1. Provide a business scenario that explains how information systems are used for strategic advantages by an organization. Include the business processes and relationships between information systems and the organizations it serves.
2. Describe how a present day organization manages its data. What tools are used to access the data? How is data quality managed, and why is this so important to an organization?
3. Assume that you have just been hired to manage a large domestic and foreign information system. What are some of the issues and solutions that you would discuss and plan for?
4. Your organization has just budgeted $10 million to allow for a much needed update or upgrade. How would you spend this money and why? Please discuss current and future trends in technology and how these trends can be useful or not.
5. Provide a plan that addresses planned organizational change using judicious automation, rationalization of procedures, business process redesign, and constructive paradigm shifts that improve the way business is managed.
6. Provide examples of the ethical, social, political, and security issues faced by organizations that use information systems. Explain how you would secure information systems used by digital firms.