What are wikis? What functions do they perform? What will be ...

[09madisonrousseau09]

What are wikis? What functions do they perform?
 
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Question 2

The business value of an effective supply chain management system includes all of the following except
 
  A) faster time to market.
  B) cost reduction.
  C) supply matched to demand.
  D) improved delivery service.
  E) increased inventory levels.

[miss.ashley]

Answer to Question 1

A significant Web 2.0 technology that facilitates end-user contributions and collaborative editing is the wiki, a website that allows users to add and edit interlinked web pages. Wiki software usually offers simple text editing tools so users need not know HTML. It keeps track of versions and lets users view the history of changes to each page, along with discussions about the page's content. Users navigate within a wiki by doing a keyword search or by clicking on the many embedded links to related wiki pages. Wikis have also emerged as extremely valuable tools within organizations, especially to centralize documents and create knowledge storehouses that employees can edit as needed. The wiki makes it easy for people in any unit or any level of an organization to make contributions from their own personal experience or to update existing articles with current information. Such wikis can become a substantial base of knowledge for an organization, useful for training new employees and organizing all the how-to guides.

Answer to Question 2

D

[09madisonrousseau09]

TYSM

[hollysheppard095]

Excellent