...Modern Systems Analysis and Design, 6e (Hoffer, et al.) Chapter 2 The Origins of Software 1) Hardware manufacturers are one source of software. Answer: TRUE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 33 2) The first administrative information system was General Electric's payroll system. Answer: TRUE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 30 3) Internal corporate information systems departments now spend a smaller portion of their time and effort on developing systems from scratch. Answer: TRUE Diff: 1 Page Ref: 30 4) Third-party sourcing is the practice of turning over responsibility of some to all of an organization's information systems applications and operations to an outside firm. Answer: FALSE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 30 5) Outsourcing is an alternative analysts need to be aware of. Answer: TRUE Diff: 1 Page Ref: 32 6) An organization may move to outsourcing for political reasons. Answer: TRUE Diff: 1 Page Ref: 31 7) Reducing time to market is one reason for outsourcing. Answer: TRUE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 31 8) Hiring a company to run your applications on your own computers is an example of outsourcing. Answer: TRUE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 31 9) A company may consider outsourcing if it feels that its core mission does not involve managing an information systems unit and that it might achieve more effective computing by turning over all of its operations to a more experienced, computer-oriented company. Answer: TRUE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 31 10) Based on 2007 total revenues, the...
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...COMM100b Interpretive Strategies Professor Elana Zilberg Winter 2016 Assignment #2: Spatial Analysis Due: Monday, February 29th by Noon Part Two: Ethnographic Site and Subject In this assignment you are asked to transform your stereotype from an image into an ethnographic subject. Take your stereotype “off the screen” or page and locate it as a body in a particular site. Drawing on the spatial analysis vocabulary covered in this section of the course, describe this site. Your site can be rural or urban, inner city neighborhood or suburb, a building (house, mall, corporate or government office building, etc.), a street, a park or beach and so forth. However, the site you choose must but be a physical space (do not use the Internet as a site). You are not only thinking about the physical space itself, but your subject’s relationship to that space. Therefore, the ethnographic site will depend on your ethnographic subject. These are some of the questions to consider in developing your essay: * How does your ethnographic subject use, appropriate, and shape the space? * Using Lefebvre’s concept of the “spatial triad,” how do you understand your site as a representation of space, a space of representation, or created through spatial practices? * How would you characterize the topography of the built environment of the site? * What macro and micro forces produce that space? * How is the site legislated or policed? * What are the dominant and resistant...
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...The Od Letters Case Analysis In: Business and Management The Od Letters Case Analysis CASE STUDY Case Study Name and Page #: The OD Letters, page 219 Student Name: Wendy Thompson Date: October 23, 2011 I. Problems A. Macro 1. Project team is not functioning fast enough and not turning out results 2. Team morale/Friction within the group 3. Communication B. Micro 1. Macho manager syndrome 2. No effective leadership qualities 3. Inability to learn from team-building exercises/Takes the retreat as a joke II. Causes 1. Leadership style of John 2. Wants to be ‘head hancho’/Has flippant attitude towards exercises 3. Jokes about serious matters/Points to reason for failure 4. Lack of respect for team members, their feelings and efforts III. Systems Affected 1. Structural – John is no longer with the team; Addition of Ryan to get the team motivated 2. Psychosocial – Team members feel non-important; Leadership style of John was non-motivating; Lack of respect for efforts and lack of recognition for when efforts are made 3. Technical – The inability of John to lead the team probably led to the misuse of current technology and missed opportunities for new technology 4. Managerial – Pressure from upper management to get results; John did not respond appropriately and joked about serious matters; Lack of leadership was causing problems in the group 5. Goals – Group has not met goals in the two years that John was project...
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...International Journal of Event Management Research Volume 6, Number 1, 2011 www.ijemr.org VOLUNTEER SATISFACTION AND INTENT TO REMAIN: AN ANALYSIS OF CONTRIBUTING FACTORS AMONG PROFESSIONAL GOLF EVENT VOLUNTEERS Gina Pauline Syracuse University ABSTRACT Sport events are increasingly reliant on episodic volunteers for the successful delivery of an event. As there continues to exist a surge in the organization of sporting events coupled with the demand for volunteers, event organizers must concern themselves with utilizing the appropriate recruitment and retention strategies. In an effort to do this, one must understand the points of satisfaction for volunteers as well as factors influencing their future intentions to volunteer. While there exists a plethora of research to understand the motivation of volunteers, exploring the antecedents of volunteer satisfaction as well as intent to remain has been limited. This study investigates the factors influencing volunteer satisfaction as well as intentions to remain as a volunteer for future sporting events from an elite men’s golf event on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit. Results indicated that overall volunteers were satisfied with their experience and willing to return yet were concerned with the level of communication between the organization and volunteers. The present study also found that longevity of service influenced volunteer satisfaction. A MANOVA revealed significant differences between first time...
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...that the answer to most Website performance problems was either to add more hardware or reengineer the backend application code. For most sites, the backend is now the small part of the problem. Pages are generated by the backend quickly but downloading and rendering the frontend code and resources takes a long time. Research shows that for many popular sites it’s the frontend that accounts for over 90% of a users wait time. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) help address part of this problem by reducing network latency. However, even larger performance gains can be achieved through Frontend Optimization (FEO) techniques that streamline the Web page HTML code and resources. I Trends Driving the Frontend Bottleneck A web page’s performance can be split into backend and frontend. Backend time includes generating the page’s HTML and resources. The frontend time includes downloading the resources and processing them in the Browser. There are four important trends making the frontend an important performance issue today and potentially even more important in the years to come: 1. Rich content. Viewing a chart of size vs. time, it goes up and to the right. Since 1995, the average size of a page has grown over 35x, and the number of objects per page has grown 28x. Larger, link heavy pages are driving up frontend load times. 2. Client side code. Not so long ago most sites were fairly simple combinations of HTML and graphics. All the “heavy lifting” was done on the backend. Now almost...
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...following information and analysis: 1. Solve the dilemma using any two of the following Three Primary Schools of Ethics we discuss this week from our assigned reading. (Ends based, Rules based, or Care based). 2. Explain the similarities and differences in your two solutions to the same dilemma. 3. State (and justify) whether you feel the two schools of ethics are worthy of use in "real life" dilemmas. 4. Do you feel that Aristotle would have approved of either of your solutions? Why or why not? Please note that your ethics papers this term will be a great practice for you in doing the Final Exam. Your final exam is an essay exam which will follow a very similar format to the homework assignments...so please be sure to spend some time doing your readings and applying them to your written assignments. Your papers should be about two typed pages, double spaced. Use the DeVry standard format for the paper (the title page and citation pages do not count among the two pages). Please organize your thoughts, use headings, and create readable documents with grammar and spelling checked. The Dilemma will be your choice from either of the two following: Choice 1: Over the past few decades, a sizable industry has arisen to serve the demand for ready-made and even customized compositions and term papers. Many students presumably believe there is nothing morally wrong with the practice of buying one of these papers and turning it in to fulfill a course...
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...you with creating an original claim about a poem, locating textual evidence to support your argument, and then synthesizing said evidence with thoughtful analysis to prove your claim. In this first-major essay, you are working on close-reading skills and are prohibited from using any outside sources whatsoever. This means you will compose your argument and subtopics based solely off your reading of the text. It is not reasonable to expect a strong argument to leap from your forehead, nuanced, sophisticated, and fully formed the night before class. But if you keep the assignment in mind during our discussions and when reading on your own, you are more far more likely to come up with a strong, provable thesis. In closing, I encourage you to understand writing to be a process that one improves at over time and is continually fine-tuned. The sooner you get to work, the faster you will see results. Assignment: Utilizing one of the poems we have discussed in class, you will come up with an original argument that lends itself to a more sophisticated understanding of the piece by analyzing genre-specific literary elements. You will arrive at this argument through close reading, discussion, and a thorough understanding of the poem. In addition to staking a strong claim, you are expected to provide both evidence and analysis to support your assertions. While mentioning ‘common knowledge’ about a piece is acceptable in order to provide context, such information should inform the...
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...these days?” Technology has literally taken over the education system today. Kindergarten students have iPads provided by the school, high school and college students are turning every single homework assignment in online and students are texting and emailing their teacher and professors instead of using the telephone to call them. With the media being completely focused around technology it is easy to look at technology as a bad thing. A sly little tool to keep children quiet and distracted, keeping them from enjoying the outdoors and natural surroundings. All of that may be true, but what kind of tool is technology in the education system. Is it a helpful tool for young and adult students, or is it making us dumb? Nicholas Carr wrote an article named “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” In this article, Carr describes the way he perceives the internet. Carr speculates the idea that perhaps the internet has made him a poor reader and collects opinions from his colleagues and friends that support this idea. Carr states; “Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, being looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to...
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...Book Review: Tet Offensive 1968: Turning Point in Vietnam Organized by the North Vietnamese General, Vo Nguyen Giap, the Tet Offensive aimed to impregnate an uprising in South Vietnam. However, horrific battle scenes that took place in Saigon, Hue and other cities resulted in a cataclysmic defeat for the North. James Arnold, author of Tet Offensive 1968: Turning Point in Vietnam, does a substantial assessment of detailing the plans and purposes involved in the key battle of the Vietnam conflict. The author explains how, despite American and South Vietnamese victory in the battle, the American public and their political leaders came to perceive the war as lost. The book, with just over ninety pages long, articulates a major military offensive from two perspectives. It is a book that leaves out essential key components because to offer an imperative discussion of such a massive engagement like the Tet Offensive in limited space is nearly impossible. However, the author offers a surprisingly well written introduction to the operation. Arnold includes illustrations captioned with a description for a concise understanding of the offensive through visual effects. The illustrations are used to portray American soldiers, North Vietnamese Army (NVA) soldiers, and VC (Viet Cong) soldiers as isolated individuals who were physically and emotionally deprived. Photographs are also used in Arnold’s book. Some photos included in the book are Russian weapons used by the NVA and VC, camouflaged...
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...MENU Research Papers Book Notes Blog Tools Login Signup | | | Prev Page 1 of 2 Next Types Research Papers Book Notes Categories African-American Studies Agricultural Studies Anthropology Archaeology Architecture See all 39 Categories Written Any Past Month Past Year Past 2 Years Past 3 Years Pages 1-5 6-10 11-20 21-30 31-50 51+ Views 0-100 101-200 201-300 301+ My Turn to be a Manager Research Paper on Business | Mar 23, 2014 | 4 Pages | 3 Sources | 0 Downloads | 0 0 This course assignment responds to the prompt to provide three things the student learned about being a good manager. Additinoally, the student is asked to decipher three companies' organizational charts to examine the company's use of organizational design. Effective Manager Research Paper on Business | Mar 22, 2014 | 9 Pages | 13 Sources | 0 Downloads | 0 0 This paper researchs the concepts and realities of leadership. The author examines what it means in an organization to be a manager and compares that which the characteristics of a leader. The aim of this paper is to discuss what... McDonald's Approach to Supply Chain Sustainability Research Paper on Business | Nov 28, 2014 | 4 Pages | 4 Sources | 0 Downloads | 0 0 This case study examines how McDonalds created a sustainable supply chain that was profitable...
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...TiVo A case study analysis Group 5 Suthasina Chaolertseree (4802641060) Nutnaree Chaisirivichien (4802640583) Passamon Rattanawenawatee (4802641326) Jirawat Mahatraiphop (4802640302) David Eberle (5102940037) TiVo: A case study analysis MK 413: Group 5 1. Management vision There are four directions that TiVo’s management team can choose; each strategy has issues that the management team should consider before making a decision. The first direction is doing stand-alone business. TiVo can successfully compete with others in this type of business and earn high profits due to its unique offering. Standalone business also gives TiVo flexibility in developing its product technology and in enhancing its brand awareness, which allows TiVo to set higher prices. On the other hand, the company will have more marketing expenses in order to compete in the market since it needs to pay for advertising costs itself. Moreover, cable companies can become new potential competitors since they can outsource consumer electronics manufacturing to produce DVRs for them and distribute DVR devices to their subscribers. Doing Comcast and Advertising business may require TiVo to assemble its product equipment with another consumer electronics product and to use co-branding causing TiVo’s brand awareness to decrease. Moreover, the management team needs to put huge effort in turning advertising-related business into one of its core businesses. Furthermore, TiVo’s monthly average revenue per unit...
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...buisness assignment By: Abbas Jomaa Due: 29/03/2013 Teacher: MR El Masri Subject: Business studies Business studies assignment Page 1 ………. Business title page of the report Page 2 ............ Table of content Page3........... Executive summary Page 4................ Why goods and services are central to both marketing and operations Page 5.................... Examine why ethical behaviour and government regulation are important in marketing including one example of ethical behaviour and one example of a NSW or Australian government requirement Page 7............... Assess why a mix of marketing and promotional strategies are important in the marketing of goods and services Page 9............. Identify the elements of a SWOT analysis. Explain how a situational analysis assists in a business planning Page 11...... Bibliography Executive summary Operations is the business process that involves transformation or, more generally production. It is a term that applies both to the manufacturing and service sector. It involves the turning of raw materials and resources into the outputs of finished goods or products. Marketing is a total system of interacting activities designed to plan, price, promote and distribute products to present and potential customers. As consumers are constantly exposed to all aspects of marketing consumers might be mislead or manipulated into buying a product that does not meet the requirements it is advertised...
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...[pic] ACME Global Transportation Company Corporate Training Department Instructional Design Plan: Introduction to Internet Explorer Instructional Designer: James Smith Scenario The accounting division of ACME Global Transportation has recently implemented an Intranet that is to be used by the supervisory staff to access the new web based version of the corporate Human Resource Management System (HRMS). The new system is being phased in over a 90-day period. The supervisors are tasked with entering on-line, on a weekly basis, the regular and over-time hours worked by their staff. They are also supposed to print out a report of the hours that they have entered, and submit this to the manager of the department in which they work. They also have the option of sending the report to the manager via e-mail. The HRMS system is accessed via the corporate standard browser, Internet Explorer (IE). Thirty days into the implementation of the new HRMS package, the payroll manager has complained to the I/T director that the hours worked by staff are not being accurately captured. The department managers have also complained that they are not getting their payroll reports on a timely basis from their supervisors. A meeting was held to discuss the problems with the new version of the HRMS system. In attendance was the I/T team responsible for the HRMS project as well as the department managers...
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...TiVo A case study analysis Group 5 Suthasina Chaolertseree (4802641060) Nutnaree Chaisirivichien (4802640583) Passamon Rattanawenawatee (4802641326) Jirawat Mahatraiphop (4802640302) David Eberle (5102940037) TiVo: A case study analysis MK 413: Group 5 1. Management vision There are four directions that TiVo’s management team can choose; each strategy has issues that the management team should consider before making a decision. The first direction is doing stand-alone business. TiVo can successfully compete with others in this type of business and earn high profits due to its unique offering. Standalone business also gives TiVo flexibility in developing its product technology and in enhancing its brand awareness, which allows TiVo to set higher prices. On the other hand, the company will have more marketing expenses in order to compete in the market since it needs to pay for advertising costs itself. Moreover, cable companies can become new potential competitors since they can outsource consumer electronics manufacturing to produce DVRs for them and distribute DVR devices to their subscribers. Doing Comcast and Advertising business may require TiVo to assemble its product equipment with another consumer electronics product and to use co-branding causing TiVo’s brand awareness to decrease. Moreover, the management team needs to put huge effort in turning advertising-related business into one of its core businesses. Furthermore, TiVo’s monthly average revenue per unit...
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...3-DAY Exercise Analysis Derrick Murphy SCI/241 Clayton Wilson November 2, 2012 3-Day Exercise Analysis What are your current exercise habits? I would have to stay my current exercise habits is going to the game at least four to five times and week for at least an hour in a half. My primary is weight lifting and strength training all most every day because they help me keep my body in great shape. Keeping in shape is need at my job because that is a very physical place to work and every part of your body can hurt at times. Put in time at the gym with your headphones on with music in your ear just get you in this great mood to get a good workout. One of my habits also is to work out to different parts of my body everyday so that I can make sure everything get worked before the week is out. Monday I work out my chest and arms, Tuesday I work on my back and shoulder, Wednesday I work on my arms and legs, Thursday I work on chest only to get that good build in it. I feel that it is a whole easier to go to the gym and get a great work out as opposed to staying at home try to work out. Believe me I know worked out at home before and I can be the one to tell you is just not for everyone and joining the gym was the best idea I have come up with in a long time. Getting an exercise activity analysis and turning it into your everyday habits will help you build you cardio, strength, or anything you are trying to work on get in better shape. 3-Day Exercise Activity Analysis According to Super...
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