Nov 27, 2009
This week’s chapter reading is on Globalization, Innovation and the 21st Century Organizational Trends, and one of the biggest trends in this current time is social networking sites. According to an article on PC World, Facebook is dominating the social networking sites. I have always been a fan of the Facebook social networking site, especially [...]
Nov 19, 2009
This week’s chapter reading in chapter nine revolves around business intelligence. With companies all around the world and chains developing more and more, it is difficult for many companies and restaurants to stay on top of what is happening within their workplace and to develop future plans for it unless they have access to business [...]
Nov 9, 2009
This week’s reading in the chapter ten textbook talks about enterprise resource planning and collaboration systems. According to the textbook, enterprise resource planning (ERP) “integrates all departments and functions throughout an organization into a single IT system (or integrated set of IT systems) so that employees can make decisions by viewing enterprise-wide information on all [...]
Nov 9, 2009
This week’s reading on chapter nine talks about customer relationship management and business intelligence. As technology is developing more and more each day, as a business student or business owner, we must also learn to move along with the change and utilize it as an asset to the company. One of the focuses in the [...]
Oct 29, 2009
According to Ivanka Trump, when you’re starting up a company or taking over a company, whatever it is that you are looking or planning to do, make, or sell to your customers, it is crucial that you build your business on the assumption that you can do it smarter, better and more efficiently than your [...]
Oct 29, 2009
For this week’s chapter reading, I found a very interesting article in the Business Week Magazine regarding Window’s introduction of its newest development or “upgrade”: Windows Mobile 6.5. I must confess that I am very bias when it comes to computer and phone companies. I have been a true Apple fan for the longest time [...]
Oct 29, 2009
In a recent article in Business Week entitled: “California unveils prescription database to spot abuse“, the author shares that with a new database online installed, the law enforcement will have a more advanced way of keeping track of what doctors are prescribing to their patients, and what the patients are picking up from the pharmacies. [...]
Oct 29, 2009
When you are running a lot of projects on several different computers, it is essential that all of your work is continually backed up on external hard drives in case your computer ever crashes spontaneously. If the files and projects are not backed up continuously and the computer crashes, it may cost the company a [...]
Oct 29, 2009
According to the Business Week article written on September 15, 2009, the country of France is approving a bill that will allow the police and authorities to shut down the Internet usage of someone illegally downloading music/movies/ etc. There are millions and millions of Internet users in the world today and how France is planning [...]
Oct 29, 2009
When the Internet was first discovered, it did not have many users at all because it came very complicated for the public to learn how to. However, when the Internet expanded into more and more of the population, demand for businesses to expand their work onto the World Wide Web started increasing. To be successful [...]
Oct 29, 2009
In this week’s chapter reading, chapter two briefly reflected upon artificial intelligence (AI). We have learned previously that technological advancements are a force to be reckoned with in the business world. Artificial intelligence “simulates human intelligence such as the ability to reason and learn. AI systems can learn or understand from experience, make sense of [...]
Oct 29, 2009
Google is one of the biggest companies in the technology and business industry today. Their impact on the business market is massive. My workplace uses all the applications within Google for everything work related (Google Calendar, Gmail, Docs, Spreadsheets, Picasa, etc). You name it, and if it is Google related, then we use it at [...]
