Dzani Ashi Management & Information Systems

Lecture: In this week's Lecture we started to go through how to properly prepare and deliver a presentation in relation to our group work task as we are at the point in the assignment where groups are expected to have started working on their presentations and making preparations to record them. The lecture focused on talking us through several "do's and don'ts" in regards to creating and delivering a presentation, for example it was made very clear that our presentation slides should not have a lot of dialogue and that we should make sure to only include key details on each slide in order to ensure that we keep the audience's interest and also to demonstrate that we are genuinely knowledgeable about the subject of our presentation and that we are not simply reading our slides word-for-word. We also went through some good examples of presentations and some bad examples so that we had a clear idea of what our presentations should look like and so that we under...

Lecture In this week's lecture we learned about more information system terms with this lecture particularly focusing on Business Intelligence (BI) which involves the use of ISs to gather and analyze information from internal and external sources in order to make better business decisions. BI is used to identify threats and opportunities as well as continuously monitor and analyze the business process. We also learned about the link between BI and databases as well as the overall functions and advantages of having a database and how to effectively manage a database. We also went over; business analytics, decision support systems (DSS), intelligent agents, information visualization, machine learning (neutral networks) and geographic information. Seminar In this week's seminar we continued working with spreadsheets to help develop our skills with Excel so that we became more comfortable and confident with using the software to conduct business calculations. We made further us...

Lecture In this week's lecture we learned about the different computer types and what each type of computer is typically used for as well as their individual standard costs and how many users can access them simultaneously. We also learned about the components of an IS infrastructure and how it enables the processing, storage and transmitting of data and we learned about the issues related to IS infrastructures which are usually; software obsolescence, storage needs and space and facility requirements. We also learned more about what the internet actually is, how it works as a system and how it was made in the first place and we also learned about the different types of computer networks such as; PBX, LAN and CAN. Thanks to the information regarding IS that we covered in our lecture we had a better idea of what kind of questions we would need to ask our chosen business to get the information we needed for our group presentation. Seminar In this week's seminar we continued o...

Lecture: In this weeks lecture for Management & Information Systems we focused on learning about the fundamentals of reflective writing and how it relates to our assignment. We learnt about the model that we should follow during our reflective writing, according to Gibbs model simply describing what happened during our assignment isn't sufficient enough to be considered reflective writing and it is necessary to also write about how we felt during the assignment, after that we then need to provide an evaluation of the overall experience followed by an analysis of our performance and the performance of our teammates and we then finish with a reflective conclusion on what we believe we could have done differently and then finish with an action plan describing exactly what we would do differently. Seminar: In the seminar we learned about what a business case is and what an analyst is as well as the steps involved in analyzing a business case and what those steps involve and how...

Semester 2 Management & Information Systems Week 1 Reflection Lecture: For the first week of Management & Information Systems we were introduced to the module and were given a rough idea about what the module would focus on and what exactly we would would be learning about this semester. From the lecture it was clear that this module was going to focus on a mixture of the technological and the human aspect of business and how they correlate. We also discussed exactly what we were required to do for our coursework tasks; our coursework involved getting into groups of 4-5 and researching IS problems that a business of our choice was experiencing through both primary and secondary research, once we had obtained enough information we will then need to create a presentation and then video us delivering said presentation as a group. We will also be required to creative reflective blog entries over the course of the next 9 weeks. Our last coursework task is to create a report refl...