MGMT 408

Post 1 What are the organizational design variables? Post 2 How might IS change a manager's job? Please explain Post 3 Why is the discussion of decision rights among managers in a firm important? Please explain

Post 1 Why is it important for business strategy to drive organizational strategy and IS strategy? What might happen if the business strategy was not the driver? Post 2 How can information itself provide a competitive advantage to an organization? Give two or three examples. For each example, describe its associated risks. Post 3 What are the three primary strategies for achieving competitive advantage?

1. Question: Why should you participate in IT decision in your firms. 2. Question: It managers must balance 3. Question: New opportunities happen fast so managers must 4. Question: Managers need to be aware of the following 5. Question: When a manager fails to consider it strategy it leads to the following 6. Question: What are the assumptions about the nature of information 7. Question: The term information system is composed of

1. Question: What is the definition of a project 2. Question: What Is a program 3. Question: what Is project management 4. Question: why do most IT projects failed to meet their schedules and budgets

MGMT 408 Week 2 Case Study Assignment; Career Connection Analysis

1. Question: What are IT Assets? Check all the apply 2. Question: What is a management skill? 3. Question: What are the competitive forces? Check all that apply 4. Question: What is a Value system? 5. Question: Why is sustainability so important? 6. Question: Social capital includes which of the following. Check all that apply 7. Question: What is a potential risks that a firm faces when attempting to use IT to outpace their competition?

1. Question: What is IT infrastructure 2. Question: What is the IT manager’s role 3. Question: What are the components of the information systems analysis framework 4. Question: What is a centralized architecture 5. Question: What is web based architecture 6. Question: What are the four key elements to enterprise architecture EA 7. Question: What does cloud computing refer to 8. Question: What does scalability refer to

POST 1 Describe the key factors essential to effectively manage outsourcing POST 2 Finally, define and explain request for information (RFI), request for quote (RFQ), request for proposal (RFP) and the contract management process?

What, in your opinion, is the difference between a decentralized architecture and a centralized architecture? What is an example of a business decision that would be affected by the choice of the architecture? What currently emerging technologies do you predict will show the most impact on the way work is done? Why? What are the merits and challenges associated with remote work?

Discuss how big data, social media concepts and knowledge can create business intelligence and its impact on business. Private corporate data are often encrypted using a key, which is needed to decrypt the information. Who within the corporation should be responsible for maintaining the "keys" to private information collected about consumers? Is that the same person who should have the keys to employee data? Explain Private corporate data are often encrypted using a key, which is needed to d...