{"id":56,"date":"2011-10-02T09:40:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryc\/?p=56"},"modified":"2011-11-25T17:47:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T00:47:48","slug":"56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryc\/2011\/10\/02\/56\/","title":{"rendered":"information technology changing the global business environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"it\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ehow.com\/images\/a06\/16\/ul\/technology-impacted-global-business-environment_-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More and more companies are trying their best to utilizie MIS and BTM through capitalizing on the fact that technology is huge\u00a0right now. In a recent article, the Hiegeelkes has created a Facebook app called <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424053111903591104576467721310267538.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Darticle\">Second Porch<\/a> that keeps\u00a0short term renting\u00a0dealings between friends, for increased security. Users post their property availability, and the listings\u00a0only appear\u00a0in their friends&#8217; news feeds. Friends can also\u00a0comment and make\u00a0recommendations about\u00a0the properties and even prospective tenants.<\/p>\n<p>This new business has been formed purely through\u00a0utilising MIS and BTM. It has actually integrated the both very successfully, using the information collected from the MIS as the greatest resource in the BTM.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very successful demonstation of entrepreneurship through utlising IT.\u00a0 It has achieved productivity, since it is low cost and does not require a lot of resources. Due to such innovation, it has a competitive advantage\u00a0. It has\u00a0put a brand new approach to facebook,\u00a0transforming it\u00a0from a pure social medium to a strong business platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more companies are trying their best to utilizie MIS and BTM through capitalizing on the fact that technology is huge\u00a0right now. In a recent article, the Hiegeelkes has created a Facebook app called Second Porch that keeps\u00a0short term renting\u00a0dealings between friends, for increased security. Users post their property availability, and the listings\u00a0only appear\u00a0in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9923,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9923"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}