Case Study

Case Study: 3.1-3.2

1.) What were the inefficiences at knight before Fleet-View was installed?
 The inefficiences at knight before Fleet-View was installed, there are many criminals and thieves stoled items and trucks and it is hard for them to find and to locate and to where the criminals brought the items and trucks.
 Trucking is largely an inefficient industry, the timing is highly dependent on clients, senders and receivers. It may wait for an hours or a day. Communication and sites between truckers and deliveries is so poor enough and even the company did not know which is the loaded or unloaded trucks.

2.) What information do managers have now that they did not have before?
 They find and explore ways using Global Positioning Systems (GPS) which is useful to the company that helps them locate drivers along their route and so on, they used also the cargo sensor to know and determine which is loaded and unloaded trucks.

3.) What are the indicators for greater efficiency at Knight Transportation now?
 They can easily locate and find their trucks in case when something goes on emergency or by crimes. They also saves money more than from that they do not have any installed devices from their trucks.

Case Study: 3.3

1.) Amazon.com tries to take strategic advantage of its resources. Of what physical resources does Amazon.com take advantage?
 The physical resources that Amazon.com take advantage, at first Jeff Bezos established the largest bookstore and name it Cadabra as in Abracadabra or a cadaver to invoke it sense of magic for people who buy online. After the time year 2006, there are offering about web-based storage devices to businesses and individuals in which they only pay the storage which is only 20 cents.

2.) Does Amazon.com stragetically leverage anything else in addition to physical assets?
 Amazon promises scalable, reliable, fast , inexpensive and simple storage. It means that their client could increase the amount of stored data without hassle or additional cost. Simplicity helps clients to avoid the cost and time in establishing their own network of storage devices. They also distributed around the globe on which data elements are replicated in case when the server is down and the other can still provide the data.

3.) What are the benefits of S3 for small companies?
 The benefits of S3 for small companies are Reliability and speed of access, subscribing to service need to develop the proper code to link their storage service. It certainly uses its technological muscles in a new strategic direction.

Case Study: 3.4-3.5

1.) Is 99 cents only in the leading edge of IT? Is it on the bleeding edge?
 Yes, only the 99 cents is on the leading edge of IT because they gain much better and saves much income. Sometimes it will be on the bleeding edge, for it’s slow to adopt the State-of-the-art technology.

2.) What characteristics of the dollar store industry make it so important to increase efficiency?
 They only sales the need of the customer like bargains that often buy more but they do not know that ever-better IT ensures it and gain more strategic efficiencies.
4.) 99 Cents Only must modify its information systems frequently. Why?
=> 99 Cents Only must need to modify its information systems because there are so many competitors today and aside from this, they maintain a good income from the customers and so on improve their software.