1|Page Dell ’s Direct Business Model Dell ’s Direct Business Model Presented by Riti Behal – FT 14459 Gagan Dawar – FT 14221 Vaibhav Agarwal – FT 14276 Great Lakes Institute of Management‚ Chennai Riti Behal‚ Gagan Dawar‚ Vaibhav Agarwal 2|Page Dell ’s Direct Business Model Describe the “Direct Business Model” The direct model has become the backbone of our company and the greatest tool in its growth. – Michael Dell. Dell ’s direct business model bypasses the dealer in the supply chain
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Part 1: Chapter 7 Explore the Web site of online employee monitoring software such as SpectorSoft or SpyTech NetVizor and answer the following questions. 1. What employee activities does this software track? What can an employer learn about an employee by using this software? (10 Points) 2. How can businesses benefit from using this software? (10 Points) 3. How would you feel if your employer used this software where you work to monitor what you are doing on the job? Explain your answer.
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Case Assignments Case 1: An ERP Story 1. What are the project’s main characteristics and challenges identified by Jean Roberge? 2. In your opinion‚ does the project have other characteristics or challenges that Jean Roberge did not identify but should also be taken into account? Case 2: Mrs. Field Cookies 1. Describe and evaluate the role of information technology at Mrs. Fields Cookies in terms of the following: a. IT architecture b. IT and Organization
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2. What management‚ organization‚ and technology factors were responsible for Symantec’s difficulties in overhauling its ERP systems? Management‚ organization‚ and technology factors that responsible for Symantec’s difficulties in overhauling its ERP systems were: Management: -Customer relationship management • Since CRM is a strategy used to learn more about customers’ needs and behaviors in order to develop stronger relationships with them‚ but Symantec seemed to be neglecting
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Question 1: how does information technology support FedEx’s business processes? When we think of processes we think of several steps that would allow us to accomplish some sort of task. As such a business process‚ according to Appian‚ is a collection of linked tasks or activities which find their end in delivery of a service or product to a client. Most organizations use business processes to help them achieve their goals. These processes must have well defined inputs‚ which give additional value
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Management Information System Case Study 1: Modernization of NTUC Income Case Summary NTUC Income‚ one of Singapore’s largest insurers‚ has over 1.8 million policy holders with total assets of S$21.3 billion. Up until a few years ago‚ Income’s insurance process was very tedious and paper-based. In all‚ paper policies comprising 45 million documents were stored in over 16‚000 cartons at three warehouses. Whenever a document is needed to be retrieved‚ it would take about two days to locate and
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Assignment 1 1. Most of the mobile devices such as iphone and ipad provide convenient social networking applications helping people communicate‚ collaborate and obtain essential information via e-mail‚ typing messages. These easy-used applications can let people get along with each other anywhere they like no matter between colleagues or families easily. Based on a fast and high-efficiency data-obtained function; people tend to use these handy applications making business decisions day by day
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Tous les gens miserable (All the miserable people) It’s hard to say who’s happy in Les Miserables by Victor Hugo‚ but it’s not hard to point out the miserable. Even the title Les Miserables means “the miserable”‚ which is the theme of the novel. The lives that are most devastating in the town of M-sur-M would be Jean Valjean‚ Fantine‚ Cosette‚ and Eponine. These characters live everyday fighting to get through one-way or another‚ but it always seem there is a cloud of darkness and misery following
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Answer to the Question No-1 Information System is not just about computer and not just a job for a computer specialist. Information systems the term contains more and need more then only just computing. A computer specialist maybe good at database‚ administration‚ networking and other hardware activities but they might not know about managing the information system. So when it comes to managing we are going to need a manager and in this case we need a system manager for linking up the computing and
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2.1. DATA AND INFORMATION Data Data is the raw materials from which information is generated. Data are raw facts or observations typically about physical phenomena or business transactions. It appears in the form of text‚ number‚ figures or any combination of these. More specifically data are objective measurements of the attributes (the characteristics) of entities (such as people‚ places‚ things and events) According to Loudon and Loudon- “Streams of raw facts representing events
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