Essays on Error-Prone

Introduction

A pretty, articulate African-American woman stands before a University of Chicago audience to deliver a lecture on her latest book. She is Michelle Alexander, a highly acclaimed civil rights attorney and Associate Law Professor at Ohio State University. The Stanford Law School graduate is the author of the book, which discusses the modern effects of a viciously racist Jim Crow system on today’s society. Significant patterns have continued to emerge regarding racist voting practices in the United States. Is it little wonder, given the historical debauchery that has occurred? Various inconsistencies in prison policy practices (and voting rights discrepancies) have engaged critical ...

The alarming report on patient safety crisis in the United States has brought tremendous public awareness which calls for improvement in the quality of care as well as significant changes in the U.S. healthcare system. In 2001, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) launched a program called “A New Health System for the 21st Century” which focused not only on patient safety but on bridging the gap between the right health care and the actual care that people may receive. To modify the quality of care, the Institute of Medicine set the Six Aims for Improvement which served as the framework ...

The article “ERP implementation failures in China: Case studies with implications for ERP vendors” by Xue Y, Liang H, Boulton W.R. and Snyder C.A (2004) discusses two main issues in legacy or disparate information systems. The two problems include: complicated communication due to implementation of separate information systems among business units, and the high cost involved in the maintenance of independent information systems.

Issue 1: Communication Problem

Organizations in the past have relied on the independent information systems to systematize the various processes of individual departments. If each business unit of a large enterprise implements independent or incompatible information systems, communication between business units ...