MGCR 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: File Sharing, Thomas Friedman, Insourcing

• School: McGill University
• Department: Management Core
• Course: MGCR 331
• Professor: Imad Mansour

Document Summary

As a result of this course on business information technologies, you will be able to: Understand and talk about it and how it relates to business; Learn about and understand how it tools improve collaboration and decision- making. To reach the course objectives, you will learn to: Appreciate and explain the strategic role of it in all types of organizations. Examine how an organization can create business value from it. Familiarize yourself with tools used to improve decision-making, access information and facilitate collaboration. Identify and explain current and future types of organizational uses of it. Be aware of the privacy issues and security concerns in using it. Clicker q: facebook user base is not bigger than the population of: China and india: the rise of opensource has: changed the revenue model of the software industry. Reduced the computing cost of start ups as well as blue chips companies: the following are reasons why finance professionals have to understand technology: