Globalization challenges and opportunities a flattened world

Assignment 1

How are information systems transforming business and what is their relationship to globalization?

•Describe how information systems have changed the way businesses operate and their products and services.

•Identify three major new information system trends.

• Describe the characteristics of a digital firm.

• Describe the challenges and opportunities of globalization in a “flattened” world

Assignment 2

It has been said that the advantage that leading-edge retailers such as Dell and Walmart have over their competition isn’t technology; it’s their management.

Do you agree? Why or why not?

Assignment 3

Assignment 3:

What are the stages and technology drivers of IT infrastructure evolution?

• List each of the eras in IT infrastructure evolution and describe its distinguishing characteristics.

• Define and describe the following: Web server, application server, multitiered client/server architecture.

• Describe Moore’s Law and the Law of Mass Digital Storage.

• Describe how network economics, declining communications costs, and technology standards affect IT infrastructure.

Assignment 4

What ethical, social, and political issues are raised by information systems?

• Explain how ethical, social, and political issues are connected and give some examples.

• List and describe the key technological trends that heighten ethical concerns.

• Differentiate between responsibility, accountability, and liability.

Assingment 5

What are the challenges of managing IT infrastructure and management solutions?

•Name and describe the management challenges posed by IT infrastructure.

•Explain how using a competitive forces model and calculating the TCO of technology assets help firms make good infrastructure investments.

Assignment 8

What are the challenges of managing IT infrastructure and management solutions?

•Name and describe the management challenges posed by IT infrastructure.

•Explain how using a competitive forces model and calculating the TCO of technology assets help firms make good infrastructure investments.

Assignment 9

What are the unique features of e-commerce, digital markets, and digital goods?

•Name and describe four business trends and three technology trends shaping e-commerce today.

• List and describe the eight unique features of e-commerce.

• Define a digital market and digital goods and describe their distinguishing features

Assignment 10

What is the role of knowledge management and knowledge management programs in business?

· Define knowledge management and explain its value to businesses.

· Describe the important dimensions of knowledge.

· Distinguish between data, knowledge, and wisdom and between tacit knowledge and

· explicit knowledge.

· Describe the stages in the knowledge management value chain

Assignment 11

What are the core activities in the systems development process?

• Distinguish between systems analysis and systems design. Describe the activities for each.

• Define information requirements and explain why they are difficult to determine correctly.

• Explain why the testing stage of systems development is so important. Name and describe the three stages of testing for an information system.

• Describe the role of programming, conversion, production, and maintenance in systems development.

Assignment 12

What are the objectives of project management and why is it so essential in developing information systems?

•Describe information system problems resulting from poor project management.

•Define project management. List and describe the project management activities and variables addressed by project management.