1. MGT 540
Managing Technology For Organizations
October 27, 2010
Nicholas Davis

2. Activity One - Today
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• 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

3. Activity Two
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Homework papers return
• Questions, comments concerns

4. Activity Three
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• File management
• Is a DBMS really necessary?
• Is end user involvement important?

5. ons
• What
constitutes
information?

6. • Silo data management- Good or bad?

7. Activity Four
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• 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?

8. Activity Five
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Database trends, batch
vs. real time
• Challenges of database
management – speed,
actions which can be
performed, security,
backup, accessibility

9. Activity Six
MGT 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?

10. Activity Six
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• LAN, WAN, MAN, what is the difference?
• Twisted Pair
• Coaxial Cable
• Fiber Optics
• DNS

11. Activity Seven
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Discuss Google vs Microsoft (Page 289-291)
• Competitive forces
• Strategy
• Effective technology deployment

12. Activity Eight
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Wireless revolution class discussion

13. Activity Nine
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• RFID
• To what extent does it threaten privacy
• Costs of RFID
• Benefits of RFID

14. Activity Ten
MGT 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

15. Activity Eleven
MGT 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?

16. Activity Twelve
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• As a group, review questions 2 and 3 on
page 329

17. Activity Thirteen
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• What would you include in a plan for
controlling information systems and
security your company’s IT assets?

18. Activity Fourteen
MGT 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?

19. Activity Fifteen
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Discuss next week’s assignments

20. Drive Carefully
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Nicholas Davis
• Tel: 608-347-2486
• Email: cow@chartermi.net

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