CASE STUDY QUESTIONS Chapter 1: Foundations of Information Systems in Business CASE I: 1. How do information technologies contribute to the business success of the companies depicted in the case? The information technologies contribute to the business success of the companies through immediate responds‚ first to the needs of the customers on how the company will satisfy each and every customers and the monitoring of the fast changing trends in business through the use of information technology
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Wartsila gas engine has bigger efficiency rather than GE gas turbine. | Fuel Consumption | Wartsila gas engine has lower heat rate rather than gas turbine‚ thus indirectly gas engine fuel consumption is lower than gas turbine. | Emission | Wartsila gas engine has higher NOx emission rather than GE gas turbine. | Main Building Area | With almost the same power generation engine size‚ Wartsila gas engine plant configuration is 7x9 MW‚ and GE gas turbine plant configuration is 2x40 MW. It means
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Welch was considered to be a prophet/crusader whose management perspective…brought a renewed sense of purpose to the company • During the 1980s‚ Welch overhauled the whole business‚ throwing some entities out and acquiring others. Nearly 200‚000 GE employees left the company and over $6b was saved • The leader who tries to lead a large organization counter to what his followers perceive to be necessary has a very difficult
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World Wide Web: http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2001/04/webtv.html Duffy‚ D. (1999‚ January 15). Cultural Evolution. CIO Enterprise Magazine. Retrieved January 14‚ 2007 from the World Wide Web: http://www.cio.com/archive/enterprise/011599_rah.html GE (n.d.) Company culture and leadership Kinicki A. & Kreitner R.‚ (2003) Organizational behavior. (6e) New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies. Lidskey‚ David (2006). Fast Company: Basic Training. Issue 108 Linzmayer‚ Owen L.M. Dulye & Co (2005). Merging
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defined the paper examines his methods and actions to determine if they were ethical or unethical. Nardelli’s performance at Home Depot was statistically successful but his authoritarian leadership style‚ which he obtained while being very successful at GE did not mesh with the culture that existed at Home Depot during his tenure. The purpose of this paper is to discuss and identify Robert Nardelli’s‚ former CEO of Home depot‚ leadership style and whether or not his actions and methods are considered
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Competition Demystified 1. Which one of the Michael Porter’s 5 forces more important than the others according to Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn? Which ones are the truly competitive advantage’s elements? Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn’s opinion related to Michael Porter’s forces defined that the truly durable competitive advantages arise from industry competitors. It is comes from rivalry among the existing firms. The interaction of supply and demand advantages is the source‚ from the linkage
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How does a company become successful and stay successful? Certainly not by playing it safe and following the traditional ways of doing business! Taking a strategic risk is what General Electric (GE) did when it launched its Ecomagination strategic initiative in 2005. According to Jeffrey Immelt‚ Chairman and CEO: Ecomagination is GE’s commitment to address challenges‚ such as the need for cleaner‚ more efficient sources of energy‚ reduced emissions‚ and abundant sources of clean water. And
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Genetic engineering of animals So far as the organisms themselves are concerned‚ it is only when GE is considered in the context of sentient beings -- animals and humans -- that the real ethical deliberations begin. Pros|Cons| GE‚ combined with cloning‚ can be applied to animals to make valuable pharmaceuticals which cannot be made in other ways. This is particularly useful for human proteins‚ which are produced in animal milk and used in ’replacement’ and other therapies (e.g. lactoferrin in
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After getting its start in the 1800s the company‚ being a leader in the industry of manufacturing and resting solely on the idea of innovation and inventions‚ began to manufacture different items across a wide variety of industries. According to the GE company website (2014) these inventions were primarily Edison’s own‚ and by the early 1900s the company‚ even against the Great Depression‚ the organization continued to make appliances for the home‚ delved into aviation technology‚ and began to further
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Electric as soon as he graduated from college in 1926. Clarence was an energetic‚ hard-driving‚ and tenacious person and looked forward to a promising career at GE. The heavy electrical equipment division at GE was the oldest part of the company‚ around which the rest had been built‚ and it still accounted for a quarter of its sales. Moreover‚ GE dominated the heavy electrical equipment markets: It held 40 to 45 percent of the heavy equipment markets‚ followed by Westinghouse who held 30 to 35 percent
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