Assignment:
Individual Project
Create a 4-5 pages
You are to read four case studies as they appear in your text. The case studies you will be reading are as follows:
Are Electronic Medical Records a Cure for Health Care?
Should Companies Embrace Social Business?
Technology Helps Starbucks Find New Ways to Compete
Wasting Time: The New Digital Divide
While information systems has one meaning, it can be used in different ways for companies to keep a competitive edge on the marketplace. Compare and Contrast two distinctly different organizations on how they use information systems in their organizations.
Include the following:
• Research the 4 competitive strategies and briefly describe them.
• From the 4 strategies, pick 2 and provide an example of a company that uses each strategy.
o How do they implement the strategy?
o Provide examples of how the companies use the strategy, and do not simply write the description.
o Appraise the individual and organizational consequences of the use of information technology and recognize potential security breaches and computer crimes.