Analysis on Management Consulting: Notebook Computers Prediction

Experts predict that notebook computers soon will have 10 times the power of a current personal computer, with a touch sensitive color screen on which one can write or draw with a stylus or type when a program displays a keyboard. Each will have a small, compact, rewritable, removable CD-ROM that can store the equivalent of an encyclopedia set. In addition, the computers will have voice-recognition capabilities, including the ability to record sound and give voice responses to questions. The computer will be able to carry on a dialogue by voice, graphics, typed words, and displayed video graphics. Thus, affordable computers will be about the size of a thick pad of letter paper, and just as portable and convenient, but with the intelligence of a computer and the multimedia capabilities of a television set.

Details:
Based on the description, develop an analysis of the impacts such a development that would have on one of the following: corporate sales and marketing, manufacturing, or management consulting.

o List uses that this type of computer could support for whichever division selected from above.

o Explain why you think the impact will or will not occur, cite sources when necessary.

o Use PowerPoint to present your analysis.