Reflection

Lecture notes

In the lecture, the discussion was about "Business Model in the Digital World."
The lecture focuses on different areas which beneficial to business operation.
As example: "Video on five trends shaping the future of work."
I have gained of understanding that digital world in business has a huge impact in relation to business functions.
Particularly, the two elements such as: Processes and Routines.
It allows businesses to transform business operation and data collections. It can also be useful for personal or individual use.

Also, Information  Technology and organisation influences various areas such as:

Technical, means social structure where processes resource from the environment top produce outputs.
Behavior, means a privileges, obligation and responsibilities. In other words, it is balancing these three categories periodically over conflicts and management solution.

In this lecture, I have learnt five types of Mintzberg Organisational Structure and these are called:

Entrepreneurial
Machine Bureaucracy
Divisionalised Beaureaucracy
Professional Beaureauracy
Adhocracy


Seminar 

Upon arriving at the seminar, our tutor instruct to do an activity creating a pivot table on excel. In creating pivot table, I have learned that pivot table is important element in business and employees working efficacy.

Pivot table, helps retrieve information or data easily. I have learned that pivot table is useful in finding, analysing and data summary. As well as creating short report containing data and other information.
Basically, pivot table enables the company's decision makers decide efficiently.

After excel activity, our group TRIMD have discussed into finishing our group task. Which we are going to arrange group meet up over semester break to finalise the presentation and record the video.

Week 6

WEEK 6

Lecture 
In this lecture, the main topic is about " cloud computing and relational databases."
I have learnt the importance of of a few main point about cloud computing and it is called: software as a service, e.g. web-service model. Web-service model is the one aspect of computing which supports and manage the information system part. Web-service model helps all kind of businesses processes. 

Another one is known as  utility computing. This aspect basically is the organising of any information data a company have. However, obtaining this function is based on subscription basis.


Seminar

In the seminar, our group have discussed regarding the group presentation. The progress at where we are with our group task.
We discussed how we structured our MIS presentation. Which we are now on the process of finalising our presentation. However, we still have to make some follow up interview to the chosen business to get additional information regarding limitations in relation to rules and regulations of different countries such as Pakistan, where they also have a business there.
In our group meeting at the seminar, I have learned that this group task will have to be downloaded to  YouTube.
Now, we are on the process of allocating time for practice session. ]

We also have been given a handout entitled: The Lookup & VLookup functions.
In this exercise, we have to create data in excel. With this handout, it shows me how to find data in excel such as if I want to look certain information e.g. a name of a product or item number.
Lookup function is used to search data or find data in excel.