Page 59 - Using MIS

professionals, with tens of millions of dollars to spend. Or will also need to understand enough technology to ask in-
suppose you work for the Mayo Clinic, on the receiving end telligent questions and interpret the responses.
of that sales pitch. How will you spend your tens of mil- Give this some thought by answering the questions that
lions? You will need knowledge of your business, and you follow, even if they aren’t assigned for a grade!

Hardware Software Data Procedures People
Sales & Vendors Vendors Vendors Vendors Recruiters
Marketing (IBM, Cisco, (Microsoft, (Acxiom, (SAP, Infor, (Robert Half,
etc.) Oracle, etc.) Google, etc.) Oracle) Lucas Group)
Support Vendors Vendors Database Vendors and Customer
Internal MIS Internal MIS administration internal support
Security customer Training
support
Development Computer Application Data modeler Business Training
engineering programmer Database process Internal MIS
Internal MIS Quality test design management recruiting
Engineer Process

reengineering
Management Internal MIS Internal MIS Data Project Technical
administration management management
Consulting Project management, development, pre- and postsale support

DisCussion Questions

1. What does the phrase in a category of jobs that is net of 3. For each job in your answer to question 2, describe what
outsourcing mean? Reread the discussion of Figure 1-3 if you think are the three most important skills and abili-
you’re not certain. Why is this important to you? ties for that job.
2. Examine the Five-Component Careers chart and choose 4. For each job in your answer to question 2, describe one
the row that seems most relevant to your interests and innovative action that you can take this year to increase
abilities. Describe a job in each component column of your employment prospects.
that row. If you are uncertain, Google the terms in the
cells of that row.

27