XXXXXXXXXXAssignment One Global Management of Information Systems Due Date: Friday 25 August 2017...

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XXXXXXXXXXAssignment One Global Management of Information Systems Due Date: Friday 25 August 2017 (Week 6) Weighting: 10% Word Count: see assignment details below Purpose: To look at international and cultural issues associated with use of IS. Learning Outcome/s Being Assessed: Learning outcome 1: ? Identify and evaluate international issues associated with business information systems and formulate conclusions and/or solutions. Task: This will consist of answering the questions listed below on the assignment 1 details and submit the deliverables by the due date. Assignment 1 refers to a case study available in your textbook. You may use any word-processing software programme and must submit your completed assignment either via Stream or to NSATS before/on the due date. Note: the due date of the assignment is the date that it is received by Stream or NSATS, not the date you upload it or put it in the post. The following resources may be used for answers: ? set textbook – O’Brien 10th edition ? required readings – Study Guide and Collected Readings ? self-directed learning you have done around each topic As a general guide, for a 2 mark question, you are expected to submit about 400 words per answer. However, this is only a guideline as some students can write very concisely and provide an excellent answer in half the words needed by other students, others will need more words. You must answer using full sentences and paragraphs; however, you may use bullet points or lists for clarity. Remember to reference appropriately, using the APA style of referencing. Check the course Administration Guide for details regarding the presentation of written work. Remember to keep a copy of your assignment in case it is needed for resubmission as sometimes assignments go astray in the ‘electronic ether’. Assignment 1 details: Real World Case Globalisation Read the Real World globalisation case study found in O’Brien & Marakas (2011, 10th Ed) pages XXXXXXXXXXand answer the following two (2) questions: Question 1 (7 marks) The Real World Case features many examples of cultural, political, or geo-economic challenges faced by organisations operating in a global environment. a) Group and list the examples from the Real World Case into 3 categories: cultural, political, or geo-economic challenges. b) Discuss briefly the implications (problems/issues) of the challenges listed in your answer to part a. c) Discuss briefly the possible actions that the organisation could take to address the implications (ie: to prevent/deter the problems/issues) that you discussed in your answer to part b. You may like to use a table or tables to present your answers to parts a, b and c. You need to use the examples given in the case study for the challenges that you group and list in part a). However the discussion around the problems/issues (part b) and then the possible actions (part c) must include material from the other required reading sources as well as the case study. You may also use any additional reading material or your work experience to answer parts b and c. Please note there is a difference between ‘list’ and ‘discuss’. Marks will be lost if you just list problems and actions and do not discuss them. Question 2 (3 marks) Suggest three (3) challenges that may present for conducting B2C Web business by global organisations and discuss ways to resolve them. *****

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Answer 1.
Group and List of the Real world case:
Political, Geographical and Cultural challenges:
	Global IT organization must centre on initial global e- business IT strategies and overseeing worldwide e-business submission portfolios, Internet technologies, platforms, databases, and systems progress projects. Managers must also take into account the cultural, political, and geographic differences that exist when doing business internationally.
Political Challenge:
Political challenges in front of global industry and IT managers include:
· Many nations have policy unpredictable or barring transfer of data across their national boundaries (Trans border data flows), particularly information such as employees records.
· Put a ceiling on tax or forbid imports of hardware and software.
· Local contented laws that identify the part of the value of a manufactured goods that must be added in that country if it is to be sold there.
· Joint buy and sell agreements that need an industry to use part of the income they earn in the country in that nation’s economy.
Geo-economics Challenges:
 
Geo-economics challenges in international trade and IT refer to the possessions of geography on the monetary realities of worldwide commerce performance. These challenges include:
· Substantial ways and its distance concerned are immobile a major problem
· Globally twenty time zones put in to connections problems.
· Be short of telecommunications capacity in some nations.
· Be short of dedicated job skills in some countries, or tempting specialists from another country to live and work there.
· Cost of living and labour costs in various countries.
Cultural Challenges:
Cultural challenges facing global business and IT managers include:
· There are many differences in languages
· There are many differences in cultural interests and necessities of the population.
· There are differences in religions, custom and social attitudes
· There are differences political philosophies.
· There are differences in working style to accomplish the tasks
· There are differences in different business relationships
Answer b.
Discussion on the above given challenges:
	As many of the nation does not want to share their employee records and information to other countries and also does not want to share their financial data or important to other countries due to their securities purpose of the country. As nation believes that these information could be dangerous to their country and information could be miss used in letter stage. To increase the sale of their own software and hardware products they usually increase the import duties on the IT products and make expensive to import such services from the overseas. A country does also have such law and policy which could take audit of the valuations additions of the sale to the countries.

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