The most important takeaway I received from the course is that people (personnel/stakeholders) determine your success and not technology. Technology is available to support a company’s business objective, and […]

I participated in a Charge Description Master (CDM) Maintenance project which resulted into a power shift between the Lab Department and the Revenue Department. The Maintenance of the CDM initially took placed by […]

Netflix did the following steps incorrectly: made changes without informing their customers to receive their feedback. When questioned by their customers they tried to justify the need for change. (Elephant) […]

I use the following methods when estimating a project: past experience, a contact resource’s experience, research, or estimate based on workload and tasks. I utilize all of these methods to narrow my confidence […]

The most essential factor in good decision making regarding project selection is to ensure you have accurate information. Obtaining correct information will drive your decision(s) of what projects are most […]

I worked on a group project where the scope of the work consisted of us capturing specific patient information for a particular time-period, and scanning this information into pdf documents. The project was due […]

The most important takeaway was that an ERP is not a technology model, but a business process model. Also, that 70% of the cost for the ERP will come from professional services (consultants) fees, and not […]

I believe the development of Watson is similar to most I.S. projects because the process to meet the needs of the users’ requirements is the same. The only differences are as follows: Watson’s requirements are […]

In our in-class activity I believe my group was able to find the root cause analysis which was human accountability, and the organizational culture. The problem was more complex than the original thought because […]

In my position, I frequently request to have a new vendor added, inactivated or reactivated to our Supply Chain System. I follow-up on this request a few days after to see if my request is completed. Though, I […]

Possible downsides to the system thinking approach are unintended side effects to a particular component of the system or to multiple components of the system. Though the system thinking appoach is good for both […]

Salin I agree with you. Most of our group’s assumptions were the same, but for the few that were different, I think we all agreed on the relevance of these items to be included for the party planning. This […]

I feel there was more than one important take-away from the course. To name a few of the many, I would say the following:
•double checking the validity of the data you may receive access to by checking the […]

Some of the many challenges in integrating external data with internal data is the source in which the external data comes from and the quality of the data. Second, is the differences in formats between the […]

If I was in charge of data.gov, I would focus on advertising the site to consumers. (teachers, students, and organizations). This group of individuals have the potential to bring alot of traffic to the site for […]

The Oakland A’s lack of success did not provide evidence that Intermountain Health Care (IHC) should not have used the scientific approach for their business. I believe that IHC is on the right track because they did see improvement in certain clinical care areas. However, it was difficult for them to receive results in both [...]

A data quality issue that I have seen in my day-to-day experience is a requisition form being used for outpatient labs in the hospital. The form provided a list for the type of test(s) that should be performed on the patient’s blood, but in error listed only the outside reference lab as the resource who [...]

I think the responsibility for accidental damages rest with both the Database Administrator and the Application Developer. It is both parties responsibility to secure the data in the database by putting on restrictions/permissions on who have what rights to the database. In addition, a back-up protocol should always be in placed, and should be…[Read more]

In my current position I track the vendor contracts for my department in Microsoft Access. I have joined two tables in the following manner: Vendor Contracts is one table and the joining table consists of the following fields: Vendor Contract Name, Expiration Date, Renewals, Addendums, Department Name, and Department Cost Center. the join allows…[Read more]

A TU ID is a good choice to be used as a primary key for the student database because it is a unique number that links to a student which provides security to a student’s identity. In addition, when a TU ID is linked to multiple tables that share a relationship, it can provide all [...]