Paige DeVriendt Case Study 1 MIS 220‚ T/TH 11AM Professor Wang MIS In Your Pocket Q1: The kinds of applications that are described in this case study are as simple as e-mail‚ calendar‚ photo sharing‚ and text messaging applications to applications like the one used for MEDITECH electronic medical records system‚ Epocrates Essentials‚ ChainLinq Mobile‚ and the app developed by Timothy Childs to help control machines in his business. These types of applications help employees stay better kept
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MIS in your Pocket. Ch 1 Problem 1) The applications described here in the book are i) MEDITECH which offers the physicians with the most updated medical records on a mobile phone ii) Epocrates Essentials: a medical reference applications which is similar to a Wikipedia but except specialized in medical diseases and drugs. iii) E-mail‚ calendar‚ and contacts from Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. iv) ChainLinq Mobile which links with GPS to provide almost real time position and status
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Andrew Parenti Jeremy Wang MIS 220 20 September 2011 MIS: In Your Pocket 1) Efficiency; that’s the name of the game in today’s business world. Why would a business want to waste time trying to uncover some buried information when it can just pull it up with the click of a button? Many companies have answered this question by adapting to a more technological and modernized world. One company‚ whose name has become synonymous with technological advancements‚ is Apple. Their newest products
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1. The case describes many functional and efficient applications such as e-mail and messaging‚ web browser‚ telephone‚ camera‚ music and/or video player‚ calendar‚ contacts from Microsoft Exchange‚ ChainLinq Mobile‚ GPS‚ Google Map‚ and many others that have been added to the updated iPhone models. These applications have facilitated fluid business transactions. 2. The businesses mentioned in case are Doylestown Hospital‚ D.W. Morgan (AT&T‚ Apple Computer‚ Lockheed Martin‚ and Chevron)‚ and Aedas
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MIS Case Studies Case 1 SystemX Inc. Withdraws Rs. 1 Billion SoftGuide Acquisition Offer The following is an excerpt from a news article in the Daily Update‚ March 07‚ 2010 “SystemX Inc.‚ called off its acquisition of SoftGuide Knowledge Consultants‚ Friday‚ saying that 1 Billion was too high a price.” (SoftGuide has a considerable market share in Training and Development services and would therefore help SystemX to diversify and expand its range of services to customers.) “Although SystemX officials
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Pocket Change Reflect and Respond 1. Reflecting on a leader that you admire‚ give an example of how he/she has gained pocket change‚ earing credibility in the eyes of their team. My basketball coach he was a good coach a positive man. He motivated us‚ he helped us outside of school‚ he was also a caring coach and he respected him for that. 2. Write down some of the ways that leaders throughout history have lost pocket change. How did they get a hole in their pocket‚ losing credibility? Ray Rice
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CASE STUDY 1 – Unraveling the Jargon The consultant’s reply was: “In my investigation of your applications portfolios‚ I’ve applied … to the logical data structures and have discovered a very high frequency – approximately 93.286% - of data embedded in application program logic which is largely responsible for the integrity and synchronization problem currently being encountered. As a solution‚ I would recommend the design of a master database each of which would employ relational technology to
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the finished product section. BMC have 420 employees‚ 170000 sq foot industrialized firm‚ and they prepared with “feeds‚ reels‚ electronic detection systems‚ welds‚ drills‚ taps‚ and assemble stampings” (Brown 699). Moreover‚ according to the book of MIS BMC’s assets are growing in last 6 years which means they are going profitable. In the beginning they had an employee lacking because of the high salary with the high skilled employees‚ and they had 3 people in 1994. Thus‚ they decided the major work
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Case Study on Information Technology Management: Frito-Lay’s Long-Term IT Plan Because the rate of technological change is so rapid‚ most people see IT through the narrow lens of short-term‚ silver-bullet solutions. IT vendors want you to believe that their important new technologies will blow away what has come before. You can’t blame a salesperson for trying to sell‚ or CIOs for having a queasy buy-or-lose feeling‚ but this attitude is precisely the opposite of the one companies should be
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TUTORIAL 5 (WEEK 6) Case Study 3 – Enterprise Applications Move to the Cloud Useful Information for CASE STUDY QUESTIONS: Over the past couple of years‚ there’s been a lot of noise from business management software manufacturers about cloud computing and the impact of the cloud on their products and services. Especially from those that produce CRM and ERP applications. From a business user’s point of view‚ whether you choose to implement your software as an on-premise solution or choose a
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