Nov 15, 2009
Chapter 11. Systems Development and Project Management “Can Outsourcing Save Sony?” Sony, a Japanese company, makes technological equipment such as TV’s, computers chips, game consoles, cameras and more. Sony has always been very secretive about their TV design and manufacturing. All manufacturing is done in-house to protect the elements of the design. By [...]
Nov 7, 2009
Chapter 10. Enterprise Resource Planning and Collaboration Systems I found this article that talks about the virtual world Second Life being used for business meetings and conferences. With companies traveling budgets being cut, they are looking for less expensive ways to hold conferences and meeting between employees at different locations. Many companies are turning [...]
Oct 29, 2009
In today’s world the internet is growing quickly and becoming a key source for how companies to do business. More people are begining to shop for home, on the internet, and so if a company wants to make profits they need to offer websites for customers to purchase there items. In the article I found [...]
Oct 29, 2009
A British business reported this week that because of improvement in their supply chain, they have increased sales. Sainsbury reported total sales for the first half of the year increased 7.1% and weekly transactions were up 4% from last year. They credit this increase to the new supply management procedures. Sainsbury has implemented a new [...]
Oct 29, 2009
This article from Time.com discussed a new way for doctors to study patients who are considering stomach-reducing surgeries. Bariatric Outcomes Longitudinal Database (BOLD) is a program that tracks patients before and after they undergo the surgeries. Each year more than 200,000 people have these surgeries and until now doctors had no way to study a [...]
Oct 29, 2009
found this article titled “Cybercrime: A Secret Underground Economy” and it caught my eye since the chapter I just read was about security and ethics. I have been educated and I’m aware of identity theft over in the internet. However, only I reading this article did I realize how often this occurs and the crime [...]
Oct 29, 2009
In the article I read it said that Yahoo has released three new applications for the iphone. The new applications are Yahoo Flickr, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Fantasy Football. These applications can be downloaded onto certain versions on iphones and Blackberries. The new applications are receiving good reviews. Yet, this a concern for many businesses who [...]
Oct 29, 2009
MIT students have created a new robotic fish they call “Robofish”. The Robofish is not the first robotic fish created yet it is a new and improved version of the first Robotic Fish created in 1994 which was then refered to as “Robotuna”. Robofish is 5-18 inches long, very inexpensive, costing only a few hundred [...]
Oct 29, 2009
In this past week Disney made a huge business decision and bought the company Marvel for 4 billion dollars. Marvel is the owner/creators of characters such as spider-man, x-man, iron man and the fantastic four. In this purchase Disney will gain ownership of these characters and more than 5000 more. The purchase must still be [...]
