Course Name: Fundamentals of Management Information System

Course Title: MIS 2204

Submitted To
Name: Joy Chowdhury
ID: 193010020

Submitted By
Name: Dr. Vhokto Kumar Biswas
Designation: Assistant Professor
Department of Business Administration
Notre Dame University Bangladesh (NDUB)

Date Of Submission : 20 April, 2021

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Q: What are the key technology trends that raise ethical issues today? Explain in brief.
Answer: Ethical issues long preceded information technology. Nevertheless, information
technology has heightened ethical concerns, taxed existing social arrangements, and made some
laws obsolete or severely crippled. There are four key technological trends responsible for these
ethical stresses. These four trends and their impacts are given below:

Advances in data storage techniques and rapidly declining storage costs have been responsible
for the multiplying databases on individual’s employees, customers, and potential customers
maintained by private and public organizations. These advances in data storage have made the
routine violation of individual privacy both cheap and effective. Already massive data storage
systems are cheap enough for regional and even local retailing firms to use in identifying
customers.

Advances in data analysis techniques for large pools of data are a third technological trend that
heightens ethical concerns because companies and government agencies are able to find out
much detailed personal information about individuals. With contemporary data management
tools companies can assemble and combine the myriad pieces of information about you stored on
computers much more easily than in the past.

The doubling of computing power every 18 months has made it possible for many organizations
to use information systems for their core production processes. As a result, our dependence on
systems and our vulnerability to system errors and poor data quality has increased rapidly. Social
rules and laws have not yet adjusted to this dependence. Standards for ensuring the accuracy and
reliability of information systems are not universally accepted or enforced.

Think of all the ways you generate computer information about yourself—credit card purchases,
telephone calls, magazine subscriptions, video rentals, mail-order purchases, banking records,
and local, state, and federal government records (including court and police records). Put
together and mined properly, this information could reveal not only your credit information but
also your driving habits, your tastes, your associations, and your political interests.
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Q: Do you think that e-commerce platform is becoming more popular day by in our country
during the COVID pandemic? Why?

Answer: Yes. I think that, e-commerce platform is becoming more popular day by day in our
country during this COVID pandemic because in this time people cannot go out from home. For
which They cannot buy their necessities from the market and any particular shop. That’s why
Currently e-commerce platform playing a major role in tackling this pandemic situation. E-
commerce includes buying and selling of raw material, products, services or any kind of goods
and services through an electronic medium (internet) by the consumer, retailer, and business.
Whereas, e-commerce retail is the exchange of goods and services between an online retail
company and consumers. For example, nowadays people order their daily necessities though
computer and mobile phone on various e-commerce platform such as e-commerce website like
Evaly, Food panda, Amazon, BD shop and many other websites and besides their have e-
commerce apps also and ordered products various ways at home. As a results, the pandemic
situation is not having much effect on people.

Although E-Commerce is most considered and chosen way of purchasing different types of
products and services. Nowadays E-commerce has to be replaced with traditional purchasing.
The only reason behind is a lot of variety is available to customers to choose their own product in
fingertips from all over world. Due to this covid19 pandemic.
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Q: Write down the major problems of e-commerce in Bangladesh and how can we overcome
these problems successfully?

Answer: E-commerce includes buying and selling of raw material, products, services or any
kind of goods and services through an electronic medium (internet) by the consumer, retailer,
and business. Whereas, e-commerce retail is the exchange of goods and services between an
online retail company and consumers. The major problems of e-commerce in Bangladesh is:

Lack of legal acceptance: There is no proper legal support for e-commerce or online business
sites in Bangladesh. Government till now not introduced a full online or e-commerce law for
promoting this department of business.

High cost of internet: The broad band internet costs are relatively high in Bangladesh assimilate
to Asian region. The broad band facilities are also cover the short range of total population. till
now in Bangladesh the price of all computers, and computer related devices are sky scraper. The
mass richness of computer and computer technology are far behind from the low and middle
income group people of Bangladesh.

Lack of trust on e-commerce: Trust is the most important factor in e-commerce without trust e-
commerce can’t flourish in Bangladesh. Many online businesses have no validity in their
operation of business and this is the major problem in Bangladesh.

Problem in product selection: Suitable products for basic demographics for example age;
gender and ethnicity, market trends and customization of customers, buying habits,
psychological and geographical factors and proper design of the products are major obstacles for
e-commerce industry in Bangladesh

Unclear product delivery & return policy: On time product delivery and complicated return
policy are still a challenge in e-commerce. Lacks of proper delivery time of product, unfriendly
attitude from parcel companies, undefined return policy etc.

If we want we can easily overcome these problems if we want. All we can do is give the right
information to those who are selling the product so that they can deliver the product to the right
address and they can send the right product. And what kind of problems can be dealt with very
easily if those who are vendors are a little honest

Answer to the Question no: 5

Q; Discuss the six major ethical principles with relevant examples.

Answer: Six Major Ethical Principles with relevant example are given below:

1. The Golden Rule:

“Do unto others as you would them do unto you”. It indicates ‘Put yourself into the place of
others, and think yourself from his/her point of views’.
2. Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative Principle:
This principle represents that “if an action is not right for everyone to take, then it is not right for
any”.
3. Descartes’ Rule of Change:
“If an action cannot be taken repeatedly, then it is not to take at all”. This is also known as
Slippery slop rule.
4. The Utilitarian Principle:
The theme of this principle is “Take the action that achieves the higher or greater value”
5. Risk Aversion Principle:
The message of this principle is “Take the action that produces the least harm or the least
potential costs”.
6. No Free Lunch Principle:
“If something is created by someone that is useful to you; it has the value and you should assume
that the creator wants compensation for this work.”
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Q: Why should you like to introduce networking in your organization?

Answer: We should like to introduce networking in our organization because it’s

1. Efficient utilization of resources,

2. Data sharing,

3. Speedup data sharing,

4. Efficient communication,

5. Ensuring backup of data,

6. Simultaneous access

7. User friend.
the network is considered one of the most critical resource in an organization, both in the
private and public sectors. In today’s competitive market, responsiveness to customer or supplier
demand is often a decisive factor in the success of an organization. Networks are created to
provide a means to satisfy an objective or need. These objectives and needs are frequently
critical, therefore the networks itself is critical. Consider the metaphor of a transportation
networks such as roads, highways, rails and many more. If any of these conduits were to become
suddenly unavailable, our ability to distribute food, clothes and products would be seriously
compromised. The residents of a town or country who need the food, clothes and products are
the “end users” of this particular sort of network. Similarly, a network is made to supply a way of
transmitting data, sometimes essential data, from one computer to a different . The accuracy and
speed of daily business transactions for giant organizations are vital to their success.
Unscheduled disruption leading to the failure to process these daily business transactions are
costly and potentially disastrous. The widespread use of networks extends the reach of
organizations. These remote interactions with customers, suppliers and business partners have
significantly benefited countless businesses. it's correspondingly positively impacted the general
productivity of the many countries. Such productivity gains, however, are only nearly as good
because the network.
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Q: Why does fiber optics or optical fiber as acknowledge as the best wire-based medium of data
transmission?

Answer: The fiber-optic cable consists of strands of clear optical fiber. The thickness of every is
analogous to a person's hair, which is bound into cables. Data are transformed into pulses of
sunshine which are sent through the fiber-optic cable by a laser device. Data are transmitted at
rates varying from 500 kilobits to many trillion bits per second. Fiber-optic cable is considerably
faster, lighter, and more durable than wire media. it's compatible to transfer larger volumes of
knowledge. However, fiber-optic cable is harder to figure with, costlier, and harder to put in.
Until recently, fiber-optic cable had been used primarily because the high-speed network for the
web, another wide area network, and metropolitan area networks.

That’s the reason, fiber optics or optical fiber as acknowledge as the best wire-based medium of
data transmission