Question 1: What two characteristics do Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and Larry Page all share?
Question 2: Choose an area of interest to you: Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Operations or Human Resources. Briefly describe how IS (information systems) facilitates the corresponding business processes.
Question 3: What is a value chain? Distinguish between primary and secondary components and provide some examples.
Question 4: What are switching costs? How do these costs benefit Microsoft and its Windows operating system and how did they hurt Netscape and the first graphical web browser?
Question 5: How does Amazon use technology to avoid offering a commodity? Define commodity as part of your answer.