IS/IT Strategy HELP please?
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Corporate information systems strategy \n\n•Describe the factors influencing an information system within an organization: management organization and functions, planning and decision making methods, general organization structure, responsibility for the information system within an organization, information flow, hardware and software, standard, behavioral factors e.g. personalities, motivation, ability to adapt to change. \nInformation flow \n\n•Describe the methods and mechanisms of information flow within an organization both formal and informal and the constraints imposed upon this by organizational structures... \n\nPersonnel \n\n•Understand the levels of task/personnel within an organization: strategic, implementation, operational and relate the needs of these three levels to the information system. \n\nSAMPLE\n\nIntro The business environment is very competitive. Consequently, COMPANY NAME needs to offer customers efficient and reliable service. If they do not, customers will switch to more consumer efficient companies. Furthermore, as our COMPANY NAME grows in size, it becomes harder to keep track of the growing amount of customer information. If COMPANY NAME does a poor job of organizing and maintaining customer records and data, it can result in problems for both COMPANY NAME and the consumer. \n\nII. Company Description \n\nIV. Solution\n\nVI. MIS Strengths and Weaknesses Before implementing the any new software and hardware we need to make sure under any new system all customer information and invoices can be quickly accessed by simply entering the number of the invoice, customer account or purchase order. Errors on invoices can be changed without having to retype the whole document. \n\nAny new system of software and hardware should allowed COMPANY NAME customer representatives to save time, which may be used in handling more complicated customer issues. Customer service has to be tremendously improved since customers seeking information on their transactions no longer have to be inconvenienced by waiting long hours. Instead, customer information should be available in real-time, at the moment the customer service representative needs it, a feat that could be made possible by On Demand software. \n\nThis means that as the COMPANY NAME accumulates data that eventually becomes obsolete or is rarely accessed, they can simply remove the cartridges that the information is stored on and replace it with a blank one. This allows additional storage capacity at a very low incremental cost. Furthermore, the use of a Database makes it possible to integrate information as web services. Without Database it would be very difficult to integrate all of the customer information to a web based form or make it accessible on the company's intranet. \n\nIn terms of weaknesses, it is hard to identify any limitations to COMPANY NAME management information systems.  It would seem that the Database is using the most advanced and reliable software and hardware available on the market, as is evidenced by the wide use of all of NAMED PRODUCT and services by companies around the world. \n\nVII. Competitive Advantage of Database MIS As previously stated, COMPANY NAME is involved in a wide range of markets and the range of products and services they provide is unparalleled by any other company. In short, there is no other company in the world that competes on the same level as COMPANY NAME. Rather, there appears to be several competitors in each sector or industry in which COMPANY NAME offers its products and services. Since their competitors are so much smaller, they don't require the same degree or level of information systems that COMPANY NAME has and it is therefore hard to make a comparison. What COMPANY NAME information system does for the company is allow it to be more flexible and swift than it was previously. Frequently, as companies grow, they tend to become more bureaucratic and less able to adapt to changes in the mark
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I am a MCSE and A+ ceritfied Tech, and run my own in home business also, the best advice I can give is check out in the area how many people are doing out calls.\n\nWe have a few people in town that are doing in-home repairs and tech work along with a few small computer dealers, my work is with small business and friends doing software upgrades, small repairs and network installations.\n\nSee if people you know are interested in allowing you to do clean ups in there systems, most people when the computer starts to run slow have no idea of the way to free up space and memory, that is where you come in, set an hourly rate and be flexible, the more work you get the better, and if a small computer store is looking for a tech look to that to supplement your income.\n\nI do 3-5 things a month but I am on a disability and can only work so much, but first see what is out there and then make your decision to see if the market needs a  person like yourself to fill that gap.\n\nOh and don't take the first respondants comments to heart, some people don't have anything better to do.
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google is your friend. use it wisely.
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I'd take his advice. SOunds pretty good. Did you try the help links at all?
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MANAGE\nMEN\nT - techniques\nIs this what u were searching for?
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YOu got some work to do.  \n\nStart---Control Panel---Add or Remove Programs---and get going
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How about a closing paragraph/sentence about how beneficial it would be to incorporate all those strategies into university life and the difference it could make to overall success?\n\nI hope this helps.
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Try this.\n1)Identify in your personal career development plans(HR).\n2)Show Willingness to sacrifice personal time. money and commitment towards self-redevelopment.\n3)Request for possible lateral movement to an IT delpartment perhaps via job sharing?  job shadowing?\n4)Show the readiness to move to another company if denied AND especially you have finished your formal training.
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If you are going to really use it for a comercial enterprise do NOT use Access. You will regret it.  There are better ways. I'd be happy to get you started. Likely there is a template you can easily convert to what you need to do. Email me with details.
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try adding .com, .co.uk .net etc on the end. Without seeing the link it is hard to offer more suggestions - other than "ask your colleague for the full URL"
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Ya u can use 'local group" if u wanna tray that in ur server for trainig.\n\n\nGo to the Administrative tools, active directory, usrs and coputers\n\nGood luck
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hmmm\nLabor management? names?\n\nokay... is this spam? 2 pts. thanks
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The information is well presented, understandable, and technically accurate.  Very good!\n\nFollowing is editorial "nitpicking":\n\nChange page name to something more descriptive.  If I want to bookmark it, it's going to show up as just "laptop".\n\nFirst paragraph: "needs" should be "need".  Second sentence, the "basics" are affecting your decision, not your decision making process.  Last sentence, "innumerous", that's an infinite number.  Suggest rewording the paragraph as:\n\nPurchasing a laptop is a large investment that can be complicated by all of the options, manufacturers, and technical mumbo-jumbo that need to be sifted through. Before you spend a lot of money on a laptop, it is important to spend a little time considering some basics that should affect your decision. This Tech Tip will take a look at a number of things worth considering when buying a laptop computer.\n\nPoint to remember 3 -- grammar error.  Change to: "...the laptop's alternative to ..."\n\nPoint to remember 7, hyperlink to "How to Network Your Computers"\n\nParagraph following "Points..." suggest reword to "... and tendonitis are some ..."\n\nDelete extraneous comma: "...wired or wireless version and generally ..."\n\nMissing comma: "...best option, if available ..."\n\nSuggested change for easier readability: "...separate mouse for ergonomic reasons. Generally it will connect via USB. "\n\nMissing "to": "...starting to feature Bluetooth technology,..."\n\nTense mismatch: "...user to navigate his way to these ..." which isn't politically correct.  :(  How about, "it is up to you to ..."  Tech writers are trending towards use of the second-person, "you", instead of the more formal, stuffy, academic, third-person, "the user".  You've used "you" elsewhere.  It fits your friendly, accessible style.  Stick with it!\n\nSuggested change for easier readability: "..ATI is well known for their high performance graphics products.  They offer ..."\n\nExtra hyphen: "condi-tions"\n\nA general comment, you tend towards long sentences, which is natural because you are thinking of a lot of things at once.  Try to vary between long and short.  It makes your work easier to read.  That is the theory behind some of the suggestions I've made as "readability" changes.\n\nWhew!  Lot of work for two points!  :)\n\nGood luck with your site!
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Good Luck!  I work for a major telecom and our folks who define IT standards are almost anti-opensource.  I get the impression that the decision makers are under the impression that if it doesn't anything, it can't be a decent product.
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best bet is to use their knowledge base. tried to access it but i don't own the software and don't possess a company ID. \n\nhttp://www.securecomputing.com/supportkb.cfm
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I've always had a reputation for being an IT go-to guy. It's not like I try or anything. Word gets around and I have total strangers asking me all kinds of weird questions. Since I got into web development 10 years ago I now have total strangers asking for web sites. Sheesh!
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I can give you Microsoft´s\n\n1. Find the best\n2. Get it, imporve it, copy it or kill it.\n3. Find ways to stop other from making the same to you.