1. 50 Points Choose one of the opening cases from chapter 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ or 5. Answer the opening case questions found at the end of section 1 and section 2 for the corresponding chapter. Be sure to list the chapter and the title of the case in your answer. Chapter 1 Apple-Merging Technology‚ Business‚ and Entertainment 1. What might have happened to Apple if its top executives had not supported investment in iPods? Apple was lacking creativity and innovation before the iPod came along
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The Space Shuttle Columbia was the second space shuttle disaster and the first shuttle lost on land happened on February 1‚ 2003. In this mission‚ six American astronauts and Israel’s first spaceman died when the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated 200‚000ft above Texas. They are David Brown‚ Rick Husband‚ Laurel Clark‚ Kalpana Chawla‚ Michael Anderson‚ William McCool and Ilan Ramon. Rick husband is the Columbia’s commander was a US air force colonel recruited to the space program in 1994. He
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1. Why is Fortis losing market share? Because Fortis has been facing strong competition since 2002. Other players initiated price war and Fortis refused to continuously cut its price‚ which caused Fortis to lose market share to its competitors. 2. What is Fortis’s current marketing strategy? Fortis emphasizes value-added service to customers. The company was unwilling to use price weapon but provides specialized service and equipment to meet unique strapping needs. Their marketing strategy
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CIS 500 Week 2 Assignment 1 Compstat was designed to help fight and predict crimes. CompStat short for Computer Statistics was introduced to the New York City police department in 1994. Compstat was invented by a group of researchers‚ Mathematicians George Mohler and Martin Short‚ Criminologist George Tita‚ and an anthropologist Jeff Brantingham . (Goode‚ E. (2011‚ August 15). The researcher’s envision was that CompStat would predict crimes as meteorologist
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Case Analyses March 12‚ 2012 Burlington Industries‚ Inc. v. Ellerth 524 U.S. 742 (1998) I. FACTS: Kimberly Ellerth quit her job as a sales person at Burlington Industries after working there for 15 months. Her reasoning was that her supervisor‚ Ted Slowik‚ was sexually harassing her. Ellerth did not inform any other supervisors‚ and therefore the company was unaware of Slowik’s actions with Ellerth. Despite her refusals with Slowik’s advances‚ Ellerth did not suffer any tangible retaliation
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Dr. Thant Syn CIS 410 11/08/2013 A mobile Application for Home Depot This case is very interesting and can be analyzed by many different ways; it depends in which perspective you want to analyze it. Home depot is the world’s largest retailer of home improvement and construction products and service. It was founded in 1978 in Atlanta‚ Georgia. At the beginning‚ when they first started they were more concentrated in expanding. They were forgetting about one of the most important parts
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CIS:328 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to show how memory is used in executing programs and its critical support for applications. C++ is a general purpose programming language that runs programs using memory management. Two operating system environments are commonly used in compiling‚ building and executing C++ applications. These are the windows and UNIX / Linux (or some UNIX / Linux derivative) operating system. In this paper we will explore the implementation of memory management‚
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Polaris Industries Inc. (NYSE: PII) declared today its new deals and profit objectives for the Company through 2018. In particular‚ the Company detailed that it has set up goals for add up to Company deals to develop to $2.2 billion before the finish of the 2018 schedule year with net wage from proceeding with tasks expanding to $150 million. Weakened income for each offer from continuing with activities developing to $4.25 per share amid a similar period. The Company showed that it means to accomplish
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Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster happened on February 1st‚ 2003‚ which broke on the way back to the Earth. All the astronauts‚ including two women died in this disaster. The reason why this disaster happened was a piece of foam insulation broke off from the Space Shuttle external tank which damaged the left wing of the shuttle. Even though some engineers of NASA had doubted that the left wing of shuttle had been damaged‚ the administration staffs restricted to
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District of Colombia v. Heller The District of Columbia had a law banning all handguns. Dick Heller challenged this law in 2008‚ on the grounds of the Second Amendment. This was the first time that the Supreme Court had regarded what it meant for an individual’s right to possess weapons for private uses‚ including self-defense. The District of Columbia had banned handguns‚ making it a place with one of the strictest gun laws. The District of Columbia also had a law that entailed for any long gun to
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