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New Technology and the Civil War

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

Domino's Pizza, IS Investments, and Competition

approximates delivery time and then sends the order to a video screen which can be viewed in the kitchen (Dragoon, 1998). The vid...

IT and Rocky Hill Laboratories

of the testing that SEC does, enabling the division to achieve a much higher rate of operating efficiency compared to the manual s...

Society, Young Adults, and Computer Technology

is either because they cannot afford computer technology. In other cases, however, it might be explained as being due to the fact ...

IT Acquisition by Developing Nations and Strategies of Identification

at the structure of global trade it is already recognised that developing countries face many major disadvantages. They have less ...

Rewards, Training, Appraisal, and Incentive Rewards in Personnel

"The measures for the balanced scorecard are driven by an organizations mission and strategy -- they are not merely a makeshift co...

Ethics and Technologies That Either Extend or Alter Life

the concern over commercialism has the tendency to overshadow the tremendously advantageous influence of umbilical cord blood for ...

Information Technology Design and Gender Bias

including illiterates, but the emphasis shift to what it terms the I-methodology. The I-methodology was able to take the i...

IT and Changes to Society

is never as robust as the high that preceded it, and it "ends with a sudden shock ... and the economy rolls over into the next con...

NCLB and AR Program

determining comparative success in educational. The NCLB has not only redirected educators to a "teach to the test" method for in...

Overview of the Insurance Industry

the state. There are several reasons why business cycles impact the insurance industry. First, insurers price and sell products ...

Changes in Advertising and Technology

Technology and Advertising Many large corporate advertisers are looking for ways to reach larger markets and to demonstrate...

Work, Group Members, and Technology

state level, such as MEDS and SFIS, a Statewide Fingerprint Imaging System. MEDS is a database application holding client informa...

Impact of Marketing Technology on the UK Supermarket Industry

of competitiveness is reflected in the expenditure in marketing in 2003 which totalled ?112.1 million (Euromonitor, 2004). ...

Evaluating the Use of Classroom Technology Through Teacher Workshops

in middle and high schools are provided with state-funded computers to promote technology-based learning. In one school in the so...

Motion Sensors and Technology Management

and influential it is in a unique position to help lead the way, influencing others as well as being a large energy user. Therefor...

UK's Dabbs.com and Information Services

and did not fit in with the business model. The company was started in 1990 by David Atherton as Dabbs Direct and was a mail ord...

Online Learning Effectiveness

A pamphlet originally published in 1949 titled How to Study Physics encourages learners to continue to learn. The 1955 edition ex...

MIS Case Study of Cathay Pacific Airways

2005). The company was initially headquartered in Shanghai but was subsequently moved to Hong Kong (Cathay Pacific Airways, About,...

Changes In Furniture Design With the Advent of Television

sets left much room for improvement and during the early years of the Depression researchers were occupied with doing just that. ...

HR Function and Detrimental Use of Technology Use

permanent changes in process. Principles remain unchanged in todays business environment, but processes certainly have not. ...

Management Change

sigma has the ability to monitor changes over time. It contains within it the "define, measure, analyze, improve, and control (DM...

Critical Response to Educational Technology

needs of a constantly changing and always challenging new student population and maintaining a method for flexibility inherent in ...

South Korea and the Impact of Technology

2005). Since the 1960s, the economy did embrace high technology ("Korea, South," 2005). While that is the case, one question looms...

University Healthcare Call Center Construction and Implementation

nurse desk or to another location for prescription refill. Messages are recorded on paper message pads, after which the message i...

China v. Western Europe Expansionism

to the brink of a new world direction. Interestingly, however, that direction would end abruptly as the leadership of China fell ...

Higher Education Instruction and Virtual Education

an time line for the correction of these deficiencies and a date for a reassessment of their performance (Vacca and Bosher, 2003)....

Information Technology Knowledge Needed by a Risk or Security Manager

nuts and bolts of I.T., or is a cursory knowledge sufficient? In part, the answer lies in management ideology. Do managers need to...

Classroom Technology Integration

their writing" (p. 155). This was an urban multicultural classroom of 27 students, eight of whom were included in the study (Fletc...

Defining Technology Due Diligence

of four teaching hospitals in San Francisco, UCSF Stanford Health Care abandoned the merger in large part because of the difficult...