...The Broadway Cafe Stephanie Williams CIS500 Strayer University 2/6/2011 Contents Competitive Advantage 3 E-Business 4 References 5 Competitive Advantage The Broadway Café Abstract The Broadway Café, I inherited from my grandfather which he started in Stone Mountain, GA in 1952 on Main Street. It has been the local favorite for many years. The café offers many different kinds of specialized coffees, teas, a full service bakery, and homemade sandwiches, soups, and salads. Unfortunately, business has not been good lately. The café will benefit from upgrading its business techniques with information systems. The knowledge from my grandfather and older employee will be preserved, a new generation of customers will be attracted and it would help management in making strategic decisions in the future. We need to take these steps of improvement in order and catch up the technology and techniques of the 21st century. Over the last year Main Street in Stone Mountain, where the café is located, has undergone a magnificent face lift the projects valued over $1 million dollars, which will bring more customers to downtown. Porter’s Five Forces Analysis The coffee business has been on an incline over the past few years, especially with regard to specialty coffees (Yahoo 2010), which are being sold at specialty shop like Starbucks, Panera Bread, and Krispy Kreme., along with the increase of people drinking more coffee. The consumer has so many brands...
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... The Broadway Cafe' Part I and II CIS 500 Strayer University Elizabeth Bethel Final Project 2 The Broadway cafe is a family inherited coffee shop located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The cafe' has been in business for 58 years. The business offers specialized coffees, teas, a full service bakery, homemade sandwiches, soups, and salads. It was once a hotspot but for the past five years business has been declining. Although my grandfather was very adroit at managing the business, Starbucks will be coming to the area. Grandfather had a terrific memory and stored everything such as customers names, family recipes, and soups in his brain. His record keeping system was tracked with a note pad along with employee payroll, and marketing coupons. Advertising was by word-of-mouth and there are no computers. The cafe' operates as it did in 1952. It cafe could benefit from upgrading business practices with information technology to...
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...Computing at Ericsson Valerie S. Miles CIS500 Info System Decision Making Professor James Francisco August 25, 2012 Abstract Technological innovation or Tech-novation has proved to be a vital resource for business growth. Cloud Computing is new platform in today’s high-tech business environment that has brought many benefits to small, medium and large businesses. The internet-based technology of Cloud Computing has introduced a new concept of managing IT infrastructure on a shared platform through virtualization of servers. This papers aims to assess the role of Cloud Computing and its impact on Ericsson and its global business. The paper also focuses the benefits that cloud infrastructure brings to Ericsson. Table of Contents Abstract 2 Introduction 4 Discussion 4 Conclusion 5 References 7 Cloud Computing at Ericsson Introduction Technology’s role cannot be avoided form the development of any business as today’s rapidly changing technological advancements have given leverage to businesses as well as made things easier to individuals or consumers (Mulholland et al., 2010). Emergence of Could Computing has affected the traditional and modern computing and other technologies through its internet-based shared infrastructure. The implementation of cloud computing at Ericsson Corporation brought significant impacts on the way company conducts its business. Discussion Ericsson’s...
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...Final Project: Broadway Café Part 1 & 2 Vashti A. Delaney Brouwers Strayer University CIS500 - Information Systems for Decision-Making October 29, 2011 Dr. Jim Dollens Table of Content Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………... | 3 | Introduction………………………………………………………………………………… | 4 | Competitive Advantage…………………………………………………………………….. | 4 | Five Force Analysis………………………………………………………………….. | 5 | Threats of Substitutes Products and Service…………………………………………. | 5 | Buyer Power…………………………………………………………………………. | 6 | Supplier Power………………………………………………………………………. | 7 | Rivalry Among Existing Competitors………………………………………………. | 7 | The Threat of New Entrants………………………………………………………… | 8 | Cost Leadership Generic Strategy…………………………………………………… | 8 | Differential Generic Strategy………………………………………………………… | 9 | Focus Generic Theory……………………………………………………………….. | 9 | Ebusiness……………………………………………………………………………………. | 10 | Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………... | 11 | References…………………………………………………………………………………… | 12 | Abstract The purpose of this paper is to discuss business decisions and business strategies to gain competitive advantage based on Michael Porter’s Five Force Model and Porter’s Three Generic Strategies. The Five Force Model are buyer power, supplier power, threat of new entrants, threats of substitutes of products and services and rivalry among existing competitors. Further discussion includes determining which Porter’s Three Generic Strategies to use...
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...The Broadway Cafe Advantage Exercise One: The Broadway Café This exercise will develop a competitive Advantage for the Broadway Café. The café has been in business since 1952 and has never had a single competitor in the neighborhood. Now that the café may have a competition will affect the business. Therefore the café need to develop a new strategic direction to bring the café into the 21st century. • Describe your strategy for addressing your employees’ concerns, building loyalty among your customers, and remaining competitive in a changing market? Developing a strategy will help to communicate goals and priorities to employees. It would also improve manages and employees’ abilities to make the right decisions in their day to day work. Inform the employees of the upcoming challenges and let them know that the company values their opinions and concerns regardless of the economic. As owner of the Broadway café would have to have conversation with the customer will be essential to build their trust and loyalty, so that they continue to shop at café. The best way to keep the customers inform is to make sure that they are inform of all the changes in the café. To keep customers updated and engaged will had to get up-to-date with the technology by acquiring a computer get engage in the new social networks like Facebook and Twitter are essential to build a communication with the current and future customers. Update Facebook and Twitter on occasion asking...
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...Data Mining Professor Clifton Howell CIS500-Information Systems Decision Making March 7, 2014 Benefits of data mining to the businesses One of the benefits to data mining is the ability to utilize information that you have stored to predict the possibilities of consumer’s actions and needs to make better business decisions. We implement a business intelligence that will produce a predictive score for those consumers to determine these possibilities. Predictive analytics is the business intelligence technology that produces a predictive score for each customer or other organizational element. Assigning these predictive scores is the job of a predictive model which has, in turn, been trained over your data, learning from the experience of your organization. (Impact, 2014) The usefulness of predictive scoring is obvious. However, with no predictive model and no means to score your consumer, the possibility of gaining a competitive edge and revenue is also predictable. To discover consumer buying patterns from a transaction database, mining association rules are used to make better business decisions. However because users may only be interested in certain information from this database and do not want to invest a lot of time in searching for what they need, association discovery will assist in limiting the data to which only the end user needs. Association discovery will utilize algorithms to lessen the quantity of groupings of item sets or sequences in each customer...
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...Case Study: #1 - The Big Data Challenges Arnechia Washington Professor Durgin CIS500 Info Syst Decision-Making January 26, 2014 Volvo Car Corporation has incorporated the cloud infrastructure into its networks to globalize the company. “With hundreds of sensors and CPUs embedded throughout the car — from the brakes to the central locking system — data is now being captured for use within the vehicle itself, and also, increasingly, for transmission via the cloud back to the manufacturer” (Strader, 2011). Volvo’s data Warehouse has multi-terabytes of data from the hundreds of sensors and CPU’s that are embedded throughout the car as well as data from customer relationship systems. The Cloud platform allows implementing and evaluating real-time information systems to transform data into knowledge. This will give Volvo a competitive advantage over other car companies and allow their offices no matter the location to immediately take advantage of the data that is stored. There are two different cloud infrastructures within their infrastructure: service cloud and vendor hosting. Service cloud is used to support the customers and while their customers are operating the vehicles. This will enhance the car from the information that is gained based on the design and performance level of the car. Vendor hosting is used for the data that is located in separate warehouses. This platform allows the data to be consolidated into one place and reduces the cost to maintain, operate...
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...The Big Data Challenges CIS500: Information Systems Decision Making By LaTresha Collins April 24, 2014 Introduction When Volvo divided from Honda truly, it was breaking free from an IT facilities that contains a tangle of different techniques and permits. The need was there to develop a new stand- alone IT facilities that could offer better Organization Intellect, increase interaction capabilities and enhance partnerships. Judge how Volvo Car Corporation integrated the cloud infrastructure into its networks. The capability to jointly utilize the prosperity of data being excavated was important. Volvo gathers terabytes of data from included receptors in their vehicles, from their crm (CRM) techniques, from dealerships, assistance and style techniques and from their production/factory floors. Volvo then, via the cloud, exchanges and records this Big Details to its Volvo Details Manufacturer where it can be saved for Long Term Archival and Recovery or it can be utilized by Volvo’s workers. In 2010, Volvo expanded across eight main sections and 12 assistance areas with production vegetation in 19 countries. The system used to link workers at the sections, assistance and production vegetation together are done via Volvo’s cloud with Software application as a user interface and display. They have worker web sites, as well as provider and source web sites to enhance cooperation. Volvo has a high-performance facilities that includes similar multi-processing...
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...Mohamed, Francis K. Dunor, | | 2/4/2012 | The purpose of this paper is to discuss business decisions and business strategies to gain competitive advantage based on Michael Porter’s Five Force Model and Porter’s Three Generic Strategies. The Five Force Model is buyer power, supplier power, threat of new entrants, threats of substitutes of products and services and rivalry among existing competitors. Further discussion includes determining which Porter’s Three Generic Strategies to use to rebuild a failing eatery located downtown called Broadway Café. The Three Generic Strategies are Cost Leadership Generic Strategy, Differential Generic Strategy and Focus Generic Strategy. We will also discuss how ebusiness can help the Broadway Café achieve a competitive advantage. Focus of ebusiness will be marketing, finance, accounting, sales, customer service and human resources. Final Project: Broadway Café - Part 1 & 2 | The Broadway Cafe This paper will discuss creating Competitive Advantage in business through business decisions using the Porter’s Five Forces Analysis and Porter’s Three Generic Strategies. In addition, this paper will discuss how ebusiness can be used in making business decisions to gain competitive advantage. A fictitious business, called the Broadway Café will be the model business in which these business practices will be applied. The Broadway Café is a business in the decline despite a long successful run for over 58 years. The café offers may products...
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...Week 10: Term Paper: Mobile Computing & Social Networks Week 10: Mobile Computing & Social Networks Professor Gregory Hart Information System Decision-Making CIS500 September 9, 2012 Abstract In my paper I will talk about Mobile Computing and Social Networks and how they all work. I will assess the effectiveness and efficiency mobile-based applications provide to capture geolocation data and customer data, and quickly upload to a processing server without users having to use a desktop system. I will evaluate benefits realized by consumers because of the ability to gain access to their own data via mobile applications. Examine the challenges of developing applications that run on mobile devices because of the small screen size. Describe the methods that can be used to decide which platform to support, i. e., iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, or Android. I will also talk about Mobile applications require high availability because end users need to have continuous access to IT and IS systems. I will discuss ways of providing high availability. Finally I will discuss mobile devices are subjected to hacking at a higher rate that non-mobile devices and discuss methods of making mobile devices more secure. Table of Contents Abstract ………………………………………………………………………………....... 2 Contents ………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 Effectiveness & Efficiency mobile-based applications to capture Geolocation data ……. 4 Benefits realized by consumers to access their own data...
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...xxxxxx Professor xxxx CIS500: Information System Decision Making April 17, 20xx Strayer University The New Frontier: Data Analytics Abstract The word “tweet” was first defined as “a chirping noise” whose origin dated back to 1768. Since 2011, Merriam Webster dictionary extends that definition to mean “a post made on the Twitter online messaging service”. Mention of the adoption of “tweet” into the Merriam Webster Dictionary is designed to illustrate two main points; that information can be ambiguous and that technology can reweave the very fabric of human culture. According to research done by Zikopoulos, Eaton, Deroos, Deutsch, & Lapis (2012), there exists 800,000 petabytes (PB) of data stored in the world in the year 2000. By their estimates, that number could reach 35 zettabytes (ZB) by the year 2020 (p. 39). The ability to analyze and process the enormous amount of data is a costly undertaking for companies that are behind the curve and a lucrative business for those that are ahead of the game. Each tweet and post contribution from the users that share the web space further buries the proverbial haystack. It is the ability to sift through the data that determines whether a company can gain traction in their respective industry or if they are simply spinning their wheels. This research paper, centered on Capital Cube and their parent company analytixinsight, will aim to discuss how data analytics is paramount to present and future business operation success. Evolution...
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...Predictive Policing Elizabeth Lancaster Strayer University Information Systems for Decision Making CIS500 Dr. Rose July 10, 2014 Predictive Policing Predictive policing, in essence, is taking data from disparate sources, analyzing them and then using the results to anticipate, prevent and respond more effectively to future crime (Pearsall, n.d). In an attempt to effectively compare and contrast the application of information technology (IT) to optimize police departments’ performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets, first you need to examine what information technology is available to police today. The term predictive policing is the name given to “any policing strategy or tactic that develops and uses information and advanced analysis to inform forward-thinking crime prevention” (Predictive Policing Symposium, 2010). Information technology is “the collection of computing systems used by the organization” (Turban & Volonino, 2011). Information technology (IT) is used to optimize the performance of police departments’ and reduce crime where prior to information technology, it was necessary for police officers to physically, patrol the streets in random locations in order to reduce crime. Police use information technology tools at almost every stage, including allocation of sources, patrolling, crime prevention, crime tracking, hot pursuits, and crime solving. New technologies have changed drastically in our ways of thinking, our perceptions, our...
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...CIS500 Information Systems for Decision-Making Term Paper - Information Technology Strategic Plan April 12, 2015 1. Write an introductory statement of the company including but not limited to the type of the company, the location, the industry in which it competes, and the organizational vision and mission that encompasses the nature of the company. Being the largest not-for-profit Catholic healthcare system serving the Delaware Valley, Mercy Health System is part of Trinity Health and sponsored by Catholic Health Ministries. Their mission is to serve in the spirit of the Gospel, which means serving the entire community with compassion and healing presence while addressing the diverse factors that impact the health needs of the whole person. Even though they treat people from all walks of life, they have a special concern for the poor and disadvantaged. The goal of Mercy Health System is to be recognized as the leader in improving the health of the community and everyone they serve. Currently, they employ approximately 6,500 caring, highly skilled personnel who are focused on creating positive patient-care. Mercy Health System is a diverse, integrated system that embodies: Four Hospitals acute care hospitals: | Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital | A 213-bed teaching hospital in Delaware County and Southwest Philadelphia | | Mercy Philadelphia Hospital | A 268-bed community teaching hospital serving the needs of West and Southwest Philadelphia communities | |...
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...Free eChapters (FALL 2012) eChapters offer students immediate access to the first few chapters of their textbooks while they are waiting for the print book to arrive. eChapters help students to keep up with required reading and assignments until they receive their course material, without having to pay expedited shipping costs. eChapters that are available from the publisher are attainable free of charge. How do students gain access to free eChapters? Not all courses or textbooks have eChapters available. For all courses where eChapters are available, the files are located in the student’s Blackboard course shell under the Student Center. Below is a list of courses with eChapters loaded into the course shells, giving students free access as of the first day of classes. * = eChapters are forthcoming Course ID ACC100 ACC206 ACC303 ACC304 ACC305 ACC306 Text Title Accounting Principles – 9th edition Accounting Principles – 9th edition Intermediate Accounting 14e Intermediate Accounting 14e Intermediate Accounting 14e Microcomputer Applications for Accounting Excel 2010 Microsoft® Excel 2010: A Case Approach, Complete, 1st Edition, copyright 2011 SOUTH WESTERN FEDERAL TAXATION 2012: COMPREHENSIVE, 36th ed. South-Western Federal Taxation 2013: Corporations, Partnerships, Estates and Trusts, 36th Edition Cost Accounting 13th 09 ed. Advanced Accounting 4th 10th ed. Auditing & Assurance Services 13th 10 ed. Core Concepts of Government and Not for Profit Accounting 2nd ed., 2011 ed ACC...
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...1952, by my grandfather neighboring the open campus of the University of Texas (UT), Austin, Texas, and my grandfather in his last will and testament rendered the ownership of café as a bequest to me upon his passing. The eatery had under his stewardship presented its clientele with a repertoire of superlative cuisine, exotic beverages over the years, as well as a rendering of an assortment of specialty coffees, teas, and a complete bakery, offering a plethora of pastries, assorted sandwiches, salads, and potages. The issue stands as to whether the eatery can arise to stand as a financial windfall or fall into a financial dilemma. However, my grandfather possessed exceptional expertise in operating the eatery, the eatery’s nontechnological business operations remain today in the same manner as they did in 1952. Consequently, the eatery had incurred a progressive decline of five years of clientele. The eatery possesses no computers: the eatery’s orders take place by hand, or maintain a Web site: thus, consequently, the marketing occurred via the eatery’s clientele. The eatery’s promotion coupons occurred via pamphlets and newspaper clip outs, the eatery’s payroll, and inventory tracking took place on an annotation notepad. Thus, consequently, a reengineering modernization project analysis and stratagem of The Broadway Café that will enable the eatery merge into the eBusiness Twenty-First Century ensues, in an attempt to ensure my grandfather’s bequest to me arises as a windfall. ...
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