Tag: Information Technology

1- What is the difference between a multi-valued attribute and a composite attribute? Give examples.

2- Create an ERD for the following requirements (You can use Dia diagramming tool):
Some Tiny College staff employees are information technology (IT) personnel. Some IT personnel provide technology support for academic programs, some provide technology infrastructure support, and some provide support for both. IT personnel are not professors; they are required to take periodic training to retain their technical expertise. Tiny College tracks all IT personnel training by date, type, and results (completed vs. not completed).

1. Explain why IT is both a business pressure and an enabler of response activities that counter business pressures.
2. What does a flat world mean to you in your choice of a major? In your choice of a career? Will you have to be a “lifelong learner”? Why or why not?
3. What might the impact of a flat world be on your standard of living?
4. Is IT a strategic weapon or a survival tool? Discuss.
5. Why might it be difficult to justify a strategic information system?
6. Describe the five forces in Porters competitive forces model and explain how increased access to high-speed internet has affected each one.
7. Describe Porters value chain model. What is the relationship between the competitive forces model and the value chain model?
8. Describe how IT can be used to support different value chains for different companies.​​​​​​​

​​​​​​​9. Discuss the idea that an information system by itself can rarely provide a sustainable competitive advantage

Discuss the key decision criteria that IT managers need to examine to help them make an IT sourcing decision.
Discuss the IT Budgeting practices that deliver value.
Why of the practices do you consider to be the most important and why?

What is IT value?
When is IT realized?
Discuss the five principles for delivering value.
Which of the five principles do you think is the most important?