IT and Innovation

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IT and Innovation

• COMP1020 (Fall 2008)
• William K. Cheung

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Outline

• Web 101
• Web System
• Summary of Your Ideas
• Types of Innovation
• Next Topic

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Web 101

• Website
• a collection of Web Pages that is hosted on one
  or more web servers
• accessible via the Internet
• Home Page
• the main entry point for the website
• often contains links to other pages on the
  website
• Web Pages
• documents typically written in HTML
• accessible via HTTP
• include text, pictures, sounds, and videos

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Browser
URL Address of a Web Page
Website Contains a number of Web Pages
Links to other Web Pages
Home Page The first page of a Website
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HTML HTTP

• HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
• the language used in writing web pages
• many tools for editing web pages
• e.g. Microsoft Word, Microsoft FrontPage,
  Dreamweaver,
• hypertext links connect one web page to another
• HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol)
• the internet protocol used to access the World
  Wide Web
• HTTPS
• the secure version of HTTP

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HTML
Web page
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Outline

• Web 101
• Web System
• Summary of Your Ideas
• Types of Innovation

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Web Page Publishing
Computer - Client
Computer - Server
URL
Web pages in html
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Web System
Computer - Client
Computer - Server
URL With some parameters
Web pages in html
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Outline

• Web 101
• Web System
• Summary of Your Ideas
• Types of Innovation

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Summary of Your Ideas
Calendar (compare friends schedule)
Virtual Reality / Multimedia
Auction
Chat
Restaurant Recommendation
Games (helps from others, with some challenges)
1 1 gt 2 ?!
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Outline

• Web 101
• Web System
• Summary of Your Ideas
• Types of Innovation

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Types of Innovations

• Function-oriented Innovations
• Facebook (social networks related applications)
• Apple (user experience)
• Google (search many applications)
• Process-oriented Innovations
• Google (chaotic product development)
• IBM (innovation jam)
• Southwest (no-frills online bookings)

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Process Innovation Service (Sourthwest Airline)
Background Short-haul, No frills approach, 60
cheaper Adv? Where is the IT related part? How
about process innovation?
No frills approach
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Process Innovation Manufacturing (HP DeskJet)
Adv? Where is the IT related part? Any design
innovation needed?
US Atlantic Ocean Europe
US Atlantic Ocean Europe
Kopczak, L., Lee, H. (1995), "Global supply chain
management challenge and responses in the
Asia-Pacific region", Stanford working paper,
pp.27.
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Topic 2 Operating Systems Five reasons
explaining why IT/IS professionals need / need
not learn Linux

• Abstract
• A quick overview of a wide spectrum of operating
  systems
• Development history of Windows-based vs
  Unix/Linux-based
• Differences and similarities between them
• Give Your OWN FIVE Reasons and explain them in
  detail.
• Conclusion
• References