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Chapter 1 Business Today
1. A retail chain store plans to develop an App for smart phones to help customers to find items easily and to inform the managers about the sale statistics. To develop the Information System, the store needs to provide the software developer with the appropriate requirements for a useful product. Provide necessary requirements for the store App in Organizational and Managerial dimensions. For example, one requirement can be: Upon key words entered, display related products for the consumer to choose.
a. Organizational requirements
b. Managerial requirements
Chapter 2 Global E-Business and Collaboration
2. Automatic Resupply System is an implementation of Supply Chain Management that links the stores and the manufacturers to allow automatic coordination regarding the needs and the productions.
a. With the Automatic Resupply System, what kind of benefits can we get in business processes?
b. What kind of data categories would be necessary to operate the Automatic Resupply System? Provide candidate data items that belong to each data category.
Chapter 4 Ethical and Social Issues
3. An Internet company has accumulated a large amount of personal data over the years. The company is considering whether to sell the big data to the public or government organizations, or not.
a. What kind of ethical dilemma from the six ethical principles would they have when they sell the big data to the public?
b. Can the company sell the accumulated data to the government with justifications that might overcome the ethical dilemma? What can be good justifications in selling the big data to the public?
Chapter 5 IT Infrastructure
4. As most people are using mobile devices these days, the companies may consider allowing them connected with the company's business network.
a. When the mobile devices are integrated with the business functions, what kind of benefits can we think from the new working environment by mobile connection?
b. As the companies allow the mobile devices connected with their corporate networks, what aspects do we need to consider in supporting the new arrangement?