@louisa-carleton
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Louisa Carleton posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
The internship went very well. I learned more than I thought that I would and made many connections that will serve me well in my career. My manager keeps referencing finding a post for me and I am currently on the lookout for other opportunities while waiting for a full-time offer. I would like to keep working with this company and explore the…[Read more]
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Louisa Carleton posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
Company culture is a huge thing that they can’t teach you in class. How to mind yourself around peers and superiors is a skill that cannot really be taught in a classroom. Additionally, I’ve learned resource management — how to work with people and determine how they can be best utilized. Also, learning about how to work in a cube is critical –…[Read more]
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Louisa Carleton posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
I have really used my MIS3535 project management knowledge in my internship, with learning about deliverables, sponsors, and especially MS Project. Doyle taught us everything there is to know about project management, including how to manage my relationships with my teams and their leads. I have been able to manage teams and juggle all sorts of…[Read more]
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Louisa Carleton posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
To be honest, I have been struggling balancing school work and working. I’ll be sure to peruse this thread and see what tricks I can find.
I need to start making a chronological to do list to be able to track my work better. I also plan to set aside a certain amount of time in the evening to focus on schoolwork completely. I also am thinking of…[Read more]
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Louisa Carleton posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
Hello, all!
Since March of 2017 I have been working at the contract research organization Chiltern International as a Project Management Intern. I have been and am currently tracking and managing resources from various teams on various sponsors. In addition to this, I have also been added to new roles in that I track the daily workload and hours…[Read more] -
Louisa Carleton wrote a new post on the site Information Systems Integration 7 years, 7 months ago
The Nintendo Switch could be considered both a sustaining and a disruptive innovation to the video game industry. On the one hand, the Switch has revolutionized the console and handheld gaming market by bringing […]
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Louisa Carleton commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 7 years, 7 months ago
I doubt that Instant Logic’s technology won’t be worked around some way or another soon — that’s simply how the internet works. However, I think that instead of completely blocking ads, users should have a right to not be tracked by social tracking companies. I have an extension called Ghostery that identifies and blocks any tracking that…[Read more]
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Louisa Carleton wrote a new post on the site Information Systems Integration 7 years, 8 months ago
This article at Harvard Business Review talks about how social ventures require systems thinking in order to be successful. It talks about how critical it is that social entrepreneurs understand the overall […]
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Louisa Carleton commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 7 years, 8 months ago
At my internship, we used Google Drive for file sharing — a good choice for the small startup that my internship was a part of. It had a fairly small limit (15 GB I believe) but we never even came close to it. Should the startup grow, there is the G Suite for business so that they could upgrade with the growth of the company. Having multiple…[Read more]
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Louisa Carleton commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 7 years, 8 months ago
I’m surprised they had the go-live date so close to the beginning of classes. Was this the first time the system had experienced full stress? I agree with Michael — having a singular class or group test it on a smaller scale first would give the team a sense of how well the system runs under pressure. I think not having a back-up plan was the…[Read more]
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Louisa Carleton wrote a new post on the site Information Systems Integration 7 years, 8 months ago
If This Then That (IFTTT) is revolutionizing the Internet of Things craze by allowing products to interface like they never have before. By allowing users to create simple recipes, such as setting up Amazon Alexa […]
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The air conditioning systems at my house is connected. Its a nice system, very intuitive, and consists of two different touch screens (one for the upstairs HVAC system, and one for the downstairs HVAC system). I like it because I do not have to walk to the unit anymore but rather connect through the associated app and therefore can adjust the heat and ac. It is also nice to be able to adjust it remotely in order to adjust the air while away. I do not worry much regarding security of the system, it has the necessary login and password for the app as well as is securely connected to our home wifi.
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Louisa Carleton posted an update in the group MIS 4596 Spring 2017 – Mandviwalla 7 years, 9 months ago
Not part of a team yet. Looking!
I want to build a solution for fitness-minded women by introducing them to other like-minded women who prefer the same kind of workouts or go to the same gym in the area. This fills the needs of women who either aren’t confident enough or too intimidated to go to the gym by themselves and would be more c…[Read more]
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Good start. Some questions: There are quite a few gender specific apps. Nothing like this exists? Would people bother connecting in this manner with other random people if the association is just gender? More importantly, wouldn’t this be a one and done deal? You find one person you like who has a compatible schedule and location and you stop…[Read more]
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Louisa Carleton joined the group MIS 4596 Spring 2017 – Mandviwalla 7 years, 9 months ago
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Louisa Carleton changed their profile picture 10 years ago
I think that the Switch is a sustaining innovation rather than any sort of disruptive. At least when it comes to gaming in general. When the Wii first came out, I would say it could have been disruptive, but now it is just adding on new features. When it comes to mobility, consoles have more mobility than PC gaming in general but less-so than handheld gaming. Portability for gaming isn’t something innovative, it’s been out pre-GameBoy. It’s remove/attachable controllers isn’t something that will disruptive the gaming industry. I’d argue people are not buying the Switch because of it’s setup but more because of its exclusive games. I would still say that the main metric for consoles is their game repertoire and maybe online platform.
While the Switch is certainly a big step for Nintendo, I would argue that it is more of a sustaining innovation on the low-end of mobile gaming hardware. Tablets can already output to an HDTV and use wireless controllers, but with a better screen and equally powerful hardware (like the Snapdragon 820), so I do not feel there is a new market as described by Christiansen. The Switch is unmatched at its price as far as gaming tablets go, and Nintendo is guaranteed to deliver great games. I enjoyed the “Joycon” controllers when I played it, but it they were like a smaller version of the Wii controller. The Switch is more of a natural evolution of Nintendo’s existing formula since the Wii, and taking advantage of Moore’s law and better battery technology. Just because it is an incremental, sustaining innovation does not mean it is not a great product though.
I would also agree that it is more of a sustaining innovation, because it is not approaching a new market. I feel that it would be addressing the same market they addressed a few years ago when they introduced PSP’s and Gameboy’s. I would say you are more just improving these existing products, not exactly dramatically changing it. Additionally, consumers reasoning behind purchasing the product is not generated by it being a more convenient product or something that does not exist, but because they offer a specific exclusive game to play on the device. For this to be a new market innovation, people would have to be buying the device solely because the technology is so dramatically better than existing portable gaming systems.
Like the previous commenters, I also agree that the Nintendo Switch is more of a sustaining innovation than anything else. I don’t think that it is creating a new market, as would be suggested if it were a disruptive innovation. I think the Switch can be seen as an example of Nintendo’s pace of technological progress on mobile gaming. With this in mind, I also don’t think there was a shift in Nintendo’s goal or target audience in releasing this product. In my opinion, Nintendo has always been a leader in producing mobile consoles, and the Switch was released as a natural step of improvement for the already existing portable gaming market.