Case Study on Business Informatics Module

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Subject Area:Technology

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0 in Malaysia. Both the provided articles talks about technology and that of Volkswagen Company is about the effects of technology which is carelessly handled by those concerned while Industrial Revolution 4. 0 in Malaysia brings out the positive impact of technology as it advances over the years and becomes more useful to the demographic population. On a separate occasion, the article is going to answer the case study question on the title of Volkswagen Pollution and its Reputation with software cheat on the Emission Test. The questions in the article of Volkswagen that ought to be answered include whether the Volkswagen emission cheating crisis posed an ethical dilemma and the stakeholders who were involved. The question of whether or not the Volkswagen emission cheating crisis poses an ethical dilemma and if so why and the name of stakeholders involved.

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The answer to that question is that yes it poses an ethical dilemma because every company has rules and regulations on the ethical conduct of its workers regarding the production of its goods. The standard quality of the goods produced is also well articulated in the rules and guidelines on ethics. The Volkswagen Company no matter how long it takes could have ensured that the vehicles they released in the market had good quality engine device that that could control diesel emission. The company did not follow the ethical conduct and went ahead and released vehicles which had diesel emission problem endangering both the consumers and the environment at large because of the excessive emission of carbon (IV) oxide. The organization as a whole was also involved in the VW’s software cheating since they did not put strict laws governing conducts of its workers.

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The organization ought to have put strict measures on ethics in order to control the misconduct of its members. This puts the organization at the center of the scandal because they neglected their duties as an organization to control the behavior of their employees. The technology factor also had a role in the scandal since Volkswagen Company had not advanced in technology since 2005 when they started looking for a solution for a device that could control the emission of diesel and reach the required limit. The company's use of poor technology led to the emission scandal that saw the company make a loss of up to 25% in the USA and 20% in the UK of their sales in only one month. A century later electric power and mass production processes were introduced in a period known as the Second Industrial Revolution.

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The Third Industrial Revolution saw the entrance of digital technology and the Fourth Industrial Revolution is the building and expanding of the Third Industrial Revolution. The Fourth Revolution as argued by Schwab is that it was known to have fusion of the lines between the physical digital and biological spheres (Kaletsky, 2011). The Industrial Revolution 4. 0 scenarios in Malaysia over time include the Third Industrial Master Plan 2010-2020 (IMP3) and the new STI policy (2013-2020) to assist and to propel the country into the new era of industrial 4. 0 scenario whereby Malaysia is developing an economy where the transaction can be done without payment of liquid money and only debit and credit cards are the order of the day. This reduces the risk of carrying money around as the cards are secured with pins which deny unauthorized persons from doing a transaction.

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Malaysia is targeting to increase the number of payments per capita 44 in 2010 to 200 by 2020, which is comparable to the e-payment per capita to the more developed countries (Kaletsky, 2011). With this Malaysia is advancing in technology and even though not fast, but it is achieving the Industrial Revolution 4. Brief explanation on the industrial revolution growth as a balanced growth path, the left-hand-side of this equation is constant by definition, so then where Gz is defined as the gross growth rate of any variable z along a balanced growth path. The industry must employ enough labor from the market in order to meet its target of production. In addition to the human resource, the industry must also employ the use of assistant machines to assist human forces in the production.

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The second pillar which talks of skills and competency level demands that for industrial revolution to take place, the sector must be willing employ people of higher skills and creativeness from higher institution like colleges, higher training centers and universities The third pillar is about adaptive skills implies that the industrial sector must be willing to venture into different skills and try out the skills that are needed by the industry. The industrial revolution will grow to a greater level since the skills adapted will be used to improve technology. The fourth pillar is about infrastructure suitability directs the industrial sector to be ready for any technology invention. 0 IR growth and development by lowering the confidences of industries investing in the technology since they don't have a greater percentage of consumers trusting them a low rate of 4.

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0 IR growth and development (Kaletsky, 2011). In the article review, very many people trust the technology companies. With the trust, the companies gain confidence and morale to continue innovating and investing in technology at all level without fear of losing the market. When the technology companies gain trust, the level of 4. The other article of IR 4. 0 in Malaysia talks about the benefit of advanced technology to human and the economy at large. Development of technology in Malaysia over the decades has seen it go digital increasing the economic advantage over the periods making Malaysia among the industrial growing countries across the globe. Every country just Malaysia should embrace technology and innovation in order to experience the industrial growth and boost in the economy.

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