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Currently the margins Inventec makes on its Notebook PC’s are low and tough competition is pushing the margins even lower. Inventec’s reliance on HP-Compaq puts the company in danger of going out of business should HP-Compaq suddenly decide to take their business elsewhere. It is imperative that Inventec diversify its products and increase its customer base.

The growing demand for EEE, especially in developed places, as well with the economic development grow, the people enjoy the better lifestyle and embrace the materialistic culture in the affluent societies, the consumption and disposal of EEE continues to rise. In addition, the producers introduced the new products constantly to the technology market in order to achieve market penetration and the consumer attention, such as by decreasing the prices and increasing advertising. In fact, the lifespan of these products has shorten which as an excuse to stimulate replacement buying by consumers. Therefore, most people prefers to buy a new product rather than to repair the exist product. It is seems to be a trend to get them to buy more. Eventually to generate more wasteful consumption of

1- Jonathan was notified by the IRS that he should appear at the local IRS district office with support for his 2013 travel and entertainment expenses as well as his charitable deductions. It was a really nice day, so Jonathan went skiing rather than to the appointment. On the way to the ski resort Jonathan called his tax preparer, Sue Johnson, CPA, and told her that he wasn’t going to the appointment. What penalty or penalties could Jonathan be subject to? What about the Sue Johnson, CPA?

As used electronics is becoming a waster hazard worldwide local governments such as where I live include programs at local waste stations purely for electronics. This encourages local residents to freely drop off their electronic waste, like TV’s and computers and mobile phones to these locations where the waste is sorted and than shipped to facilities that can process this waste appropriately which also includes recycling as much material as possible. This has a

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Systemic literature review, Security and Privacy in electronic health records, selected 49 articles, but they approved only 26 that were using standards related to the privacy and security of EHR. The protection and security of personal information is critical in the health sector and there are three fundamental security goals, Confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA). According to the ISO EN13606 standard, confidentiality refers to the ‘‘process that ensures that information is accessible only to those authorized to have access to it’’. (Fernandez - Aleman, 2013)Integrity refers to the duty to ensure that information is accurate and is not modified in an unauthorized fashion. The integrity of health information must therefore be protected to ensure patient safety, and one important component of this protection is that of ensuring that the information’s entire life cycle is fully auditable. Availability refers to the ‘‘property of being accessible and useable upon demand by an authorized entity’’. (Fernandez - Aleman, 2013)

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While being too focused on new, bright and shiny technological innovations, a lot of people don’t think about where their old obsolete technology goes or how it affects the environment. Electronic waste (E-waste) “...comprises electrical appliances such as fridges, air conditioners, washing machines, microwave ovens, and fluorescent light bulbs; and electronic products such as computers and accessories, mobile phones, television sets and stereo equipment” (Lundgren). Recycling electronic waste is expensive, so many developing countries receive E-waste from other countries (often times illegally) to extract valuable materials from the electronics to be used for the country’s benefit. Although the country recycling this waste benefits from an economical standpoint, the environmental and health standpoint isn’t so lucky. “...rudimentary recycling techniques coupled with the amounts of e-waste processed have already resulted in adverse environmental and human health impacts, including contaminated soil and surface water” (Lundgren). With an extreme lack in any sort of safety regulations, poor workers are taken advantage of and suffer the most because “...workers and communities are exposed to many highly toxic chemicals" (Marko) and it’s all because Americans don’t want to spend the money or take the time to properly recycle these products. The

PEST is an acronym used for companies with in the political, economic, social and technological views. PEST allows companies to view and observe certain areas that might have been overlooked. The company I will be discussing the PEST analysis is Target. Target is a large scale company and is constantly changing in the industry. The political views of Target is that they must have an unbreakable bond with China due to majority of its products coming from that country. They must be aware and stray away from any conflicts because it can create a negative affect in the operation of Target. Also the company is altered by taxation, tariffs, cost, and trade restrictions especially when they're trying to broden outside the United States. The economic

As electronic product lifespan is getting shorter and shorter, repairing is not cost-effective. Hence, consumers tend to purchase new models instead. Only in 2014 and 2015, 121866 tonnes of televisions, computers and computer complements reached end of life (Department of the Environment and Energy, 2016). Such a high rate of disposal has generated more e-waste, but

The large capital requirements to enter the computer industry combined with established brand identities of the current incumbents make barriers to entry high, not to mention the economies of scale and distribution channels that incumbents enjoy which make entry barriers even higher. The current PC incumbents enjoy demand-side benefit of scale in the business sector where PC buyers prefer to buy products from large trusted companies, raising the level of entry barriers.

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As indicated in the table above, Dell and HP are the strongest players in the computer industry. These results are also supported by the market share statistics presented in case Exhibit 3. Conversely, the table above indicates Acer as the industry’s weakest rival in part because it focuses on producing low priced computers,

Thirty-three years ago, the founder of Lenovo founded the company with only 33,231 USD (converted from 20,000 CNY). 2 Nevertheless, Lenovo has become one of the Fortune 500 companies, and it is one of the largest PC manufacturers in the world, with a more than 20% market share, and around 43 billion revenues in 2016. 3 Over the past three decades, Lenovo has implemented numerous strategies to achieve such accomplishments. Since multinational enterprises often involve in

Both Dell and HP are two strong players in PC industry which refers to an industry where companies produces PCs (desktops and notebooks), handheld devices (smart phones and tablets), and workstations. However, with growing global expansion, Dell and HP’s performance differs. Dell, once the world’s largest PC maker in 2001, has continually lost its market share to HP and Acer since 2007 (Guglielmo 2009). The cause is rooted in two differences of these companies: company diversifications and core competences. Therefore, how firms can continually survive in the PC business is more of an issue for Dell than for HP.