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Beef patties, pet food, peanut butter, lettuce and spinach are a few of the contaminated food recalls.
Find examples of how two of the following organizations improve their supply chains: manufacturing, hospitals, retailing, education, construction.
It is claimed that supply chains are essentially “a series of linked suppliers and customers; every customer is in turn a supplier to the next downstream.
Evaluate potential ERP vendors’ strengths and weaknesses. Check how many customers each vendor has, their Four Rules for selecting an ERP financial health.
Each group investigates a major HR software vendor. Prepare a list of HR functions supported by the software. Make a recommendation.
Analyze the financial crisis of 2008. In your opinion, what roles did IT play to accelerate the crisis? Also, how did IT help to rectify some of the problems?
Select an ERP solution that targets the company’s requirements. ERP packages are tailored for organizations based on their size and industry.
Demos allow employees to experience the usability of each ERP module and see how well the ERP would support business processes.
Calculate the ERP’s total cost of ownership (TCO). The cost of the ERP or the monthly SaaS fee is only the beginning of the calculation.
The first step toward becoming an agile manufacturer is developing the means to monitor the marketplace; for instance, changes in customer demand.
What are the benefits of prosecuting an employee who has committed fraud against the company?
Fraudsters typically spend the money they steal on luxury items and vacations. Explain why these items are red flags of fraud.
Examine the capabilities of two financial software packages. Prepare a table that clearly compares and contrasts their capabilities.
Push-through ads-use data about the person to determine whether the ad should appear. What marketing opportunities does this capability create?
What concerns have deterred companies from implementing SaaS HR? What are the benefits of moving HRISs to intranets or the cloud?
Using a search engine, find four examples of mashup applications. Prepare a report describing each one.
It seems like everyone is on Facebook, but there are other popular social networking services. Divide the class into teams of four or five students.
Compare the effectiveness of your searches to similar searches using Google and Yahoo.
Using online sources, have two teams research each side of the Net Neutrality debate. In class, each team should make a 5–10 minute.
Have each member of your team identify a Social Media Monitoring service and explore the kind of information that companies like these can collect.
Data must be protected from malicious or unintentional corruption, unauthorized modification, theft, or natural causes such as floods.
Consider this measurement principle: You can’t manage what you can’t measure. Explain how the case illustrates this principle.
Describe why it is increasingly difficult to neatly categorize web sites as purely “blogs,” “social network services,” “sharing sites,” “wikis,” etc.
You have been hired by your college or university to evaluate how the institution is viewed by people who use social media.
Compare the methods that companies used to communicate with their customers using the broadcast model vs. ways that companies can have conversations.