MGT 540Managing Technology For Organizations

October 27, 2010Nicholas Davis

• Data management tactics and strategies• Strategies for creating a database environment• Trends in telecommunications, networking and

the Internet• Opportunities presented by wireless technology• Wireless applications and decision making• Securing and controlling information

technologies

Activity One - TodayMGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations

• Homework papers return

• Questions, comments concerns

Activity TwoMGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations

• File management

• Is a DBMS really necessary?

• Is end user involvement important?

Activity ThreeMGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations

• What constitutes information?

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• Silo data management- Good or bad?

• Analyze the database approach to data management

• Define database - a systematized collection of data that can be accessed immediately and manipulated by a data-processing system for a specific purpose

• In what ways does data management support business processes?

Activity FourMGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations

• Database trends, batch vs. real time

• Challenges of database management – speed, actions which can be performed, security, backup, accessibility

Activity FiveMGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations

• Discuss networking and communications trends, connectivity, speed, devices, standards, unified networks

• TCP/IP packets travel on switched networks vs dedicated lines...What is the advantage of this?

Activity SixMGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations

• LAN, WAN, MAN, what is the difference?

• Twisted Pair

• Coaxial Cable

• Fiber Optics

• DNS

Activity SixMGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations

• Discuss Google vs Microsoft (Page 289-291)• Competitive forces• Strategy• Effective technology deployment

Activity SevenMGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations

• Wireless revolution class discussion

Activity EightMGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations

• RFID• To what extent does it threaten privacy• Costs of RFID• Benefits of RFID

Activity NineMGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations

• Systems vulnerability, class discussion• What causes computer systems to become

vulnerable?• How do you address these vulnerabilities?• Why do vulnerabilities still exist?• Hacking vulnerabilities – Internal vs. External

Activity TenMGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations

• Chapter 8 case study• Which concepts in the chapter are

illustrated?• Describe the control weaknesses• Who is ultimately responsible?• How could it have been prevented?

Activity ElevenMGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations

• As a group, review questions 2 and 3 on page 329

Activity TwelveMGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations

• What would you include in a plan for controlling information systems and security your company’s IT assets?

Activity ThirteenMGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations

• Discussion: What have you learned so far in the course?

• Is everything going OK?

• What do you like and dislike

• Is Kit Kat the best chocolate bar ever invented?

Activity FourteenMGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations

• Discuss next week’s assignments

Activity FifteenMGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations

• Nicholas Davis

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