...MIS IN YOUR POCKET Case study no.1 CASE FACTS * There are many functions that can be performed using mobile handheld devices. * New software applications for social networking and sales for management * The Blackberry has been the favored mobile handheld device for business. * In Doylestown Hospital, the physicians use iPhone 3G to stay connected around the clock to the hospital staff, and patient’s information. * The Doylestown’s information systems department was able to establish the same high of security for authenticating users of the system and tracking user activity as it maintain with all the hospital’s own server computer. * Owner Timothy Childs developed an iPhone app that enables him to remotely log into each chocolate- making machine, control time and temperature, turn on and off, and receive alerts about when to make temperature changes. * The Apple iPad is also emerging as a business tool. CASE ANALYSIS 1. What kind of application is described here? * The kind of application describe here is a software application which was in a mobile digital devices. Application software is a program or group of programs designed for end users. These programs are divided into two classes: system software and application software. While system software consists of low-level programs that interact with computers at a basic level, application software resides above system software and includes database programs, word processors, spreadsheets...
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...MIS In Your Pocket CASE STUDY QUESTIONS: 1 - The kinds of applications that are described in this case study are as simple as e-mail, calendar, photo sharing, and text messaging applications to applications like the one used for MEDITECH electronic medical records system, Epocrates Essentials, ChainLinq Mobile, and the app developed by Timothy Childs to help control machines in his business. These types of applications help employees stay better kept up with each other and business information. The e-mail application allows employees to receive e-mails almost directly after they are sent. The MEDITECH application gives doctors the ability to look at things like medical records and results whenever they need to and where ever they are. Also being able to access applications like Epocrates Essentials helps them understand the results and get more medical information. Basically, all the applications described help support business functions like timeliness and punctuality. These application help improve operational efficiency because they improve the speed of the information being communicated in businesses. This allows the businesses to operate faster and helps decision-making be done quicker which will help companies avoid potential problems or fix problems that are happening faster. Q2: Businesses in this case study solved problems like doctors being able to stay on call, having a secure mobile network, quickly delivering information to customers, and controlling some parts...
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...MIS in Your Pocket - Case Study 2 Case Study Questions 1. What kinds of applications are described here? What business functions do they support? How do they improve operational efficiency and decision making? The kinds of applications described in the case study include simple applications such as email, photo-sharing, text-messaging and calendar applications. Moreover, other applications include the Doylestown Hospital's electronic medical records system( delivers information on vital signs, medications, lab results, allergies, nurse's notes etc.) , Doylestown medical reference application, Epocrates Essentials (help interpret lab results and obtain medication information), the ChainLinq mobile application developed by D.W Morgan (updates shipment info, collects signatures and provides GPS tracking on each box it delivers) and the application developed by Timothy Childs to help control chocolate making machines in his business. The use of these applications allow employees to communicate business information and keep up to date with this information more easily than ever before. For example, the MediTech application allows doctors to access medical records with ease, anywhere and anytime, unlike previous paper records that are time consuming. In addition, the Epocrates Essential application allows them to obtain more medical info and understand results better. The applications described in the case study, generally all support key business functions such as promptness;...
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...from hardware installation to software deployment. It is the use of networks, computers, software, programming languages, and computer hardware; these are all examples of the scope information technology. Managed Information Systems (MIS) is the practice of how information is delivered, communicated, organized and used in order to achieve any number of goals. The MIS department is a division of the general in-house controls of a business that deals with the use of people, documents and procedures by management. The MIS department uses these controls to solve business problems, report data to management, finance and sales. The MIS department would provide and collect information for research and development to provide a service or a business-wide strategy. The MIS department would essentially be a part of everything from management, finance, sales, research and development to final production. Although most information is delivered electronically the MIS department doesn’t deploy technology in a hands on sense. The MIS department would essentially handle “HOW” and “WHERE” that information is used, and to whom it is delivered. The MIS department would work with the IT department only in matters of delivery and new communications deployment. The MIS department would design the direction of the traffic, but...
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...Information Systems in Global Business Today CHAPTER 1 Management • The process of dealing with or controlling things or people. • E.g. Management of resources, management of people in an organization. • The directors and managers who have the power and responsibility to make decisions. • Different management levels from top to bottom CEO to employees. Information • Meaningful data. • Everything depends on Information. • Information supports to achieve: Planning, organizing & decision making. System • Principles or procedures according to which something is done; an organized scheme or method. • Interconnecting network e.g. organizational system etc. What is Information System? Information System can be any organized combination of people, hardware, software, communications networks, data resources, and policies and procedures that stores, retrieves and transforms information in an organization. How Information Systems are transforming Business? • Cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPhones, e-mail, and online conferencing over the Internet have all become essential tools of business. • There are 285 million cell phone subscribers in the United States, and nearly 5 billion worldwide (Dataxis, 2010). • By June 2010, more than 99 million businesses worldwide had dot-com Internet sites registered (Verisign, 2010). How Information Systems are transforming Business? • About 39 million people watch a video online everyday, 66 million read a blog...
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...SYLLABUS – UNDERGRADUATE Course Title: Management Information System Semester: Spring 2012 Instructor: Professor Tang Qingquan Sun Yat-Sen Business School, SYSU Part 1: Course/Faculty Information |Course Title & Code |Management Information System | |Class schedule |2012.9----2013.1 | |Classroom location |SYSBS East Campus | |Course Duration： |54 | |No. of credits： |3 | |Level： |[√] Bachelor Core Course |[ ] Bachelor Elective Course | |Prerequisites： | | |Instructor name： |Tang Qingquan | |Office hours |14:30-18:00 on Thursday | |Instructor’s contact info (office, |SYSBS MBA centre M408 ...
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...get the more decisions you will need to make, and in that moment, when you have to take a decision, is when you start the personal responsibility. But why a decision has to do with personal responsibility? Well, it is not the decision; it is what comes after to take a decision. It is how you react if the decision that you took was the right one or not. Personal responsibility is just how mature you are in order to take responsibility of you actions in this case the decisions that you make towards something in your life. The more mature you are the most likely you will make the correct decision for your benefit. All start with a dream, the dream of been a successful person and a better me, and all of it will start getting an education. I make my decision and joint the University of Phoenix but without practicing personal responsibility I cannot be successful at school. First of all I was mature enough to start school again that means that I want something better for mi life , and that’s is been responsible to myself. But now that I made that decision...
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...CONTENTS Your References ....................................................................... i Pay and Allowances ........................................................ 1 Basic Pay .................................................................... 1 Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) ...................... 1 Housing Allowances .................................................... 2 Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) .................... 3 Transit Housing Allowance (BAH-T) .................... 3 BAH Partial .......................................................... 3 BAH Differential (BAH-DIFF) ............................... 3 Family Separation Housing - BAH (FSH-B) ......... 4 Overseas Housing Allowance (OHA) .................. 4 Family Separation Housing - OHA (FSH-O) ........ 4 Assignment Incentive Pay (AIP) .................................. 5 Hardship Duty Pay – Location (HDP-L) ....................... 6 Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) ................................. 6 CONUS Cost of Living Allowance (CONUS COLA) ..... 6 Family Separation Allowance (FSA) ............................ 7 Family Subsistence Supplemental Allowance (FSSA) . 7 Dislocation Allowance (DLA)........................................ 8 Temporary Lodging Allowance (TLA) .......................... 8 Temporary Lodging Expense (TLE) ............................. 8 Adoption Reimbursement Expenses ............................ 9 Dental Insurance ......................................................
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...Executive Summary The role of the management information system is described and analyzed in the light of its Decision-making ability. Decision-making process and its impact on senior management In organizations with automated decision, focus explanation. Challenges restrictions and management information systems are discussed and a set of six recommendations put forward in the decision-making process to increase the effectiveness of MIS. 1.0 Introduction It is an integrated information system to collect store and process data and provide information, knowledge and digital product components. Commercial enterprises and other organizations rely on information systems to manage and conduct their business, interact with customers and suppliers, and market competition. Supply chain and information systems for the electronic operation of the market organizations. For example, companies use information systems to handle financial accounts to manage their human resources, and with online promotions, in order to reach their potential customers. Many large companies around the information system is fully established. 1.1 The five components of information are: i. Hardware: a. The term refers to the mechanical hardware. This category includes the computer itself, which is commonly referred to as a central processing unit (CPU), and all the support equipment. b. Support equipment between the input and output devices, storage devices and communications equipment...
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...MIS In Your Pocket Q1: The kinds of applications that are described are as: e-mail, calendar, photo sharing, and text messaging applications to applications like the one used for MEDITECH electronic medical records system, ChainLinq Mobile, and the app developed by Timothy Childs to help control machines in his business. These types of applications help employees stay better kept up with each other and business information. The e-mail application allows employees to receive e-mails almost directly after they are sent. The MEDITECH application gives doctors the ability to look at things like medical records and results whenever they need to and where ever they are. Basically, all the applications described help support business functions like timeliness and punctuality. These application help improve operational efficiency because they improve the speed of the information being communicated in businesses. This allows the businesses to operate faster and helps decision-making be done quicker which will help companies avoid potential problems or fix problems that are happening faster. Q2: Businesses in this case study solved problems like doctors being able to stay on call, having a secure mobile network, quickly delivering information to customers, and controlling some parts of machines through specific applications. Doylestown Hospital uses the iPhone for their doctor’s to be able to access medical information they might need at any moment by connecting it to the hospital’s...
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...solely in Detroit, MI. Employing 650 employees the Clapton Commercial Construction falls into the medium size business with a plan to add 20 percent workforce in the new state. Our team will work to address employment laws to ensure Human Resources are running compliance. Generally the principles and strategies to operate any size business will be fairly similar. The differences will depend on the type of business. A medium sized company is considered as a company with less than 500 employees. Medium sized companies are fairly successful. It is said that their size can enable them to do things better. For example their relatively larger size compared with small companies provides them with deeper pockets for dealing with difficulties, funding innovation and hiring key talent. And their smaller size compared with larger companies makes them more agile, puts them in closer contact with customers and enables them to retain a bit of that entrepreneurial spirit (Sniderman2012). There are several principles that can be used to apply to our business and others businesses. The first principle used to operate our medium sized business is known as the follow up and follow through principle. This principle is ideal for any sized business to use. In business, this means that, when you get an opportunity, you exploit it to the fullest extent possible. If you have a great promotional idea or product or service, you sell all you can. You take advantage of your idea or breakthrough...
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...Individual Assignment #8 Requirement 1) – Using the information provided, develop an expectation for ticket revenue for the 2011 fiscal year. * The expectation for ticket revenue for the 2011 fiscal year is calculated as following. Firstly, the information from the case can be used to calculate proportioned attendance. Proportioned attendance in weekdays and on weekends should take the 25% weekend effects and the 10% promotion effects into considerations, because they are the key indicators to how many people would have attended the game under different circumstances. Table 1 below shows the calculations and results Table 1: Proportioned Attendance | Weekday Reg | Weekday Prom | Weekend Reg | Weekend Prom | Total | Days Played | 36 | 7 | 19 | 10 | 72 | Weekend Effect | 100% | 100% | 125% | 125% | | Promotion Effect | 100% | 110% | 100% | 110% | | Weighted | 36 | 7.7 | 23.75 | 13.75 | 81.20 | Total Attendances | | | | | 434,348 | Proportioned Attendance | 192,568 | 41,188 | 127,041 | 73,550 | 434,348 | Secondly, the prices of the games can also be proportioned according to the given percentages of quantity purchased based on price levels. The proportioned prices can be calculated for both weekday games and weekend games. Then, average prices can be calculated by adding the proportioned weekday prices and weekend prices respectively. Table 2 below shows the calculation of the proportioned prices as well as the average...
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...existing customers, * existing products or services to new customers, or * new products or services to new customers. Market development process: 1. Establish market development aims and targets. 2. Identify target market(s), sectors and niches. 3. Assess your existing sales organisation and develop it as necessary. 4. Source/utilise a suitable prospect database - ensure data is clean and up to date, and strategic decision-makers are identified. 5. Develop and agree your strategic proposition(s) - with reference to USP's, UPB's, competitors, positioning, product mix, margins, etc. 6. Design your communication(s) and method(s) to generate enquiries. 7. Design your response and sales processes and establish or provide required capabilities. 8. Design and provide your required monitoring, measurement and reporting systems. 9. Implement your sales development activity and reinforce it through coaching, training, meetings, executive endorsement, etc. 10. Follow-up the activity: coach as required, review, monitor, seek customer and prospect feedback (successful and unsuccessful) and report on performance. 11. Make changes and improvements and continue your activity at the appropriate stage. A company follows a market development strategy for a current brand when it expands the potential market through new users or new uses. New users can be found in new geographic segments, new demographic segments, new institutional segments or...
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...Samuel Huntington’s writing holds a stronger position than does Louis Menand. Huntington is pointing out facts in his article, while Menand is less fact based and seems to merely indicate Huntington is wrong because Menand thinks so. Pointing to key aspects of Huntington’s argument and how Menand ‘refutes’ them will show that his opinion is less factual. Where as Menand uses his interpretation of what Huntington basis his writings on to form his conclusions. In Huntington’s article, One Nation Out of Many, Huntington chronologically goes thru the immigration of the United States detailing how early immigrants had a desire to become American in both nationality and core culture. He illustrates how American business and government used their resources to assist in the teaching of immigrants both the language and culture. It was a time when an industrial powerhouse like Ford Motor Company was thinking in line with US Government, both creating schools that taught “American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.” Huntington goes further to explain how immigrants had a desire no only to assimilate, but how they internally believe in the United States as their Country. The decline of this belief in Core Culture is explained by way of Government trying to move to a multicultural position even as the American public remains strong to the Core Culture. Huntington details how in several cases the Government was out of touch with the voters. Where both presidential...
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...Landscape – Implementing Web 2.0 Technology As a recent landscape architecture graduate of the University of Hawaii, an entrepreneur plans on introducing "Ho ‘Oulu Landscape" as a start-up business in Oahu. Realizing that there are many landscape designers and companies that capitalize in this business, this architect comprehends that he must be on the cutting edge to get recognized and sell his services. He can boast of completing many "gratis" jobs while completing his degree, and his accolades are many; it is time to start profiting from the toils of his education and marketing his skills. Marketing requires not only business savvy, but also mandates that the businessman has a considerable amount of information technology acumen in his pocket or the where-to-all of how to secure it. Using Web 2.0 tools and monopolizing on his enterprise associates, including those strong, weak and potential ties will help this aspiring landscape architect compete in a business that incorporates landscape professionals as well as yard maintenance individuals who claim to have the skills this entrepreneur holds. This landscape architect places promotional signs in his completed jobs, passes out business cards regularly, and provides services to civic organizations focused on community beautification, in an effort to create a positive corporate image and to advertise his services. He realizes that the Internet and the services that can boast his achievements, and sell his business are available...
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