1a. Create a table or spreadsheet that lists 10 or more possible career areas—including estimated annual salaries and brief job descriptions. Rate how much you think you would like each potential career area on a scale from 1 (“don’t like”) to 10 (“like the most”). You can use Word or Excel for this part of the assignment.

1b. Highlight roles that you feel pertain to information systems. Add a column to briefly describe where this role fits within the umbrella of information systems. Save as doc or xls depending on which application you’ve used.

2. Use presentation software to create a set of three slides that identifies the top three things you hope to learn from this course and why each is important to you. Save as a PPT file.( powerpoint)

Each week you will be adding to a cumulative project.  Using the template attached you will add in each weeks work in the appropriate spots in the template. 

Determine a business or organization in need of information systems. This can be a business startup or changes in an existing business. If an existing business belonging to you (now or in the future), treat it as if you will be upgrading technology beyond a single computer, software integration, or system.

You’ll be using this concept throughout the course so give it some thought.

In this lab:

Project Definition

1. Define your IS project and determine what information systems and personnel will be necessary to meet needs and requirements.

2. Is this a startup or a business converting to or making significant changes to its business model and systems?

Data

3. What types of data do you think you will be working with?

Organizational Changes

4. How big a staff do you think will be needed and in what capacity? Will new people need to be hired and trained? Will existing staff need training?

Initial Concerns

5. What initial security, ethical, or legal concerns might you have?

Week 1 Cummulative Project Template