Case 3 Ten Guidelines for Strategic MIS Planning Robert V. Head‚ a consultant on MIS planning‚ provided ten guidelines to help MIS executives who are on the threshold of experimenting with strategic MIS planning: 1. Make provisions in the systems plan for taking small steps rapidly. “Don’t have a plan with goals extending so far into the future that there is no way of tracking it.” 2. Develop alternative plans when significant contradictory trends are discerned in business objectives or technology
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1. According to the case‚ what types of technologies are being used in IBM’s global network? * The technologies that the IBM’s global network uses a very wide network connection such as GIS technology that can handle a very large of information and can coordinate many functions‚ can work works across national borders. Can Stores‚ manipulates‚ and transmits data across cultural and geographic boundaries‚ and can easily communicate into other countries. 2. How has this GIS streamlined operation
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Discussion Questions 1 .In what ways does Bezos’s decision to develop and sell the Kindle and Kindle Fire show systematic and intuitive thinking? Bezos thought the most reasonable thing to sell over the internet was books. The internet offers customers to review the books‚ or write a book review‚ and it also offers them to recommend other books and more. Offering Kindle showed an advanced point of view since digitized media is so widespread today. It is also based on a systematized thinking that
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MIS 760 – IT Strategy Case Study: Citibank’s E-Business Strategy for Global Corporate Banking Please prepare an analysis of this case. Your write-up should be 4 to 7 pages. Each of the following questions should be addressed individually: 1. What are the impacts of the internet on the competitive landscape of corporate banking? (Hint: use Porters 5 forces) The statements below are the impacts of the internet on the competitive landscape of corporate banking: * Intense competition which
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effective information system is a complex task and several techniques have been developed to manage organization and build information system. Management Information System goal is to enable managers to make better decisions providing quality information. MIS can be the foundation of a business but it can also be expensive. It is important that the information system should be designed and organized to match the needs of the firm. A Chemical Industry comprises the companies that produce industrial chemicals
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1. What are the difference between travel agents‚ such as Orbitz‚ and travel searcgh engines suxh as Mobissimo? * Then there are the base differences around business model - OTA’s are retailers that charge cards and supply services. OTA (the retailer) owes their livelihood to the punter‚ to the customer. The person they get their money from is the consumer making a booking. OTAs build loyalty through deal hunting‚ sales‚ customer service‚ customer contact and building unique product. Meta-search
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1. What are the inputs‚ processing and output of USP’s package tarcking system? USP’s main input includes scannable-bar coded label attached to a package that has the detailed information about the sender‚ destintaion and when the package should arrive. Customers can download and print their own labels using special software provided by UPS or by accessing the UPS website. As for the processing‚ before the package is even picked up‚ the data from the scannable bar coded label is transmitted
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Why is the role of a data Steward considered to be innovative? Explain. The role of Data Steward is considered to be innovative because Data Steward establishes and maintains the quality of data entered into the operational system that feed the data warehouse. Whereas most companies put someone in charge of data only when something goes wrong. Many companies treat data quality as a “find-and-fix” effort that is done at the end of a project by an IT worker. Other companies try to maintain their data
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MIS Case Studies Chapters 1-5 Chapter 1: Study 1 1. No‚ technology alone cannot solve all customer service problems‚ employees are still needed to run the technology and back it up in case something goes wrong. 2. $57.56 million/per year in call center savings‚ and reduction from $1.36 billion per year to $21.6 million in tracking savings. 3. Ship Manager and Fedex.com‚ package-tracking Study 2 1. Mobile technology‚ Scan-as-you-go. 2. Scan It 3. The smartphone will be
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Windows Presentation Foundation that enable some very rich‚ design-friendly experiences outside the browser. But there is still a very large contingent out there that thinks the browser will be the best way to deliver applications. But if that is the case‚ then we have to have a model that enables the browser to actually do that. Trying to build real applications using JavaScript that requires a tedious development cycle and a lot of per-browser workarounds just isn’t going to cut it. From Ted’s point
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