Question

Can someone help me with these last 4 homework questions?

What is a benefit of unified communications for an organization?

• Increased productivity in the workplace
• Decreased software cost
• Decentralized business processes
• Increased communications latency

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What is the most important consideration a corporation should examine before implementing a unified communications project to ensure success?

• Budget
• Pilot test
• Business rules
• Culture

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A company needs to set up a business-to-business model that offers medical billing service, software sales and licensing, and virtual assistant.

Which type of ebusiness software should the company use?

• Reintermediation
• Intermediation
• Cybermediation
• Disintermediation

The chief executive officer (CEO) of a start-up company is attending a football game with one of his college friends, a finance analyst involved in the same industry, and they discuss the subject of key customers in the marketplace. The CEO realizes that his friend has information that is currently unknown to the public which could help his company tremendously if he had it.

What should the CEO do?

• Invite his friend to another game, hoping he will share the information about the market.
• Tell his friend he needs that non-public information to get his company ahead
• Recognize that even though his friend has this non-public information that would help the company, it would be wrong to use it.
• Promise some game tickets or other benefits if his friend will share the information he has about the market.

Answer 1

(i): The answer is – “Increased productivity in the workplace”.

Explanation: Unified communications provides real-time access to services such as phone communications, messaging, data sharing, etc. and this increases productivity, flexibility and also reduces costs.

(ii): The answer is – “culture”.

Explanation: The ultimate goal of unified communication is to create a more communicative and collaborative culture. For this culture needs to be assessed beforehand. Otherwise you will not be able to measure the impact of unified communication in an effective manner.

(iii): The answer is – “cybermediation”.

Explanation: New type of intermediaries will be required here for functions that are being restructured here.

(iv): The answer is – “Recognize that even though his friend has this non-public information that would help the company, it would be wrong to use it.”

Explanation – Using non-public information is both unethical as well as illegal.