Week 5

1) Explain the ethical issues surrounding information technology

2) Describe a situation involving technology that is ethical but illegal.

3) Describe and explain one of the computer use policies that a company might employee

4) What are the 5 main technology security risks?

5) Outline one way to reduce each risk.

6) What is a disaster recovery plan, what strategies might a firm employee?

Week 4

1) What is an IP Address? What is it’s main function?

2) What is Web 2.0, how does it differ from 1.0?

3) What is Web 3.0?

4) What is eBusiness, how does it differ from eCommerce?

5) What is pure and partial ecommerce?

6) List and describe the various eBusiness models?

7) List and describe the major B2B models?

8) Outline 2 opportunities and 2 challenges faced by companies doing business online?

Week 3

1) Define TPS & DSS, and explain how an organisation can use these systems to make decisions and gain competitive advantages

2) Describe the three quantitative models typically used by decision support systems.

3) Describe a business processes and their importance to an organisation.

4) Compare business process improvement and business process re-engineering.

5) Describe the importance of business process modelling (or mapping) and business process models.

Week 2

1) Explain Information Technology’s role in business and describe how you measure success?

Information Technology (IT) in plays a huge role in business through allowing the business to access global markets, reduce operational costs, improve productivity and generate growth. Information Technology is used across all business in contemporary day from sales and marketing, to human resources.

Success is able to be measured in IT through monitoring KPI's and through efficiency and effectiveness IT metrics.

2) List and describe each of the forces in Porter’s Five Forces Model?

Porter's Five Forces Model consists of:
- Buyer power: high when buyers have many choices of whom to buy from and low when their choices are few
- Supplier power: high when one supplier has a concentrated power over an industry. Buyers have few choices of whom to buy from and low when their choices are many
- Threat of substitute products or services
- Threat of new entrants &
- Rivalry among existing competitors


3) Describe the relationship between business processes and value chains?

4) Compare Porter’s three generic strategies?

Week 1

University begins!