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Ford Motor Company and IT

than the company could go without IT. It is a claim that is quite logical as even ordinary individuals with a computer realize tha...

Computer Age and Privacy Issues

modern technology in general. The ease with which personal information can be unscrupulously gleaned from the multitude of comput...

Information Technology Project Organization

expected for a full product launch, for the temporary nature of the program and the limited quantities with which we will be worki...

Resource Need and Marketing

allow transportation and also to support the construction. This will also include not only the presence of resources such as elect...

IT and KM

One company that has successfully used KM to integrate thousands of employees and the skills they bring to the office is Pricewate...

Capital Costs and How to Calculate Them

calculations the best course of action may be projected by looking at the changes any change in the capital base will create it is...

Steinway's Supply Chain

chain, they are firm infrastructure, human resource management, technological development and procurement (Porter, 1985). At all l...

Risk Management, Security, and Communication

to inappropriate individuals or departments. This can perhaps best be illustrated by looking at the use of IT within a corporate s...

Information Technology and VMS Operating Systems

"is a 32-bit, multitasking, multiprocessing virtual memory operating system" (Article 73391, 2001). OpenVMS Alpha is the 64-bit v...

Overview of IT Project Process Stages

and also who it is that will be using the system and who it is that this use will impact on, for example, in a hospital this will ...

Making Management Decisions and IS Technology

a component of DSS has led to the development of a general framework for the integration of both DSS and software agents. These r...

Security Issues and the Effects of Organizational Culture

of organization. All of these things are significant in the decision-making process. First, what is organizational culture and why...

Operations Management and IT, TQM, and JIT Effects

* Manufacturing flexibility is essential (Green and Inman, 2000). * Customers define quality (Green and Inman, 2000). * Team effor...

Sustainability Encouragement

customers in 168 countries around the world" (Dow Releases First Triple Bottom Line Report, 1999). At the time, Dow had annual sa...

Student Questions on the Information Technology Slump Answered

may be little consolation for those who fear losing their jobs, but it can be seen as a gesture so that others will not suffer. A ...

Family, People, the Contemporary World, and the Effects of Technology

most profound technological change can be the quietest. Personal computers seemed to exist only in the world of hackers until one ...

Logistics Project Management and Solving Problems

to meet and has made large decisions without consulting the manager. The situation has affected the morale of the staff, the manag...

DEC Compaq Merger and Information Technology Integration

had occurred during the meetings. The two companies were very different in their approach to business. They sought to comp...

GE's eBusiness and Information Systems

to choose a destination, "put a plan in place, and move from where we are to where we need to go. From an IT and an implementation...

Forensics and 'Cyber' Crime

computer system with the intent to destroy or manipulate data is more than enough reason to augment security measures. According ...

Changing Environment Strategy

how this progression can be measured against the industries best practices as well as the companies own goals (Thompson, 1998). Be...

Assessment of Value Creation

the values that may be gained. If they were not then these were tools which could have been used. The first tool...

Italian Economic Conditions

as has been found in Italy for some time. Italys left-leaning policies historically have been unfriendly to business in the sense...

Global Environment Management

in which they seek to compete. Companies and a Global Economy Some companies have had good luck taking advantage of techno...

IT Project Tender Invitation Case Study

to support the window operating system and alternate operating systems on the computers in the network. The system will also need ...

Information Technology Consulting

regarding success/failure rates of consultants. These data do not seem to be available. It would be impossible to calculate the ra...

Overview of Becoming an Information Technology Consultant

obtaining the job they can do well (Smith, 2001). There are some ways in which a person can find their market niche (Smith, 2001)...

Information Techology Outsourcing Trends

Outsourcing is becoming more and more prevalent. The purpose of outsourcing is to achieve optimum results for the functions that a...

Overseas Offshoring Information Technology Services

century. What is the impact of such significant outsourcing to small business and American workers? For one thing, globali...

IT Value Assessment

but the ultimate cause of structural problems is that of organizational design. "Good people in a poorly designed organizational ...