How do technological factors impact the softwar industry?
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The Production & Operations Management Society has on its website a very interesting study that looks at the impact of technological factors on the software industry \n\n"The Impact of the New IT Technologies in the Business Model Transformation" http://www.poms.org/ConfPapers/003/003-0237.doc
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Paul, I agree with everything you say!\n\nI think the internet abets industry development diagonally and orthoganally as well, while we're at it.
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computers in any bussiness sector can be a real help in managing the company database,automating certain processes,security and organizing valuable information so that it is available in future.\ncomputers in network can really help in running the company smoothly and effectively.\nbelieve me,i am a software engineering student.computers really help
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Technology can help outsourcing because no longer does the outsourced company have to be physically located nearby. This has caused a global marketplace where the workers can be in another country.\n\nTechnology has accelerated this through the use of email, ftp, Internet, WWW etc. For instance, the USA is outsourcing a lot of its software construction (and sometimes design) to countries like India who are becoming very talented in software, but work at a fraction of the price of American programmers/designers.\n\nA company can create a product idea, send it to another country to be created, control its creation through email or Internet conferencing and get the results back at lightning speed.\n\nHope that helps. I have included a link to one such outsourcing company in India where they talk about the advantages of outsourcing with them. Enjoy!
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A variety of factors.\nCommoditization - All computers were more or less the same.  Meaning, they all performed similarly.  Anyone could buy Intel processors and stick them in a plastic case and call it a PC. The name brand became irrelevant.  These clone computers that people were purchasing were known as "White Boxes" because they were of no particular brand.\nDirect to Consumer Sales - The model pioneered by Dell of selling directly to consumers also helped drive prices down.  Since there was no need for expensive middlemen, retail stores, or distribution networks, consumers were able to buy the computers directly from the manufacturer at what would have been considered a wholesale price by the large, established manufacturers.\nOpen Architecture - When IBM lost its stranglehold on the design and development of PC architecture, that was the beginning of the end.  I remember when they were still selling computers that were MCA (Micro Channel Architecture).  This meant you had to buy add on boards (like LAN cards and Video Cards) that were designed for MCA computers.  Everyone else was using a different standard (gosh, its been so long, I forget what it was called, PCI I think).  So, since everyone else was using the open standard, that helped loosen IBM's grip on PC design and architecture.  That meant that IBM no longer set the standards and no longer had the pricing power associated with that position in the market
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This is a lengthy question.\nIt may be an assignment for your weite up.\n\nThere are innumberable factors to affect technology.\n\nThe density and pressure have helped in developing chemistry towards production of new chemicals, mettelery in terms of alloying and joining through various techniques including bolts, aerodynamics in terms of pressure, density and weight, and many more.\n\nYou need to study various books so that you can get the answer. This media is perhaps very small.
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Manufacturing Systems are critical to the success of large manufacturing operations today. These automated systems help control processes, materials, manpower and all the other inputs required for the smooth functioning of a manufacturing unit. Such systems are expensive and involve large levels of automation, sensors, and software. The end result however, is a manufacturing system that is much more responsive to market trends, demand, and inventory levels. The tie-in with enterprise resource planning systems also ensure minute by minute assessments and decisions to be made about variables such as pricing, quantity, inventory, etc.\n\nManufacturing systems speed up processes for the manufacturing sectors by:\n\nReducing manufacturing cycle times \nIncreasing Inventory and cost tracking, mostly real-time \nImproving Turnover tracking \nImproving quality levels and lesser defects \nAchieving Higher returns on assets \nImproving gross margins and cash flow \nImproving turn-around-times (TATs) \nIntegrating with ERP and existing processes
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The best article I've read on the subject is in the link below.  In summary, the article cites the following 7 factors common to Web 2.0:\n\n* Services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability\n* Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get richer as more people use them\n* Trusting users as co-developers\n* Harnessing collective intelligence\n* Leveraging the long tail through customer self-service\n* Software above the level of a single device\n* Lightweight user interfaces, development models, AND business models
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try the link given below:\n\nhttp://www.cseindia.org/programme/industry/recommendations.htm
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from bseindia.com > bhavcopy \n\ndetails on tech analysis visit my answers
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Economics...that's actually what the Civil War boiled down to, as well.  The Northern States had long since embraced the technological advances of their day (hence their having the time to stand back and see how reprehensible slavery was)  The South was still pretty dependent on physical slave labor, and didn't really embrace technologies as readily.  But even if the south had won that war, slavery would have gone away eventually because it would have simply become too expensive compared to the technology...
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Yes.  To the extent that it drives the cost of production up.  Those costs will be passed along to the customers if the marketplace allows it. \n\nOn the other hand, it will spawn new industries, products, and services.These will  provide jobs.
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Porter's Five Forces \nA discussion of Porter's 5 Forces, including rivalry, the threat of substitutes, ... provided a framework that models an industry as being influenced by five forces. ...www.quickmba.com/strategy/porter.shtml
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There are way more than three factors to consider.  The top three might be voltage, current and accessibility.  See the following link for more in-depth info.
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The many levels of technology have done amazing things to businesses the list is pretty long but here are the main ones:\n1. Real time communication of customers/employees/systems and other things allow better control of inventory and orders.\n2. More creative reporting tools to streamline productivity.\n3. Sharing data among different areas. (Example - accounting shares data with human resources).\n4. The ability to sell items over the internet as well as out of an actual store.\n\nThere are other areas as well but this just gives you an idea of how technology (Cell Phones - Computers - Internet - GPS and other systems) has changed to face of businesses.
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international business machines
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Could you please give us some sort of context here ?  Are you talking about computers (hardware), development ?  What ?\n\nPost details please.  We'll try to help.