Devin A Schlack

A platform is an environment provided by an intermediary (proprietary or hosted) encompassing infrastructure and rules to facilitate users’ interactions with each other. There are two types of platform business models. They are Proprietary which is a single provided with exclusive control over technology, standards, pricing leverage and the second…[Read more]

Using ERD systems in a business can be helpful in many of areas such as customer service and human resources. By using an ERD system, it lowers the cost of productivity. I used to work for the HR department at Target and we used SAP a lot. We used SAP to maintain all of the employees and keep all information organized. It was extremely helpful to…[Read more]

After learning about the swim lane diagrams, it’s was interesting to me to see how often you can use them. You can use them for so many different things. I work for an insurance company and we could use a swimlane diagram to show the process of how a policy goes into effect and all the different steps it goes through before it is actually in…[Read more]

In my opinion, swim lane diagrams are the most beneficial because they use lanes that are assigned an actor (individual, department, division, group, machine, or entity) making it easy to follow the process of certain work or activities. A swim lane diagram flows very well and explains each step. One way that I could start using a swim lane…[Read more]

One interesting fact that stuck out to me was that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs by the age of 38. To me, that is unbelievable. The rate in which people change jobs is crazy. Another fact that ties into finding a job is that we are preparing students now for jobs that don’t even exist yet. Preparing students for jobs and problems that don’t…[Read more]