Questions / Short Essays:

1. During this semester, each of you have been collecting articles about an industry / career position in which you may like to work after graduation. From your research in your industry,

a. Identify a company / organization for which you might work.

b. Describe three different IT-related positions within this company / organization.

c. What are the roles and responsibilities of these positions?

d. Using the 2017 Salary Survey from the Industry and Careers PowerPoint lecture, what are the standard salaries for these positions?

e. Which position would you target as your first job if you were to work for this company / organization?

2. We described many different disruptive technologies, which have significantly changed the way business has been conducted over the last 40 years.

a. Why is a technology considered "disruptive?"

b. Give an example of a disruptive technology which has impacted your own life from when you were younger until now.

c. Has this same technology impacted your parents' lives as well? In the same way or differently?

3. In Module 2, you were assigned to read the David Cearley, et al., article about Strategic Technology 2016 Trends.

a. Pick one of the trends.

b. How will this trend impact business within the next two - four years?

c. What will change? What will stay the same?

d. Will your everyday life change significantly? If so, how? If not, why not? (Module 2)

4. The Opening Case, Coca-Cola Manages at the Point that Makes a Difference in Turban, Chapter 3 - Data Management, Big Data Analytics, and Records Management, describes several data management challenges.  This case describes Coca-Cola's approach to "Big Data" and how it uses data to make business decisions.

Question 4 : What is the importance of having a trusted view of the data ? [From the case]

5. Scenario - You are attending one of the IT Professional Networking events held monthly in Columbia. While speaking to one of the professionals you mention that you are an Integrated Information Technology major / minor at USC. The professional asks you why you chose IIT.

The professional then wonders about the difference between computing science and information technology.

a. How would you explain the difference?

b. Why are you studying IT?