1: Discuss two major issues involved with acquiring systems and two major issues commonly faced when maintaining them. Address how each can be minimized or overcome.

2: Describe the effect of an organization's strategic planning on the IT systems it uses. Address how strategic planning simplifies and complicates IT system development and use.

3: Explain how current IT systems are managed.

4: Think of a situation where you worked successfully with people from identity groups other than your own. What allowed you to work successfully with them?

5: The Oxford English Dictionary defines diversity as "the condition or quality of being diverse, different, or varied; difference, unlikeness." Do you agree or disagree with that definition? Why?

6: Since Dr. Kings, "I have a dream" speech, society has done many things to contribute and promote equal opportunities to fulfill this dream. They have eliminated segregation of public schools, transportation, bathrooms, and other places. Also minority groups are given several scholarships and grants to help them when applying for schools and when paying their way for college. I think that personality, I could contribute to his dream by not judging somebody based on their color of skin and treating everybody with respect.