Niaz Ali – IT for Managers
Personal Knowledge Base
Day 4
In class work for Using an excel sheet about Mean, Variance and Correlation
SubBusiness intelligence tools topic
Chapter 6 and 9 presentation
Explain the differences between insourcing and outsourcing,
inshoring and offshoring, and nearshoring and farshoring
Day 5
Microsoft Excel techniques
Learning about Pivot table
Chapter 11 Presentation
Three different types of knowing
WHY
• is synthesized through a reasoning process.
• is the casual knowledge of why something occurs
HOW
Focuses on applying knowledge.
WHAT
Based on assembling information and applying it
Knowledge Management
Knowledge
Information
Data
Day 3
Day 3 Assignment
Order Fulfilment for IT Equipment in Oil Search Company
Steps of Purchasing IT equpiment
Subtopic
Finance department will process the payment
Supplier will send an invoice with a signed copy of the Purchase order
Supplier will deliver Goods and a delivery note which will be signed by company
Logistics department will prepare a purchase order and it will be send to the supplier who had provided the best offer
Who will determine the best offer
Supplier will return quotations to the requester (logistics)
The logistics will send the request for quotation from a few suppliers
The requestor will submit a purchase request to Logistic department
Initiation request for an IT equipment
Day 2
Class work about Telecommuting
The main idea of the article is about the CEO of yahoo trying to ban telecommuting, it’s appear that banning telecommuting at yahoo created a great debate about the decision made by the CEO, most of the discussion gave reasons that the yahoo’s CEO decision was not a wise one, and others gave reasons that came along with those decisions
3 strategies of Porter for achieving competitive advantage
The second presentation about Strategic use of information Resources in a global Economy
The First presentation about CRM
Day 1
Assignment
Audio
Security of information is very important to Google innovation culture
Providing access to all employees and allowing downloading all kind of blog and sites
Google's mission is toorganize the world's information and make it nuiversally accessible and useful
Overveiw Organization Design
IS StrategyTriangle represents a simple framework for understanding the impact of IS of business, it implies the balance that must be maintained in business planning.
Know how to use mind mapping software such as "midomo"
Familiarity with Web Based Drive
