When is it too much?

Nowadays having a machine to do our daily routines is a norm, for example, having a washing machine to do the washing, rinsing and drying for us. When did the simple hand scrubbing, rinsing and twisting of the cloth to get the excess water out before hanging them become a hard chore that we have [...]

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Wi-Fi Wireless Networking

A talk was held last week on the 23rd April 2008, a successful entrepreneur, Paul Callaghan, who presented how his firm, Leighton Group earned him million pounds by delivering marketing services to various companies through the Internet. He points out that the evolution of his business has gone from offering domain names to other companies [...]

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Electronic government in the UK

Government.direct was the initial name (now called Directgov) given by the UK government in 1999 to its strategy for the electronic delivery of central government services. The government issued a consultation document, called a Green Paper, with its proposals. As in many other countries, UK people are actively interacting with government daily for various purposes [...]

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Information at a touch

Microsoft has just developed a new product called Microsoft surface where everything will be easily transferred from a device (mobile, digital camera, smart cards) to the computer. This product comes with a touch surface table to which is also a computer itself. All we have to do is place a compatible device on the table [...]

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Information systems for getting competitive advantages?

Flextronics illustrates the interdependence of business environments, organizational culture, management strategy, and the development of information systems. New information systems have changed the way Flextronics runs its business and makes management decision. Information systems can be used to support strategy at industry, firm and business level. At the industry level, information systems can promote competitive [...]

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Is IT = Reach + Richness a good sign to businesses?

I read a chapter of a booked called ‘Business Information: A systems Approach’ by Mike Harry. He had a study box on the wisdom that the digital revolution changes every industry and company in this contemporary world which I would like to share. A concern raised on the two concepts of the economics of information [...]

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Computer based personnel systems

There has been an increased emphasis on the need for computer based personnel systems which enables human resource management to manage in a more efficient and effective way which will benefit the organization. Before this system became available, employees who are responsible for the development of a corporate data processing strategy tends to ignore the [...]

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Big Bang! Or Bursting Bubbles?

Electronic commerce, usually called e-commerce or EC, seemed to come from nowhere at the end of 1990s, and then to become something that has dominated the media and business education ever since. On 12th November 1999 the Financial Times (FT) brought out its latest edition with a content contained nearly 100 references to digital networks, [...]

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What are the challenges of the existing Information Systems (IS)?

Although information technology is advancing at a speedy pace, there are five key challenges confronting managers.
The strategic business challenge: it is a long and difficult journey to create a digital firm and obtaining benefits for most corporations. Many of them are not realizing significant business value from their systems although a lot of investments have [...]

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IT devalues

When people say that Technology doesn’t appreciate human feelings and interaction, how much do you believe in that? Let me elaborate on a story about a guidance counselor in one school back home. Now, a guidance counselor is always one of the other people who you rely upon if you have problems whether it relates [...]

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