Session8

In this session we did a SWOT analysis on our company of choice. This exercise helped us to discover the strength and weakness of the company that we serve. We also discussed about the importance of planning in our life. The group agreed on how planning couldn’t be ignored in our daily business if we want to be successful and maximize our outcome. We went through also the Software Development Life Cycle. We discussed about it importance in the web development. Some of us raised it ability to be adapted to different program.

Session 7

In this week, we discuss about challenges that workers face in US which result from globalization. I can see clearly the anger of my classmates about the ideas that their jobs are exported to China, India and Taiwan etc..... Some of students argued that those jobs that are exported are not high skill jobs and the profit of those jobs are invested here in the US so that American can go to school and acquire high tech trainings to be competitive here at home.
We also worked on the fedscope trends. I have a change to analyze the US Department of Interior data in which the department use a Goal-Seeking analysis to fill its staff. The department hires its staff progressively to cover the retired workforce.

Session 6

This session closed the first phase of the summer ITEC. The mid term was not that bad. It covered the first five chapters of the course and in class discussions that we had in our conferences. The concepts we covered were very fundamental in business development. We can read, data warehouse and mining, CRM and ERP, importance of WLAN in the networking, and information system applications. I’m looking for the second part of the term with new concepts that I can’t wait to explore with Les.