MIS 600 – Intro to Info Systems in Organizations – Week 3

Week 3 – IT Architecture and Strategy

I meet my team for our project. The major difference between grad and undergrad is everyone here is a top student and engaged. The offset is we are all in this program because we are working adults with families and this fits. Getting everyone on the same page will be difficult but everyone seems committed. I am the senior of the group and they want to lean on my technical expertise. We submit an initial executive summary for grading and the part I wrote is specifically called out for being excellent, we get max points on the project. I am pretty proud of myself. As an adult student, any type of positive reinforcement we receive is well appreciated. Many of us are balancing a lot and working very hard to accomplish this goal. Sometimes we feel we are in over our head and feeling borderline overwhelmed, especially when family and career responsibilities come calling.

This week we dive into Information Technology and then some of the trends in it as it relates to the organization. I am realizing now this book is out of date. The most recent mention is of Social Networks, which I think we’ve moved on since then. There is no real talk about APIs and Microservices or Artificial Intelligence. Not that a business manager would need to understand how these things work but they are important enough to warrant discussion and updating of the course material. I will include that in my evaluation for the course. This was also the first week of our lecture, but the audio on it was terrible. I am also going to include that feedback as well.