week 4

For CEO's and their organizations, avoiding complexity is not an option — the choice comes in how they respond to it. Will they allow complexity to become a stifling force that slows responsiveness, overwhelms employees and customers, or threatens profits?

2010 IBM Global CEO Study

How do you respond to these statements?

For CEO's and their organizations, avoiding complexity is not an option — the choice comes in how they respond to it. Will they allow complexity to become a stifling force that slows responsiveness, overwhelms employees and customers, or threatens profits?

2010 IBM Global CEO Study

How do you respond to these statements?
            CEO is the chief executive officer of a company or organization. All the official duty comes under his shoulder in an organization. CEO is mainly responsible for success and the failure of the company. From start to operating, marketing, planning, financing, recruiting, firing, rules and regulations, making friendly environment and culture everything comes under his responsibility. Usually many organizations used to have the problem of IT complexity. CEO must play a role in solving this complexity.

 

 

IT complexity and it's branches

This week in our Fundamental and Technology class we covered the topic of IT complexity. Technical, organizational and societal are the three aspects of IT complexity.

1.1: IT complexity and its branches

On this Management IT complexity topic we did some research of HP (Hewlett Packard)

company one of the leading PC manufacturer since 2000. HP is the successful company till date. After the research we find out the reasons the company for its success in the sales of its P.C

Managing complexity is becoming critically important to the success of today's businesses.

Complexity has an intrinsic value, in many cases improving profitability.Customers are happy to pay for "good" complexity."Bad" complexity needlessly increases costs and put at risk profitability



How does it become the successful company???

HP’s teams have developed a five-step process that measures the costs and benefits of complexity. Identifying the cost area impacted by product line complexity, estimate complexity and its costs per unit in each area, cutoff margin threshold for SKUs,(stock keeping units) evaluate increment margin of each proposed SKUs and eliminate proposed SKUs  that do not exceed threshold.  

HP developed an EXCEL-BASED ODEL showing the impacts of product  line changes on each of the cost categories that had identified.

      HP's desktop PC division was able to eliminate several unattractive SKUs from its product portfolio and change its processes for evaluating proposed products in the future. Armed with this information, the team had clearer guidelines on when to create new SKUs, and is now enforcing stricter minimum quantities with retail accounts. We estimated that the financial impact from this application to North America desktop PCs was on the order of $4 million per year.

HP's education vision : "Combining Human Ingenuity and Technology "

References:

http://www.orms-today.org/orms-6-05/complexity.html

Which application system has the best user centered design?

Application is the technological programme which we normally use in our daily life for example Microsoft word, Microsoft outlook, face-book, twitter, Hotmail, yahoo, hi-5 and many more. The applications is dynamic, programmer always upgrade their applications to make it better than others application. Programmers always change the function and design of the application. From those applications they earn huge name and fame.

For example, Facebook made Mark Zukenberg one of the successful idols. He made and broadcast his application in 2004, now in the present day he have over 1 billion of active users.

In my opinion the easiest application to use is Facebook. Because of that the users are increasing dramatically as compared to others. In this application the design is not so complicated. It will give the option one by one, and it’s in very simple language. The architecture of this application is quite easy as compared to other application. It provides multilingual options so, users can use in any language as they prefer. This application is written in C++ form. 

There are thousands of application which we can see these days, but because of the simplicity, and good architecture and design, the users of this particular application users growing steadily.  

What is computer science ??????

It is the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications. A computer scientist specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computational systems. Computer Science (as a field) is concerned with developing new ideas around the use and design of computing systems, and with the mathematical concepts of computation and information. Computer Science is the mother of all computational disciplines. “Computer Science” is the mixture and application of “Applied Mathematics”, “Electrical Engineering“, and “Complexity Theory/Algorithms” to understand and/or model information. In other words, the “field of computation”.

What is IT ??????

The abbreviation of the IT is Information and Technology.

“Information Technology” is the mixture and application of “Programming”, “Hardware Administration”, “Software Administration”, “Networking“, “Network Security” and “Technical Support”. In other words, the “management of computers”.

“Most CS people laugh at MIS/IT people,”

and “MIS/IT people make more money and manage the CS folks.”

It’s quite common that, C.S people laugh at the IT people because the C.S people invent the new software, spend years of research find out the new technology. From 1st generation computer to the third generation computer, form a pager to mobile phone and from simple mobile phone to smart phone, all these are invention of the C.S people, so they laugh at the IT and MIS people. But from the same programme found by the C.S people, IT/MIS people makes lot of money through repairing and finding out the way to use those software’s and the programmes.

In simple word we can say that, C.S invent the new programme and IT people keep maintain it until new programme invented. They are like each other’s reciprocal.