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Competitive strategies that firms can employ to deal with competitive forces include cost leadership strategy, differentiation strategy, innovation strategy, etc. (1) Please give two examples to expla…
Sharing economy refers to "peer-to-peer-based activities of obtaining, giving, or sharing the access to goods and services, coordinated through community-based online services." Uber and AirBnB repres…
The rise of Android platform signals the business value and strategic importance of open source software (OSS). While OSS can greatly reduce system development barrier, its license restricts the use o…
In addition to relational database, we have witness the raise of the so called No-SQL database. Answer the following questions regarding the No-SQL database. (1) How are relational database and No-SQL…
Codification and connectivity (i.e., personalization) represent two major knowledge management strategies commonly adopted by firms. Specifically, the codification strategy for knowledge management ai…
Environmental uncertainty of a firm refers to the degree of uncertainty of the firm's business (external) environment. In the literature, environmental uncertainty can be classified into two major dim…
There are many options available when an institution needs to acquire a software system. List the potential sources of software systems for an institution. For each source, briefly explain the interna…
A private library in Taipei maintains a relational database that keeps the basic information of books. We are going to focus on the following tables: Book, Book_Author, Book_Copy, Library_Branch, Publ…
Please describe different theories that support or oppose the argument that "IT (information technologies) can help firms shrink in size (i.e., help decrease firm size)." Please also describe under wh…
In the era of machine learning (such as deep learning), data is the king. Large volumes of data are needed for model training purposes. To build machine learning models for business use, firms need to…
Minho joined a group in a large IT company that develops customized data analytics solutions for their customers. In his first project, his colleagues collected several hundred thousands of data point…
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assign individuals into classes has stimulated concerns. One major issue is about the fairness of an automated classification algorithm. Consider a fictitiou…
In economics, the Cobb-Douglas production function is widely used to represent the relationship between the amounts of two or more inputs a firm uses and the amount of output produced by those inputs.…
Investing in information technology (IT) or information systems does not guarantee good returns. Prior research studies have indicated that firms generally receive superior returns from their IT inves…
在共享經濟的時代，出現許多雙邊或多邊平臺。平臺定價方面，平臺經常利用「交叉補貼」的概念，策略性地給某一邊優惠，養大一邊之後，跟另一邊收取更多費用。舉例來說，104人力銀行不跟求職者收費，讓求職者免費使用，擁有許多求職者使用後，藉此增強面對公司的議價能力。 現在UberEats、Foodpanda等餐點外送服務，是一種「三邊平臺」，連結餐廳、消費者和外送員，平臺也因此有各種營收管道。舉例來說，平臺…
臺灣許多城市都有YouBike服務，在許多地點設置公共腳踏車停靠站，讓消費者可以共享腳踏車，在站點租借、騎乘後歸還至站點，通常也允許甲地租乙地還。 設置停靠站點的時候，顯然必須考慮許多議題，其中「需求」就是最重要的議題之一。理論上，站點應該設置在需求高的地方，但需求的估計並不容易。許多地方看似沒有騎乘腳踏車的需求，但其實可能只是因為該地過往都沒有站點，民眾的使用習慣尚未被養成，站點建造後說不定需…
Sharing economy platforms for physical assets and goods can be classified into two types: non-money-based and money-based. An example of non-money-based sharing economy platforms is Peerby, a peer-to-…
One of the key concepts of electronic commerce is digital markets. That is, electronic commerce establishes digital markets in which consumers (can be businesses) transact with their suppliers online.…
Scrum 是一種敏捷軟體開發方法。支持者認為這個開發方法可以在快速變化的環境中產出高商業價值的軟體系統。請回答下列問題： (a) Scrum 方法包含三個主要角色: Scrum Master、Product Owner、Team。說明這三個角色的主要職責與工作。(7%) (b) 說明 Scrum 中每日站立會議的執行方式。(6%) (c) 什麼是 Sprint Backlog? Sprint B…
高速公路的塞車問題數十年來持續困擾用路人。這個問題並沒有因為高速公路電子道路收費系統所提供的大數據而獲得解決。因此我們需要更先進的、更有效的方式來預測與舒緩高速公路在重大節日的塞車問題。請回答以下問題： (a) 除了現有的資訊系統(如電子收費系統)的資料之外，還有什麼樣的資料可以幫助我們預測未來一至七天高速公路的塞車狀態? (5%) (b) 如何透過資訊系統的建置與佈署以收集這類的資料? (5%)…
Please answer the following questions related to IT project investment. (a) To evaluate whether to invest in an IT project or select among competing IT investment projects, firms often employ capital…
Please answer the following questions related to Internet of Things (IoT). (a) What are the information privacy issues of IoT? Why these issues are important? Please give two examples from different …
Developing and deploying a software system is complex and risky. A good practice is to execute different tests to reduce the risk. Examples include unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance t…
User interface (UI) design is critical for a successful and easy-to-use application. To achieve this goal, the development team should adopt the so-called user-centered design and follow the general u…
Pull-based and push-based supply chain models are two supply chain strategies commonly adopted by companies. (a) What is the pull-based supply chain model? What is the push-based supply chain model? (…
Assume that a leading bicycle-manufacturing company is currently evaluating two IT investment projects. The first IT investment project (called Mfc-BDA) is to develop a manufacturing big data analytic…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) enables the creation of new branches of intelligent software systems. For example, the virtual makeup try-on tools allow users to narrow their selection before physically …
Estimating the costs of a software system is essential for a meaningful plan. Popular methods include function point analysis, COCOMO II, expert judgment, planning poker, and T-shirt sizing. Please an…
Community detection is an important technique for social media analytics. Please answer the following questions related to community detection. (a) What is community detection? Please provide a social…
Enterprise agility, also known as organizational agility, refers to an organization's ability to quickly detect, adapt, and respond to changes in unstable business environments. Previous research indi…