Technology Standards
Supporting Activity Technology Standards
Why are standards important in the world of technology?
Technology standards are important for a wide array of different reasons. Of these reasons simplicity and compatibility are most likely among the prominent reasons. Simplicity and compatibility are important because they enable technologies and even industries to progress faster than they would on their own. If IBM had not set the PC standard, the development of computers, hardware and software, would not have progressed as fast as it has (Chyung, N.d.). By standardizing the industry to the most competitive format it has allowed for many different companies to operate on the same platform.
There are some organizations that can gain a market edge by maintaining proprietary technologies that can achieve compatibility in alternative ways. In markets that exhibit network effects, the presence of digital conversion technologies provides an alternative mechanism to achieve compatibility (Liu, Gal-Or, Kemerer, & Smith,...
Project Management Supporting Activity Project Characteristics • What are some of the characteristics that differentiate projects from other functions carried out in the daily operations of an organization? List some examples of work considered to be a project and work not considered to be a project. The main trait and attribute that differentiates projects and non-projects is the duration of the event in question. Events that are ongoing in perpetuity are not projects.
PIM vs. PDA Analysis of the Differences Between PIMs and PDAs Both Personal Information Managers (PIM) and Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) share common attributes, the most prevalent of which is the ability to store a wide variety of personal information. A PIM is more designed to support the more important personal information people rely on in their personal lives and in business (Ayers, 1999). These include telephone numbers, significant dates and times
Homosexual Viewpoint For a long time, the topic of homosexuality has raised controversial responses from different quotas of the society. This paper aims at developing an argument in support of homosexual phenomena in the society. One of the reasons that society should be accommodative of homosexuality is that it does not cause harm to anyone. The standard references to gay people include 'lesbians' for the females and 'gays' for the males.
ABC (Activity-Based Costing) system to assist Towels & More (T&M) management identifying the type of customer to focus out the three types of customers that the company is supplying its products. The T&M is a small and family company specializing in selling towels. The company sells its towels to three different types of stores that include Departmental Stores, Gift Shops and Specialty Retailers. Based on handsome revenues that the
Finance-dominated proponents also maintain that boom economic periods generate a more varied divergence of valuations that fuel merger activity (Medlen 2007). In this regard, Medlen concludes that, "Taken collectively, these understandings may explain some of the merger activity in booms, but they involve certain asymmetries that undercut their explanatory power. High stock valuations allow stock to be utilized as currency and collateral for takeovers; yet stock booms also make
Timeline and Narrative of Gang Activity: 1800 -- 2000 Throughout history, humans have banded together for mutual protection and to pursue their mutual interests in ways that would not be possible individually. The historical record has shown that humans that succeeded in achieving this level of mutual protection survived while their counterparts perished, and the same processes continue today. When these collaborative efforts are used for criminal enterprises, though, they become
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