Angela R. Gilson

I think that a company’s culture and making sure that you are a good fit for it is in some aspects a lot more important than a big paycheck. Whether or not you fit into the company culture is directly related to your job satisfaction and happiness overall. If you are miserable all day and hate your job, what is the point of working? You go to work and go through the motions gaining no gratification for what you’re doing there, wishing it was five o’ clock so that you can go home and sit in front of the television for the rest of the night. Company culture is definitely important.

I do think that company culture is important and fitting in with the company culture would improve my work life. At my internship I noticed that many of the employees spend time together outside of the office at happy hours, sporting events, and on intramural sports teams. You’re at your job for at least 40 hours a week so I think it is important that you enjoy being around the people that you work with. However, I think if I found a position that I was really interested in, I might be able to get past a poor company culture.

While looking for jobs, a company’s culture was and still is a top priority on my list. The company culture gives you a glimpse at the type of person you’re going to be while working for that company. Like Arren said, it’s up to the employee whether or not they want to fit into the company culture. For example, at my internship they had business resource groups which held event outside of work. This gave employees the opportunity to meet employees in other departments with similar interests. There were employees who took advantage of these opportunities, but then others who didn’t. Company culture is really important to me. I don’t just want to go through the motions of a job, I want to enjoy my time there.

Weapons in society is always a touchy subject, and to know the technology advancements that are making these weapons even better is a little bit of a scary thought. I am in support of the government using these weapons in Warcraft, but when they get in the hands of civilians it gets very tricky and can pose far too many problems.
*also I accidentially hit 9/10 but I meant 10/10 stars.

I believe that these could be used by the government, but that is it. I know that there was debate over people using 3D printers to produce weapons as well. With technologies this complex coming out that can possibly be dangerous, there is going to be a need for strict policies around these devices.

I think it’s really interesting to look at the legal ramifications for new, disruptive tech like 3D printing. I think, at least initially, it’s going to be really hard to keep tight locks on what can be printed, copied, etc. but I think as more and more data is collected from the printers, users input more templates into the global “open source” ecosystem, etc., it will self-regulate. Honestly, I’m not that concerned with people printing counterfeit money on Photoshop or flying drones in restricted airspace– I think the technology is still so new that there’s only a negligible amount of real damage that could be done with either.

In today’s healthcare industry there is more of an emphasis on the quality of services and care patients receive at hospitals. From my healthcare management classes, I have learned hospitals are willing to implement expensive technology, as long as it can improve the overall quality of care it can give to its patients. This is due to the fact that more people are shopping around for health services and are willing to pay a higher cost for a better overall hospital experience. So by implementing new systems, hospitals can improve many things. One example is ordering medications, with newer systems in place, orders can be placed faster, allowing patients to receive their medications sooner. New systems also build in safe guards in case an unusual dosage is prescribed, which could have negative effects on a patient’s health or even result in death. Although this might seem like a small benefit to justify a new IT system, things like this go a long way for patient satisfaction and quality of care.
As far as your question about change that is too drastic for the healthcare industry, I think it honestly depends on what hospital or hospital systems is implementing a new IT system. For example, if a large hospital system is adding more hospitals, it might make more sense to update to a newer, more expensive IT system, which would improve its efficiency and communication, than it might be for a single hospital to implement the same system.

While all of the steps you listed are very important for organizations of all sizes, I think that the most critical step is to “survey your systems.” This step must include a review of all software and hardware infrastructure, as well as networks and data that a company relies upon for operation. In cataloguing its systems, a company should determine which are the most important and which are the most vulnerable, and what the relative costs of securing them or introducing redundancies are.

The surveying step, in short, generates the information a company needs to decide how to allocate its risk management, business continuity, and disaster recovery resources. If a company fails to survey its systems thoroughly, it may waste resources by strengthening systems unnecessarily, or it may fail to identify dangerous vulnerabilities in certain systems.

Very interesting idea. My wife had a bucket list when we got married. We updated it when we got married, and had to update it again a few years ago to add more items.

There are a lot of opportunities to make this interesting. I will be curious to see how you go about monitizing the application. Some things to think about; there will be different requirement for people creating their first list to people updating their list mid-life, there will be dramatic differences in what people will consider bucket-list worthy, what other services can you offer, bucket lists are not something you look at daily – how do you keep people from being once-and-done? Some items are single events and others are cumulative e.g. visiting every continent.