This course was a good learning experience for me. One of the biggest take away from this course is to understand the importance of applying “system approach” in various stages of a project management. Also, it […]

In my opinion, waterfall model is more at risk to fail. In waterfall model, a well defined set of requirements is needed upfront. Once the design stage is passed, any major changes to requirement will be hard to […]

I also think CVS technicians would be the most difficult stakeholder to get on board with their workflow changes. Often changes are forced upon the people who work at the lower end of the company. Their opinions […]

A combination of both quantitative and qualitative metrics must be considered when selecting the ‘right’ project. I think the most important factor in making a good decision is to choose a project that aligns with […]

I think the most important mistake to avoid is # 8: “They don’t take the time to define the scope of a project.” The scope states what the objectives of the project are and what goals must be met to achieve […]

My biggest take away from our guest speaker was my better understanding on the complexity of project management of EPR system. Just like Stan, I also found it interesting to know that EPR initiation is more about […]

I believe the development of Watson is not fundamentally different from most information systems project. There were clearly defined requirements that Watson needed to address in order to win the Jeopardy; that is […]

I think self-serve data entry model for fulfillment process can better serve undershot customers. Undershot customers see technology as a “speed up” tool to shorten their stay at the pharmacy windows even though […]

I think their next move should be to add more stores to the regions across the east coast. Having more stores around would make customer’s life easier by helping them to choose the store closest to their home. […]

The downside to system thinking is when there are elements of uncertainties in how each variables in a loop will behave in response to an external intervention especially when part of the processes of a system is […]

To reach a consensus to create a list of assumptions about the party was more difficult than I initially anticipated. We had four members in our group. Two of the members said the party should be held on campus, […]

From my perspective, the most important take away from this course is my better understanding of different methodologies used to collect, analyses, and integrates data into a system. This course will help me to […]

Both Amazon and Apple models has its own fault-lines. From the perspective of digital content, I think Amazon might have an upper hand in selling their products through different platforms. In an Apple’s closed PC […]

There are many challenges in integrating “external social” data with existing data from a company’s internal systems. Some of them I could think of now is, compliance of external data with internal data: different […]

What is the least common arrival mode for emergency room patients? What is their gender and age?

Arrival Mode: Police/Jail (2)

Male (1) Age 84
Female (1) Age 89

I used datamasher.org to create a mash up on residence population from the year 2010 to total number of hospitals in each state as of the year 2007 to see which states have more hospitals per head counts. As […]

I don’t think it’s fair to draw a parallel line between lacks of success of Oakland to Intermountain Health Care management of clinical care. In both baseball and clinical care, the level of acquiring an accurate critical data and to execute management strategy can have some coordination and similarities. At the same time, the probability [...]

Most end-users interact with database through applications. Security can be enforced in both the database and the application. So where do you think the responsibility for accidental damage should rest – with the application developers or the database administrators. I think both application developers and database administrators must share the…[Read more]

Converting low accurate data into knowledge will result in poor decision making and corrective costs it bear over extended period of time. Many times we see organizations running reports at the end of time periods and then reworking the results based on their knowledge of wrong or suspicious values. Many times damage caused by poor [...]

As a tech working in the small department of a hospital, our primary means of sharing informal knowledge is through direct face to face conversation. Often these conversations are put into the context of helping each others at work. Also we have staff based boards in our break room, divided amongst 4 different categories: education, [...]