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Chapter 12: GLOBALIZATION, INNOVATION, AND 21ST ORGANIZATIONAL TRENDS {0}

Dell is looking to join the smart phone industry with the release of their new phone called the Mini 3.  The Mini 3 will be similar to Google’s Android phone.  I think that this is obviously a great business decision for Dell.  Dell has become a well known computer company in the last decade.  And [...]

Chapter 11: Systems Development and Project Management {0}

The article that I chose was from cnn.com/tech and it talked about how Mozilla Firefox has developed over the years.  It came from the ashes of the old web browser called Netscape.  Netscape lost much of its popularity in the 1990s since the use of Internet Explorer.  I think that it is interesting that an [...]

Chapter 10: Enterprise Resource Planning and Collaboration Systems {0}

Google is pioneering yet another way to search the internet.  According to cnn.com/tech they are introducing the Google Wave.  It is an addition to the traditional Google’s search engine.  It is a very exciting new addition to Google in my opinion. If you type in a portion of a song Google will bring up a [...]

Chapter 9: Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence {0}

Imagine being observed and you didn’t even know it!  According to this new field study know as digital enthrograpgy, this is a near future.  A professor at Kansas University is proof there is a demand for this study.  It basically is the studying of people’s behavioral activities is key to designing new technologies. I think [...]

Chapter 8: Operations Management and Supply Chain Management {0}

Is China stealing all of America’s production jobs? This question is a problem that many Americans are beginning to realize, since after all everything says made in China or Japan. What people don’t necessarily realize is that yes there are many jobs relocated to China, there is a lot of pollution going on in China [...]

Chapter 7: Networks, Telecommunications, and Mobile Technology {0}

Imagine being handed a business card with a picture of the Google search engine with someone’s name in the search area. That is what some people use as a business card these days. With all the new innovations in technology it is no surprise to me that things have gotten this way. I think that [...]

Chapter 6: Databases and Data Warehouses {0}

Of course I am a great employee! I play solitaire, chat with my friends online from time to time but I still get more done than anyone else in the office. That is what many of today’s office slackers are saying. A company named Cataphora created a program that traces your electronic footprints, as well [...]

Chapter 5: Enterprise Architecture {0}

Oh my god! Google’s Gmail was down for 100 minutes. This is what happened just a few weeks ago. Google publicly apologized and said that they will do their best to ensure that this sort of outage wouldn’t happen again. I think that being the one of the biggest search engine in the United States, [...]

Chapter 4: Ethics and Information Security {0}

Imagine owning a small business and opening up one morning and having the phone ring off the hook because your computer system was hacked into. This is a familiar story to many small business owners. My article discussed how many small businesses are being targeted by cyber criminals. The reason why small businesses are targeted [...]

Chapter 3: Ebusiness {0}

Imagine opening your lab top and having all the books you need at your fingertips and not having to go to the library ever again. That would be pretty awesome. With Google’s new idea that is a real possibility. There are many things about the Internet that are new and exciting and this is definitely [...]

Chapter 2: Strategic Decision Making {0}

Have you ever received a call from an annoying robocall or telemarketing recordings? I have many times, even though I am on the do not call list, I still get these annoying phone calls. Whenever I answer and realize it is a recording I hang the phone up, it is just rude and inconsiderate of [...]

Chapter 1: Information Systems in Business {0}

In this weeks article I read about how internet websites affect how business will be operating. Two thirds of all the businesses involved in this article said their business either had a website or was planning to make one in the next year. I found this to be very interesting seeing as we are in [...]