Copyright © 2005 Information Systems Audit and Control Association. All rights reserved. www.isaca.org. IT Does Not Matter…Or‚ Does IT? Has IT Moved From a Strategic to a Purely Tactical Function? By Deepak Sarup‚ FCA‚ CISA hen the Harvard Business Review published an article with the catchy title “IT Doesn’t Matter‚” it did not just create a storm in the proverbial teacup. It caused a raging tempest all across the US trillion-dollar IT industry. Harvard dons‚ well-known consultants‚ chief information
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What did Machu Picchu represent for Che Guevara? Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara was born on June 14th 1928 in Rosario in Argentina. Guevara was a Revolutionary who believed‚ fought and died for the right of freedom‚ justice‚ and equal rights for both the rich and the poor. He was a man of many talents; a philanthropist‚ guerrilla war expert‚ and doctor. Then a budding medical student‚ Guevara departed for South America in 1952 with his close friend Alberto Granado. During his travels he found himself troubled
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Does Rousseau ’s _Du Contrat Social_ signal the advent of modern democracy? Or does it represent a dangerous recipe for the suppression of individual human freedom? Rousseau ’s social contract is often likened to modern democracy‚ however‚ most political ideologies can be likened to one another in some form and one doesn ’t have to dig deep before they find some major differences between the two ideologies. In his writing‚ Rousseau tries to develop an ideology that maintains humans individual freedom
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Case Number One - Subway Sandwich Shops Situation Analysis Subway Sandwich‚ as presented in the Case Study presented in the Marketing Management MGT 551 class‚ is an undisputed market leader in a segment that is “firmly established as a nationwide food item for which there is plenty of room in all areas” (University of Phoenix‚ 2008). However‚ with a growing competition‚ changing consumer trends and increased product specialization‚ Subway’s real strategic marketing challenge is to be able to develop
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Evocative of an Era Several of the trends that define the Post Classical era can be attributed to the three religious schisms that occurred throughout the time period. These trends caused or influenced by the schisms include a shift to monotheistic religions‚ the spread of “civilization”‚ and the spread of Arabs and Islam. As Islam split into Sunni and Shia Muslims‚ Sunni became the majority group. This was significant because this was the group that worked to universalize the religion‚ spreading
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1.1 WHAT STRATEGIES DID YOU USE TO ARRIVE AT THE VOCABULARY NEEDED FOR THE TASK? WHY DID YOU USE THESE STRATEGIES? Experience with surroundings and situation – As I had been into this subway before many times I understood and knew the routine and also the limitations I already had because of my dwarfism. This meant I needed to be aware of the height of the counter also when deciding how to effectively communicate with the server. Common sense – I had to determine an easy way to communicate‚ so
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To what extent does Beneatha represent the modern day or twenty first century woman? In the twenty first century one can always imagine how a woman should be or what she should consist of‚ times have changed and so have traditions‚ we now live in a time where women are given free reign and opportunity to express themselves in any way. Beneatha represents the modern day woman to fullest extent by showing how she can fight against the norm too accomplish as she chooses‚ to strive for the stars with
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HOW LANGUAGE REPRESENTS THE WORLD IN BLITAR‚ EAST JAVA In the SFL account the ideational strand of meaning in fact involves two components: that of experiential meaning in the clause (Halliday and Matthiessen 2004) and that of the logical meaning between clauses in clause complexes. Experiential meaning is expressed through the system of Transitivity or process type‚ with the choice of process implicating associated participant roles and configurations. Blitar is a city in East Java‚ lies between
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sales. For example there has been a large increase in mobile phones designed specifically for an older market‚ with many utilities that would be useful to the older generation‚ such as larger buttons and a “help me” text button. On the other hand this does provide some threat to firms in the technological industry; with firms having to work harder to gain the attention of the main target market of teenagers and young adults. However‚ while the over average demographic of the UK is growing older this
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The Three Objects That Represent Something Important About Me Everyone must be having at least one important object in his or her life. It could be a jewelry‚ photograph or clothing. However‚ the three objects that represent something important to me are my laptop‚ my phone and my glasses. I really can’t live without them. They give me a hand in everything doing my school homework or connecting with my friends. My current computer is my first and only laptop I got from my parents. It was
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