THE WALLACE E. CARROLL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
MD 240: Management Information Systems
Fall 2000

Technology Section 1: Hardware

Try to create a table of "Then" versus "Now" types of hardware in use in the ISD.
What future hardware types are you potentially going to have to manage in the workplace?

Technology Section 2: Software

Try to create a table of methods and tools used in the conceptualization and design of software, and in the management of software creation/programming. Try to arrange them into a "Then" vs. "Now" vs. "Ideal" table structure.
How do such management tools provide companies with a competitive advantage? What are the dimensions of competitive advantage that the vendors of such software design and programming tools claim to allow companies to get better at?

Technology Section 3: Data and Databases

Try to create a table of methods and tools used in the conceptualization and design of databases, and in the management of databases once they are in use. Try to arrange them into a "Then" vs. "Now" vs. "Ideal" table structure.
How do such management tools provide companies with a competitive advantage? What are the dimensions of competitive advantage that the vendors of such database tools claim to allow companies to get better at?

Technology Section 4: Telecommunications and the Internet

What are the tools used to manage the design and operation of telecommunications networks? Can you arrange them into a "Then" vs. "Now" vs. "Ideal" table structure?
If such tools are not mentioned in your book, what are the characteristics you would like these tools to have?