Explain your selected technology. What is it? How does it work? What is its purpose? Timeline: Provide a timeline of major events concerning your technology. Include major developments, regulations, successful events, controversies, or issues. Ethical Questions: Develop three to five ethical questions that surround your selected technology. These questions will help guide your analysis in future assignments. Ethical Lens: Identify one to two ethical theories that you think will help you further develop your analysis of your selected technology. As part of this assignment, you must consult and cite at least three high-quality, academic sources. These sources should be from reputable publications that can be found in the DeVry Library or industry publications. A successful assignment will be one to two pages in length. Ethical SWOT Analysis of Your Topic Strengths • What are the advantages of the technology? • Enterprise Business Platforms refers to a collection of interconnected software applications and/or systems whose capabilities and shared data may be combined to generate Enterprise holdings Solutions. New technologies make communication simpler, quicker, and more efficient. better, more efficient production procedures. minimal waste. Using car rental software, rental companies may manage their fleet and reservations from a single application. Dashboards provide easy access to client information, mapping technology, and availability projections. • How will it positively impact culture and society? • Evaluation of words to reduce discrimination in hiring process. Recruiting tools with established networks of varied prospects. Automated removal of names and identifying information from resumes to prevent unconscious bias in the hiring process. • The influence of advanced technologies on society is that it has made it simpler for individuals from various nations or regions to connect with one another, breaking down cultural boundaries that previously prohibited them from connecting face-to-face or communicating with one another across great distance. • • What are other potential gains? • Generate quotes instantly. • Know the availability of cars at any moment. • Facilitate employee communication using a centralized platform. • • Detect any missing or damaged goods. • Access to information at any time, from any location. • Selecting the appropriate software for your vehicle rental company. Opportunities • What are external factors that may contribute to the success of the technology? • Automation refers to the use of machines to do formerly human-performed tasks. The advent of self-scan checkouts at grocery shops, for instance, reduces the number of cashiers required. With autonomous vehicles and drone transportation on the horizon, companies will have to reconsider the number of employees and the technology in which to invest, which will boost their profit margins. • What social, political, and/or cultural trends may influence reception? Political variables The extent to which a government may influence the usage of technology and, in turn, organizations within a certain industry. This consists of government policy, political stability, trade and tax policies. Environmental considerations The ecological and environmental viewpoints impact the operations or client demand of a business. This includes availability to renewable resources, changes in weather or climate, and corporate responsibility activities. This, in turn, will define the kind of technologies in which businesses invest based on their environmental friendliness and the eventual societal responsibility brought about by these technologies, regardless of their bad and good effects. Legal considerations Current legal stipends or requirements in the countries or areas where an organization works. This includes requirements for health and safety, labor legislation, and consumer assurance rules. • What are the opportunities for growth? An ICT ecosystem consists of the policies, techniques, procedures, data, technologies, applications, and stakeholders that comprise a nation's, government's, or enterprise's technological environment. Threats • What external factors may pose a threat to the success or adoption of the technology? • What social, political, and/or cultural trends may influence reception? • Because of our over-reliance on technological invention, we have created a society with fewer thinking. Even though the calculator is a brilliant invention, man no longer does mental computations or exercises his memory. Human capital depreciation implies an increase in unemployment rates. In certain cases, technology may replace the human intellect. • • Technological breakthroughs hint to less human effort, implying that robots perform more labor. This equates to less labor for individuals: the human is becoming more obsolete as processes get automated and jobs are rendered redundant, resulting in high rates of unemployment and civil turmoil. • • • Because of its worldwide character, massive size, and the relative privacy that users may enjoy, the web is a fertile environment for destructive forces to operate. Terrorists using social media to advance themselves and empower others; drug dealers using the dark web to trade; pedophiles using chat rooms and other places to groom potential casualties, exchange photographs, recordings, and other data; and dictator administrations attempting to influence or distort elections in democratic nations are examples of this. • • People are increasingly preferring to mingle and converse using digital devices rather than face-to-face contact. This may easily lead to feelings of separation and loneliness. • What are potential hurdles to growth? • Aside from the anxieties of robots and automation displacing people from the labor sector, high-tech forces such as blockchain, big data, genetic engineering, biotechnology, and machine learning are also expected to pose a danger. • Supply Chain Difficulties. Increased Security Risk.Rapid Technological Innovation. • • There is a talent shortage. There is a need for more sustainable technology. Weaknesses • What features of the technology may hinder success? • Customer Service. • Possibility of lower profit margins and/or earnings. • Customer Happiness. • Decrease in Physical Interactions • Competition. • Negative Evaluations. • Cost to Begin. • What are the limitations of the technology? • If the server database becomes corrupted, it is possible that part or all of the stored data will be lost. Access is unavailable while the Internet is down. You require Internet connectivity. • It is necessary to have reliable internet connectivity in order to view and modify reservations made over the phone. • You must be prepared for an inflow of new clients. • Not all online reservation systems are same. • How does the technology address issues of equity? • The use of social media and mobile devices may result in psychological and physical concerns, such as eyestrain and inability to concentrate on essential activities. In addition, they may lead to more severe health disorders, such as depression. • This may reduce diversity even in the absence of deliberate prejudice. Another downside of equal employment opportunity is that it is not automatic. Numerous individuals are subject to gender, racial, sexual orientation, and national stereotypes.