Question 1: How are information systems transforming business & what is their relationship to globalization? *Describe how information systems have changed the way businesses operate and their products and services. *Identify three major information system trends. *Describe the characteristics of a digital firm. *Describe the challenges and opportunities of globalization in a “flattened” world. Answer: Conventional business procedures have been evolved drastically for the last two decades
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distributed system. (4mks) Access Transparency: Clients should be unaware of the distribution of the files. The files could be present on a totally different set of servers which are physically distant apart and a single set of operations should be provided to access these remote as well as the local files. Applications written for the local file should be able to be executed even for the remote files. The examples illustrating this property are the File system in Network File System (NFS)‚ SQL queries
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Database System Versus File System Consider part of a savings-bank enterprise that keeps information about all customers and savings accounts. One way to keep the information on a computer is to store it in system files. To allow users to manipulate the information‚ the system has a number of application programs that manipulate the files including • A program to debit or credit an account • A program to add new account • A program to find the balance of an account • A program to generate
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Economic System "Resources are scarce but demands are unlimited." (Anderton‚ 2000: 273) Therefore‚ resources have to be allocated in terms of what to produce‚ how to produce‚ and for whom to produce. (Case & Fair‚ 2004) Economic system is a way of answering the three basic economics problem. "An economic system is a collection of laws‚ institutions and‚ activities‚ that provide a framework for economic decision-making." (http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/lesson2.htm) Each part of it interacts
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The big problems of the electoral system were particularly evident in the 2000 elections: There may have been significant discrepancies between the voter decision and the electoral vote; a candidate who obtains the most vote’s nationwide‚ does not necessarily have to combine the most electors. Al Gore won in 2000‚ the absolute majority of votes‚ but received fewer votes in the Electoral College as his opponent George W. Bush. Another disadvantage is the focus of the candidates on states where pollsters
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4/2/2014 The Command System vs The Market System The majority of this world’s economy is dominated by two types‚ the Command System and the Market System. The command system is a command economy that is publicly owned and is controlled by a central authority. The market system is a market economy where there is free competition and prices are determined by the interaction of supply and demand. The market system is popular within the United States‚ while the command system is ranked at the top for
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Electoral systems in the Caribbean needs to be changed. How real is this view? An election as a political process serves as the single most important mechanism for citizens to participate in the selection of a government. When conducted to international standards‚ elections tend to confer legitimacy on a government. In the Commonwealth Caribbean‚ the electoral experience varies and tends to reflect not only the socio-political culture of the member state but also its particular electoral system.
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functions have certain basic characteristics that permit transient and steady-state analyses of the feedback-controlled system. Five factors of prime importance in feedback-control systems are stability‚ the existence and magnitude of the steady-state error‚ controllability‚ observability‚ and parameter sensitivity. The stability characteristic of a linear time-invariant system is determined from the system’s characteristic equation. Routh’s stability criterion provides a means for determining stability
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OPEN SYSTEM: A system that allows third parties to make products that plug into or interoperate with it. For years‚ the term "open systems" (plural) referred to the Unix world because Unix ran in more types of computer hardware than any other operating system OR Open systems are computer systems that provide some combination of interoperability‚ portability‚ and open software standards. It can also mean specific installations that are configured to allow unrestricted access by people and/or
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Nervous System The two types of the nervous system are the Central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. They are responsible for integrating‚ processing‚ and coordinating Sensory data and motor commands the central nervous system‚ which interprets sensory input and carry information to maintain homeostasis. CNS can’t be regenerate because a CNS consists of the spinal cord that mean if it’s break the spinal cord is break also. The peripheral nervous system consists of the nerves
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