CMGT 445 Week 1 Participations

Supporting Activity: Integrating Domain-Specific Needs

Write a 200- to 300-word short answer response that addresses the following:

• What is the best approach to integrating domain-specific needs? Why is this approach better than others?

Supporting Activity: Evolution of Technology

Write a 200- to 300-word short answer response that addresses the following:

• What challenges could businesses face with the constant evolution of technology?

Supporting Activity: Digital World

Write a 200- to 300-word short answer response that addresses the following:

• What makes today’s technological environment a Digital World? What is the future of human-computer interactions?

Supporting Activity: Bridging the Digital Divide

Write a 200- to 300-word short answer response that addresses the following:

• Why should companies consider the digital divide?

Supporting Activity: Professional Associations

Write a 350- to 700-word paper on the types of professional organizations that would provide insight into the career field you are in or are interested in.

CMGT 445 Week 2 Participations

Supporting Activity: Competitive Advantage

Write a 200- to 300-word short answer response that addresses the following:

• What competitive advantage does technology give to business? How does aging hardware affect this advantage?

Supporting Activity: Technology Innovation

Write a 200- to 300-word short answer response that addresses the following:

• What is the importance of organizational decision roles to technology innovation?

Supporting Activity: E-commerce

Write a 200- to 300-word short answer response that addresses the following:

• What are the different types of e-commerce? Should the Internet Tax Freedom Act of 1998 be abolished? Justify your opinion.

Supporting Activity: Internet – Worldwide Digital Divide

Watch the “Internet: Worldwide Digital Divide” video.

Write a 200- to 300-word response that addresses the following:

• How can companies use technology to bridge the worldwide digital divide?

CMGT 445 Week 3 Participations

Supporting Activity: Business Intelligence

Write a 200- to 300-word short answer response that addresses the following:

• What does business intelligence provide when performing a strategic upgrade on technology core systems?

Supporting Activity: Dashboards

Write a 200- to 300-word short answer response that addresses the following:

• Does a business dashboard for technology help improve decision making? Explain your answer.

Supporting Activity: Supply Chain Management

Write a 200- to 300-word short answer response that addresses the following:

• What advantage(s) would result from developing a strong SCM process to match IS system upgrades? What would such a process look like?

Supporting Activity: Strategic Global Vision

Watch the “Strategic Global Vision” video.

Write a 200- to 300-word short answer response that addresses the following:

• What role does technology have in social responsibility?

Supporting Activity: Enterprise Resource Planning

Write a 200- to 300-word short answer response that addresses the following:

• What are some of the limitations to ERP for enterprise business solutions?

CMGT 445 Week 4 Participations

Supporting Activity: Enterprise Systems

Write a 200- to 300-word short answer response that addresses the following:

• What is an enterprise system and how can this design support testing processes?

Supporting Activity: Commercial Versus Custom

Write a 200- to 300-word short answer response that addresses the following:

• What advantages does commercial off-the-shelf software provide over custom software?

Supporting Activity: User Roles

Write a 200- to 300-word short answer response that addresses the following:

• What role do users have in the development phase and integration phase for information systems?

CMGT 445 Week 5 Participations

Supporting Activity: Interview Techniques

Watch the “Interview Techniques: Ice Breaking and Setting the Stage” video on the student website.

Write a 200- to 300-word short answer response that addresses the following:

• What interview techniques do companies employ? From your experience, have you been in an interview when these were used? Describe the differences and the approach to being successful at them.

Supporting Activity: Professional Organizations

Write a 200- to 300-word short answer response that addresses the following:

• Why are professional organizations important to continual learning? What professional organizations benefit both the employee and the employer?