Midterm Queston # 2

Research 1 company and describe how they protect their company from internet risks.Also, research for possible risks or dangers and/or impacts of internet - related crimes to a company.

2GO an Aboitiz Company

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To better protect the Data, certain areas of the website are inaccessible unless you supply individually identifiable and verifiable information, such as your User ID / Membership Number and Password / PIN.

We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol – an industry standard for encryption over the Internet, to protect the Data. When you type in sensitive information such as credit card details, it will be automatically converted into codes before being securely dispatched over the Internet.

Provision of Information to Others

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Midterm Question # 1

Research 1 company that makes use of E-commerce. Describe the nature of this company in 1-2 paragraphs.Identify then, how does this company use e-commerce to achieve strategic advantage. Describe the benefits derived from this strategy.

PGS CRAFTS INC.

Was established in 1989 as a manufacturer of handicrafts and shell crafts. We know that raw materials and labor account to 40 to 60 percent of the product cost, so we source our raw materials especially shells directly from the fishermen. Also, we maintain a 500,000 sq. Meter property planted with lots of bamboos, trees, palm trees, coconut trees, vines and bananas to supply our indigenous raw material requirement.

As long as our shells are combined with these indigenous materials, nobody can beat our price. Our R&D staff are constantly making new products to make sure that our customers will have new and interesting products to sell. From a single entity in 1989, we have diversified our business to different fields such as financing, agro industrial operations, consumer products manufacturing, specialty beverage retail and real estate.

Business Type:
Manufacturer

Product/Service:
Raw seashells, shell packs, shell lamp vases and wind chimes, fashion accessories

Trade & Market
Main Markets:
North AmericaSouth AmericaWestern EuropeEastern EuropeEastern AsiaSoutheast AsiaMid EastAfricaOceania

Exporters Benefits
1. COST-EFFECTIVE ONLINE PROMOTION
As an exporter who has joined CITEM’s trade fairs, trade missions and other promotional activities, you get free web exposure for a period of two years. You are entitled to four web pages: your basic company data, and three photos with description of your product choices for export. Surfers can click on the thumbnail versions of the pictures to enlarge them.

2. INTERNET ACCESS BY FOREIGN BUYERS 24 / 7
The 750 million Net global audience can access your virtual business card non-stop during the day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

3. FREE LINK TO THE COMPANY'S WEBSITE
With the linkage to your own website, you are able to provide more information on your firm. Your website serves as an online brochure of your products and services, your competitive edge, and your management team.

4. REGULAR CHANGE OF PRODUCT PHOTOS
If you need to introduce a new product to the market, all you have to do is send us the new product shot in jpeg format via e-mail to mailto:col@citem.com.ph with the standard product description. You are entitled to a maximum of three product photo changes per year.

5. REGULAR ACCESS TO BUYER INQUIRIES
The CITEM Trade Opportunities Program (CTOP) is the twin e-Business Match Program of Catalog Online (COL).This is a year-round buyer inquiry service. Catalog Online exporters will regularly receive a listing of CTOP buyers by e-mail.

6. EXCERPTS OF SELECTED ARTICLES FROM CITEM’s LIBRARY
AND RESOURCE CENTER
CITEM’s Library and Resource Center has a wealth of trade information materials. A Library Acquisitions Report is available at http://www.citem.com.ph/, and choice articles can be read or downloaded via the password to be issued exclusively to Catalog Online exporters.


Buyers Benefits

1. REFERRAL to CITEM’s DATABASE of EXPORTERS
You will be referred to manufacturers who can supply your required products or services

2. ASSISTANCE in the SEARCH for ADDITIONAL EXPORTERS
Should you need products or services other than those carried by Catalog Online (COL) exporters, you will be provided with selected suppliers through the CITEM Trade Opportunities Program (CTOP), the twin e-Business Match Program of the COL.

3. CITEM PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS
You will recieve promotional materials on CITEM-organized events.

4. PRE-ARRANGED BUSINESS MEETINGS and FACTORY VISITS
When visiting the Philippines, you may request us to arrange your business meetings and factory visits with Catalog Online exporters, free of charge.

5. REFERRAL to PROPER AGENCIES and SERVICE PROVIDERS
We can link you to other authorities and organizations involved in practical trade operations and trade promotion.

6. ASSISTANCE in TRANSACTIONS and CONCERNS
We can follow up your transactions, or we can serve as a mediator on issues to be settled with Catalog Online exporters.

Question # 6

Research one multinational corporation like Procter and Gamble, Unilever, IBM, Microsoft, Honda and etc. Identify and describe how their subsidiaries are managed and how technology has assisted them in their corporate and/or local operations. Further, identify one Philippine company that has gone worldwide (eg. Jollibee and BENCH) and describe their strategies. Evaluate the strategies of foreign companies with that of Philippine corporations.


Hitachi Ltd.

History

Hitachi was founded in 1910 as an electrical repair shop. Today, it is one of the leading manufacturers in new technology.
Hitachi Works

Hitachi Works is the oldest member of the Hitachi Group and consists of three factories: Kaigan, Yamatte, and Rinkai Works. Yamatte Works, the oldest of the three factories, was founded in 1910 by Namihei Odaira as an electrical equipment repair and manufacturing facility. This facility was named Hitachi, and is regarded as the ancestral home of Hitachi, Ltd.
Many management trainees intern at Hitachi Works before being permanently assigned to other Hitachi divisions. Senior management personnel are often participants in rotations at Hitachi Works for a few years as their career develops towards eventual head office stature. As a result, many of the senior managers of Hitachi Ltd have passed through Hitachi Works.
Spin-off entities from Hitachi Works include Hitachi Cable (1956) and Hitachi Canadian Industries (1988).
In 2007, Hitachi won the Investment in People Award, Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards from Enterprise Asia, a regional NGO based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for their continued efforts in building human talents.


In November 2006, Hitachi announced a new corporate strategy to promote collaborative creation and profits. The strategy focuses on a market-oriented approach with profit creation as the basic policy. The aim is to establish a structure that consistently generates profits. The company has taken few initiatives such as the implementation of fully FIV (Future Inspiration Value) based management.
Scope of this report
Contains corporate strategy, value chain presence and SWOT Analysis
Provides detailed business description, segment analysis, 5-year financial trends, key products and key competitors
Includes information on suppliers/ partners, shareholding structure and key employees with biographies
Research and analysis highlights
Hitachi and the Hitachi Group are part of a corporate group of 1,100 companies, including 450 consolidated subsidiaries and 79 affiliated companies in Japan, and 484 subsidiaries and 86 affiliated companies outside Japan.
The company has a diversified product mix ranging from electricity generation systems to consumer products and electronic devices.Hitachi’s widespread customer base in domestic and overseas markets encompasses large industrial companies, financial institutions, utilities, governments and individual customers.
The Hitachi Group promotes innovation with an emphasis on profitability as one of its basic strategies.To increase the efficiency of group management the company is engaged in implementing a specific plan to reduce the number of consolidated subsidiaries to 700 by restructuring its businesses.
Key reasons to read this report
Access all the important information and analysis on the company in a single report
Understand company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats along with business strategy and value chain
Gain access to company’s adjusted five year financial data along with key ratios and market capitalization.

For Business

Hitachi Ltd. introduce wide array of IT and security products, digital devices and parts, and power and industrial services.

Information Technology

Hitachi responds to business needs with high added-value solutions and our collective group strength.
Our goal is an enriched society with ubiquitous information. Hitachi contributes to the development of information lifelines by offering reliable, high-performance advanced platform technologies and solutions.

Security

Hitachi is ensuring a sense of security and safety in wide range of fields from Information System Security to Physical Security.

Question # 5

As a future manager, What is your computer ethics program? Justify each activity.

>As a future manager it should be as follows:

• Alert to and aware of how the computer is affecting society.
• Must do something about it by formulating policies to ensure that the technology is used in the right way.
• The computer will not be used to unduly invade a person's privacy.
• Every measure will be taken to ensure the accuracy of computer processing.
• The sanctity of intellectual property will be protected.
• The computer will be made accessible to society so that its members can avoid the indignities of information illiteracy and deprivation.

Question # 4

If you are just a student of RMMC, cite a manual procedure here in our school which you prefer to computerize. Describe how this system should function and how can this help the employees and the students of RMMC.

>As a student of RMMC it would be better to computerized the library specifically the using of card catalogs.Instead of finding a certain book through a card catalog it would be better to find it in just updating it to computers.By just entering the title of the books in computers it will immediatly appear to the monitor where the books are located,who is the author and others.

Question # 3
Justify or contradict on MIS trends by citing examples.

1. MIS users are more knowledgeable.
> It must be knowledgeable to all users for them to be aware of the effectiveness of using MIS.Using MIS has greater advantage to others especially to business organizations.
For example,there are business organization which are not yet well developed and using old styles of information system,how can they enter into the world of globalization if they are weak in using Management Information System.

2. More computing power is available to the user.
>Using of computers nowadays are already existing, we can now see computers everywhere even in houses.Users especially business users are now have a knowledge in using computers for better communication in others.

3. Resistance to the implementation for emerging MIS is subsiding.
>As we can see most of existing business organization uses MIS for competitive strategy.Implementation of MIS are intensed and becoming more intensed in the future.Through this many business organization will be more developed as wel as our country.

4.Connectivity
>Like any other system, our understanding of telecommunications has evolved and changed.With the latest in web development tools and multimedia applications, Connectivity will work with your organization to create and maintain a website that fits your organization's needs. Your organization has its own unique identity.

5.MIS is becoming one of the primary means of increasing productivity.
> Through MIS business organization develop a lot by means of increasing productivity. It helps a lot to business organization by reaching their goals and earn profit. There are lot of business organization increased productivity because of the effectiveness of using MIS.

6. Companies are using MIS as a competitive strategy.
> Strategies are normally applied in every companies because of intense competition that are arising. Through MIS better and effective strategies will be done. One example is the existing telecomunication and call centers business they have to compete to others by using MIS for better communication.While computers cannot create business strategies by themselves they can assist management in understanding the effects of their strategies, and help enable effective decision-making. Every market leading enterprise will have at least one core competency – that is, a function they perform better than their competition. By building an exceptional management information system into the enterprise it is possible to push out ahead of the competition. MIS systems provide the tools necessary to gain a better understanding of the market as well as a better understanding of the enterprise itself.

7.MIS is becoming integral to the decision-making process.
>Emphasis in the use of a decision support system is upon provision of support to decision makers in terms of increasing the effectiveness of the decision-making effort.Management Information Systems (MIS) is the term given to the discipline focused on the integration of computer systems with the aims and objectives on an organisation. MIS systems provide a valuable function in that they can collate into coherent reports unmanageable volumes of data that would otherwise be broadly useless to decision makers. By studying these reports decision-makers can identify patterns and trends that would have remained unseen if the raw data were consulted manually.

8. The end users is becoming the focus of MIS activity.
>The field of MIS can deliver a great many benefits to enterprises in every industry. Expert organisations such as the Institute of MIS along with peer reviewed journals such as MIS Quarterly continue to find and report new ways to use MIS to achieve business objectives. Nowadays,most of us already have a knowledge about using MIS and benefit a lot in this activity.


Danilyn Karen I. Saguin
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question # 2

Question # 2:

How can the manager and employees make use of information as a strategic/competitive advantage over other competitors?

Competitor analysis in marketing and strategic management is an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and potential competitors. This analysis provides both an offensive and defensive strategic context through which to identify opportunities and threats. Competitor profiling coalesces all of the relevant sources of competitor analysis into one framework in the support of efficient and effective strategy formulation, implementation, monitoring and adjustment.The manager and employees make use of effective information through their own strategic actions in the business.By impementing the best strategy and effective information through each other