Niaz Ali – IT for Managers
Personal Knowledge Base 
 
Day 4
In class work for Using an excel sheet about Mean, Variance and Correlation 
SubBusiness intelligence tools  topic
Chapter 6 and 9 presentation
Explain the differences between insourcing and outsourcing, 
inshoring and offshoring, and nearshoring and farshoring
Day 5
Microsoft Excel techniques 
Learning about Pivot table 
Chapter 11 Presentation 
Three different types of knowing
WHY
• is synthesized through a reasoning process.
• is the casual knowledge of why something occurs
HOW
Focuses on applying knowledge.
WHAT
Based on assembling information and applying it
Knowledge Management
Knowledge
Information
Data
Day 3
Day 3 Assignment 
Order Fulfilment for IT Equipment in Oil Search Company
Steps of Purchasing IT equpiment 
Subtopic
Finance department will process the payment
Supplier will send an invoice with a signed copy of the Purchase  order 
Supplier will deliver Goods  and a delivery note which will be signed by company  
Logistics department will prepare a purchase order and it will be send to the supplier who had provided the best offer
Who will determine the best offer
Supplier will return quotations to the requester (logistics)
The logistics will send the request for quotation from a few suppliers
The requestor will submit a purchase request to Logistic department 
Initiation request for an IT equipment 
Day 2
Class work about Telecommuting
The main idea of the article is about the CEO of yahoo trying to ban telecommuting, it’s appear that banning telecommuting at yahoo created a great debate about the decision made by the CEO, most of the discussion gave reasons that the yahoo’s CEO decision was not a wise one, and others gave reasons that came along with those decisions
3 strategies of Porter for achieving competitive advantage
The second presentation about Strategic use of information Resources in a global Economy 
The First presentation about CRM
Day 1
Assignment
Audio
Security of information is very important to Google innovation culture  
Providing access to all employees and allowing downloading all kind of blog and sites 
Google's mission is toorganize the world's information and make it nuiversally  accessible and useful
Overveiw Organization Design
IS StrategyTriangle represents a simple framework for understanding the impact of IS of business, it implies the balance that must be maintained in business planning. 
Know how to use mind mapping software such as "midomo"
Familiarity with Web Based Drive