INFORMATION
SYSTEMS IN BUSINESS
What’s the Buzz on Smart Grids? Case
study
1. How smart grids differ from the
current electricity infrastructure in the United States
2. Management, organization and
technology issues to be considered when developing a smart grid
3. Challenge to the development of
smart grids that is most likely to hamper their development.
4. Other areas of our infrastructure
that could benefit from “smart” technologies
5. Whether I would like my home and
community to be part of a smart grid
Collaboration
and Innovation at Proctor and Gamble Case Study
1. Procter & Gamble’s (P&G)
business strategy and the relationship of collaboration and innovation to that
business strategy
2. How P&G is using
collaboration systems to execute its business model and business strategy and
listing and describing collaboration systems and technologies it is using and
the benefits of each
3. Why some collaborative
technologies were slow to catch on at P&G
4. Comparing P&G’s old and new
processes for writing up and distributing the results of a research experiment
5. Why telepresence is such as a
useful collaborative tool for a company like P&G
6. Other ways that P&G can use
collaboration to foster innovation
1. Competitive strategy pursued by
credit card companies and the information systems that support that strategy
2. Business benefits of analyzing
customer purchase data and constructing behavioral patterns
3. Whether these practices by credit
card companies are ethical or not, whether they are an invasion of privacy or
not
The Perils of
texting: Path to Prison Case Study
1. The moral dimension of
information systems involved in this case
2. The Ethical, social and political
issues raised in this case study
3. Ethical principle that is useful
for decision making about texting while driving
