Chapter 3 Technical Back Ground

1)A network is when two or more computers are connected together and are able to share data and communication.

Doug Allred was Vice President of Customer Advocacy organization of the Cisco’s corporation. This organization was erected to consolidated all functions that directly touched the customer but sales to provide high-quality customer service. Since August 2001, the IT market turned down and brought severe challenges to Cisco as the company had to lay off 18% of its employees and reorganized its structure, transforming from decentralized organizational structure with three business units to centralized organization. However, these changes stabilized the volatile situation of the economy but threatened Cisco’s customer focus, a

In 1975 Pioneer maintained relationships with approximately 3,500 franchise retail outlets, the retail outlets benefited from a 5% Pioneer investment in local advertising, and attractive gross margins and credit terms. However, that same year, Pioneer and three competitors were forced to sign consent decrees with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission promising not to engage in alleged anti-fair competition practices – namely requiring distributors to use suggested list prices and punishing those distributors who didn’t comply either through delayed shipments or revoked franchises. A market price war followed the signing of the consent decrees, lowering franchise’s profits while increasing revenue for Pioneer. Pioneer followed

1. Describe some reasons why Linux is installed on only a very small fraction of desktop computers. Are there particular categories of products or users who might see Linux as more appealing than conventional operating systems? Do you think Linux's share of the desktop market will increase? Why or why not?

What historical problems/issues/concerns, as perceived by the policy initiators and/or sponsors of the legislation, including the governor led to the creation of the bill? In other words, what was the nature of the problems that the bill corrected? According to the initiators/sponsors how important is this piece of legislation to the citizens of the state.

7. When done correctly, you should find the Send_Command.exe file, and the ports.bat files inside.

Yes most definitely this is an effective set of instructions, because the instructions are numbered and written very clear with title at the top of the page with important information written in bold. Also they are alphabetically categorize.

Communicating with Families in Domain 4 is a professional goal I would like to work on to advance my profession as a teacher. This is a goal that I have little to no experience with and feel that I would fall in between the categories of unsatisfactory to basic of this domain. Recently I have the opportunity to be the lead teacher in my practicum class, during this time I had two different parents who came in and volunteered. With my CT being gone it was up to me to answer questions and communicate with the parents. Many times I didn't know how to approach them and relied on the substitute to help me. In fact I felt very uncomfortable because I felt they were critiquing everything I was doing. After talking with my CT later that day she informed me that as a beginning teacher she felt the same way.

Small in size but big in specs! The HP Prodesk 600 G1 desktop delivers incredible power and efficiency that would definitely keep you productive.

TechMall’s revenue streams are rather simplistic. They receive a $750 one time set-up fee from all new merchants added into the TechMall system and a $50 statement fee, or maintenance fee, per month from all members. In addition, they receive a fee on each sales transaction, which is variable based on the dollar volume of the merchant’s transactions. TechMall’s standard pricing schedule indicates this revenue stream to be in the form of a 2% commission on all items sold by member merchants with a maximum commission receivable of $200.

Industrial Equipment INC. sold and serviced a variety of industrial equipment and related products to hospitals, nursing homes, hotels, motels and various other organizations in the four Atlantic Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI and Newfoundland/Labrador. In addition to distributing a broad line of specialized equipment IE provided design, specification and planning assistance to architects,

1a. How did Cisco find itself in trouble with regard to its intended IT prior to Brad Boston's arrival?

1) How have Cisco’s channels evolved in the last 10-15 years? Why have they evolved that way?

In the 1990’s Black and Decker had a great position in the market for their products to appeal to the Professional Industrial segment and the Consumer segment but when it came to the Professional Tradesmen segment they were lacking. Their 9% market share vs. Makita’s 50% market share in the tradesmen segment was incomparable. Makita clearly had a better product in the eyes of the Professional Tradesmen. In the Professional Segment most of the people who buy the products are people who need these tools to make a living such as carpenters, electricians, plumbers, roofers, and general remodelers. Black and

1. Cisco suffered from inertia when an attempt was made to engage business management in selecting software for their individual areas, and/or agreeing to participate in the ERP implementation project. List and explain reasons why management would hesitate to become engaged in the IT process/project.