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week 10

Management and information systems Reflection on the week 10 seminar: Lecture: On Monday the 16 of  April 2018, the Lecture session was very ethically interesting we looked at sustainability and basics of what and how and why business has to be corporate socially and responsibly to look after the environment and not only caring about generate and earning profit. The teacher has given vital examples such us how our university itself is performing in this areas of sustainability as well as he has mentioned viral and well-known organizations and what they have done towards the environment. I found, this extremely important because in a way or another the glob is getting sick on daily basis and the big factor that makes even sicker as mentioned one of the videos seen and watched last this Monday is business. Global warming, pollution is damaging the environment slowly, if the business does not act towards that it would be such a mess because it even harder to conduct and figh...

week 9 during Easter's break

Management and information systems Reflection on the week 9 seminar: Group work only: During Easter's break our team have planed to meet up again to put the information gathered from the last meeting with the manager of the business, as we were all of us able to arrange a day and come to university we worked as group and every one of us had brought his things to the table. Once we met we went to the computer room and we started doing some analyses and thinking of best ways to come up with suggestions and solutions that we found out accordingly to the problems that the business is currently facing in It systems. As the discussions had started we came up with few solution at first that we relevant but not sufficent enough to solve out all problems, I thought we had made a good start already because it didn't really matter how much we brought up, in contrast, it was extremely important for us to bring up with efficient solution. eventually, effectively at the end of th...

week 8

Management and information systems Reflection on the week 8 seminar: Lecture:  On Monday the 20th of March 2018, the lecture session that has been taught by Bilal Haider, has covered an important topic that was about Business Models in Digital World.   attending the lecture has given to all students the chance to understand the topic. As "Bilal Haider" has explained the major aspect of it such as Business Processes and routine, Features of an organization, Is impact on the organization as well as we looked at the most important part of it which was about Mintzberg's 5 types of organizational structure.   1.Entrepreneurial (simple): forward-thinking and enthusiasm but the limited structure, discipline, inefficiency and controlling management. 2.Machine bureaucracy: structure, consistency, and longevity but limited openness to new perspectives and inefficiencies. 3. Divisional bureaucracy: large corporations with division/ business and centra...

week 7

Management and information systems Reflection on the week 7 seminar: Lecture: On the 12th of March 2018, with "Bilal Haider" at the lecture we looked at an important topic which is about PREPARING AND DELIVERING A PRESENTATION, I personally find that is going to be useful for our assignment that we are meant to submit after Easter break as recorded youtube presentation. In the lecture a picked up mainly the most significant and important points that I will need to imply and apply to have the presentation well presented as taught in the Lecture. Seminar: On the 16th of March 2018, the seminar was crucial because I have actually expanded my knowledge and developed, even more, my skills in excel software. As usual, we have been given worksheet to practice and test our performance by exercising on the software, furthermore, we have looked at the new aspect that was about Scenarios in Excel.  This latter has was complex in terms of applying it to the exc...

week 6

Management and information systems Reflection on the week 6 seminar: Lecture:   On the 5th of March 2018, attending at the Lecture with the tutor " Bilal Haider " I have been able to expand my knowledge and obtain a general understanding regarding the topic discussed which was about " Cloud computing & rational databases".  As narrower as it was the idea of Cloud computing and rational databases in my head, I have never thought it would be a huge, vague and vast in terms of using it.  after the Lecture I was able to understand that Cloud computing and rational databases could be used not only for saving date as I thought that what it was for, furthermore, it can be used to manage information and organize them in order in software as service which is something that is very helpful for business to process the use of web-based. In the Lecture, we have also looked at several functions of the CLOUD among of them the: Utility computing, software as serv...

week 5

Management and information systems Reflection on the week 5 seminar: Lecture:  On the 26th of February 2018, the lecture session our tutor " Bilal Haider" had covered an interesting topic that many organizations could face as a big problem on their daily operations and was about "  Information systems crimes, security & Controls".  Accordingly, to the lecture, I was able to obtain a general understanding of the reasons that lead to facing and witnessing problematic " information systems crimes, security & controls". In the lecture, we also discussed the Factors, ways, and uses of the tools that are more likely to be used to perform this criminal, harmful acts towards organization in order to damage their systems. for instance, we have mentioned computer viruses, most computer crimes, Denial of service attack and spyware, Spam/ CAPTCHA/ spim, and phishing. As well as the factors we looked out at things that can protect our systems. for...

week 4

Management and information systems Reflection on the week 4 seminar: Lecture: On Monday the 19th of February, attending the lecture session has helped me to fully undersatand the concepet of the topic that we looked at it with our teacher "Blila Haider", which was about  Enhancing Business intelligence Using ISs. Accordingly to my understanding, as well as how the teacher had explained it. The perspective that I got from this lesson is that the use of ISs is to simplify and qualify the making of better decisions for business from external and internal sources in order by gathering and analyzing them. Seminar: On Friday the 23th of February, our Management & information systems class was based on Excel software, it was progressively interesting and educative in-terms of learning new skills on the software. in our class, we worked on, and look at new various formulas and techniques that helped us to expand our knowledge of the use of Excel. This latter was d...