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As a result China and the U.S. have drastically different approaches to the managing of information systems and their supporting technologies.
Enterprise Software Adoption and Use
With a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that is consistently well above global median levels (Chen, 2010) China is rapidly becoming a leader in global manufacturing, services and supply chain coordination with other manufacturing nations. As the underlying infrastructure is weak in the interior regions of China yet exceptionally strong along its coastlines (Rayburn, Conrad, 2004) China continues to define a pluralistic strategy to enterprise software adoption throughout its nation (Suttmeier, 2005). This is evident in the approach toe country is taking to define when, how, and which software will be used for managing manufacturing, distribution and pricing within its manufacturers. Companies looking to move into China must comply not only to their specific data format standards (Suttmeier, 2005) but also to their unique approaches to managing their it infrastructure as well (Quan, Hu, Wang, 2005). In contrast the U.S. manufacturing industry relies predominantly on enterprise systems that run a wide variety of operating systems and data formats. The aligning of enterprise systems to specific business processes is more of the approach taken in the U.S. This is far from ethnocentric, it is the truth. American companies have greater freedom to define how and where they will use their enterprise systems to attain their...
The PC usage rates in China continue to grow at a faster rate than the U.S. As the latter nation has a saturation rate at a higher level. Both nations have an abundance of low-end NetBook and laptop systems available, and Internet access is becoming more prevalent. Of the two nations, Chinese citizens are more willing to pay a higher proportion of their incomes to get access to computing resources, even more than their rents or mortgage payments.
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