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ITECH1005 - Business Information Systems

Tutorial Week 3

Business Value of a Connected World

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The tutorial assessment each week is generally based on your understanding of the week’s

course content and group interaction in discussing your answers.

ASSESSABLE TASKS OF THE WEEK

The tutorial tasks for this week will help you to develop more understanding of the business

value of a connected world.

The due date for providing answers to this week’s tutorial tasks is Wednesday, Week 4.

Submit your answer using Moodle by its due date. On-campus students make sure to take

with you a printed copy of your answers to the tutorial session.

Before attempting the following tutorial activities, you need to learn this week’s lecture slides

first. To gain more understanding of the topics covered in this week’s lecture read Chapter 2,

pp. 56-75 of your textbook. The additional resource file “Business Basics.pdf” will provide

you with further basic understanding of business.

Case Study 1: Paywalls and the business future of newspapers

Read Textbook pp. 54-55

1. Do you think that ‘citizen journalism’ will eventually replace newspapers or merely supplement them?

2. On the evidence to hand, do paywalls appear to be working?

3. Will there still be print newspapers in five years’ time? In ten years’ time?

4. Will newspapers eventually have to get into the business of selling Kindle-type devices, such as electronic readers designed specifically for newspapers?

Case Study 2: Ironman in Hawaii

Read Textbook pp. 76-77

1. How is WTC using telecommunication and network technologies to improve its competitive advantage in the professional sports broadcasting industry?

2. Describe the different types of network architectures WTC is using.

3. Explain the role TCP/IP plays in the broadcast of the Ironman Triathlon World Championship.

4. Identify a new telecommunication or network product that WTC could use to improve its operations.

5. What security issues does WTC need to address?

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References: Baltzan, Philips, Lynch & Blakey (2013), Business Driven Information Systems

(Australian/New Zealand 2 nd

edition), McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd

Baltzan, Philips, Lynch & Blakey (2013), Instructor's Resource Manuals, McGraw-Hill

Australia Pty Ltd