1. MGT 540
Managing Technology For Organizations
November 10, 2010
Nicholas Davis

2. Today’s Agenda – Activity #1
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Building and redesigning IT systems
• Implementing effective reengineering and process
improvement
• Technology and change management
• IT an improving decision making processes
• The role of IT in facilitating international business
• Trends in IT as they relate to global business

3. Activity #2
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Questions about structure of assignments
and class
• Return papers

4. Activity #3
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Building new information systems
• Automation
• Rationalization
• Business Reengineering
• Paradigm shift

5. Activity #4
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Systems building/development approaches
• Analysis
• Design
• Programming
• Testing
• Conversion
• Production
• Maintenance

6. Activity #4
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Prototyping
• End user design/development/education
• Canned application software packages
• Outsourcing

7. Activity #5
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Challenges and
opportunities to building
information systems
• Legacy hardware and
software
• Business model
unfamiliarity
• Fear and resistance to
change

8. Activity #6
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• U.S. Census Bureau data collection
project
• Page 550-551
• Case study questions

9. Activity #7
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Chapter 14 overview
• Project management
• On time
• On budget
• Benefit business

10. Activity #7
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Project planning activities
• Planning work
• Assessing risk
• Estimating work resources
• Organizing the work
• Directing execution
• Analyzing results

11. Activity #7
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Project planning variables
• Scope
• Time
• Cost
• Quality
• Risk

12. Activity #7
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• You need a plan describing how IT project
support business goals
• Establishing critical success factors is
really important!
• Make sure to assess both the tangible and
intangible benefits

13. Activity #7
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Risk factors in IT projects
• Project size
• Project structure
• Experience with the technology
• Always have a “Plan B” – Contingency
approach

14. Activity #8 and #9
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Page 549
• Discussion questions one and two
• Split up into teams
• Designate a team spokesperson
• Page 548
• Review questions 2-5
• Again, split into groups (2&3, 4&5)

15. Activity #10
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Citizens National Bank
• Pages 517-519
• Split questions among two teams 1-3 and
4-6

16. Activity #11
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• International business
• Cheap transportation
• Cheap communications
• Cheap labor
• Stable political environment
• Global knowledge base and standarization

17. Activity #11
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Domestic
• Exported
• Multinational
• Franchiser

18. Activity #11
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Transnational companies must be
somewhat decentralized by necessity
• Franchises rely a lot on centralized IT
resources
• Cultural, political and language diversity
• Problems include: business design,
technology platforms, interoperability
across borders and security concerns

19. Activity #12
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Can cell phones close the global digital
divide
• Page 574
• Split case study questions between teams
• Elect a spokesperson

20. Activity #13
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Assignments due for last learning session,
next week!
• Individual: research IT related article. Talk
about:
• Problem, Decision points, Ethical issues,
Proposed solution
• Team: Case study paper and Powerpoint
presentation

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

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