Assignment:
Part 1
Case Study CASE STUDY QUESTIONS
1. Identify and describe the problem in this case.
2. What management, organization, and technology factors are responsible for the difficulties in building electronic medical record systems? Explain your answer.
3. What is the business, political, and social impact of not digitizing medical records (for individual physicans, hospitals, insurers, patients, and the U.S. government)?
4. What are the business and social benefits of digitizing medical recordkeeping?
5. Are electronic medical record systems a good solution to the problem of rising health care costs in the United States? Explain your answer.
Chapter2
1. What types of transactions are handled by baggage
2. What are the management, organization, and technology components of baggage handling systems?
3. What is problem these baggage handling systems are trying to solve? Discuss the business impact this problem. Are todays's baggage handling systems a solution to this problem? Explaine
4. What kinds of management reports can be generated from the data from these systems?
1. What management, organization, and technology issues had to be addressed when implementing Business Sufficiency, Business Sphere, and Decision Cockpits?
2. How did these decision-making tools change the way the company ran its business? How effective are they? Why?
3. How are these systems related to P&G's business strategy?
CASE STUDY QUESTIONS Part 2
1. Identify the management, organization, and technology factors responsible for slow adoption rates of internal corporate social networks.
2. Why have each of the companies described in this case been successful in implementing internal social networks? Explain your answer.
3. Should all companies implement internal enterprise social networks? Why or why not?
Part 3
1. How is software adding value to automakers' products?
2. How are the automakers benefiting from software-enhanced cars? How are customers benefiting?
3. What value chain activities are involved in enhancing cars with software?
4. How much of a competitive advantage is software providing for automakers? Explain your answer.
CASE STUDY QUESTIONS
1. Use the value chain and competitive forces models to evaluate the impact of the Internet on book publishers and book retail stores such as B&N.
2. How are B&N and the book publishers changing their business models to deal with the Internet and e-book technology?
3. Will B&N's new strategy be successful? Explain your answer.
4. Is there anything else B&N and the book publishers should be doing to stimulate more business?
Part 4 Case Studies
1. How does information technology affect socio economic disparities? Explain your answer.
2. Why is access to technology insufficient to eliminate the digital divide?
3. How serious a problem is the "new" digital divide?
Explain your answer. 4. Why is the digital divide problem an ethical
dilemma?
CASE STUDY QUESTIONS
1. Perform an ethical analysis of Facebook. What is the ethical dilemma presented by this case?
2. What is the relationship of privacy to Facebook's business model?
3. Describe the weaknesses of Facebook's privacy policies and features. What management, organization, and technology factors have
contributed to those weaknesss?
4. Will Facebook be able to have a successful business model without invading privacy? Explain your answer. Are there any measures Facebook could take to make this possible?