Analyze Amazon.com using the competitive forces and value chain models. How has it responded to pressures from its competitive environment? How does it provide value to its customers?
Describe Amazons evolving business strategy. Why did the company change its strategy?
Conduct research and discuss the different markets that Amazon.com is expanding into (Books, Video, Music, General Merchandise, Cloud Computing, Devices).  Discuss the competitive advantage that Amazon.com has in these diverse markets. Is the competitive advantage in each the same?  Address why or why not.
Product Marketing is based upon the five Ps (Product, Place, Promotion, Price, and Profit).  Discuss the Amazon.com approach to each and how this contributes to competitive advantage.
Do you think Amazon can continue to be successful? Explain your answer.

You must have at least 6 references.
Read the following:

Amazon.com: An Internet Giant Fine-Tunes its Strategy in Laudon

iscuss the resource-based view of competitive advantage.  What are the characteristics of resources that may yield sustainable competitive advantage? Describe the role that Information systems can play in creating sustainable competitive advantage.
Briefly comment on Carrs It Doesnt Matter argument, offer your thoughts.
You must have at least 5 cited references

Assessment Description

This is an individual assignment. You must make a reasonable attempt at all parts to obtain a passing grade.

Objective: Construct a small commercial database and demonstrate its functionality

Identify and examine three different websites which offer an online purchasing facility. Look particularly at the interactive pages used for the purchasing function and from these lists all the fields that have to be completed by the purchaser for each site. (Note that you do not have to limit yourself to data-entry fields, for higher marks analyse the websites for other possible attributes.) From your three sets of attributes, produce one generic list.  (15%)

From this generic list, construct an Extended Entity Relationship (EER) diagram for a database that would support an on-line purchasing facility. Construct a supporting Table Schema. Explain your thinking, and any assumptions made in this process. (25%)

Using the software provide

This week, you will continue building the components of your business requirements document for Hollywood Organic Co-op. In the previous weeks, you have identified the types of data, standards, and policies required for a new EDMS. This week, you determine how to electronically move data around in an EDMS and determine the physical and environmental security requirements.



Write a 2- to 4-page evaluation of the implementation of physical and environmental controls for the new EDMS. Include the following:

How to control access to a document at each stage of its life cycle
How to move documents within the organization as team members contribute to document creation, review, approval, publication, and disposition
Physical and environmental security controls that must be implemented to protect the data and systems for Hollywood Organic Co-op's five locations, including for the identification, authentication, and restriction of users to authorized functions and da

This is the group project.

Do this two parts:


Prepare a critical assessment of the projects [research required!]:
o Where are they located? What are the living conditions in these areas?
o What are the objectives of the projects? What needs of their target population do the projects meet?

Companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Twitter, Amazon and Facebook offer up free services to customers all across the globe. In light of recent events, do you think it right for the Federal Government to request backdoor access to encrypted devices or unwarranted access to personal communications on these (and like) services?  How would granting access this impact their business?

Your paper will be 5-8 full pages and must be supported by a minimum of 5 reputable sources and accompanying citations in APA format and must be submitted via Safe Assign by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of the assigned module/week. Please note that your abstract, title page and bibliography are not counted as pages.

Please refer to order # 184504959 to complete the following:

Hypothesis Section:
Since your hypotheses may serve as your research questions (what you plan to measure/examine), list the questions and then convert them into hypotheses. Research questions must be individual questions that measure only one item (one question = one measurement). A couple of questions are expected in this section (typically 2 to 4).

The Research Design (Methodology) Section:
Provide the reader with a summary of the research. You will address the research problem, the research questions (hypotheses) that need to be addressed to resolve this problem, the research method (qualitative or quantitative), how you will select your sample population, how you will collect your data, and how you will analyze your data.
In short, your research design should illustrate the "step by step" directions that would enable another researcher to execute your research if you are unable to conduct the study

1. Create a survey of 5 questions with the following 5 level scale: Strongly Agree, Agree, Uncertain, Disagree, and Strongly Disagree. Your questions must revolve facial recognition systems. Make sure the questions are generic and not personal.
2. Survey Research: Generally speaking, what are some advantages and disadvantages to doing survey research? Provide an example where the use of surveys (in-person, self report, etc) might be a good idea?
3. Sampling. Describe how probability sampling techniques could provide samples more representative of a target population than simple random sampling. Illustrate your answer with a information technology example.
4.What are the activities involved in conducting a qualitative research design?
5. What are the activities involved in conducting a quantitative research design?
6. There are three very important elements to every research design that must be considered: Validity, Reliability, and Generalizability. What do these three

Refer to the "Inside Track"  evaluate all the tips presented to determine which you feel is the most valuable to technical writers in general.
Explain which tip in particular from this section of your textbook seems the most obvious to a technical writer. Provide your reasons or reasons. Then, speculate why it was included.

Topic: Securing the Server
-Physical Security Methods and Concepts
-Server Hardening Techniques
-Proper Environmental Controls and Techniques

Research Paper The paper must be a minimum of four full pages of content, this does not include a cover page, an abstract page and a reference page.

Your finished paper will be a minimum of seven pages. A minimum of three scholarly sources must be used in the preparation of the paper.

Resources must not have been published more than five years ago.