Chapter 7

As I read the ethics Guide, Dialing for Dollars, it made me think about Enron. From my understanding what they did was set up offshore fake companies that would buy their products and take their debt. When Enron could No longer cover up the fact that they were doing this is when they went bust. Running a company ethically will do two things, it will allow you to receive divine guidance and it will eliminate backlash problems like the one explained in this ethics guide.

How can you create a system that monitors how ethical your employees are?

October 26th

I am not sure what I need to write on today. So I guess I will comment on the test. I appreciate that fact that I really have learned something thus far in the class. i had no clue wha tto try and get out of the first month but after going over the test a little I can see that there are quite a few things that I have gained a better understanding of.

Class Oct 23, 2009

I often wonder why it cost so much to implement a basic IT system but when you really begin to break it down it is understnadable. I think case 2-2 is a good example of this. A large part of why it failed is due to underfunding but in part there are more substantial reasons. The characteristics of the leaders and there habbits were a large part of why the new IS system was not implemented corectly. Another reason is that there were just not enough computers to go around. It is extremely hard to cordinate one computer among many people.

Class Oct 19, 2209

My thoughts on last class were that we spent about 40 minutes talking and signing up for the test this Saturday and after all that was said and done I realized that I have to be at the Laie service project. I guess that is how life goes some times. Pick one there are two right places to be.

When can we have another practice test?

Career Assignment #5

With international business management as my field of study it is going to be very important for me to know how to do business online. The cost of flying around the world is far more than just getting on the computer and chatting by email or having a video conference. My ability to use all forms of IS will help me to have a competitive advantage over the competition. If I do not have the ability to use some of the more complex databases and internet activities it would greatly decrease my value in the job field

Consider Your Net Worth #2

One problem that often faces businesses is that they start off with just the most basic thing then when the time comes to upgrade it is a very hard step to change over to the newer system. With that in mind, if I ever felt that something had the potential to grow beyond the basics of a spreadsheet I would do my best to just start it off in a database. That would save a lot of effort if you ever did have to convert it from a spreadsheet to a database.
There are two ways to do everything and to play devil’s advocate, by starting off with a basic spreadsheet the startup cost would be far less and the ability to upgrade to a database is always an option in the future when it is really necessary. In this way, you would never have more than you needed and your information would grow in proportion to your need to upgrade your database.

Class oct 16, 2009

If I am not mistaken, phone lines use electricity and fiber optic cables use light. I suppose that a less effective way to move information through cables would be sound seeing how we already have two other options covered. The fastest thing that we know about is light and that is already in use by fiber optic cables so my though during class was what is going to be the newest and fastest thing after fiber optics. I am sure that something will come but I don’t know what it is going to be.