IT MANAGMENT

Assignment 10

Question 1

Global Information Systems are the systems developed for the multinational users in order to provide free flow of information within the divisions of a single company and between the MNCs

Question 2

Think globally and act locally means a product should suit the regional and cultural preferences of the local people and at the same time the product line should be global and strategic planning needs to be centralized

Question 4

Yes every website is a global IS , because there is a free flow of

br information through the website and almost all the websites are now catering to global customers irrespective of their location

Question 5

If I were an executive of a multi lingual website , I would strike a balance between manual interpretation and software based translation because at the end of the day the quality and accuracy of translation is more important

Question 7

Data privacy laws are different in United States and European Union and there is a discrepancy in the collection use of personal data in US and European countries

Question 10

It is important to provide the Time Zone converter in the Global SCM because the shipping and delivery time and the payment time should match with the time zone of the customers and the suppliers

Assignment 11

Summary of the Case : Fairchild Semiconductor is world leader in design manufacturing of microprocessors . It has 36 offices in 17 countries Fairchild ships more than 17 billion units of its products annually to...