Niaz Ali – IT for Managers
Personal Knowledge Base

Day 1

Familiarity with Web Based Drive

Know how to use mind mapping software such as "midomo"

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.

Overveiw Organization Design

Assignment

Google's mission is toorganize the world's information and make it nuiversally accessible and useful

Providing access to all employees and allowing downloading all kind of blog and sites

Security of information is very important to Google innovation culture

Audio

Day 2

The First presentation about CRM

The second presentation about Strategic use of information Resources in a global Economy

3 strategies of Porter for achieving competitive advantage

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

Day 3

Day 3 Assignment

Order Fulfilment for IT Equipment in Oil Search Company

Steps of Purchasing IT equpiment

Initiation request for an IT equipment

The requestor will submit a purchase request to Logistic department

The logistics will send the request for quotation from a few suppliers

Supplier will return quotations to the requester (logistics)

Who will determine the best offer

Logistics department will prepare a purchase order and it will be send to the supplier who had provided the best offer

Supplier will deliver Goods and a delivery note which will be signed by company

Supplier will send an invoice with a signed copy of the Purchase order

Finance department will process the payment

Subtopic

Day 5

Knowledge Management

Data

Information

Knowledge

Chapter 11 Presentation

Three different types of knowing

WHAT

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Based on assembling information and applying it

HOW

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Focuses on applying knowledge.

WHY

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• is synthesized through a reasoning process.• is the casual knowledge of why something occurs

Microsoft Excel techniques

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Learning about Pivot table

Day 4

Explain the differences between insourcing and outsourcing,
inshoring and offshoring, and nearshoring and farshoring

Chapter 6 and 9 presentation

SubBusiness intelligence tools topic

In class work for Using an excel sheet about Mean, Variance and Correlation

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