BUS351: Process and Systems Management

Introduction to Operations Management: BUS 351

Submitted by dthoma7 on Wed, 2006-10-04 14:47
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This course provides a comprehensive introduction to analyzing, running and improving business operations regardless of industry. The concepts taught in this course apply broadly to management activities in areas from medicine to entertainment, and are specifically suited to assisting in the daily operations of the wide variety of other professional services that dominate the economy (e.g.

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Flying Cars...

Submitted by dthoma7 on Thu, 2009-03-19 16:29
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So, how long will it take for flying cars to be commonplace? Will they ever? As of this week, there is a viable flying car that will be on the market for under $200,000 in the near future.

 What implications will this have f

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Virtual Worlds enable New Business Opportunities

Submitted by dthoma7 on Wed, 2008-10-29 02:40
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Second Life Business GuideVirtual worlds enable whole new business opportunities. Have a look at this article about second life and how successful businesses are using the medium to make real money. Note that the majority of this business usage currently centers on marketing and fashion. Other common uses of the virtual world include social clubs and advertising. Second life businesses article on CNET

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Open Source Tools

Submitted by dthoma7 on Thu, 2008-10-16 14:56
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I frequently try out and contribute to a variety of open-source online community-type tools including Mambo, Tiki-wiki, Drupal (a commercial version of Drupal = Acquia ), and Moodle. I have several currently installed and use some of them for testing out comparative features.

Several guides on the Web provide discussions of the various tools available. Wikipedia provides one of my favorite general lists here.

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Unified Communications and ICT integration

Submitted by dthoma7 on Tue, 2008-04-01 16:08
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How do you explain the tremendous hype and true excitement about the iPhone? It is not a particularly revolutionary device in that its features all already existed in various places. It's key is integration - simplifying and streamlining the complexity of communications today. People are willing to pay for any device that does this well. Imagine a device you could wear that would serve as an accessory when not needed and morph into a phone, camera or other device form when needed. This sort of device is being developed now in research labs (Here's the video.). This unification of communications as a goal of cell phone providers sets up the broader topic of unified messaging.

Unified messaging is a hot topic right now. It promises integration of telephone, email, and various other ICTs into one interface with unified search, storage, and topic cataloging of content.

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The Age of Design

Submitted by dthoma7 on Wed, 2007-08-01 16:48
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I am marking this space to begin collecting my thoughts on the Age of Design. Future Shock, Network Nation, and Megatrends all predicted the information age. People would become information-empowered.  

 

The Internet connects people today and offers access to pricing, regulations, other government and public documents, as well as tools for manipulating data and producing more information.

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Instant Messaging and Chat as entry tech

Submitted by dthoma7 on Mon, 2007-06-04 15:15
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People love instant messaging and chat on the Internet. These are applications the new generation of millenials in particular have been bred to use. My research shows these are the entry technologies for the workforce to get into more advanced computing. Managers can take specific steps to use them to get employees using improved communications and collaboration practices. Of note in this space, there are a wide variety of clients. IBM and AOL were in this space a long time ago along with CUCME (pronounced "see you see me") and ICQ.

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Project Feedback Survey Credit Instructions

Submitted by dthoma7 on Tue, 2006-12-19 02:30
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To get credit for your participation (5 participation points) in the 351 feedback survey, please email Dominic Thomas and copy this message (between the lines of asterisks "***" below) and paste it into the body of your email message by December 20th, 2006 at noon. Be sure to Type in your name.

dominic_thomas@bus.emory.edu

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Survey: Group Feedback

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Date: Thursday March 11th, 2010 1643512606
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Bluetooth Watches - networking at a more granular level

Submitted by dthoma7 on Tue, 2006-10-17 06:45
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So, the era of bluetooth watches has arrived! Endagaget Story

Here is one that links with your cell phone. Fossil has one out too.

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House of the Future

Submitted by dthoma7 on Wed, 2006-10-11 20:20
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What will the house of the future look like?  Home technologies are often the ones consumers can most readily grasp.  I am collecting resources here that show such technologies.

 

One key technology that has been around for a long time to network home devices prior to wireless = x10 an industry standard

Read about X-10 here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_%28industry_standard%29  

 http://news.com.com/2300-11392_3-6115975-1.html - Popular Science House of Innovation photos

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