Joseph KK Ho's work diary

The following info is for the BU MBA ecommerce class from August 28 to 31, 2014 Textbook: Rana Tassabehji (2005) Applying e-commerce in business , Sage Publications, London. References The global IT report 2014 Info economy (oecd) The long tail Law of disruption Strategy + business What are network effects New rules for new economy Rise of crowdsourcing 9 examples of crowdsourcing How does bitcoin work ? Bad behavior of email users Data protection Guide to Internet law The dot-com survivors Another digital gold-rush Another tech bubble Business models on the web 2014 info security breaches survey How cyber-criminals attack websites Spear-phishing Office intruders bbc Managing enterprise security Playstations offline Social networking (pdf) Web gurus e-commerce intelligence (pdf) We are the web Amazon apologize on cloud fault 10 best intranets Topics: Introduction to e-commerce The technology Elements of e-commerce: applications Security and e-c...

For the GW ecommerce class, the following links  are useful references: Facebook folder (videos) Blog info

The following are some study materials on plagiarism covered in the 1-hour plagiarism workshop on August 19, 2014 Facebook folder Plagiarism blog article 1 Self-plagiarism article 2 Also refer to the article distributed in the workshop.

There are quite a number of magazines I have subscribed, Time, Newsweek, The Economist,  and Businessweek, etc.. I enjoy reading them very much.  More than the news, I like to study the writing styles of the various articles. Learning English via reading journal articles has been what I have been doing since my Secondary School. It is rare to find grammatical errors from these magazines.  In the very old days when I was a secondary school student, I used to go to North Point to purchase old magazines to read. It probably costed 50 cents to buy one from the bookshops there which sold old textbooks as well as old magazines. Those bookshops have long gone. It is now getting more difficult to read magazines in public transportation as it is now so crowded with lighting very often blocked by the crowd. It is nevertheless much enjoyable to read articles in hardcopy magazines than via a e-reader, though the technology will advance to a point one day that the situation will ch...

It is getting infeasible to print out all the course materials to read, due to its tremendous volume. For pdf doc, I can now read via Amazon kindle readers. For docs in other formats, e.g. ppt and winwords, I read with Samsung tablet. Nevertheless, for submission of certain forms to universities, I still need to print them out and, very often, I need to do scanning so that I can return the docs via email. Doing intensive reading via desktop computer is bad, as it severely strains my eyes. But universities sometimes expect me to do so, as they do not care much about health and safety of teachers… the systems are bureaucratic and heartless still, though they often claim to be customer-oriented.

Introductory Session:  Management and cost accounting fundamentals Regaining lost relevance, Aim Before addressing the more advanced topics in strategic management accounting you need to revise the fundamentals covered on an earlier accounting module. You should be familiar with the general content of these chapters from your earlier studies and just need to be reminded / updated.  Reading Chapters 1, 2 and 10 in the recommended text and articles. Dekker, H  (2003) Value chain analysis in inter-firm relationships – a field study”. Management Accounting Research, Vol.14, p.1-23) Self assessment Complete the multiple choice questions for chapter 1, 2 and chapter 10.    Consider the end-of-chapter review questions for chapters 1, 2 and 10. Activities and Questions Attempt end-of-chapter exercises: 1.12...