-Brose and FastFit are two very different organizations but both rely on information technology to enable business processes. What are the mission, goals, and representative strategies for these two organizations and how are they IT-enabled? Lastly suggest an IT-enabled innovation that would give each of them competitive advantage.

Brose:	FastFit:
Mission:	Mission:
Goals: . . .	Goals: . . .
Representative Strategies: . . .	Representative Strategies: . . .
How does IT enable these strategies? . . .	How does IT enable these strategies? . . .
What type of information might contribute to Broses corporate learning? . . .	What type of information might contribute to FastFit corporate learning? . . .

- As a financial services institution, Southwest Bank is a target for cyber criminals. What actions should the management team take to address this risks? How will each action improve the Banks information security? What information technology investments are required as a consequence of this choice?

Specific Action Items	How does this action improve overall corporate information security?	What information technologies will be required as part of this step?
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-In a global economy, many organizations will maintain a core staff to address the operational and managerial needs of the enterprise while turning to external resources to staff special projects or to outsource non-strategic corporate functions. For each of the scenarios below, the sourcing option (i.e. insourcing, partnering, or outsourcing) is identified. What will be the most important project management steps to successfully deliver a positive outcome in the efforts described in the column one?

Scenario: Sourcing Decision:	Key Project Management Steps:
Southwest Bank has decided to outsource the enabling information system for its sales force management to salesforce.com.	. . .
PepsiAmericas, is about to take on a huge factory development effort in Singapore with an insourced staff drawn from across the company.	. . .
WinterGear has decided to follow your advice and move to the Web. To do so they have decided to partner with one of their key retail customers FastFit.	. . .
Zappos has decided to move from their own ERP systems to the systems run by their parent company Amazon.com. For this project they will employ internal IT resources as well as the consulting services of the parent companys IM/IT leadership.	. . .
Reliable Utilities has decided to join an industry-based consortium to trade carbon emission credits. To manage this process they are working with other consortium members to build and use an information system to manage this process.	. . .

- Zappos is an extensive user of ERP systems to enable its business processes and to coordinate activities among its many offices, healthcare facilities and research centers. How would Partners use ERP systems to transact, manage and innovate, and what benefits does the ERP provide in each instance?

Transactional Uses of Information
Uses:	Benefits of Using the ERP:
Management and Control Uses of Information
Uses:	Benefits of Using the ERP:
Corporate Learning and Innovational Uses of Information
Uses:	Benefits of Using the ERP:

- Brose employs Web sites to reach the public (a corporate site), communicate to employees (an Intranet site) and to collaborate in projects with sub-contractors and clients (an Extranet site). In the table below, identify those information technology elements (hardware and software) that are common to all three Web sites and those that are unique to each Web site.

IT that is Common:	IT that is Unique to Each Site:
. . . . . .	Corporate site: . . .
	Intranet site: . . .
	Extranet site: . . .

-Below compare and contrast the public Web sites for Amazon.com and Google.com based on their strengths and weaknesses in terms of content, design and functionality.--

Amazon.com	Google.com
Content: . . . .	Content: . . . .
Design: . . . .	Design: . . . .
Functionality . . . .	Functionality . . . .

- How might FastFit and Target employ decision support systems (DSS) and knowledge management systems (KMS) for competitive advantage? Be company-specific in your use of language!

FastFit:	Brose:
DSS: . . .	DSS: . . .
KMS: . . .	KMS: . . .

PepsiAmericas and WinterGear are both wholesale distributors of products. But PepsiAmericas is more likely to turn to decision support and data analytics to manage its business while WinterGear is more likely to turn to knowledge management. Why is this so? What Information technology and information sources will each of these companies employ in building their respective DSS and KMS solutions?

PepsiAmericas:	WinterGear:
Why DSS? . . .	Why KMS? . . .
IT Employed?	IT Employed?
Information Sources?	Information Sources:

-Capital One and The State Employees Retirement Fund are very different organizations. Employing, the MIS Integrative Learning Framework below, compare and contrast these two organizations. Remember to align all facets of your comments concerning each of these enterprises!

Capital One	The State Employees Retirement Fund
Primary Business Driver:	Primary Business Driver:
Operational Information Requirement:	Operational Information Requirement:
Management and Control Information Requirement:	Management and Control Information Requirement:
Innovation, Planning and Learning Information Requirement:	Innovation, Planning and Learning Information Requirement:
Core Enabling Application Software: . . .	Core Enabling Application Software: . . .
Are Capital Ones systems and business processes well aligned? Yes or No. Explain: . . .	Are The State Employees Retirement Fund systems and business processes well aligned? Yes or No. Explain: . . .