opics listed: 1. IT enables organizations to easily collect large amounts of information about employees which brings up issues with cost/benefit issues as well as ethical issues. Answer the following To what extent should management monitor employees' e-mail? To what extent should management monitor which websites employees visit? To what extent should management monitor employee performance by, for example, using software to track keystrokes per hour or some other unit of time? If such information is collected, how should it be used? Should companies use software to electronically "shred" all traces of e-mail? Under what circumstances and to whom is it appropriate for a company to distribute information it collects about the people who visit its website? 2. You and a few of your classmates decided to become entrepreneurs. You came up with a great idea for a new mobile phone application that you think will make lots of money. Your business plan won second place in a local competition, and you are using the $10,000 prize to support yourselves as you start your company. Use Table 1- 2 (business processes, key decisions, and information needs) and Figure 1-1 (interactions with external parties) to help answer the following: Identify the key decisions you need to make to be successful entrepreneurs, the information you need to make them, and the business processes you will need to engage in. Your company will need to exchange information with various external parties. Identify the external parties, and specify the information received from and sent to each of them.