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Essay Instructions: Technological Developments
Accelerated technological advances are changing the way organizations do business. Increased competitiveness in the global market keeps international managers under continued pressure to maintain the highest performance standards and maximize profit. E-business is the ideal framework in which transactions among partners all over the world take place in real time. To develop a business successfully and to find new business opportunities that will help organizations grow and diversify, organizations have to integrate e-business objectives in their short- and long-term strategies. By improving the efficiency of transactions, changing the format of distribution channels, expanding global trade, and boosting revenues, e-business is transforming both business and society.
Select an industry and identify at least two opportunities for organizations in that industry to leverage using technological advancements.

Requirements needed:
9 pages:

a. Develop a list of best practices used in organizations in a chosen industry to leverage technology. What are some of the challenges these organizations have faced in implementation?
b. Identify three best practices being used by organizations in other industries to address the technological opportunities and challenges that one has identified. Explain the alternative methodologies organizations use to identify and measure the usefulness of technological advancements.
c. Identify how these best practices could be applied to solve a specific problem for organizations in the chosen industry. How might you, as a manager in one of these organizations, maintain a competitive advantage through technology?

Essay Instructions: Choose three technological innovations. For each technological development, describe the effect this change had on the society surrounding it. Then choose one very recent technological change and predict at least two ways in which society might change as a result of this technology. Be sure to provide detail and use historical examples, from the text or from your own research, to support your predictions.

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Essay Instructions: If the law does not keep pace with technological developments, and it always seems to be at least one step behind, the consequences can be devastating, even in the seemingly simplest of things. What could be more technologically routine these days than email? And yet......

Justin Ellsworth was a Marine who gave his life for his country. By all accounts he was a brave and fine Marine and we all owe him the highest debt of gratitude. But we were also left with a serious question, what to do with his email? His parents wanted access. They wanted to see what their son had to say. However, email is a private sort of thing. Yahoo, his email provider, had a terms of service agreement with him. And while we sympathize greatly with his parents, there is also a precedent to be concerned about. One can't simply waive away the privacy issue as a decision to release the information could have serious consequences for email privacy for us all. So the issue needs to be discussed, thought through, and resolved. That is why we have cases like this in a class like this, so we can think these things through and try to respect the family, the deceased, and the needs of society. So I ask you:

Should Justin Ellsworth's Parents have been given access to his email?

Please answer this question. Be sure to assess, separately with thorough explanations, the utilitarian and deontological considerations.

Essay Instructions: Question:

Drawing on information presented in Chapter 3 "Business Organisations", discribe how recent technological developments are impacting the organisational structure of a ''software house''.


Reading:

"Economics for Business" by John Sloman and Mark Sutcliffe. Prentice Hall - ISBN 0-273-65187-0