Part 1
Part 1 QUESTION 1 A) CHALLENGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY In the 21st century, Information Systems are facing a series of complex issues, as the the areas of global economy, digital economy and electronic commerce. In the global economy competition can come from everywhere in the world as the been seen in terms of deregulation, removal of trading restrictions, breaking up of monopolies, adoption of euro, improved physical transport capabilities and labor costs although many other areas have been affected. Looking at the digital economy, the convergence of computing and telecommunication technologies has proven to have a huge effect on businesses and society in general. As companies seek to create more digital content in their products and services, organizations have how they have become potentially affected within their operations, products, services, information, markets, competition, and economic environment. While information systems and other parts of the businesses have reached for the online market, the impact of e-commerce have become huge for almost all industries. In order to assess these changes, a business could apply a change management system, which usually involve procedures to document a change request as well as impact of the change. One or more project stakeholders (users, customers, analysts, developers) are often the ones initiating these change requests.
B) SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND OTHER ENGINEERING FIELDS Software engineering can be very intangible and hard to visualize compared to more standard forms of engineering. On the contrary to engineering being based on regular science, software engineering are based on computer science. Software engineering can further be less costly. With regular engineering, the blame of failing projects can often be assessed to construction, manufacturing or maintenance crews. Quite failing projects.
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