MIS Assignment 6

IT consultant

An IT consultant works in partnership with clients, advising them how to use information technology in order to meet their business objectives or overcome problems. Consultants work to improve the structure and efficiency and of an organsiation's IT systems.
IT consultants may be involved in a variety of activities, including marketing, project management, client relationship management and systems development.
They may also be responsible for user training and feedback. In many companies, these tasks will be carried out by an IT project team. IT consultants are increasingly involved in sales and business development, as well as technical duties.

Is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives. In addition to providing advice, IT consultancies often implement, deploy, and administer IT systems on businesses' behalf.

If I would be hired by the university president as an IT consultant, I would suggest….

• Technology

Technology, broadly, is a tool or set of tools aimed at making some aspect of life better, easier, or more efficient. On the web, that could mean scripting languages that make it easier for developers to create applications, or it could mean applications that make it easier for us to accomplish a task.

I would suggest better equipments that are provide a skill to assessment, training and tutoring services. In this way, all students, teachers and Staff could benefits. Using that high technology, we could be ensured a better future in terms of academic situation, we could think easily in terms of program with reliable and easy to understand.

• Infrastructure

The basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function.

The development and maintenance of essential public infrastructure is an important ingredient for sustained economic growth and poverty reduction.
Poor infrastructure is perhaps the most binding constraint to growth throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

• Improving poor people's access to essential infrastructure services such as energy
• Assisting the creation of enabling environments for both private and public financing and management of infrastructure
• Supporting human resources development, institutional strengthening and capacity building in the infrastructure sector.

• Innovations

A new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental and emergent or radical and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations. A distinction is typically made between invention, an idea made manifest, and innovation, ideas applied successfully.

• Steps and Processes

Decision making can be hard. Almost any decision involves some conflicts or dissatisfaction. The difficult part is to pick one solution where the positive outcome can outweigh possible losses. Avoiding decisions often seems easier. Yet, making your own decisions and accepting the consequences is the only way to stay in control of your time, your success, and your life.

A significant part of decision making skills is in knowing and practicing good decision making techniques. One of the most practical decision making techniques can be summarized in those simple decision making steps:
Identify the purpose of your decision. What is exactly the problem to be solved? Why it should be solved?
1. Gather information. What factors does the problem involve?
2. Identify the principles to judge the alternatives. What standards and judgement criteria should the solution meet?
3. Brainstorm and list different possible choices. Generate ideas for possible solutions. See more on extending your options for your decisions on my brainstorming tips page.
4. Evaluate each choice in terms of its consequences. Use your standards and judgement criteria to determine the cons and pros of each alternative.
5. Determine the best alternative. This is much easier after you go through the above preparation steps.
6. Put the decision into action. Transform your decision into specific plan of action steps. Execute your plan.
7. Evaluate the outcome of your decision and action steps. What lessons can be learnt? This is an important step for further development of your decision making skills and judgement.


Sources:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology_consulting
http://www.time-management-guide.com/decision-making-skills.html
http://www.ausaid.gov.au/keyaid/infra.cfm

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