Reminder this is the last week for the first Case Study Analysis to be submitted.  At this point you must do the Radiohead case.

Could we use cloud technology in health information exchange? Perhaps including a social media engine to it as a source of information, especially in emergency medicine?  Find someone (company/article) who is doing eHR via a cloud or SaaS based Service.

Case Study:

Radiohead: Music at Your Own Price (A&B)

Articles:

Anderson, C. (February 25, 2008). Free! Why $0.00 is the Future of Business. Wired. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=all

Carmody, T. (September 29, 2011). Amazon’s Kindles Squeeze and Seduce Media Companies. Wired. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/09/kindle-fire-media

Henderson, J. (July 24, 2012). Is the Crowdfunding Bubble About To Burst? Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jmaureenhenderson/2012/07/24/is-the-crowdfunding-bubble-about-to-burst/

Rubin, S. (April 17, 2012). The Case for Crowdfunding. Inc. http://www.inc.com/slava-rubin/the-case-for-crowdfunding.html

According to the article ‘What IT can learn from the railroad business’, IT in many companies is looked at as a cost center rather than as a strategic partner. What can an IT professional do to overcome this belief and how can we assist the business to be better at what it does?

I added the groups under the Project Tab.

Case: Amazon Web Services

Articles:

Duplessie, S. (July 30, 2007). Opinion: What Web 2.0 is (and isn’t). ComputerWorld. http://www.computerworld.com/article/2542860/data-center/opinion–what-web-2-0-is–and-isn-t-.html

Vogelstein, F. (June 22, 2009). Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/ff_facebookwall

Wessel, D. (September 22, 2005). Better Information Isn’t Always Beneficial. Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB112734060508547844

King, R. (August 4, 2008). How Cloud Computing is Changing the World. Computerworld. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2008/tc2008082_445669.htm

ABC: Introduction to SOA. CIO. http://www.cio.com/article/40941

Case : Cisco Systems Architecture: ERP and Web-enabled IT

Articles:

Barnett, T. (January 22, 2007). What IT Can Learn from the Railroad Business. ComputerWorld.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9025338/What_IT_can_learn_from_the_railroad_business

Gruman, G. (May 7, 2007). Put the Emphasis on “P” for Process in Business Process Management. CIO.

http://www.cio.com/article/107052/Put_the_Emphasis_on_P_for_Process_in_Business_Process_Management

Koch, C. (n.d.). ABC: Introduction to ERP. CIO.

http://www.cio.com/article/40323

Wailgum, T. (n.d.). ABC: Introduction to CRM. CIO.

http://www.cio.com/article/40295

If tools for decision-making like the Porter five forces analysis do not fully and accurately capture the complexities of the contemporary marketplace, how can companies best understand their competitive position (opportunities and vulnerabilities) in the marketplace?

Systems Thinking and Managing Complexity

Read the following

Harvard Case Studies:

1. STARS Air Ambulance: An Information Systems Challenge
2. Seeing What’s Next: Introduction (How to Use Theories of Disruptive Innovation to Predict Industry Change)
3. Signals of Change: Where Are the Opportunities?

Articles:

1. Aaronson, D. (1998). Overview of Systems Thinking. http://www.thinking.net/Systems_Thinking/OverviewSTarticle.pdf
2. de Rosnay, J. (January 6, 1997). Feedback. Principia Cybernetica Web. http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/FEEDBACK.html
3. Business Process. Wikipedia.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process