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Lect 4, Chap 2, Organizations
Lect 4, Chap 2, Organizations
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Lecture 4
Chapter 2
Organizations
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Organization Definition
Organization: Group of people that is structure and
managed to meet a mission or set of goals.
Benefits:
Increased customer loyalty
Reduction in customer dissatisfaction
Reduced opportunity for competitive inroads
Continuous Improvement vs. Reengineering
User Satisfaction and Technology Acceptance
Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) - specifies factors
that can lead to higher usage of technology
Outsourcing, Offshoring & Downsizing
Time value of money: takes into account the fact that money in the
present is worth more than the same amount in the future.
Net present value: the sum of the present value of the net cash flow for
each year period.
Internal rate of return: the rate that makes the net present value of all
cash flow generated by a project equal to zero.
Summary
Value-added processes increase the relative worth of
combined inputs on their way to becoming final outputs
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