For chapter 5 i found a very interesting article that describes the importance of Enterprise Architecture also known as (EA). The article is titled "Enterprise Architecture: What and Why" by Tom Finerran and goes into depth on what enterprise architecture is and why it is important. Another thing explained in the article is what EA does for Senior business management, IT leadership, and the actual developers.
On this website there is a figure showing an EA analysis that explains how EA helps define business processes in need of improvement. There are times in business when re-engineering is a must and EA provides a solid starting point for this to occur. Finneran also helps the ignorant by pointing out the four main EA topics which include; Information, business, application, and technology.
Overall Finnerman's article does an excellent job of describing the importance of EA to the public or perhaps future business owners. Reading this article before looking into chapter 5 gave me a good intial understanding of EA and helped my quiz and summary flow well.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
IS 130 Ethics and Information Security
The article i choose is about protecting your perssonal identity online. The author Erika Rottenberg a Berkley graduate explains how easy it is for people on the web to obtain your information from social networking site. Millions of people today use sites such as myspace and facebook and sometimes put a little to much information about themselevs online for the world to see. Hackers and people who steal identities see sites such as these as gold mines.
This article is relevant to chapter four because it deals with both Ethics and Security Information. After reading the text I would feel more comfortable starting up my own personal business without the worries of having information stolen. Not only is it not ethical to steal information its just plain wrong.
This article is relevant to chapter four because it deals with both Ethics and Security Information. After reading the text I would feel more comfortable starting up my own personal business without the worries of having information stolen. Not only is it not ethical to steal information its just plain wrong.
IS 130. Chapter 3 EBusiness
The article i choose to do my write-up on for chapter 3 is titled "Former IBM colleagues, now laid off, take a shot at entrepreneurship." This article is about Brain Garr and Moe Almutawa venturing out after being laid off by IBM to help citizens in search for jobs. Both Garr and Almutawa like the concept of helping people and hope they can be successful in doing so. These men are very educated in technology previously working for IBM has been very benificial to them both.
Garr and Almutawa intended to provide residents and small business owners with on-site technology support; technicians help with networking, hardware and software issues, website design, hosting and other technology issues a client might have.
Garr says, "I was losing contact with a community I had become very friendly with, though it was not a surprise," he said. "At the same time, it was exciting. I wanted to build something where I could create jobs."
This is all relevant to chapter three because these two men rely on E Business now for their newly found careers. There was a study done that said, "Annually, nearly 80 percent will have failed in their solo venture in the first twelve months," However, "The failure rate for those who buy a franchise is less than 5 percent."
Many of these failures are due to a lack of clientele base, often dealing with businesses opened online.
Garr and Almutawa intended to provide residents and small business owners with on-site technology support; technicians help with networking, hardware and software issues, website design, hosting and other technology issues a client might have.
Garr says, "I was losing contact with a community I had become very friendly with, though it was not a surprise," he said. "At the same time, it was exciting. I wanted to build something where I could create jobs."
This is all relevant to chapter three because these two men rely on E Business now for their newly found careers. There was a study done that said, "Annually, nearly 80 percent will have failed in their solo venture in the first twelve months," However, "The failure rate for those who buy a franchise is less than 5 percent."
Many of these failures are due to a lack of clientele base, often dealing with businesses opened online.
Friday, September 4, 2009
IS 130 In Business
The first chapter Information in Busniess explains the importance of technology in the business world. This chapter kicks off giving examples of information technology used in every day business. Basically there must be a good relationship between people, information, and information technology in order for any business to be successful. This chapter also makes it clear that know days technology is business and vis versa.
One of the most important things i got out of this chapter was the competitive advantage stratagy. There are two different competitive advantages one being the first-mover advantage and the other is simply competitive advantage. When a company has a product on the market first for a significant period of time, this is an example of the first-mover advantage. The competitive advatage is when a business draws a consumers attention. Although, there are similar products for that consumer to consider, he/she is more interested in your product often because of good advertising/marketing.
A few more things information technology has accomplished in the business world are become a significant part of an organizations strategy and profitability. It is key in any business for a manager to have a good understanding of IT if the business plans on progressing and making a good profit. For example a manager needs to know what strategies can help and what strategies will harm his/her business. Today it is safe to say it is dangerous not to understand It if involved in business management.
A final must in an organazation is to have good tools to use once a strategy is choosen. This chapter puts an emphasis on the value chain. the value chain looks at an organization like a set of processes, and each process adds value to the product or service.
One of the most important things i got out of this chapter was the competitive advantage stratagy. There are two different competitive advantages one being the first-mover advantage and the other is simply competitive advantage. When a company has a product on the market first for a significant period of time, this is an example of the first-mover advantage. The competitive advatage is when a business draws a consumers attention. Although, there are similar products for that consumer to consider, he/she is more interested in your product often because of good advertising/marketing.
A few more things information technology has accomplished in the business world are become a significant part of an organizations strategy and profitability. It is key in any business for a manager to have a good understanding of IT if the business plans on progressing and making a good profit. For example a manager needs to know what strategies can help and what strategies will harm his/her business. Today it is safe to say it is dangerous not to understand It if involved in business management.
A final must in an organazation is to have good tools to use once a strategy is choosen. This chapter puts an emphasis on the value chain. the value chain looks at an organization like a set of processes, and each process adds value to the product or service.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
IS 130 Strategic Decision Making
The article i choose to elaborate on for this chapter is from a website called The Marketing Analysis and titled Advanced marketing solutions and strategic decision making. This article is very straight forward and basically concludes that the right decisions can lead to a businesses sucess. On the contrary, the wrong decisions can very quickly termenate a business and lead it to failure. there are some statistics for businesses such as Circut City and Sears that showed they had tremendous success then because of poor decisions both of the companies filed for bankruptcy.
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