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Amanda M Rossetti posted a new activity comment 7 years, 11 months ago
The first point in the article is very important and why controls around terminating employee access are so important. When an employee leaves an organization their access needs to be disabled as quickly as possible to prevent them from taking as much proprietary information with them as possible. Most companies have a termination control in place…[Read more]
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Amanda M Rossetti posted a new activity comment 7 years, 11 months ago
Your comment about larger organizations being more lucrative targets for cybercrime made me think about what a unique situation universities are in as opposed to other large organizations. In your average company the employees are supplied with the devices that they will use to connect to the organization’s network. At universities students all h…[Read more]
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Amanda M Rossetti posted a new activity comment 7 years, 11 months ago
You are correct that Temple students are a security vulnerability to the university. On the other side, the university is also a security vulnerability to students. Temple stores a large amount of personal identifiable information on its students, from social security numbers to payment information and anything in between. Because the university…[Read more]
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Amanda M Rossetti posted a new activity comment 7 years, 11 months ago
When communicating metrics, it is important to remember that Baseline Defenses Coverage is not the only line of defense that an organization has. Looking through these numbers would frighten any executive who is being told that this firewall that they are spending a lot of money to maintain has flaws. They must be informed of the importance of…[Read more]
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Amanda M Rossetti posted a new activity comment 7 years, 11 months ago
Information security is an everyone problem. Everyone at every level in an organization must work together to protect the information of an organization. A breach could come from anywhere in the organization, from a physical breach to the building, to a phishing scam, to a port breach. While protecting the information of an organization often…[Read more]
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Amanda M Rossetti posted a new activity comment 7 years, 11 months ago
Kimpton Hotels was subject to a credit card breach at over 60 of their restaurants and hotels from February to July 2016. A high risk in the hospitality industry is the loss of customers’ data. In the past other breaches to hospitality companies have come from malware on the point-of-sale system. The malware for this breach, however, was was…[Read more]
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Amanda M Rossetti wrote a new post on the site MIS4596 – Section 3 Spring 2015 9 years, 4 months ago
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/big-idea-2015-coming-disruption-walter
Walter Isaacson thinks that the new innovation of micropayments could save journalism. The idea of micropayments is that you would use your […] -
Amanda M Rossetti wrote a new post on the site MIS4596 – Section 3 Spring 2015 9 years, 4 months ago
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/pros-cons-technology-business-today-2709.html
Chris Joseph from Demand Media identified some positives and negatives of how engrained IT has become into business today.
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Amanda M Rossetti wrote a new post on the site MIS4596 – Section 3 Spring 2015 9 years, 4 months ago
https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2012/07/does-customer-service-ever-go-too-far.html
Corinne Roberts from Salesforce wrote an article on what aspects of customer service turn customers off of buying products. She […] -
Amanda M Rossetti commented on the post, Facebook Builds Platform For Companies To Share Cybersecurity Threat data, on the site 9 years, 4 months ago
I think that the Threat Exchange is a great idea. Hackers and other nefarious parties all share information and the best tips and tricks so it is smart for companies to share how to prevent these attacks. Also, if something works to get into one company the odds of it being tried on another is high so if they share how to prevent attacks it will…[Read more]
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Amanda M Rossetti commented on the post, 6 Ways to Measure the Value of Your Information Assets, on the site 9 years, 4 months ago
I agree that these are all great ways of expressing the value of data to a CEO. I think that the non-financial measures will be harder to communicate, however. In IT we tend to understand the value of data and what would happen without it better than other areas of the business. Trying to communicate the intrinsic value or business value, however,…[Read more]
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Amanda M Rossetti wrote a new post on the site MIS4596 – Section 3 Spring 2015 9 years, 5 months ago
http://gizmodo.com/youtubes-ready-to-blow-your-mind-with-360-degree-videos-1690989402
Youtube has released the option to post 360 degree videos. On the browser you click and drag and can look around the person filming and on the phone you move you’re phone to see the whole area. There are some issues right now but they claim it will be fixed soon. For example you have to use a python script to make it actually work in your browser. I think this is a great sustaining innovation though, because they have been doing flat videos for over 10 years. There are not a lot of consumer cameras that can shoot in 360 degrees thought.
What do you think of this? Do you think people will use it with the python necessary? What about without it?
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I really like the idea of Youtube releasing the option to post 360 degree videos because its different compared to the ordinary flat videos. I do think people will use it with the python script if they are truly interested in post 360 degree videos. Once one person posts a video everyone is going to start doing it.
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I like the idea as well, because it does show sustaining innovation, and I think there are plenty of people who will find it interesting and use it. However, I think that having to use Python might be a turn off for people. Once they make it so that anyone can use the 360 feature any time, then I think it will catch on much faster.
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Amanda M Rossetti wrote a new post on the site MIS4596 – Section 3 Spring 2015 9 years, 5 months ago
Photo by Tsahi Levent-Levi
Disruptive Innovation An opportunity for growth
Khattab Al-Ali outlines what businesses should do in the face of disruptive innovation and how they can use them to grow. He recommends not trying to use an innovation that your business model cannot support as well as not following competitors into new business segments if they have expertise you don’t have. He says that listening to customers for what innovations to invest in is a good idea but not to give the customers everything they want on a whim, it does not always make good business sense. He also says when evaluating disruptive innovation you need to not only focus on the standard metrics. Some innovations have consequences that people would not originally think. Finally he says that when addressing the disruptive innovation you should separate it from your main business as to not add risk to your current business.What do you think businesses should do when evaluating new innovations? How do you think the organization should structure these endeavors?
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Amanda M Rossetti commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, September 29, on the site 9 years, 6 months ago
Years ago if you wanted to start a tech company Silicon Valley was your only option because that is where all the tech people were. Today, many cities around the US and around the world have thriving start up communities, many of which as moving up trying to take Silicon Valley’s place at the top. I am not, however, convinced that Las Vegas is the…[Read more]
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Amanda M Rossetti commented on the post, ICE 5.1 Telling a Story through Visualization, on the site 9 years, 6 months ago
Weather a company should use cloud or on-premise ERPs definitely depends on the company. I think many older and larger companies are afraid of using a cloud service for their ERP because then they are putting a lot of their operation risk in one place. If the cloud provider goes down then they would not be able to continue many of their companies…[Read more]
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Amanda M Rossetti wrote a new post on the site MIS4596 – Section 3 Spring 2015 9 years, 6 months ago
Cliff Ennico says your elevator pitch should do three things, while not making three big mistakes. He says in your pitch you should introduce yourself, talk about the most important feature of your business plan, and get the person excited and wanting to hear more from you. These are very similar to the things we talked about in class. He says that you should not describe the “skills rather than the purpose”. Many of the people who went over time in their elevator pitches got too into the details of their application. The next thing he said people do is not tell an interesting story. If people are not interested in what you have to say they will tune you out. We talked in class about opening up with the problem and following with how your application fixes that problem. The last thing Ennico says people do is not rehearsing or being unprepared. While we all know what our applications do fitting that information into 30 seconds is difficult without preparing first. Sitting down and thinking of what three things you want to convey will help get your message across.
Do you agree with Ennico’s points?
What things do you think should be included in a good elevator pitch?
What things do you think people tend not to do well when it comes to elevator pitches?
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I agree with Ennico in that a good elevator pitch needs to get the other person interested, needs to convey the main point of the idea being pitched, and should absolutely start with an intro. I think that a good elevator pitch should be short and sweet, spoken clearly and with a confident voice, and it should have anywhere from 1 to 3 “big things” that you want the reader to remember. As we saw in class, some applications lend themselves well to a 3-point presentation, whereas some could be explained in one or two points. I think that some common mistakes that people make when giving elevator pitches is rushing through them because they’re nervous, trying to regurgitate memorized information, and trying to cram too many details into what should be a quick presentation.
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I agree with Ennico’s points. You should definitely introduce who you are so that people know who they are speaking with and it also makes it more personal. You should definitely sell what you are talking about to the other person and leave them wanting more so that it can lead to a follow-up discussion for some time in the near future. What people tend not to do well when giving elevator pitches is focus on the purpose rather than focusing on the latest and greatest features. People tend not to tell a short story that is compelling for its targeted audience. Working through nervousness is another thing that people tend to not do well. When people are nervous, they tend to talk to fast, get stumped if they stutter, fail to give eye contact, and sway back and forth excessively which negatively impacts the elevator pitch.
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I agree with Ennico’s points that you should introduce yourself, talk about the most important feature of your business plan, and get the person excited and wanting to hear more from you. if you are giving a 30 second pitch, it should be interesting because you want to capture the audiences attention. I think its important to tell a brief story in the pitch and tell an anecdote because that is what captures everyones attention. Being enthusiastic also helps because if the audience sees you are excited and passionate what you are talking about then so will they. Things I think people tend not to do well is practice. It is hard delivering a 30 second pitch but, with practice I believe it can be done. When people don’t practice they usually tend to get nervous and lose their train of thought.
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Amanda M Rossetti wrote a new post on the site MIS4596 – Section 3 Spring 2015 9 years, 6 months ago
Going global: Is it time to streamline your ERP?
Today in class we discussed the difference between IT many years ago and today where years ago in order to include IT in your business you needed to spend a lot of […]-
I do not think that a single ERP for a multi-national company is the best approach because a multi-national company has a different set of business needs for each of its locations as well as a different set of regulations. Also, I think that it is safer for a multi-national company to have multiple ERP systems because it is important for multi-national companies to have a back-up system in case one system fails. The benefits of having a single ERP system are that it is less maintenance involved, system upgrades won’t take as long, taxation is easier to deal with, and it helps the business standardize itself. The downfalls of having a single ERP system are that the company only has one system to rely on, downtime, and the potential to lose customers if the system losses important information due to a crash. I think an organization should implement a global ERP system when a company has duplicate ERP systems and resources in more than one country, the company is resorting to manually reconciling financial and accounting information, and if the company is struggling with multiple taxation and legal environments.
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Amanda M Rossetti commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, September 29, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Using the article’s definition of creativity and innovation I would say creativity can exist without innovation but innovation needs creativity. Someone can come up with many creative ideas but without action they remain that, ideas. Also, not every creative idea is innovative. I usually think of innovative ideas as not just implemented, but…[Read more]
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Amanda M Rossetti wrote a new post on the site MIS4596 – Section 3 Spring 2015 9 years, 7 months ago
New Project Proposal
Name of the Organization: Prestige Worldwide
Project Title: Ingredient List Decoder
Project Overview: Our project is to create an app that will help users avoid ingredients or chemicals in products they are using such as allergens. The app will suggest alternative products that do not contain ingredients they wish to avoid.
Project Timeframe: January 20th 2015 – May 4th 2015
Prepared by: Jacklin Altman, Dominic Lyate, Brittany Cougle, Arren Soroko, Amanda RossettiProject Summary
Ingredient lists are complex and hard to read and some are incomplete. People with allergies or have chosen to avoid certain ingredients need a quick and easy way to decipher if the product they are safe for them to use. Our app will fill this gap though allowing users to enter in ingredients and chemicals they wish to avoid. Users then enter or scan the barcode of the product they are looking at and the app will tell the user if the product contains anything they wish to avoid. If it does have ingredients the user does to want the app will then suggest substitute products that are similar but do not contain anything the user is avoiding. Users can use the app to purchase these products and have them shipped to their door.
Project ObjectivesApplication should store user data on what ingredients and chemicals they are avoiding
Application should be able to scan barcodes and search for manually entered products
Application should be able to notify users if the product contains ingredients or chemicals they wish to avoid
Application should suggest alternative products when searching
Application should interface with major online retailers (such as Amazon, Walmart, Target etc) where it will allow users to purchase suggested products through the applicationProject Deliverables
Project Proposal
Contains summary of the project
Contact information for all involved
A background of the problem that our application is going to solve
Objectives for proposed app
List of deliverablesWeekly Progress Reports
States the work performed to date
States what still is in the worksList of Stakeholders
List of people who are directly affected by the project
Budget
States how much money will be allocated for the project
Work Breakdown Structure
An incremental decomposition of the project into phases, deliverables and work packages
Risk Management Plan
Foresees risks, estimate impacts, and define responses to issues
Communications Plan
Describes communication channels between stakeholders involved in project
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