Knowledge Base
by
Avar Shahzad
IT For Managers
MBA 535

Day 5

Creating a pivot table in excel

Creating a pivot table in excel

Data _____ Information ________ Knowledge

Data Mining

Data Mining

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Data mining is a disciplinary subfield of computer science, is the computational process of discovering paterns of large data sets involving methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics and data base systems.(source: Wikipedia)

Day 4

Internet-Extranet-Intranet

Internet-Extranet-Intranet

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internet: world wide network of computers accessable to anyone who knows their internet protocal (IP) adress.intranet: a network that is not available to the world outside of intranet.extranet: is an intranet which is partially accessible to authorized outsiders.

Using excel

Using excel

Outsourcing

Insourcing

Data Visualization

Day 3

Enterprise Systems

CRM

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customer relation management

SCM

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supply chain management is the management of an interconnected or interliked network, channel and node bussinesses.

PLM

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product lifecycle management

Collaboration

ZARA

Day 2

Michael Porter

Michael Porter

Three Generic Strategies

Cost Leadership

Differentiation

Focus

Google Case Study

Google Case Study

answer of Q1: It's Mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessibleand useful, it is operating on a simple but innovative business to attract internet users to it's free search services and earning revenue from targeted advertising

Answer to Q2:Innovation is the key , google employees can innovate , and they also let them download and edit their softwares, IS also supports innovation.

answer to Q3: It's IT department provides free and open access to IT for all employees , rather than keeping them tight control, google allow thier employees to choose from several engines for computer and operating systems, in this way employees can find and join hands with others working on similar technology or features.

Business Strategy

How do we get there?

Mission Statement

Why do we exist?

Order Fulfilllment

The Order Fulfillment in the company i work for, is we get catalogues from company representers where we selecte the wanted items, we discuss the costing and they ship it to us, while at other times they send us to, for example Turkey, to visit companies, negotiate and purchase the wanted items.

we are an engineer-to-order

process list:
1.Product inquiry,
2.Sales quote
3.Order Booking
4.Billing
5.shipment
6.delivery
7.checking the items
8.LC payment,the remaining half is billed

1.Product inquiry, catalogues are provided by the campanies representatives, where we selected the wanted items and specify the desires form, material and quality.

2.Sales Quotes, we discuss the fee for our order and the fee for shipments.

3.Order booking, we fill in the official order forms and give them to the companies sale representative.

4.Billing, half of the amount discussed is paid upfront.

5.Shipment, they ship the items via container trucks to the destination specified by us

6.Delivery, they stock the items up for us in our warehouses

7.checking the items, we check all the delivered items, to check if its exactly what we've orderd

8.LC, the remained amount is payed through LC payment when we are content with the items delivered.

Day 1

We watched an interesting vidoe of Friedman's Book '' The World is Flat"

I learned how IT can Develope Business and management

I learned how IT can Develope Business and management

Murphy's law. as it says if anything can go wrong , it will go wrong

Michael Porter