MIST6090: Management Information Systems

The importance of organizational agility

Submitted by dthoma7 on Wed, 2010-07-21 11:51
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Over the past two years I have found myself increasingly involved in the movement to use technology to increase organizational agility. This movement had relied on manufacturing technology speed and precision improvements for the past two hundred years with the advent of the Industrial Revolution. Recently, this is all changing as cheap access to high-speed internet and communications technologies are enabling true interaction and work product creation in distributed teams. A few weeks ago I participated in a small summit meeting at the Mountain Quest Institute (MQI) in Frost, West Virginia. MQI is a neat place, certainly restful and supportive of deep thinking.

Portable Security and Control on the Horizon

Submitted by dthoma7 on Mon, 2009-05-04 17:57
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touch screen USB deviceWe see interesting devices from time to time that prompt re-thinking the potential of how we behave and what we are able to do.  I saw an interesting USB key fob today that did just that.  It is a small device that will enable a person to carry files along with an identity and interaction method!  What does this mean?

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.

What happens when computing processing and storage become fully virtual?

Submitted by dthoma7 on Mon, 2008-03-03 19:02
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Lately, the IT world has been humming with a variety of acronyms and buzzwords as usual. We hear about SOA and ITIL as well as "virtualization." Here virtualization generally refers to the ability to separate the computational capabilities associated with a business process from specific servers or other hardware. In effect, grid computing in which any terminal on a given grid can access the functions available.

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