...1. Purpose and mission for the PMO • The purpose of PMO was comprised of two categories: Project-focused and enterprise-oriented • Project-focused responsibilities strived to provide consulting, mentoring and training. These were the primary means for AtekPC to implement PMO in their organization. • Enterprise-oriented responsibilities focused on portfolio management, PM standards and project performance. • To derive the benefits (It performance in project performance, efficiency and resource utilization) from consistent project practices. • Providing mentoring and support project management for key projects identified by the IT executives. • To better prioritize what we work on, and taking a lead from that idea for building a business understanding of whatever the idea comes along. 2. Challenges of implementing PMO Intro: CIO faced with a lot of difficulties when implementing a PMO in AtekPC. Regardless of the technical challenges during the implementation, the core problem was of the PMO lacking organization support, from the top to the bottom. • There was not enough executive stakeholder support. • There was no visibility of the program. • There was a conflict of interests within departments. • People were reluctant to change the ways they had been doing things. Challenges to overcome: Light or heavy? • PMO vision and role were not clearly defined. There was no complete consensus regarding...
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...An Analysis of AtekPC Howard Kleinberg, Mark Grover As we walk through our analysis of this case, please keep the following questions in mind: 1. What mistakes did AtekPC make in implementing its PMO? 2. What should AtekPC have done to successfully implement its PMO? Industry Background Proliferation of mobile phones, PDAs and web-based applications slowed PC popularity. Industry was undergoing a wave of Director Application Development consolidation as cost control and scale Richard Steinberg became more important. Chief Information Officer John Strider Director Technology & Operations Company Background Established in 1984, 210 full-time employees, 200 part-time employees. 2006 sales = $1.9 Billion. Dealing with an industry moving from Growth stage to Maturing stage. Strategic Planning Office established to propose business changes. SPO initiated PMO effort, focused on IT projects, with plans to become Enterprise PMO. Sales Systems Manager Lead Analyst Linda Starr Manufacturing Systems Manager Steven Gardner Lead Analyst Financial Systems Manager Lead Analyst Workgroup Communications Manager Adv. Systems Replacement Project Manager Director Project Mgmt. Support Larry Field Lead Analyst Lead Analyst IT at AtekPC - PMO was introduced to provide standardization in managing IT projects. Project Manager Pre-PMO (2007) IT projects are managed by development staff (Lead Analysts). Used informal approach to projects = rapid response...
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...10 reasons Windows 8 will be painful for developers By Justin James October 24, 2012, 12:00 AM PDT Takeaway: If you plan to develop Windows 8 native apps, be prepared for some hurdles. Justin James looks at some of the biggest problems you’re likely to face. Ever since the release of the Windows 8 Developer Preview, people have had a lot to say about the experience of playing with the new OS. But few folks are talking about the changes it represents for developers. Windows 8 is the biggest update to the Windows development model since the move from Windows 3.X to Windows 95. While there are lots of good things, there are also a lot of pain points. If you are looking to develop Windows 8 native applications with the new UI and WinRT API, be careful of these 10 things. Editor’s note: This is an update of the original post, which published in December. 1: Market reboot If you want your applications to be fully compatible with Windows 8 (including running on ARM CPUs), you’ll need to do a full rewrite in Windows 8/WinRT. This may be great for developers looking to break into markets with established players. But if you are the established player, you are suddenly back at square one. 2: The asynchronous model Windows 8 development is highly dependent upon asynchronous operations for anything that is long running. While that may be a cute trick in some scenarios, it is downright frustrating in others (like trying to download a file). It isn’t just the work needed...
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...A View of the Ways Mobile Computing Has and Will Affect the Nature of Humans in Our Future Theresa McCray INF 103 Computer literacy Denton Murray Jan 28 2013 Mobile Computing is evolving faster than lighting it would be wise to be knowledgeable about the subject. In this paper I will explain what mobile computing is and will give examples of present day devices and their used as well as give some examples of what the future may bring in the way we compute in the future. Mobile computing past, present and the future Over the past years we have evolved into a new era of mobile computing, one that guarantees a wide variety in application, improved usability, and faster networking. Apple’s iPhone 5 is a prime example for the trends were heading into, but there are plenty of other options on the rise. Google Android made its appearance in 2008, offering a great alternative to apple devices. Apple had control of almost all computing systems since it was the only platform that could be used in mobile computing. Google brought competition to Apple allowing people to have a choice and the competition caused by...
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...Executive Summary Tabby International is a startup planning to launch a budget category tablet in the market. By 2017 there is a projected growth of over 78% in the worldwide tablet market (Columbus, 2013). USA is expected to remain the market leader in terms of consumers and Asia, especially China (43% growth by 2017), is expected to be the growth market (Croker, 2014). There is over 50% difference between urban and rural expenditure in China (“China Household Finance Survey”, 2013). With an average tablet expected to cost about $416 by 2015 ("Average Selling Price Of Tablet Pcs Worldwide From 2005 To 2015 (in U.S. Dollars)", 2014), there is a huge potential to capture the budget tablet (priced 30-50% below current market price) segment. Tabby International selected US and China as their initial markets to startup with. The company has a leadership team with background in running hardware and mobile devices production. It has also recruited a team of engineers, and researchers to develop the prototypes. Tabby will initially sell its products through its websites and set up booths in key urban locations in US and China to launch and support its products. Market Needs Due to the value technology has added to the global marketplace, consumers are driving the demand for products and services that break the traditional cliches of working and socializing behind four walls. The need for a desk, chair, and office is being replaced with a stylus pen, wi-fi connection, and a tablet...
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...Smart Technology for Smarter Kids Technology has proven to be a milestone in human development. It is only natural to want to incorporate this technology into our school programs and learning environment, and is now used as a means of instruction in the preschool, primary, and secondary classroom as well as beyond. Is it safe though, for the young, still developing minds of our future? These children, pre-school through primary, are around ages three- to eight-years- old. Many argue computers and other forms of technology have no place in the curriculum; whereas, the validity that teachers whom have incorporated it within the classroom feel it has enhanced the learning environment and overall, the students have developmentally progressed through documented developmental milestones at a faster rate than without the engagement of technology involved. Young children can be marked through developmental milestones; there are a known sequence of landmarks documented from childhood researchers and theorists. Exposure to certain disruption or not being correctly exposed to the applicable ideally guided assistance can prohibit these events from occurring (Feeney, et al, 2010). Technology exposure is inevitable though, especially within this twenty-first century. In addition to the introduction and development of literacy and numeracy skills and a strong emphasis on the shaping and improving of fine and gross motor skills, interaction and socialization are also key components to...
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...To Tablet Or Not To Tablet – That Is The Question Advances in technological development over the past four decades have created new opportunities and new ways to conduct business and explore the new channels of communication. Over the past several years, the growth in mobile technology and development of new advanced mobile devices such as smart phones and media tablets has increased the potential revenue of some businesses that have embraced the new technology and taken stops to secure a niche in the market. “Earlier this year, choosing the best tablet computer was as simple as knowing one model name: iPad.” (Consumer Reports). As of late August 2011, Apple’s computer tablet iPad and iPad2 represent over 61% of the market for tablets, leaving other companies such as Hewlett Packard laggin behind (Difference Engine: Reality Dawns). Simply put, it doesn’t matter if it’s the iPhone, the Macbook, or most recently iPad, everyone wants one, and if they can’t have it they want something as close to it as possible. It is important then, to explore what the iPad has that makes it the staunch front runner in the tablet industry. Not only has Steve Jobs of Apple Computers offered the world innovative and user friendly technological creations, with the release of each product, Apple’s success has forced its competitors to raise their stakes as well. Innovative, user-friendly, and in-genius are but a few of the many words that have become synonymous with Apple products. One of...
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...Club IT was founded by Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada whom are both former musicians that used their talent and love for music to work them through college. Ruben and Lisa both have obtained degrees in Business Administration and found that through their love music and the college courses they completed that a dream of theirs would be to open a nightclub. The mission for Club IT is that “We, Ruben and Lisa, offer you live music, DJ’s, dance space and refreshments that suite your lifestyle. You are our friends, and we seek to build a community that meets regularly from Club IT.” The best way for Club IT to promote their mission statement and to provide a place for a community to be established is through a diverse clientele. To meet the needs of a vast clientele Club IT offers a different sound to the club each month. When the calendar changes from month to month a sound and rhythm will accompany Club IT and the dance floor. The following acts will be featured beginning in January and ending in December; local bands, world DJ’s, NYC bands, Open Mike, Country, San Francisco Bands, Alternative, R&B, Hip-hop, Latin, Jazz, and Folk. With such an eclectic mix of bands, sounds, styles, and flavor, Club IT will have the ability to create the community that is the goal of the mission statement. Functional areas of Club IT are dining, merchandise, and the layout of the club itself. Information resources are used to enhance each of these areas by utilizing the intranet for...
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...Challenges of mobile computing: An Overview Mobile computing encompasses a number of technologies and devices, such as wireless LANs, notebook computers, cell and smart phones, tablet PCs and PDAs. Basically, any electronic device that helps you organizes your life, communicate with coworkers or friends, or do your job more efficiently is part of mobile computing, the combination of wireless communication infrastructure and portable computing devices has put the background for new computing ,which allows users access information and working With each others, when they move. Mobility can find e the form of users moving between specific terminals in the world. The constraints of mobile computing: mobile device constraints: are small size according to its processor speed ,the capacity of storage space and monitor resolution. Network constraint: the network of mobile wireless is not full reliable when to compare wired. Mobility constraints: mobile parts are very important for each one , the storage is the one of which makes mobile to save a lot of information. Wireless communication is very hard to Automate as wired communication because of the interaction of surrounding environment with the message. Mobility is the capacity to alternate one position when connected to the network increases the stability of some information. Portability there is a lot of problems for moving mobile from one location to another such as low power can’t find enough electricity to charge your mobile...
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...Lenovo is currently the Top 1 market leader in PC industry globally. With the acquisition of IBM’s x86 server business and Motorola Mobility on 2014, and the changing landscape of tablets and smartphone market, we will look into Lenovo’s strategic position. There are several issues facing by Lenovo now: ♣ Bad economic environment might post threat to Lenovo’s PC and enterprise business ♣ Declining growth in worldwide tablets market would hurdle the Lenovo’s growth of market share in tablets market ♣ Lack of Wearables and Internet of Things (IoT) Products would leads Lenovo missing out of future key driver in business ♣ Lenovo’s Smartphone market share is declining due to confusing brand positioning of Lenovo brand and Motorola brand Based on the issues identified, below are the recommendations: ♣ Lenovo to utilizes the merger of IBM x86 server business to be more price competitive and enhance global reach ♣ Lenovo to focus on low-end to middle range tablets to avoid competition with top tablets vendors which focused on high-end devices ♣ Lenovo to reposition Lenovo brand and Motorola brand in smartphone market to gives clear differentiation to consumers ♣ Lenovo to expand product lineup for Wearables ♣ Lenovo to deploy more resource on research and development on Internet of Things (IoT) products Introduction In 2014 Q4, Lenovo finally achieved its goal in becoming the world’s largest PC vendor, and continue to maintain the top position...
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...Q1. Briefly describe how the physical properties of materials used to produce tablets influence flow ability. Construct a chart of the flow studies and comment on the results. There are a variety of properties that will affect the flow ability of a tablet, some of these factors will include physical properties such as particle size and the amount of fine particles. The size of the particles can be a significant factor in influencing the overall flow ability, as when the particles become too small (below 50 m), there will be no flow as the cohesive forces between the particles will be greater than the driving force. There will also be no flow for particles that are too large (above 1200 m), as the resistance force will be greater than the gravitational forces, also, too large of a particle can clog the orifice, causing an intermittent flow, thus cannot give an accurate flow rate1. The impact of granule size is demonstrated in Figure 1 as the flow rate will increase up to approximately 215 m, and will then decrease after this. Therefore, demonstrating that the flow rate will increase due to optimal particle size until the particle size causes interactions such as friction and inter-particle cohesive forces, which will reduce flow rate. The percentage of fine particles will also influence the flow rate as increasing the percentage of fines until a certain point will increase the flow rate due to their ability to increase the bulk density of the powder by filling up the void space...
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...Chapter 2: 9. Even with the advances in technology and the prevalence of self-training, centralized training and support are needed. Having the centralized training gives the end user a feeling of a more personal atmosphere. They are able to interact with everyone in the training, even the instructor, face-to-face rather than over the phone or via chat. Having centralized support is needed as the support is trained in help with problems that would take the normal end user a lot more time to figure out the fix. 10. Yes it is good to rely on vendors for computing support as they are trained specifically for computing support and should know the systems very well. No it is not good to rely on vendors for computing support as they do not know the culture of the company as internal computing support would. The argument can go either way, it depends on what the company is looking for more in their support. Chapter 3: 1. Pg 101. As with all prototypes, you will want to come up with the design, develop the prototype and then implement the prototype to see how it works with the end user (see if it is what the end user needs and functions the way they need it to). If it passes the testing portion with the end user it can be fully developed and sent to all the end users. If there are problems, find where the problems are, fix them and have it tested again. 5. Most reports I see go right into the details. I think it would be better, at least for me, if the reports started out...
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...| Research Project Proposal | Tablet PC becomes Common Uses in Our Present Life | Table of Content Introduction 2 Critique of Journal Articles 3 Journal Article One (Tablet Computing) 3 Journal Article Two (Tablet PCs in school) 4 Overview of the research project 5 Research Questions 5 Research Method 5 Pilot Test Run 6 References List 8 Introduction This Research Project is to help me gain real appreciation for research through my experience. It is designed to let student to select an interested topic for a research project. The topic I am chosen is “Tablet PC becomes Common Uses in Our Present Life”. In now days compare tablet pc to ordinary computers, tablets by design are comparatively lightweight and relatively easy to carry around. Many of them may still be too heavy to hold in one hand, but they're great in your lap or on a surface. Tablet PC is become more and more useful in many areas, such as school, business, organization, government etc. Using tablet to browse the Web is much easier than getting up, going to your desk, and booting up your computer. Even laptops, which are supposed to be mobile devices, can take a while to start, and they often get hot after a short period of use. There are many advantages by using tablet PC. For example firstly, the ability to capture and store personalized input such as diagrams, mathematical and scientific equations and similar forms of input. Secondly, Faster and effortless navigation...
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...wasn't even close. TheMicrosoft Tablet PC was announced in 2001, and tablets built to its specifications were released in 2002, eight years before the iPad first appeared. That same year, Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 was developed for smartphones. (It later became Windows Mobile, and now is Windows Phone.) Apple got around to building its first smartphone, the iPhone, five years later, in 2007. Apple has long been portrayed as the technology world's leading innovator, coming up with visionary ideas well before anyone else and creating entire product categories from scratch. Microsoft has been thought of as an unimaginative plodder, waiting for others to develop innovations, and then coming in with brute force and cornering the market with big marketing budgets and smart business moves. In fact, though, Microsoft has been out front on a number of occasions. It's not that it can't innovate. It's that it doesn't do a good job of turning innovations into market-changing products. Take the Tablet PC. At the time, it was certainly innovative. But Microsoft never figured out how to make a marketable product out of it, largely because the company thought about it as a traditional computer in a different form factor -- essentially a tablet-based Windows PC. In a press release at the time, Microsoft described it this way: "The size of a legal notepad and half the weight of most of today's laptop PCs, the Tablet PC is a full-powered, full-featured PC." Full-priced, too, typically costing $2...
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...The negative impact of overused the tablets on children Purpose Statement The study aims to discover the physical and mental negative impacts of overusing laptop tablet on children. The paper also discusses the solutions and recommendations to the stated problem Rationale of the study Tablets have positive, as well as negative impacts and, therefore, there is a need to understand the negative impacts to mitigate them. Technology needs to be relied in moderation. With presences of current technology, there is a need to take care of children’s physical, as well as growth. Methodology This study will use quantitative method, questionnaire to collect the data. In this regard, structured questionnaires will be distributed to parent who have children aged between 2 years and 9 years of the study. The information collected will then be analyzed using quantitatively to find out the view of the parents regarding to over use of tablets and smartphones. Study group The target group for the study is the parents. In this regard, structured questionnaire will be distributed to parents who have children aged between 2 years and 9 years. For instance, I will distribute questionnaires to my sisters who are now parents and their children use tablets. I will also distribute the questionnaires to my friends and classmate, and professor as we have agreed with them. Expected goals and outcome The expected outcomes in this study are • How to monitor and control children using tablets....
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