Your industrial supply company wants to create a data warehouse where management
Describe sentiment analysis and suggest why a business might use it.
Explain what is meant by clustering in the context of data mining.
Explain how in-memory computing can be used to facilitate data analysis.
Describe the capabilities of Hadoop Distributed File System for data storage.
Describe how a business might use a data mart.
Explain why businesses may be more interested in big data than in smaller data sets.
3. What management, organization, and technology issues should be considered when setting up information systems for intelligence-driven prosecution?
2. What problems does this approach to crime fighting pose?
1. What are the benefits of intelligence-driven prosecution for police and the general public?
4. Why did managers select the Infogix platform?
3. What is the role of human decision makers in the new system?
2. Why did managers decide they needed an “intelligent system?” In what way was the new system“intelligent?”
1. Why did Societe Generale’s managers decide to develop an automated transaction processing system?
Explain why the level of IT infrastructure investment is a crucial decision for an organization.
Describe what is meant by the term scalability.
4. Why did management choose a regional rollout strategy? Why in the UK
3. What were the main organizational change requirements for implementing the new cloud platform?
2. Why was it necessary to hire a systems integrator firm?
1. Why did Glory choose a cloud solution as opposed to modernizing the systems it had?
3. Why did Fujitsu adopt open source strategy? How did Fujitsu benefit from it?
2. What had motivated Baidu to open source its AI software? How did Baidu benefit from open sourcing?
1. What is open source software? How is it different from proprietary software?
4- 6 Should companies be responsible for unemployment their information systems cause? Why or why not?
Explain what is meant by the term digital divide.
Describe computer crime using an example.
Describe why all organizations have become dependent and vulnerable as a result of using information systems.
Identify the most common reason for business system failure.
List some of the ethical issues in information systems that have been given new urgency by the rise of the Internet and electronic commerce.
Describe the net impact of the doubling of computer power every eighteen months.
Explain what nonobvious relationship awareness is.
2. To what extent was management responsible for the cheating crisis? Explain your answer.
3. How would AI potentially add more jobs than it eliminates?
2. Some people think that AI does not kill jobs but transforms business models. Do you agree? Why or why not?
1. What are the various views on the impact of AI on jobs? What do you think will happen in your country?
Explain how to perform a strategic systems analysis.Discussion Questions
Identify three key organizational factors to consider when planning a new system.
Explain how the Internet is radically changing key business practices.
List the four most common factors underpinning organizational resistance to innovation.146 Part One Organizations, Management, and the Networked Enterprise
Describe how information technology can help an organization contract in size.
How do the definitions of organizations relate to their use of information systems technology?
How is interaction between information technology and organizations influenced by mediating factors?
Where in the value chain will information systems provide the greatest value to the firm?3. Have we aligned IT with our business strategy and goals?
3. Describe the smart city initiatives of an urban center in your country or region.
2. What are the possible downsides of the Smart Nation projects?
1. What are the factors driving the Smart Nation initiative?
4. Why is it unlikely that AI will replace managers?
3. What new service sector jobs have been created or left unchanged by automation in the past?Why?
2. Why are those with a college degree or above at the least risk of being replaced by AI?
1. What sectors of the economy will be most affected by AI? Which the least?
2- 15 What added value for organizations and businesses might come from instant links and updates from a range of social media sites?
2- 14 What lessons can businesses take from the Lions’ use of data analytics in this case?
2- 13 Identify the management, organization, and technology factors responsible for the success of the Lions app.
Explain how customer relationship management helps an organization manage their interactions with customers.
Explain how and why an organization might want to implement enterprise applications.What might be involved?
Explain how a digital dashboard works.
Describe how business intelligence systems also address the decision-making needs of senior management.
Identify which layer of management is most likely to use MIS and why.
Describe the characteristics of business intelligence and explain why it is important in terms of decision-making.
List and describe the business processes involved in fulfilling a customer order.
Describe with examples how business processes are tied to the specific functional area of an organization.
3. Name some other areas where such software can be useful. Discuss at least one such area.
2. Why did the NSHCS require a tool for collaboration?Was Glasscubes a feasible option?
1. Discuss the features of Glasscubes as collaboration software.
1- 5 If you were setting up the website for a soccer team, what management, organization, and technology issues might you encounter?
Based on what you have read, identify the key elements of organizational and management capital.
Describe the features of an organization’s information value chain.
Describe how the parts of an organization’s culture can be found embedded in its information systems.
Explain why organizations have a structure composed of different levels and specialties.
Describe the three activities in an information system that produce the information that organizations need.
Explain the differences between information and data. Why is the former essential to the latter?
4. Why are information systems important for JurongHealth?
3. What information systems are implemented by JurongHealth? Describe the input, processing, and output of any one such system.
2. Search the web for RFID. Suggest an example of using RFID for locating and tracking people.
1. What technologies are used by JurongHealth?What purpose do they serve?
4. One company deploying iPhones has stated, “The iPhone is not a game changer, it’s an industry changer. It changes the way that you can interact with your customers” and “with your
3. What kinds of businesses are most likely to benefit from equipping their employees with mobile digital devices such as iPhones and iPads?
What business functions do they support? How do they improve operational efficiency and decision making?
1. What kinds of applications are described here?
5. Is the Elensys program legal under the HIPAA regulations (see Appendix 13.1)? Is it ethical?
4. Is there anything Giant could have done to salvage the situation, either from the beginning or after the fact? Consider the costs and implementation issues for your recommendations.
3. Does the Elensys compliance program represent a compatible or incompatible use of Giant’s prescription data? Based on your conclusion, critique Giant’s implementation of fair information
2. Do compliance programs provide any legitimate benefits? If so, to whom?
1. What caused all the flap about Elensys? Dissect the information and money flows. Who pays whom for what? What information is being used and by whom? What is the business relationship between
3. Outline the things that McCann needs to do right away.
2. Other organizational factors decrease a project’s likelihood of success.Identify these “barriers” for the Green project.
1. Some organizational factors increase a project’s likelihood of success.Identify these “facilitators” for the Green project.
2. What do you believe would be the optimal governance structure for the IS function at ModMeters. Why?
1. Develop an IT planning process for ModMeters to accomplish the demands as set out above.
4. How sustainable is any competitive advantage for Rice Epicurean? For MyWebGrocer?
3. What would you do if you were Ives? Should Upscale Markets implement online grocery shopping in the Dallas, TX market? How similar, or different, should it be from the Rice Epicurean initiative in
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