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Wal-Mart's Use of Information Technology

This 10 page paper discusses the way in which Wal-Mart uses information technology. The retailer has the world's largest IT system...

3 Articles on IT Reviewed

In six pages this paper reviews 3 articles researching various information technology aspects such as new system development for t...

Strategic Planning - Three Perspectives

This 5 page paper uses information from three different publications about information systems to discuss strategic planning. The ...

Budgeting Process and Uses

year. The sales department needs to be the most accurate in its forecasting for the future, for all other departments needs will ...

Proposal Hospital Implement Electronic Management

Information technology plays a major role in mitigating different issues such as increasing demand, constrained resources, continu...

Information Systems in Life and in the Workplace

First, most people are familiar with the many systems available to them at the workplace. They use it in their everyday duties. Th...

Knowledge Management (KM) Processes

careful to not be blinded by the bells and whistles of technology or the "gee-whiz" factor. Instead, they must be able to determin...

Mobile Telephone Company and a Decision Support System

an industry (in this case, mobile telephone). Decision Support Systems Decision Support Systems, abbreviated DSS, refer to inter...

IT System Contingency Planning Process

The paper presents a process which may be used for disaster recovery and contingency planning, focusing on IT assets and systems. ...

Management Support System Success

by "radical and discontinuous change and demands anticipatory responses from organization members who need to carry out the mandat...

Impact of Information and Knowledge at McDonalds

a member do staff would take orders from customers as they came in. The services appeared to be efficient as there were never more...

Case Study on Business Process Management

problems (Silvestro and Westley, 2002). If the right hand doesnt know what the left hand is doing, this can create a time and cost...

The Use of a Variety of Accounting Elements in Business Operations, including Financial Statements and Cash Flow Statements

5 pages and 3 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the process of financial management in the corporate setting, with...

Decision Support Systems - A Review of Literature

from the 1960s to the 1980s were management-centric, and utilized an information paradigm wherein accounting and information were ...

Principles of Systems Design and Analysis

design is about more than simply tailoring a system to meet the needs of a client. It is not simply an additive art wherein one cr...

A Comparison of Logistics Operations for an Online Company and a Bricks and Mortar Company

The writer of different areas of logistics comparing an established online business with an established retail business. Using an ...

Comparing and Contrasting TQM and BPR

result in improvements (Mintzberg et al, 2008; Reed et al, 1996). Defining TQM is difficult, there is no standard definiti...

An Example of How a Decision under Uncertainty May Be Assessed in the Business Environment

has been built, and more potential customers are travelling away from the store (Kotler and Keller, 2008). One of the first appro...

The Dowding Universal Business Model and Its Influences on Information Technology

as customers, suppliers and managers. With the ten aspects there are a total of fifty five elements (Dowding, 2001). The third...

Database Management and Use

the past has been a repository of past events, a record of organizational history in several areas. "But these days we expect mor...

Business Plan to Open a Chain of Fruit Juice Cafes

of a franchising model to help speed expansion in order to create a national chain. The benefits of this plan are * A gap in the m...

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS: HAPPY ENDING OR HYPE?

However, authors such as Eric Clemons (1995) caution that reengineering is a "risky business" - companies attempting to either do ...

Overview of Databases

type. The database can be accessed with the use of standard query language (SQL), and tables may be combined or cross referenced w...

Creating Value by Using Business Process Re-engineering

usually occur when there is a need to change the way a business operates. A useful definition of what is meant by reengineering, i...

Leeds Development Agency Case Study

2008). However, the decision is not this straightforward. If a new business is attracted to the area there is the potential for a ...

HMOs and the Adoption of Information Systems

database administrator fulfills a role on the operational side of information systems integration. In order to effectively integra...

Information Access and Computer Science

In seven pages the technology of computer information retrieval systems is examined and discusses how it can be incorporated into ...

A New Oil Company Accounting System

The task of an established oil company embarking on a new accounting system is the primary focus of this paper consisting of eight...

Architectures of Data Storage and Access

In a paper of eleven pages, the writer looks at information systems. The virtues of different types of systems such as storage are...

Methodology Development of IS

In seventeen pages with the inclusion of an outline this paper discusses various methodologies that can be utilized in the develop...