Computer Science 1032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cost Leadership, Bargaining Power, Disruptive Innovation

• School: Western University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: Computer Science 1032A/B
• Professor: Louis Magguilli

Document Summary

Productivity paradox: discrepancy between measures of investment in information technology and measures of output at the national level. Canadian coalition for tomorrow"s ict skills (ccict) founded in 2007 by bell to create more educational programs the combine business and technology. Increasingly efficiency means process can be done quicker or with less resources. Value chain: a network of activities that improve the effectiveness of a good or service. Two types of activities that support value chains. Primary activities: activities that directly add value to a product. Sustaining technology: changes in technology that maintain the rate of improvement in customer value. Disruptive technology: introduces a very new package of attributes to the accepted mainstream products. Diffusion of innovation: the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system. 5 stages in which the diffusion of innovation occurs.