The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting, 3rd Edition

548 Making Key Strategic Decisions materials. Lastly, some companies use EDI to transmit their invoices and then to receive the ...

Information Technology and the Firm 549 to store information, those database management systems were, in many cases, unwieldy an ...

550 EXHIBIT 16.6 Database example. EMPLOYEE TABLE Social Date of Hourly Employee Security Marital Number of Date of Date of D at ...

Information Technology and the Firm 551 systems use older file structures or obsolete database management systems and are almost ...

552 Making Key Strategic Decisions When all programming was controlled by a small professional group, con- trol was much easier. ...

Information Technology and the Firm 553 warehouses to the vendors, eliminating the costs of both warehouse mainte- nance and sur ...

554 Making Key Strategic Decisions a computer outside of the company. Remember, the Internet is just one large party line on whi ...

Information Technology and the Firm 555 of the consumer, only an authorization number from the credit card clearance house. The ...

556 Making Key Strategic Decisions APPLICATION SERVICE PROVIDERS (ASPS) ASPs are companies that provide hosted access to softwar ...

557 EXHIBIT 16.7 Example of options screen for a dec ision support system. ...

558 EXHIBIT 16.8 Example of output from a decision suppor t system. ...

Information Technology and the Firm 559 what categories of items sold better than others. After finding an underper- forming cat ...

560 Making Key Strategic Decisions FOR FURTHER READING Amor, Daniel, The E-business (R)Evolution(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentic ...

561 17 PROFITABLE GROWTH BY ACQUISITION Richard T. Bliss The subject of this chapter is growth by acquisition; few other busines ...

562 Making Key Strategic Decisions We review the historical evidence and discuss some of the characteristics of both unsuccessfu ...

Profitable Growth by Acquisition 563 with Hayley’s Hippos Inc. (HHI). GGI offers one of its shares for three shares of HHI. When ...

564 Making Key Strategic Decisions today. An auto manufacturer acquiring an ice cream producer would be an example. Armed with a ...

Profitable Growth by Acquisition 565 measure, the 1990s was an increasingly acquisitive decade around the world. This explosion ...

566 Making Key Strategic Decisions and long-term M&A performance. The short-term is a narrow window, typi- cally three to fi ...

Profitable Growth by Acquisition 567 A 1996 survey of 150 companies by the Economist Intelligence Unit in London found that 70% ...