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2. TEC 401UOP Course Tutorial TEC 401 Entire Course TEC 401 Week 1 DQ 1 • TEC 401 Week 1 Individual Assignment Technology and Management Functions Paper • TEC 401 Week 1 DQ 1 • TEC 401 Week 1 DQ 2 • TEC 401 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Organizational Technology Plan Overview Current Technology Assessment and Value Chain Analysis • TEC 401 Week 2 DQ 1 • TEC 401 Week 2 DQ 2 • TEC 401 Week 2 DQ 3 • TEC 401 Week 2 DQ 4 • TEC 401 Week 2 DQ 5 • TEC 401 Week 3 Individual Assignment Technology Implementation Paper2 • What changes have you experienced in your job role recently as a result of technology, and how did you feel about those changes?

3. TEC 401UOP Course Tutorial TEC 401 Week 1 DQ 2 TEC 401 Week 1 Individual Assignment Technology • What are some examples of how technology has supported each of the functions of management: planning, organizing, directing or leading, and controlling? • Individual Assignment: Technology and Management Functions Paper • Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper based on personal experience in the workplace that gives examples of how management at your company expects technology to improve business. Discuss how your company’s current technology is meeting or not meeting business

4. TEC 401UOP Course Tutorial TEC 401 Week 2 DQ 1 TEC 401 Week 2 DQ 2 • What recommendations do you have for your own company regarding its technical support staff? • How can a technology manager help to foster good working relationships between non-technical and technical staff?

5. TEC 401UOP Course Tutorial TEC 401 Week 2 DQ 3 TEC 401 Week 2 DQ 4 • Think about an organization or corporation that you currently belong to or have belonged to in the past. How were they structured? How effectively did information flow up and down the organization? Could communication have been improved? • Organizations need to know what each functional area is doing in order to keep everyone focused on completing goals. In what ways can managers promote the development of organizational learning, ensuring that everyone in the organization communicates?

6. TEC 401UOP Course Tutorial TEC 401 Week 2 DQ 5 TEC 401 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment • What level of understanding about technology do business managers need to have to make intelligent decisions? • Learning Team Assignment: Organizational Technology Plan – Overview, Current Technology Assessment, and Value Chain Analysis • Resources: Project Overview, available on the student Web site • Develop the Overview, Current Technology Assessment, and Value Chain Analysis sections of the Organizational Technology Plan paper. Address the ways that technology supports business

7. TEC 401UOP Course Tutorial TEC 401 Week 3 DQ 1 TEC 401 Week 3 DQ 2 • What are some factors that management should examine prior to approving a change in its company's technology? • Once a decision has been made to change a company's technology, what members of the company should be part of the project team that helps to implement the change?

8. TEC 401UOP Course Tutorial TEC 401 Week 3 DQ 3 TEC 401 Week 3 DQ 4 • How important is it to understand the strengths and weaknesses of a particular technology before implementing it? If new software or hardware comes out on the market, do you want to be the first to implement it? • In dealing with outsourcing software programming to another country, I had a business user say “Wow, at these low hourly prices, the programs could have errors and be redone 5 times and we would still save money.” Do you agree with this logic?

9. TEC 401UOP Course Tutorial TEC 401 Week 3 DQ 5 TEC 401 Week 3 Individual Assignment • I have had programmers tell me that by using a software methodology, it was preventing them from coming up with creative solutions to the business problems. Do you agree with this? • Individual Assignment: Technology Implementation Paper • Resources: Articles located through the University Library or examples on the Internet • Prepare a 1,050 to 1,400-word paper detailing how a new technology system should be implemented or introduced to a company. Include your recommendations as if you were the manager in charge of implementing the new technology. Give your ideas on how the following information should or should not be shared by technical and nontechnical staff:

10. TEC 401UOP Course Tutorial TEC 401 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment TEC 401 Week 4 DQ 1 • Learning Team Assignment: Organizational Technology Plan – Managing Change • Resources: Project Overview, available on the student Web site • Develop the Managing Change section of the Organizational Technology Plan paper. Describe how the business should manage change caused by technology. Be sure to address all areas listed in the Project Overview. • Does the implementation of new technology always mean the end of old ways of doing things? What are the dangers of continuing to do things the old way as well as using new technology to perform the same tasks?

11. TEC 401UOP Course Tutorial TEC 401 Week 4 DQ 2 TEC 401 Week 4 Individual Assignment Technology Impact Paper • What effect does it have on customers when changes in technology negatively affect their ability to get things done? Give examples from personal experience. • Individual Assignment: Technology Impact Paper • Resources: Materials located through the University library or other sources • Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper about the impact of a new technology on customers in regard to the following: TEC 401 Week 4 DQ 2

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