Assignment #2 Instructions Assignment 2 - Slack-Be Less Busy - p131-132 in Textbook Requirements: Select any three questions on p132 to answer. If you select question 5 (Slack.com as Web 1.0 or Web 2.0), also provide the reasons. The answer to each of the three questions you select is of a minimum of 200 words. The body of the entire paper is of a minimum of 600 words. Supplementary items such as charts, tables, figures, exhibits, etc. are not counted toward the minimum word requirement . Read the case and questions carefully to include all answers for all questions in your report Ideas and contents that are originated from other authors published media have to be cited. Refer to APA (https://arastyle.apa.org) for in-text Provide a reference list at the end of the paper. For verbatim citations (ie, word-to-word copies), use double quotations and provide the citation including the page number in parenthesis. Papers with uncited materials in the main body or supplementary items that are from other authors' published media will receive a zero grade. . Using papers that have been previously submitted for other courses or schools will receive a zero grade. Using Wikipedia as a citation source will receive a zero grade. Refer to the assignment rubric in D2L for grading criteria. If you need clarification, consult the instructor before you work on the assignment. CLOSING CASE ONE Slack-Be Less Busy Slack is one of the fastest-growing collaboration companies ever started and is used by millions of people every day to collaborate at work. In two short years since its inception, Slack has become a $3 billion company. Slack is like Twitter for businesses. Slack is a centralized group chat platform for Business Driven MIS Module upg mium" product, where an unlimited number of users can use it for free before deciding to and pay money for a more robust package with better features. the enterprise. With its advanced search and file sharing functionalities, it can also be linked to the party apps, such as Google Drive, Dropbox, and Twitter. Slack has long advertised itself as a "low In time-and it won't be long-Slack will morph into the spinal cord of the office nervous system, connecting numerous third-party business apps and eventually becoming the gateway to a workplace artificial intelligence system that will answer routine questions and proactively seek out information 7. How could Slack use social networking analysis to help organizations function more you might otherwise miss. Slack's founder Stewart Butterfield, also the founder of Flickr, was actually building a gaming.com pany when the team created Stack to help developers and employees communicate. When the gain ing company went bankrupt. Butterfield used the opportunity to launch the company's home-grow collaboration tool Slack and the rest is history. And like a game, Slack is fun and engaging and beating up its boring traditional enterprise application competition. Butterfield attributes his company's su cess to its focus on education, feedback, customer happiness, and metric analysis. Butterfield's vision is for Slack to become the single source of company information. Slack's Al Vision The future of Slack is being sketched out by Noah Weiss, Slack's head of search, learning, and imel ligence. Weiss envisions Slack communicating with its customers using advanced Al software bots, allowing the application to understand your role inside a company, anticipate your day-to-day needs, and act like a well-trained office assistant The information employees share with their colleagues within their many Slack channels creates a valuable trove of a company's collective memory, one that can be mined for training an Al system about how things get done inside that company and even who does what. "Workers spend about 20 percent of their time looking for information, or looking for a person who has the information they need." Weiss said. "And we've found that a lot of the questions people have are asked over and over again." Those questions can be basic -"What's the password to the office Wi-Fi network?"-or weightier- "Who's in charge of sales in Berlin?" In time, Slack itself will be smart enough to answer. Combine this with the more than 430 third-party apps that connect to it and Slack becomes the place where you get information and then act on it. Approving expenses and tracking projects are already routine tasks that appear in Slack As Slack becomes smarter, it will seek out and present you with information that it thinks you might want to know. This will become especially useful as Slack scales up to work with ever-larger compo nies. Weiss likens the Al layer to your personal chief of staff. "Slack will know the people you trust and the topics you tend to care about, and over time it will figure out how to better route information to you," he said. "It becomes a robot that's working behind the scenes on your behalf to find things you should know about but might otherwise never see.-34 Questions 1. Do you consider Slack a form of disruptive or sustaining technology? Why or why not? 2. What types of security and ethical dilemmas are facing Slack? 3. What is the ebusiness model implemented by Slack? 4. What is the revenue model implemented by Slack? 5. Categorize Slack as an example of Web 1.0 febusiness) or Web 2.0 (Business 2.0). 6. Bxplain the four characteristics of Business 2.0 and how each applies to Slack. efficiently? Assignment #2 Instructions Assignment 2 - Slack-Be Less Busy - p131-132 in Textbook Requirements: Select any three questions on p132 to answer. If you select question 5 (Slack.com as Web 1.0 or Web 2.0), also provide the reasons. The answer to each of the three questions you select is of a minimum of 200 words. The body of the entire paper is of a minimum of 600 words. Supplementary items such as charts, tables, figures, exhibits, etc. are not counted toward the minimum word requirement . Read the case and questions carefully to include all answers for all questions in your report Ideas and contents that are originated from other authors published media have to be cited. Refer to APA (https://arastyle.apa.org) for in-text Provide a reference list at the end of the paper. For verbatim citations (ie, word-to-word copies), use double quotations and provide the citation including the page number in parenthesis. Papers with uncited materials in the main body or supplementary items that are from other authors' published media will receive a zero grade. . Using papers that have been previously submitted for other courses or schools will receive a zero grade. Using Wikipedia as a citation source will receive a zero grade. Refer to the assignment rubric in D2L for grading criteria. If you need clarification, consult the instructor before you work on the assignment. CLOSING CASE ONE Slack-Be Less Busy Slack is one of the fastest-growing collaboration companies ever started and is used by millions of people every day to collaborate at work. In two short years since its inception, Slack has become a $3 billion company. Slack is like Twitter for businesses. Slack is a centralized group chat platform for Business Driven MIS Module upg mium" product, where an unlimited number of users can use it for free before deciding to and pay money for a more robust package with better features. the enterprise. With its advanced search and file sharing functionalities, it can also be linked to the party apps, such as Google Drive, Dropbox, and Twitter. Slack has long advertised itself as a "low In time-and it won't be long-Slack will morph into the spinal cord of the office nervous system, connecting numerous third-party business apps and eventually becoming the gateway to a workplace artificial intelligence system that will answer routine questions and proactively seek out information 7. How could Slack use social networking analysis to help organizations function more you might otherwise miss. Slack's founder Stewart Butterfield, also the founder of Flickr, was actually building a gaming.com pany when the team created Stack to help developers and employees communicate. When the gain ing company went bankrupt. Butterfield used the opportunity to launch the company's home-grow collaboration tool Slack and the rest is history. And like a game, Slack is fun and engaging and beating up its boring traditional enterprise application competition. Butterfield attributes his company's su cess to its focus on education, feedback, customer happiness, and metric analysis. Butterfield's vision is for Slack to become the single source of company information. Slack's Al Vision The future of Slack is being sketched out by Noah Weiss, Slack's head of search, learning, and imel ligence. Weiss envisions Slack communicating with its customers using advanced Al software bots, allowing the application to understand your role inside a company, anticipate your day-to-day needs, and act like a well-trained office assistant The information employees share with their colleagues within their many Slack channels creates a valuable trove of a company's collective memory, one that can be mined for training an Al system about how things get done inside that company and even who does what. "Workers spend about 20 percent of their time looking for information, or looking for a person who has the information they need." Weiss said. "And we've found that a lot of the questions people have are asked over and over again." Those questions can be basic -"What's the password to the office Wi-Fi network?"-or weightier- "Who's in charge of sales in Berlin?" In time, Slack itself will be smart enough to answer. Combine this with the more than 430 third-party apps that connect to it and Slack becomes the place where you get information and then act on it. Approving expenses and tracking projects are already routine tasks that appear in Slack As Slack becomes smarter, it will seek out and present you with information that it thinks you might want to know. This will become especially useful as Slack scales up to work with ever-larger compo nies. Weiss likens the Al layer to your personal chief of staff. "Slack will know the people you trust and the topics you tend to care about, and over time it will figure out how to better route information to you," he said. "It becomes a robot that's working behind the scenes on your behalf to find things you should know about but might otherwise never see.-34 Questions 1. Do you consider Slack a form of disruptive or sustaining technology? Why or why not? 2. What types of security and ethical dilemmas are facing Slack? 3. What is the ebusiness model implemented by Slack? 4. What is the revenue model implemented by Slack? 5. Categorize Slack as an example of Web 1.0 febusiness) or Web 2.0 (Business 2.0). 6. Bxplain the four characteristics of Business 2.0 and how each applies to Slack. efficiently