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Porter’s Competitive Forces Model: Threat of entryA barrier to entry is _____________________....
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Threat of entry of new competitors is high when it is easy to enter a market and low when significant...
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Porter’s Competitive Forces Model: Bargaining Power of ConsumerWhat is impact of internet...
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The bargaining power of suppliers is high when buyers have few choices and low when buyers...
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Internet reduces ___________ costs,Is there brand loyalty on the Internet?
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switching costs: which are the costs, in money and time, to buy elsewhere. This...
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Porter’s Competitive Forces Model: substitute products
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The threat of substitute products or services is high when there are
many substitutes for...
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Porter’s Competitive Forces Model: Rivalry
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The rivalry among firms in an industry is high when there is fierce competition and low when...
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Define Porter’s Value Chain Model
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This model identifies specific activities where organizations can use competitive strategies...
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Strategies for Competitive Advantage
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Cost Leadership: wal-mart. why pay more?
Differentiation: southwest airlines - its an airbus,...
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Primary activities
Support activities
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p:Business activities that relate to the production and distribution of the firm’s products...
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Why are Information Systems Important to Organizations & SocietyIS may reduce______________...
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IS may reduce the number of middle managers.
Increases manager productivity
Bad from a career...
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Central processing unit (CPU)
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Manipulates Data & Controls tasks
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Primary storage - Volatile
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Internal to the CPU
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Secondary storage – Non volatile
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External to the CPU
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Input technologies
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Converts inputs into understandable form
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Output technologies
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Present data in human understandable form
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Communication technologies
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Flow of data from networks to CPU to Networks
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How do organizations keep up with the rapid price and performance advancements in hardware?How...
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does it make economic sense? will it improve productivity?
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Too much or too little computing power. Maybe most important question.
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User environment needs to be positive -= there needs to be enough power to run processes and...
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Server farm
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rows and rows of pineapples
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server virtualization
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make one machine "look" like 20 machines = 10% works for the website, 10% works for the email...
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grid computing
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on demand - I pay based on what I use. leverag power of the grid - NY is running out 100%,...
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utility computing
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on demand - I pay based on what I use.
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cloud computing
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on demand - I pay based on what I use. main dif btwn grid (in a company - owned). Cloud is...
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Edge computing
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on demand - I pay based on what I use
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great hardware without great software is
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useless
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two types of osftware
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system and application
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