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Individual Project
Find a description in a computer or business magazine of an information system used by an organization. Look for information about the company on the Web to gain further insight into the company and prepare a brief description of the business. Describe the system you have selected in terms of its inputs, processes, and outputs, and in terms of its organization, management, and technology features and the importance of the system to the company. If possible, use electronic presentation software to present your analysis. Submit for grade. Select a business using an industrial network for supply chain management. Use the Web, newspapers, journals, and computer or business magazines to find out more about that organization and its use of information technology, and to provide links to other organizations. If possible, use presentation software to present your findings. Submit for grade. Select a company described in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, or another business publication. Visit the company's Web site to find out additional information about that company and to see how the firm is using the Web. On the basis of this information, analyze the business. Include a description of the organization's features, such as important business processes, culture, structure, and environment, as well as its business strategy. Suggest strategic information systems appropriate for that particular business, including those based on Internet technology, if appropriate. If possible, use electronic presentation software to present your findings. Submit for grade. Select two businesses that are competitors in the same industry and using their Web sites for electronic commerce. Visit their Web sites. You might compare, for example, the Web sites for virtual banking created by Citibank and Wells Fargo Bank, or the Internet trading Web sites of E*Trade and Ameritrade. Prepare an evaluation of each business's Web site in terms of its functions, user friendliness, and how well it supports the company's business strategy. Which Web site does a better job? Why? Can you make some recommendations to improve these Web sites? If possible, use electronic presentation software to present your findings. Submit for grade. Develop a corporate ethics code on privacy that addresses both employee privacy and the privacy of customers and users of the corporate Web site. Be sure to consider e-mail privacy and employer monitoring of worksites, as well as corporate use of information about employees concerning their off-job behavior (e.g., lifestyle, marital arrangements, and so forth). If possible, use electronic presentation software to present your ethics code. Submit for grade. Which is the better Internet software tool, Internet Explorer or Netscape Communicator? Your instructor will divide the class into two groups to research this question. Each group will present their findings to the class. To prepare your analysis, use articles from computer magazines and the Web, and examine the software's features and capabilities. If possible, use electronic presentation software to present your ethics code. Submit for grade. Review Figure 7-4, which provides an overview of a human resources database. Some additional information that might be maintained in such a database are an employee's date of hire, date of termination, number of children, date of birth, educational level, sex code, Social Security tax, Medicare tax, year-to-date gross pay and net pay, amount of life insurance coverage, healthcare plan payroll-deduction amount, life insurance plan payroll-deduction amount, and pension plan payroll-deduction amount. Form a group with three or four of your classmates. Prepare two sample reports using the data in the database that might be of interest to either the employer or the employee. What pieces of information should be included on each report? In addition, prepare a data dictionary entry for one of the data elements in the database similar to the entry illustrated in Figure 7-5. Your group's analysis should determine what business functions use this data element, which function has the primary responsibility for maintaining the data element, and which positions in the organization can access that data element. If possible, use electronic presentation software to present your findings. Submit for grade. Describe in detail the ways that telecommunications technology can provide a firm with competitive advantage. Use the companies described in Chapter 3 or other chapters you have read so far to illustrate the points you make, or select examples of other companies using telecommunications from business or computer magazines. If possible, use electronic presentation software to present your findings. Submit for grade. Prepare evaluations of the wireless Internet capabilities of the Palm VII and the HP Jornada PocketPC handheld computing devices. Your analysis should consider the purchase cost of each device, any additional software required to make it Internet enabled, the cost of wireless Internet services, and what Internet services are available for each device. You should also consider other capabilities of each device, including the ability to integrate with existing corporate or PC applications. Which device would you select? What criteria would you use to guide your selection? If possible, use electronic presentation software to present your findings. Submit for grade. Select two groupware products such as Lotus Notes, OpenText LiveLink, or Groove and compare their features and capabilities. To prepare your analysis, use articles from computer magazines and the Web sites for the groupware vendors. If possible, use electronic presentation software to present your findings. Submit for grade. Identify several groups in your university that could benefit from a GDSS. Design a GDSS for one of those groups, describing its hardware, software, and people elements. If possible, use electronic presentation software to present your findings. Submit for grade. Select a system described in this text that uses the Web. Examples might include the Cisco Systems Web site in Chapter 1, the GE Web site in Chapter 3, the Schneider National Web site in Chapter 8, and the GM Web site in Chapter 9. Review the Web site for the system you select. Use what you have learned from the Web site and the description in this book to prepare a report describing some of the design specifications for the system you select. Present your findings. Submit for grade. Write a description of the implementation problems you might expect to encounter for the information system you designed for the business process redesign project that follows Chapter 14. Write an analysis of the steps you would take to solve or prevent these problems. Alternatively, you could describe the implementation problems that might be expected for one of the systems discussed in the Window On boxes or chapter ending cases in this text. If possible, use electronic presentation software to present your findings. Submit for grade. Select a system described in one of the chapter ending cases. Write a description of the system, its functions, and its value to the organization. Then write a description of both the general and application controls that should be used to protect the organization. If possible, use electronic presentation software to present your findings. Submit for grade.
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