Chapter Questions
As a manager, what kinds of information do you think you will explore through the Internet for research?
How can audit capabilities in software help organizations?
How do you think you will apply the concepts of data warehousing and data mining in a company doing retail business?
How does technology help in information gathering as well as its dissemination?
How can technology be misused? Give some hypothetical instances where this could occur.
Specify the types of information that may be stored in a data warehouse in a university, and offer three purposes for which data mining might be used in this context.
How would an institution safeguard vital information when it sends important data or discharges payments over the Internet?
An article in Fortune says: Video conferencing won't take the place of business travel, because it shouldn't. The two have to work together. Can you comment on why this would be so?