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Question for the Week
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.
Week 6 Assignments
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
Question for the Week
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?
Groups
I added the groups under the Project Tab.
Week 5 Assignment
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
Week 4 Assignment
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.
Question for the Week
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?
SePHIMA Education Session Fri, Sept. 19, 2014 8:30- 3:00
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Week 3 Assignment
Systems Thinking and Managing Complexity
Read the following
Harvard Case Studies:
- STARS Air Ambulance: An Information Systems Challenge
- Seeing What’s Next: Introduction (How to Use Theories of Disruptive Innovation to Predict Industry Change)
- Signals of Change: Where Are the Opportunities?
Articles:
- Aaronson, D. (1998). Overview of Systems Thinking. http://www.thinking.net/Systems_Thinking/OverviewSTarticle.pdf
- de Rosnay, J. (January 6, 1997). Feedback. Principia Cybernetica Web. http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/FEEDBACK.html
- Business Process. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process
Stars Air Ambulance Case Study
The Stars Case study is missing from the Harvard Course Pack. I added to the site under Course Material.