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Target Setting
Important financial technique – setting goals & objectives. Managers use financial targets to monitor & assess success of financial control mechanisms. Typical targets deal with sales volumes & expenditure levels, achieved via budgeting techniques. Key principles around budgeting targets revolve around historical comparisons e.g. year-on-year. Able to determine operational trends and determine how to act…
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Different Strategies
Several other strategies need to be developed after business strategy has been agreed. Strategies of interest to I.T. department are: Information strategy – defines information required to support business strategy. States ‘what’ info required, ‘when’ required, ‘where’ requires and ‘who’ requires it. Human resource strategy – defines required human resources: type, location and skill sets.…
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Strategic Planning
Developing a long term plan for organisation to attain goals. Long term is subjective, may mean anything from three or four years to ten years depending on the industry. Involves analysing current skills/competencies of internal resources and comparing to environment in which organisation is competing. Strategic planning will involve analysing, deciding upon and integrating following…
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Legacy Systems
Since Internet became accepted technology, systems developed pre-Internet could be deemed legacy. Organisations may have legacy systems as they have invested in them and may still be critical to operations. May be old or outdated technologies – can have specific requirements e.g. skill sets or support which could bring increased cost.
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Technology Acceptance Model
Commonly used for evaluating technologies. Uses criteria “perceived usefulness” and “perceived ease of use” to model how technology may be accepted in organisation.
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Implementation of New Technologies
Many areas to consider when planning implementation of new technologies. Link to business strategy – most important – how will new tech link to business strategy? Business strategy – statement of organisations goals and objectives. New acquisitions must contribute toward this. Technology needs to be considered in terms of: If it has new functionality, then functionality…
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ORA-10873: file 1 needs to be either taken out of backup mode or media recovered
Over the weekend, one of our Windows Oracle database servers suffered a power failure the same time it was being backed up by CommVault Oracle client. This left the database in a state where it wouldn’t start up, to rectify this, the following steps should help. Open a DOS window. set ORACLE_SID=<database SID> sqlplus / as…
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Areas to Consider When Upgrading Technology
Considerations when upgrading technology: What is the upgrade? Fix issue(s) in current technology Is issue impacting organisation? Is there new functionality? If so, is it required now or in future? Has support been removed for previous versions? Support for older technology only lasts for a certain time Are there dependent upgrades required? Is need to…
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Upgrades to existing Technology
I.T. infrastructure has various range of technologies to support components, such as software, middleware, hardware and network tech. Each piece of technology bought at different times to address different issues. Investment made can be quite significant. Any upgrade/changes to existing tech needs to be considered in terms of the investment already made and the potential…
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Research Activity: Challenges of BYOD
The growth of the usage of Bring You Own Devices (BYOD) has been a major challenge for IT departments. Research the topic of BYOD and discuss the challenges they brought and how they have been overcome with your module colleagues in the Group Discussion Forum. Organisations are finding it a significant expense equipping workforce with devices to…
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