GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ceridian, Iphone, Management Information System

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: William Onuwa

Document Summary

Case 1: running the business from the palm of your hand. Examples of applications that companies use in a means to run their business is the transformer. Monitoring app used by general electric, a large company that produces aircraft engines, locomotives and transportation. General electric"s mobile center of excellence has provided iphone and ipad applications. The transformer monitoring app which helps the company regulate gas turbine inventory. It"s monitoring system works throughout the world and allows the user to zoom in from a global map to an individual transformer. They support the business"s function to keep up to date with their supply and customer demands. This also improves operational efficiency and decision making by letting employees find trending patterns in immense amounts of information. It also minimizes effort and time since the task can be done by the user"s smartphone. Another application called powerpay is used by ceridian, a.