Reference no: EM13999510
1. How technology helps a) fulfill needs (in a new way) and b) how technology create new needs.
• What are we doing today that we weren't able to do 10 years ago (examples)?
• What are might we be doing 10 years into the future (examples)?
• How has technology changed the way we go about our daily activities (examples)?
• Give three examples of transforming technologies. In what way are they/will they be transformative?
• Give examples of products and/or services that has become obsolete because of new technology? What replaced them
2. Swimlane modeling
• What is a business process? Give an example of a typical business process.
• What is the purpose of swimlane modeling?
• What is swimlane modeling? Describe its main elements
• What are some of the business reasons why a company would engage in swimlane modeling?
• Develop a small swimlane based on a given process scenario
3. Porter's 3 generic strategies
• Explain Porter's 3 generic strategy framework. Be sure to explain the two dimensions in the framework.
• With respect to the 3 generic strategies, what is Porter's recommendation?
• What does it mean to be "stuck in the middle"?
• Choose one industry. Give one example of each of the three strategies by giving naming a company which has adopted that particular strategy. Justify your answer.
• Within the same industry, mention a company who is "stuck in the middle.
4. Technology and e-commerce
• What are some of the benefit of online shopping?
• What are some of the drawbacks or barriers to online shopping?
• What has for example Amazon.com done to address many of the drawbacks and barriers to online shopping?
• Why is it difficult for Walmart or Best Buy to compete with online retailers like Amazon?
5. Efficiency and effectiveness in business process
• What strategy has Amazon.com chosen?
• Describe some typical activities in Amazon's value chain.
• What is the difference of having an efficient business process and an effective business process? Give examples.
• Looking at Amazon's website and operations, give examples that attest to Amazon's efficiency
• Looking at Amazon's website and operations, give examples that attest to Amazon's effectiveness
• Compare Amazon.com with Walmart.com (not the brick-and-mortar store). What differences do you observe?
5. Hardware
• List five main internal components of a personal computer (excluding input/output devices like keyboard, monitor, mouse, DVD drive, speakers, etc.) and explain their function.
• Define/describe the following terms:
• Digital signal
• Bit
• Byte
• RGB
• Encoding/decoding
• ASCII
• How does Moore's Law relate to microprocessors?
• Why are hardware specification often listed in terms of the numbers 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, etc.?
• Give there examples of how to physically represent or transmit "0"s and "1"s.(2008).
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Explain the difference in the accounting treatment
: Explain the difference in the accounting treatment of the cost of developed technology and the cost of in-process R&D in an acquisition.
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Trade-off between financial performance and sustainability
: Is there any trade-off between the financial performance and the sustainability of the company?
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Calculate the initial charge acquired by c1
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Session variables to maintain the information
: Clearly, this website requires some sort of back end to persist beyond a single session. You should use session variables to maintain the information.
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What is the purpose of swimlane modeling
: What is a business process? Give an example of a typical business process. What is the purpose of swimlane modeling
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Determine the economic order quantity
: Determine the ordering, holding, and total inventory costs for the current order quantity - determine the economic order quantity (EOQ).
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Differences between u s gaap and international financial
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What is the inductance
: An RLC circuit consists of a 98.45ohm resistor, a 170.31 micro farad capacitor, and an inductor. The current is 1.94 A rms when the circuit is connected to a 120 V/60 Hz outlet. What is the inductance?
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Determine an appropriate form for the stream function
: Write down all the appropriate velocity boundary conditions for the flow around the bubble (one of the BCs may not be known explicitly). Determine an appropriate form for the stream function psi(r, theta) for use in part b).
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