Business Computing 1The Business Computing Context:Part A - Course Overview

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After completing this course you are expected to have the ability to:Use information technology terms and concepts appropriatelyGather and analyse client requirementsModel business problems and design integrated solutionsPresent your findings appropriately as written documents and visual presentationsBehave ethically especially in relation to information technology and plagiarismWhy select this course?Slide *A foundation course in the Bachelor of Business

Slide *IT Knowledge:Use of software packages:Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Access, PowerPointor other equivalent software packages

Important but not the main part of the course

Business Computing Knowledge:Key AIMS of the courseLearn to analyse and model business problemsLearn to use information systems to solve business problemsLearn to use information to make decisions

What do you expect from this course?

Slide *Why Bother?The modern workforce must understand ITIT is used in almost all business activitiesIT is a source of competitive advantageIT is expensiveDecisions about IT cannot be left to IT professionals !!

How much Time/Effort?FOR EACH TOPIC:1. 1 hour Lecture2. 2 hours Studio/Workshop3. At least 4 hours reading/activities (including preparatory reading and self-checking exercises)4. Another 3 hours assessment preparationInvest minimum 10 hours per topicReturn on Investment: Distinction?!Slide *

Teaching ModeThis course will be taught as follows:LECTURES:The lecture each week will introduce ideas that will be explored during the lecture

REVIEW:There will be challenge questions posted each week in Piazza as a follow-up of lecture. Try these before your workshop

WORKSHOPS:During the workshop you will develop your Business Computing knowledge and skills by completing hands-on exercises.Note: The questions posted in Piazza, referred to above, are NOT for final marks.

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Slide *AssessmentsTo PASS this course: must achieve 50% and above of overall marks

Assessments Mark %Allocation DueAssessment 1 part 1 : Excel solution development20%Individual60 min assessment During workshop classes in week 5Assessment 1 part 2: Writing Business Report 10%IndividualDue by Friday in week 8 through turnitinAssessment 2: Access database development20%Individual60 min assessment During workshop classes in week 11Exam50%Individual

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Slide *Assessment 1Assessment 1 (30%): In-class Excel Application Implementation (20%) and Business Report (10%)

Students will develop skills and be able to demonstrate the ability to:Analyse different types of business problems, the contexts in which they exist and develop and apply solutions based upon approaches taught, including specifically using spreadsheet technologies.Employ a variety of IT and IS tools (including specifically spreadsheet and word processing tools) to communicate results when making decisions and solving business problems, including presenting findings appropriately as written documents and visual presentations.Use data and information to support business decision-making.

Slide *Assessment 2Assessment 2 (20%): In-class Database Design/Implementation

Students will develop skills and be able to demonstrate their ability to:Analyse different types of business problems, the contexts in which they exist and develop and apply solutions based upon approaches taught, including specifically using database technologies.

Slide *Assessment 3Assessment 3 (50%): Examination covering all materials addressed in the lectures, demonstrations, and workshops - 2 Hours (plus 15 minutes Reading Time)

Students will acquire knowledge and be able to demonstrate the application of this knowledge, including specifically:The use of information technology terms and conceptsGathering and analysing business user problems and requirementsModelling business problems and designing integrated solutionsCreating business solutions that support professional practice and ethical behaviour

Activity Based Learning Week 7 is for activity based learning

Objective: To revise the concepts learnt from Week 1 to 6 based on a taskGroups: Form group of 4 or 5 students in your workshopTask: You need to take the task assigned to you in week 6 and complete the task as a group in week 7 Submission: The task needs to be submitted in Piazza on Friday of Week 7More details will be given to you in Week 6.

Please note that the task is only for activity based learning and is not counted as any assessment.

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Slide *Resources and HelpCampus Course Coordinator Dr Blooma John: blooma.john@rmit.edu.au

Course Materials - Lectures and WorkshopAvailable in Learning Management Systems

Student Learning Advisor Mentors (SLAMs) SLAM is a free of charge programme that offers assistance to students to excel in their studies

TextbookComputing for Business Success Richardson, Fairservice, Grob, Petts, Smith, Tolson

The Business Computing Context:Part B What Role does/should IT play in the world of business?

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Slide *What you will learn:Think about the role IT plays today, and might play in the future, in the world of businessLearn about some of the key players who have contributed to the present world of Business IT: Bricklin Gates Jobs Berners-Lee ZuckerbergThink about some emerging technologies that may shape the future of Business IT

Slide *The Role of IT in Business - TodayCreating office documents, maintaining schedules etc Allowing employees to communicate with each other and with customers/suppliersCapturing business transactionsProviding information about an organisations business operations to support and assist managers Evaluating options to help managers make decisionsEmulating human expert decision-making Monitoring the competitive environment for strategic planning and much more that we will learn about in coming weeks

Slide *Some Heroes: Dan Bricklin - Father of the SpreadsheetDaniel Singer "Dan" Bricklin (born 16 July 1951), often referred to as The Father of the Spreadsheet, is the American co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. While a student at Harvard Business School, Bricklin co-developed VisiCalc in 1979, making it the first electronic spreadsheet readily available for home and office use. It ran on an Apple II computer. VisiCalc is widely credited for fueling the rapid growth of the personal computer industry. Instead of doing financial projections with manually calculated spreadsheets, and having to recalculate with every single cell in the sheet, VisiCalc allowed the user to change any cell, and have the entire sheet automatically recalculated. This turned 20 hours of work into 15 minutes and allowed for more creativity.

Slide *Some Heroes: Bill Gates Co-founder of MicrosoftWilliam Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, programmer, inventor and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the worlds largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolutionGates's role at Microsoft for most of its history was primarily a management and executive role. However, he was an active software developer in the early years, particularly on the company's programming language products.Windows - Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985.

Slide *Some Heroes: Steve Jobs Apple VisionarySteven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolutionDuring his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields, he transformed "one industry after another, from computers and smartphones to music and movies..."

Slide *Some Heroes: Tim Berners-Lee Inventor of the WebSir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955), also known as "TimBL," is a British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid November.Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development.He was honoured as the "Inventor of the World Wide Web" during the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, in which he appeared in person.

Slide *Some Heroes: Mark Zuckerberg Co-founder of FacebookMark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as a co-founder of the social networking website Facebook. Together with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, Zuckerberg launched Facebook from Harvard's dormitory rooms.As of April 2013, Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook, Inc. and in 2013 his personal wealth was estimated to be US$13.3 billion.

New Technologies continue to emerge !!!SOME EXAMPLESAvailable TODAY!!!Cloud Computing: The delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network (typically the Internet).http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-6_qsn54tAPossibly available in coming years!!!Google Glass: Wearable computing with an optical head-mounted display (OHMD) that is being developed by Google in the Project Glass project. Glass displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free format, that can interact with the Internet via natural language voice commandshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EvNxWhskf8Slide *

Piazza ChallengeInvestigate online the following contributors to the development of the present world of Business IT. Match the people to their key contribution before next workshop. Slide *

PersonAchievementCharles BabbageJack DorseyJ Presper EckertDouglas Englebart Ada LovelaceLarry Page and Sergey BrinBlaise PascalRichard StallmanLinus TorvaldsAlan TuringFather of the Computer built the first mechanical computerDeveloper of the Linux operating systemOften considered the world's first computer programmerCo-founders of GoogleThe inventor of the mechanical calculatorAdvocate for the free software movement (open source software)Known as the creator of TwitterConsidered the father of Computer Science and Artificial IntelligenceInventor of the computer mouseCo-invented the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC)

Thank you

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