What is the difference between traditional and IT procurement?
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With IT procurement you may have to choose between leasing or buying the equipment.  You may also have to consider the size of the company and see if you can buy directly from the vendor, if your company is large enough, or have to purchase machines from a value added reseller (VAR).  In addition to the hardware you also have to consider the purchase of the software.\n\nYou also have to consider the financial recording impact of the assets depreciating that is not indicative of other non-depreciating assets.
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Project Procurement Management includes the processes to purchase or acquire the products, services, or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work. \n\nProject Procurement Management includes the contract management and change control processes required to administer contracts or purchase orders issued by authorized project team members.\n\nProject Procurement Management also includes administering any contract issued by an outside organization (the buyer) that is acquiring the project from the performing organization (the seller), and administering contractual obligations.
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Traditionalist.  The privilege one don't come here to open stores, they may come to visit, buy homes and enjoy life, but not work behind a counter.  Did you know there are Billionaire Indians!
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Diff Between Computer Science Engg. and information Technology is Comp. Sc. Mainly On HardWare where IT based On software App. But In Basic both Course are same.Diff Is in Master Degree level.For Better counselling Visit http://www.technocs.vipzone.biz.\nPersonally Can Tell You One thing HardWare Part is Much More harder than S/W
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From the people that I talked to, graduate courses are a lot tougher than undergraduate courses.\n\nIf you decide to go to graduate school, then get your masters in information technology.\n\nA Master in Information Technology is the study of computers in business.   Most people that get this degree, usually has a bachelors degree in computer information system, because a MIS degree is a business degree focused on computer technology.\n\nPeople with degrees in MIS usually become Project Leaders.  They don't really do a lot of coding.  So if you are more interesting in programming, I wouldn't get a master degree.  And most companies won't hire you when you get the master degree without having many years of programming experience in the industry.   They also require you to know many DBMS and SQL and PL/SQL.   \n\nGraduate courses requires a lot of group participation.   You will work in groups all the way through your studies.  I think a MIS degree doesn't require a paper on your own, but you must create, and develop a project that could be used in a business.   My guess, it would need to be more intense than an inventory control system.
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There are more processes. Contents are more detailed. Some processes names have changes( eg Quality Assurance is nor "Perform Quality Assurance"). Some terms have changed ( eg Earned Value, Planned Value had other names in the old version). A lot of the description is much more detailed.\nThe new PMBOK also has a chapter describing in detail what all  the changes are, so you can see that there if you are interested.\n\nWhat it may mean to you practically -- the new version PMBOK(PM Book of Knowledge) has nearly DOUBLE the pages (400 +) than the older version !!!
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Information technology (IT, also known as Information and Communication(s) Technology (ICT) and Infocomm, especially in Asia) is a broad subject concerned with technology and other aspects of managing and processing information, especially in large organizations.\n\nIn particular, IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, and retrieve information. For that reason, computer professionals are often called IT specialists, and the division of a company or university that deals with software technology is often called the IT department. Other names for the latter are information services (IS) or management information services (MIS), managed service providers (MSP).\n\nIT (information technology) is a term that encompasses all forms of technology used to create, store, exchange, and use information in its various forms (business data, voice conversations, still images, motion pictures, multimedia presentations, and other forms, including those not yet conceived). It's a convenient term for including both telephony and computer technology in the same word. It is the technology that is driving what has often been called "the information revolution."
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if the company operates in different parts of world, then using ebusiness is a huge advantage for it.\n\n* purchase orders can be send with secured protocol to different office.\n\nit is also helpful for faster communication between different sites.
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If you are not sure about the implementation and its benefits after application, then follo the existing tradition, which is time tested. \nIf you are confident of benefits likely to come after new hanges, don't be afraid of risk. Go ahead with ur idea, convince people on your path. Keep patience. Results will come in your favour, once it is implemented.
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An acquisition involves a lot of costs as far as combining IT departments, human resources, training, etc. and not to mention intangibles such as incompatibility between different cultures within the two companies that may arise. Expanding internally, if possible, is much more efficient and less costly. Certain exceptions do exist though. A company should only acquire another if there is some sort of value added to the company. To acquire just to expand is not recommended at all in general.
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a paradigm shift is required when quality or costs of traditional suppliers devalues the current product and makes it less competitive in the marketplace.  This can occur when suppliers cheapen down their costs to manufacture parts resulting in more defects than before.
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They are similar.  The only noticeable difference is how much leg-work you will be doing in drafting the plan.  It is much harder and time consuming to do a start up plan than it is an existing business, partly because the existing business is well...existing!
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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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Information Technology (IT) or Information and Communication(s) Technology (ICT) is a broad subject concerned with technology and other aspects of managing and processing information, especially in large organizations.\n\nIn particular, IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, and retrieve information. For that reason, computer professionals are often called IT specialists, and the division of a company or university that deals with software technology is often called the IT department. Other names for the latter are Information Services (IS) or Management Information Services (MIS).
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it depends on what kind of business you are talking about, in general you must know the basic operation of computers and also must be very good with ms office package, \nfor systems development and other tech stufff as i mentioned it depends on the type of business and its needs. today there is no business which doesnt use computer in some way or other.\nonly difference is what is the business and its needs.
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Hello,\n\nI used to work in the IT industry (not any more but thats another story) on a contract basis. The answer to your question I think depends upon quite a number of variable factors. For example:- Age, experience, location i.e. which area of the country, wheather you are qualified i.e. such as MCSE,etc. \n\nAlso the job or contract length can make a difference, how mission or system critical the nature of the work involved. For example if your working for the MOD or for a large banking organisation hourly rates would be higher than if it was a medium sized engineering or manufacturer.\n\n**Also another factor that influences IT contractor rates is market conditions which are closely related to the health of the overall economy.\n\nThe rate for being on call also depends upon the role & its position or title. If your a systems administrator X rate or if your only a junior support analyst a lower rate probably.\n\n**Depends if you are called out in the dead of night too? depends if you've got 500 to 1000 people unable to do their work because the server has gone AWOL.\n\nMy guess is that £50 to £90 per hour wouldnt be far out.\n\nIR
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Management information system\n\n\nAs an area of study it is commonly referred to as information technology management. The study of information systems is usually a commerce and business administration discipline, and frequently involves software engineering, but also distinguishes itself by concentrating on the integration of computer systems with the aims of the organization. The area of study should not be confused with computer science which is more theoretical in nature and deals mainly with software creation, or computer engineering, which focuses more on the design of computer hardware.\n\nIn business, information systems support business processes and operations, decision-making, and competitive strategies.\n\nThe functional support role\nIt can also be called Data Base Management System wherein maximum utilization in an efficient manner based on the organisational needs is obtained by analyzing, processing and referenceing of Data Base. Not only for the business, but for all kinds of organisations such as Disaster Management Organisation for using it as Disaster Management Information System.\n\nBusiness processes and operations support function are the most basic. They involve collecting, recording, storing, and basic processing of data. Information systems support business processes and operations by:\n\nrecording and storing accounting records including sales data, purchase data, investment data, and payroll data. \nprocessing such records into financial statements such as income statements, balance sheets, ledgers, and management reports, etc. \nrecording and storing inventory data, work in process data, equipment repair and maintenance data, supply chain data, and other production/operations records \nprocessing these operations records into production schedules, production controllers, inventory systems, and production monitoring systems \nrecording and storing such human resource records as personnel data, salary data, and employment histories, \nprocessing these human resources records into employee expense reports, and performance based reports \nrecording and storing market data, customer profiles, customer purchase histories, marketing research data, advertising data, and other marketing records \nprocessing these marketing records into advertising elasticity reports, marketing plans, and sales activity reports \nrecording and storing business intelligence data, competitor analysis data, industry data, corporate objectives, and other strategic management records \nprocessing these strategic management records into industry trends reports, market share reports, mission statements, and portfolio models \nThe bottom line is that the information systems use all of the above to implement, control, and monitor plans, strategies, tactics, new products, new business models or new business ventures.\n\nThe decision support role\nThe business decision-making support function goes one step further. It becomes an integral part -- even a vital part -- of decision -making. It allows users to ask very powerful "What if…?" questions: What if we increase the price by 5%? What if we increase price by 10%? What if we decrease price by 5%? What if we increase price by 10% now, then decrease it by 5% in three months? It also allows users to deal with contingencies: If inflation increases by 5% (instead of 2% as we are assuming), then what do we do? What do we do if we are faced with a strike or a new competitive threat? An organization succeeds or fails based on the quality of its decisions. The enhanced ability to explore "what if" questions is central to analyzing the likely results of possible decisions and choosing those most likely to shape the future as desired. "Business decision-making support function" is a phrase likely to quicken the pulse of no one but an accountant, but, in fact, it is all about turning wonderful dreams into solid realities.\n\nTetova ...\n\nThe communication decisi