Questions:

1) Briefly introduce yourself to your professor and classmates. Tell us your name, your major, major of your Bachelor's degree, your branch of service (if military), your job title and a brief description of your job, where you live, why you are taking this class and what you hope to learn, and what you like to do for fun. Also let me know if you have been able to access the e-book or textbook for this course.

2) Write a short description of your proposed business. What is the nature of your business? What type of product(s) or service(s) will your business offer? Be sure to give your business a name, so that I can list it in the list of approved topics! :-)

3) In what ways will the information technology needs be different for upper management, middle management, operational management, and lower level employees (such as production and service workers, and data workers)?

4) Identify the main business processes in your business. What types of business information systems will you need to efficiently run the various business processes of your business?

5) What kinds of enterprise applications will your business require in order to coordinate and integrate the various business processes?

6) How will you organize the information systems function of your business? Will you have one IT expert on staff, will you have an information systems department, or will you outsource the IT function? What will be the primary responsibilities of your IT expert or department?