Ford Mondeo

2011 ◽  
pp. 281-297
Author(s):  
Michael J. Mol
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
North America ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Single Model ◽  
New Model ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
New Information

This case weighs the advantages and disadvantages of going global. Ford presented its 1993 Mondeo model, sold as Mystique and Contour in North America, as a “worldcar”. It tried to build a single model for all markets globally to optimize scale of production. This required strong involvement from suppliers and heavy usage of new information technology. The case discusses the difficulties that needed to be overcome as well as the gains that Ford expected from the project. New technology allowed Ford to overcome most of the difficulties it had faced in earlier attempts to produce a worldcar. IT was flanked by major organization changes within Ford. Globalization did not spell obvious success though. While Ford may in the end have succeeded in building an almost global car, it did not necessarily build a car that was competitive in various markets. The Mondeo project resulted in an overhaul of the entire organization under the header of Ford 2000. This program put a heavy emphasis on globalization although it perhaps focused too little on international cooperation and too much on centralization. In terms of Ford’s own history, the Mondeo experience may not be called a new Model T, but does represent an important step in Ford’s transformation as a global firm.

Ford Mondeo

2011 ◽  
pp. 69-89
Author(s):  
Michael J. Mol
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
North America ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Single Model ◽  
New Model ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
New Information

This case weighs the advantages and disadvantages of going global. Ford presented its 1993 Mondeo model, sold as Mystique and Contour in North America, as a ‘world car.’ It tried to build a single model for all markets globally to optimize scale of production. This required strong involvement from suppliers and heavy usage of new information technology. The case discusses the difficulties that needed to be overcome as well as the gains that Ford expected from the project. New technology allowed Ford to overcome most of the difficulties it had faced in earlier attempts to produce a world car. IT was flanked by major organization changes within Ford. Globalization did not spell obvious success though. While Ford may in the end have succeeded in building an almost global car, it did not necessarily build a car that was competitive in various markets. The Mondeo project resulted in an overhaul of the entire organization under the header of Ford 2000. This program put a heavy emphasis on globalization although it perhaps focused too little on international cooperation and too much on centralization. In terms of Ford’s own history, the Mondeo experience may not be called a new Model T, but does represent an important step in Ford’s transformation as a global firm.

Mindfully Experimenting with IT

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin S. Poston ◽  
William J. Kettinger
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Media ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Stakeholder Satisfaction ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
New Information ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Benefits And Costs

In many companies the process of new Information Technology (IT) identification and assessment lacks the rigor associated with experimentation. The realities of maintaining daily operations and the expense and expertise involved distract firms from conducting experiments. The authors explore cases of how companies introduce a new IT for the business use of digital social media. Because social media technologies are new, interest in its use is broad and diffused leading organizations to be unsure about how best to implement social media, prompting organizations to follow a mindful process of experimenting with these technologies. The cases illustrate that the extent of mindfulness influences how new technology implementations are introduced, supporting wider boundaries in assessments, richer interpretations of the IT's usefulness, multi-level foci concerning benefits and costs, persistence to continue exploration, and a greater use of fact-based decision-making. The authors observe that following a mindful introduction process reaps some of the benefits of experimentation, such as greater stakeholder satisfaction and organization-wide learning and understanding of the technology's potential.

Price Transparency and Market Integration

2014 ◽  
pp. 285-303
Author(s):  
Richard Friberg
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Price Dispersion ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Common Currency ◽  
Price Transparency ◽  
New Information ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Common

A few years back many predicted that new information technology and the common currency in Europe would exert a powerful equalizing pressure on prices of the same good in different locations. This chapter evaluates these predictions with a focus on empirical evaluations. We first survey the literature that links transparency to price dispersion (more transparency is associated with lower dispersion) and to price levels (there is a general presumption that prices fall as they become more transparent but by making collusion easier the effects can be the opposite in some markets). We also survey evidence that many markets are segmented along national borders and present an in-depth analysis of the mechanisms that link transparency and market segmentation. We conclude that greater transparency has important market integrating effects—but only if other barriers that separate markets are low and sellers are not able to endogenously create barriers. Overall the market integrating effects of greater transparency associated with new technology and a common currency in Europe have been minor so far.

The impact of new information technology in the developing countries

1984 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 213-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Thorpe
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Staff Training ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Database System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Will ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Graphic Database

The major constraints to the use of new information tech nology in the developing countries are identified and discus ssed, and related to the setting up of a computerised biblio graphic database system. Examples of existing systems are given to provide guidelines as to how new technology can successfully be used in the developing countries despite these constraints. It is concluded that staff training, international cooperation and socio-political aspects (attitudes) are the prior ity areas for attention by the developing countries. New tech nology can be successfully introduced only if there is the political will and all involved are fully committed to the idea.

scholarly journals Information technologies in accounting. prospects and problems

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-20
Author(s):  
Vadym RATYNSKYI
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Automated System ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
New Information ◽  
Modern Level ◽  
High Level

The issues of application of new information technologies in accounting are considered. Peculiarities of automated accounting in the conditions of domestic reality are singled out, methodical principles of informatization of administrative activity are shown. The classification of software products used for automation of accounting is made, the rating of the most widespread programs for informatization of administrative activity in our country is resulted. The main advantages and disadvantages of using information technology in the organization of accounting are shown. Problems of automation of administrative activity at transition to the international standards are considered. A critical assessment of well-known authors and scientists of the modern level of automated accounting in economics is given. Particular attention is paid to the use of remote hardware and software resources in solving problems of informatization of management. Prospects of application in the account of the expert systems constructed on the basis of high-level software products are considered. Some problems of information protection that pose a threat to the use of information technology in management tasks are highlighted. The role of the person in the automated system of accounting, irreplaceability of experience and professionalism of the accountant at any level of development of information technologies is shown. All this makes it possible to create a single information space for the enterprise. Studies have shown that only the integrated development of conceptual accounting models, transformed into mathematical and algorithmic models, in combination with information technology will make it possible to raise accounting to a higher level. Thus, the development of information technologies and the digitalization of the economy make it possible to change the functions performed by accounting services and transform accountants from information input operators into economists-controllers and information users.

scholarly journals The relation between information technology and innovation process in software and not software industries in Kosovo

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 149-158
Author(s):  
Emin Neziraj ◽  
Afërdita Berisha-Shaqiri ◽  
Justina Shiroka Pula ◽  
Vasilika Kume ◽  
Besnik Krasniqi
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Software Products ◽  
New Information ◽  
Market Needs

Background and objective. This paper will focus on innovation process caused by information communication technology. The study in this paper discovers the relation of information technology in software and not software products service industry in innovation processes across their effect in the MBE-s in Kosovo. The main objective of the research study is to recognize the level of use of the new technology, respectively the new information technology in producing and service industry in Kosovo. Materials and Methods. The scientific methodology used in this work is the quantitative methodology with the deductive approach since it is intended to support the existing theory over the information technology and innovative processes. The quantitative data was use from empirical data of Statistical Agency Kosovo and authors own research. Results, the results of this study showing, the influences of information technology in innovation process with p=0. 23. Conclusion Public and Private organizations should take appropriate steps to develop and improve new technologies by creating long-term policies and strategies derived from market needs

scholarly journals Research on the task models to cooperate with the human and new technology: Evaluating the impacts on labour market

Impact ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-75
Author(s):  
Isamu Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
New Information

New information technology systems such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) are poised to disrupt nearly every aspect of employment from wages and job availability to stress and job-satisfaction. It is important to understand all aspects of a new technological introduction into the workplace, both good and bad. How governments and the private sector balance the positive and negative aspects of this latest technological disruption will be crucial to the future of work and the well-being of workers. Yamamoto, a labour economist and professor in the Faculty of Business and Commerce at Keio University in Japan, is carrying out research to better understand the impacts of new technologies like AI on workers and their well-being.

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF PERCEIVED EASE OF USE, PERCEIVE OF USEFULNESS, PERCEIVE RISK AND TRUST TOWARDS BEHAVIOR INTENTION IN TRANSACTION BY INTERNET

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Yan Ari Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
New Information ◽  
Consumer Intentions ◽  
Perceive Risk

This study aims to analyze the factors that influence consumer intentions to do transaction in e-commerce, which includes factors of easy to use, effectiveness of risk and trust. It also aims to analyze the potential development of new technology through consumer behavioral intentions to use new information technology by providing information about market demand for the development of information technology to businesses to further strengthen the company’s sales strategy. The research method used multiple regressions to find out about the influence of independent variables on the dependent variable by using hypotheses. The number of samples required for this research is 100 respondents. The result showed that the four variables namely Perceived Ease in Use, Perceived Usefulness, Perceived in Risk, and Trust have significant effect on consumer interest in transacting over the internet. Also Perceive in Risk is a variable that has the most dominant influence on consumer intentions to transact over the Internet

Computer Searching and the Technical Writer

1980 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-188
Author(s):  
Donna R. Dolan
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Computer Search ◽  
New Information ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
Technical Writer ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Available Information

Computer searching, a new information technology which uses a computer to search abstracts, indexes, and reference books, is often available in the corporate library. Computer searching has several applications which are useful for the technical writer. A computer search can uncover current affairs and the latest research findings while they are still newsworthy. The computer can turn up potential markets for authors and locate experts in certain subject fields. It can verify facts and references in manuscripts, locate definitions of new terms, and retrieve all available information for a comprehensive project. This new technology leaves more time for the technical writer to spend in writing rather than researching.

Literature review on “Industry Needs for Information Technology competence, Information Technology competence/skill program study and certification of Information Technology competence”

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
Tine Sopaheluwakan ◽  
Mohammad A. Amin Soetomo
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Training Institution ◽  
Position Information ◽  
Technology Competence ◽  
Information Technology Training ◽  
Industry And Education

Information Technology as a new Technology has been used in businesses from small company until multinational company in almost all industries. IT role as an enabler and differentiation factor separating success company from average company. IT need people to build, operate, maintain and support the systems, hence expect the new hire to immediately contribute from the first day they join the company. The industry define the needs for Information Technology competence and expect Education Institution as one of IT resource work hard to design their program study to fulfill the needs for Information Technology graduates, yet the industry still struggle to succeed in hiring fresh graduate to fill the IT position. Information Technology Training Institution can be an alternative to improve the education result. Also certification on Information Technology competence from third party or independent body might be used as a standard for both Industry and Education. This paper will report literature review several previous paper about all of the above.

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