{"id":54258,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/case-studies"},"modified":"2017-08-16T13:13:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:13:39","slug":"case-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/case-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this assignment you are&nbsp;to read four&nbsp;case studies as they appear in your text. The case studies you will be&nbsp;reading are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Chapter 1, pg. 36: <\/b>Are Electronic Medical Records a Cure for Health Care? (50 points)<\/li>\n<li><b>Chapter 2, pg. 75: <\/b>Should Companies Embrace Social Business? (45 points)<\/li>\n<li><b>Chapter 3, pg. 99: <\/b>Technology Helps Starbucks Find New Ways to Compete (35 points)<\/li>\n<li><b>Chapter 4, pg. 151: <\/b>Wasting Time: The New Digital Divide (20 points)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm by Laudon, Laudon Peason 13 9781269197403 term 1304B&nbsp;&nbsp;Chapter 1<\/p>\n<p>Case Study CASE STUDY QUESTIONS1. Identify and describe the problem in this case.&nbsp;2. What management, organization, and technology fac-tors are responsible for the difficulties in building elec-tronic medical record systems? Explain your answer.3. What is the business, political, and social impact of not&nbsp;digitizing medical records (for individual physicans,&nbsp;hospitals, insurers, patients, and the U.S. government)?&nbsp;4. What are the business and social benefits of &nbsp;digitizing&nbsp;medical recordkeeping?5. Are electronic medical record systems a good &nbsp;solution&nbsp;to the problem of rising health care costs in the United&nbsp;States? Explain your answer.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Chapter2&nbsp;1. &nbsp;What types of transactions are handled by &nbsp;baggage&nbsp;handling systems?2. &nbsp;What are the management, organization, and tech-nology components of baggage handling systems?3. &nbsp;What is problem these baggage handling systems&nbsp;are trying to solve? Discuss the business impact &nbsp;this problem. &nbsp;Are todays&#8217;s baggage handling systems a solution to this problem? &nbsp;Explaine4. &nbsp;What kinds of management reports can be&nbsp;&nbsp;generated from the data from these systems?&nbsp;&nbsp;1. What management, organization, and technology&nbsp;issues had to be addressed when implementing&nbsp;Business Sufficiency, Business Sphere, and&nbsp;Decision Cockpits?2. How did these decision-making tools change the&nbsp;way the company ran its business? How effective&nbsp;are they? Why?3. &nbsp;How are these systems related to P&amp;G\u2019s business&nbsp;strategy?CASE STUDY QUESTIONS <b>chapter 2<\/b>1. Identify the management, organization, and&nbsp;&nbsp;technology factors responsible for slow adoption&nbsp;rates of internal corporate social networks.2. Why have each of the companies described in this&nbsp;case been successful in implementing internal&nbsp;social networks? Explain your answer.3. Should all companies implement internal&nbsp;&nbsp;enterprise social networks? Why or why not?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Chapter 3<\/b>&nbsp;1. How is software adding value to automakers\u2019&nbsp;products?2. How are the automakers benefiting from&nbsp;&nbsp;software-enhanced cars? How are customers&nbsp;&nbsp;benefiting?3. What value chain activities are involved in&nbsp;enhancing cars with software?4. How much of a competitive advantage is software&nbsp;providing for automakers? Explain your answer.&nbsp;CASE STUDY QUESTIONS1. Use the value chain and competitive forces&nbsp;&nbsp;models to evaluate the impact of the Internet on&nbsp;book publishers and book retail stores such as&nbsp;B&amp;N.2. How are B&amp;N and the book &nbsp;publishers changing&nbsp;their business models to deal with the Internet&nbsp;and e-book technology?3. Will B&amp;N\u2019s new strategy be successful? Explain&nbsp;your answer.4. Is there anything else B&amp;N and the book&nbsp;&nbsp;publishers should be doing to stimulate more&nbsp;&nbsp;business?&nbsp;<b>Chapter 4 Case Studies&nbsp;<\/b>1. How does information technology affect socioeco-nomic disparities? Explain your answer.2. Why is access to technology insufficient to elimi-nate the digital divide?3. How serious a problem is the \u201cnew\u201d digital divide?&nbsp;Explain your answer.&nbsp;4. Why is the digital divide problem an ethical&nbsp;dilemma?&nbsp;CASE STUDY QUESTIONS1. Perform an ethical analysis of Facebook. What is&nbsp;the ethical dilemma presented by this case?2. What is the relationship of privacy to Facebook\u2019s&nbsp;business model?3. Describe the weaknesses of Facebook\u2019s privacy&nbsp;policies and features. What management,&nbsp;&nbsp;organization, and technology factors have&nbsp;&nbsp;contributed to those weaknesss?4. Will Facebook be able to have a successful&nbsp;&nbsp;business model without invading privacy? Explain&nbsp;your answer. Are there any measures Facebook&nbsp;could take to make this possible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this assignment you are&nbsp;to read four&nbsp;case studies as they appear in your text. The case studies you will be&nbsp;reading are as follows: Chapter 1, pg. 36: Are Electronic Medical Records a Cure for Health Care? (50 points) Chapter 2, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/case-studies\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}