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 ll Specific: Õ Standards: Different Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), telecommunications standards Õ Reliability: Phone networks not uniformly reliable Õ Speed: Different data transfer speeds, many slower than United States Õ Personnel: Shortages of skilled consultants

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   hree kinds of organizational structure: Õ îentralized (in the home country) Õ Decentralized (to local foreign units) Õ îoordinated (all units participate as equals)

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   Domestic exporter strategy: Õ Œeavy centralization of corporate activities in the

home country of origin Multinational strategy: Õ îentralized financial management and control

while decentralizing production, sales, and marketing operations to units in other countries

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o develop a global company and information systems support structure: Õ Ôrganize value-adding activities along lines of comparative advantage Õ Develop and operate systems units at each level of corporate activity Ȅregional, national, and international Õ Establish at world headquarters

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 Õ Agreeing on common user requirements Õ Introducing changes in business processes Õ îoordinating applications development Õ îoordinating software releases Õ Encouraging local users to support global systems

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 îomputing platforms and systems integration: Õ Develop global, distributed, and integrated

systems to support digital business processes spanning national boundaries

Õ Use of same hardware and operating system does

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Õ Establish data and technical standards

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 îonnectivity: Õ Ôvercoming disparate national technical standards, data exchange restrictions and service levels Õ User of Internet technology to create global

intranets, extranets, virtual private networks (VPNs)

   ll Unique challenges for application software: Õ îost of new interface designs Õ Integrating new systems with old Õ User interface design ‡ Differences in language and conventions

V      Ability to lower costs through global scale economies by building international systems for producing and selling goods and services in different regions of the world

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