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Week Two Question 1: IT – An Asset or Expense? Class - I have to say that I look forward to your discussion on this question. This question comes from chapter 4 in your IT Leadership text. The question is simply: Are IT applications an asset or an expense to your company? Please answer this question two ways. What do you personally believe? And, how does your company handle this question (if you can, provide an example on how software is budgeted in your organization by business department or completely in IT's budget; also how are new projects vs. on-going software maintenance budgeted)? Question 2: Huerta vs. Calder For this question, you need to read chapter 6 of the IT Leadership text. The question is: Which side would you take in the debate between Huerta and Calder? Essentially, the question drives into - what IT methodology should an organization utilize to create and implement IT technology and software? Should it be the standard "waterfall" approach where you have requirements, design, coding, testing and implementation (as the debate in the text brings out, this approach has been used for years)? Or should you speed up the process through agile methods, even prototypes or a "spiral" model where you implement smaller phases over time? In previous question(s), I asked you to take a firm stance. However, I will accept a blended answer regarding this question; however, you need to provide examples to your answer. Question 3: What is Watson? Chapter 3 in our textbook is about hardware (Management Information Systems). For this question, you need to perform a little research in regards to something new in hardware. The first part of the question is: What is IBM's Watson computer? Second, in regards to Watson, experts in the healthcare industry believe that Watson could become the next "doctor". What do I mean by that. Watson could "know" all the possible symptoms, diagnosis, procedures and outcomes for any disease (even things in combination with each other). A person could have all their vitals, blood work, labs, etc. fed into Watson and Watson could simply spit out what is wrong with the patient and the proper steps to fix the patient. Essentially Watson would be a major expert system. With the computing capability for a computer like Watson, this is not just theoretical, this could happen. The question is: with the direction of technology today, would a diagnosis and recommended procedure from a computer like Watson be better in the future than a regular doctor? Please understand that Watson would have the most up-to-date data on health vs. a doctor that has been in the practice for 30 years. What would be better? Could Watson replace your local doctor (let's keep the question to your local doctor, not a surgeon quite yet) and all we need are nurses and physician assistants? Thoughts? Week Two Management Information James A. O’Brien and George M. Systems Marakas The Adventures of an IT Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan Leader and Shannon O’Donnell 10 Edition, 2011 978-0-07-337681-3 2009 978-1-4221-4660-6
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