Nov 19, 2009
Chapter 12 in the Baltzan and Phillips text focuses on globalization, innovation and the newest trends in information technology as they pertain to businesses attempting to operate on a global level. Innovation for the sake of innovation is pointless and potentially destructive, however, innovation with a purpose geared toward a practical business solution can be [...]
Nov 6, 2009
Chapter 10 of the textbook focuses on the ways in which companies employ resources with the help of information systems. Resources range from physical objects such as inventory, to intellectual intangibles such as business ideas, conceptual thoughts, and creative thinking/ingenuity. In order for information systems to be effective in accurately and responsibly distributing resources and [...]
Oct 30, 2009
Chapter 9 of the textbook focuses on Customer Relations Management as it pertains to the information systems used by businesses to help retain customers, bring in new customers, market specific products, and determine the success of product introductions/rollouts. The article I chose for my article review comes from BusinessWeek online and is written by Theresa [...]
Oct 27, 2009
Chapter 8 in the textbook focuses on supply chain management and operations management. The part of this chapter that I find to be the most intriguing is the portion that focuses on the management of inventory. Authors Baltzan and Phillips use the example of an airline in reference to effectively managing inventory, “Inventory of such [...]
Oct 27, 2009
Chapter 7 in the textbook focuses on networks and other communication mediums including mobile interface. Authors Baltzan and Philips highlight, amongst several other emerging issues, “Social networking gets mobilized” (2009, p. 264). Wireless providers are now gaining new business based on the need of primarily the younger generation for constant social networking and the websites [...]
Oct 27, 2009
Chapter 6 focuses on different ways in IT of organizing data into useful information. Information, as the chapter indicates, is only valuable if it can be easily viewed, manipulated, understood, relied upon, and recalled by the user(s). Chapter 6 also discusses the benefits and/or negatives experienced by businesses that choose to use certain types of [...]
Oct 27, 2009
Chapter 5 focuses on the methods different businesses use to make the most out of their IT assets, data, and other information. Since I found the open source technology portion of the chapter to be the most intriguing to me personally, I decided to focus my search for an article on just that–open source technology. [...]
Oct 27, 2009
The ethical use of information doesn’t just pertain to general employees, management staff, and other subsidiary companies or contracted companies of a business–it starts at the top of the company and trickles down by example. This is a lesson that will forever mark the eclipsed career of former head of Kmart Corp., Charles Conaway. In [...]
Oct 27, 2009
Web services companies are becoming more numerous in the Ebusiness marketplace, according to a special report, The World of Web Services, by Sarah Lacy. Companies in this category are providing web-based services such as accounting, bookkeeping, sales management, and salespeople management. The way these companies interface with their customers, namely other small companies, is via [...]
Oct 27, 2009
There is an ever-increasing need within business organizations, namely media and communications, of management for up to date industry information, news about their companies’ products, and consumer commentary generated via the internet. Hoping to fill that need, according to Mark Scott, is, “StrategyEye, a London-based startup hoping to do for market research what Google did [...]
Oct 27, 2009
Microsoft has been amongst the leading brand names in smartphone technology for over a decade. Unfortunately due to a lack of innovation, product differentiation, and an unwillingness or carelessness in maintaining a competitive advantage, Microsoft’s mobile-phone operating systems division is becoming increasingly less profitable. As competitors such as Apple, Research in Motion, Google, and Palm [...]
