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BMGT 300 (1).
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BMGT 300CO-N-TRO-LE Framework deals with - ANS-Managing IT projects
CO = - ANS-Computing Evolution & Trends
N = - ANS-New Systems and Managing Legacy
TRO = - ANS-Three Technologies and Roles
L = - ANS-Leading IT Projects
E = - ANS-Enterprise Systems
Components of An IT System (4) - ANS-Hardware
Software
Database
Networks
Vaporware - ANS-vaporware is an advertised product, often computer software, whose launch
has not happened yet and might or might not ever happen while abandonware
Wetware - ANS-wetware is (slang) a human brain or mind as a computing element coined as a
parallel to hardware and software common in the cyberspace genre of science fiction while
abandonware is : a software product, especially a video game, whose copyright is no longer
defended or which is no longer marketed even by the company who made it.
What does U.S Spend most on IT - ANS-Telecommunications
Software
Top Spending on IT Worldwide - ANS-Telecom
All IT Spending totals -- - ANS-3,500 billion
Industry Spending Most on IT - ANS-Business Services and Construction (209) billion
Dominant Designs and Computing Eras: Mainframes - ANS-before 1960
Dominant Designs and Computing Eras: Minis - ANS-1960-1980
Dominant Designs and Computing Eras: PCS - ANS-1980 - 1995
, Dominant Designs and Computing Eras: Networked - ANS-1995 -- Onward
Dominant Designs and Computing Eras: Mobile Era - ANS-2002 - Present
Moore's Law - ANS-Moore's law refers to an observation made by Intel co-founder Gordon
Moore in 1965. He noticed that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits
had doubled every year since their invention. Moore's law predicts that this trend will continue
into the foreseeable future.
Linus's Law - ANS-Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every
problem will be characterized quickly and the fix will be obvious to someone."
Metcalfe's Law - ANS-Metcalfe's law states that the value of a telecommunications network is
proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2).
Reed's Law - ANS-that the utility of large networks, particularly social networks, can scale
exponentially with the size of the network.
Dunbar's Number - ANS-Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people
with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an
individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person.
Revenues of Tech Giants: Apple - ANS-highest revenues, 200-250 Billion
Revenue of Tech Giants: Oracle - ANS-highest, 35-40
Less than ___ companies have reached a market cap of 150 billion - ANS-30
Using IP date as starting point, ____ is on track to do it fastest - ANS-Facebook
Took Apple ___ years to reach 150 market cap - ANS-27
Facebook is on par to hit 350 billion in ___ years - ANS-4
Took Apple ____ years to hit 350 billion - ANS-32
New Systems and Managing Legacy Principles (3) - ANS-Inside-out versus Outside- in
linkage with competitive strategy, and customer and employee behaviors you want to promote
Information flows: availability of right info with right accuracy to right people in right manners
more and faster is not always better
Three Technologies and Roles - ANS-Functional, Networking, Enterprise
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