Operations Management

1.Apply the 3 activities of Information Systems to Amazon. Describe the details and elements of each activity and give examples.

2.Discuss the 3 key dimensions of Information Systems and apply these to Amazon, detailing each dimension.

3.Apply Porter's Five Forces analytical framework to Amazon. Your answer should include critical elements supported with evidence/ justification.

4.Discuss at least three types of security issues that Amazon might encounter with the technology it has and how to protect itself.

5.Discuss how Amazon uses Cloud Computing by drawing on its advantages and disadvantages.

6.Information ethics govern the ethical and moral issues arising from the development and use of information technologies, as well as the creation, collection, duplication, distribution, and processing of information itself (with or without the aid of computer technologies). Ethical dilemmas in this area usually arise not as simple, clear-cut situations but as clashes between competing goals, responsibilities, and loyalties. Inevitably, there will be more than one socially acceptable or "correct" decision. For this reason, acting ethically and legally are not always the same.

Describe briefly 5 e-policies Amazon should implement to protect themselves.

7.Discuss the three areas for maintaining MIS infrastructure in Amazon.

8.Define Database Management Systems (DBMS) and critically evaluate how Amazon use DBMS.

9.Compare the roles played by programmers, systems analysts, information systems managers, the CIO, CSO, CDO and CKO in Amazon