Business Information Technology- Assignment

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1. What is Moore’s Law? What does it apply to?

2. What is a microprocessor? What devices do you or your family own that contain microprocessors (and hence are impacted by Moore’s Law)?

3. Why is Moore’s Law important for managers? How does it influence managerial thinking?

4. What three interrelated forces threaten to slow the advancement of Moore’s Law?

5. What is the advantage of using computing to simulate an automobile crash test as opposed to actually staging a crash?

6. What are the two characteristics of disruptive innovations?

7. Make a list of recent disruptive innovations. List forms that dominated the old regime and firms that capitalized after disruption. Are any of the dominant firms from the previous era the same as those in the postdisruptive era? For those firms that failed to make the transition, why do you think they failed?

8. What is dynamic pricing, and why might this be risky?

9. What is the long tail? How does the long tail change retail economics? How does it influence shoppers’ choice of where to look for products? What firms, other than Amazon, are taking advantage of the long tail in their industries?

10. What is channel conflict, and how has Amazon been subject to channel conflict?