The ITUniversity.com corporation recognizes there is a huge market for people who need to get trained in IT jobs.
Those jobs include server, storage, network hardware maintenance, new server, storage, network hardware instal lation, server, storage, network configuration, creating enterise system archtiectures, building software, how to host and maintain SaaS/PaaS/IaaS, etc.
ITUniversity.com’s business is training people across those different aspects of IT (and more) listed above. Courses vary but they all last at least six months, full time, and they frequently involve multiple subjects. ITUniversity.com’s business includes advertising, tuition finance counseling, hands-on training sites, distance education, internships, and placement.
You are the Director for IT at ITUniversity.com, and that you are also expected to participate in business decisions at the highest levels of the company.
Please make sure that you provide your answer representing the organization ITUniversity.com (not using “I”).
You are free to add assumptions and details concerning ITUniversity.com if they are consistent with the description above and provided that you specify what these are.
The organization needs to determine the best way to streamline their operations and improve its competitive advantage.
Think about what topics below would help the organization accomplish those goals.
Focus on how a set of topics, together, would provide competitive or operational advantage for the organization.
In your own words, describe the relevance and application of six of the topics in the list below from the online notes this week as they apply to ITUniversity.com.
For each topic, outline the competitive or operational nature in which it will provide an advantage and provide examples of technologies or services that ITUniversity.com could leverage.
For example, if you chose Communication and Collaboration, explain the operational and competitive benefits surrounding this topic and outline the technologies that could be leveraged to fulfill the topics needs (i.e. Zoom), based on research about the topic.
Start with an association of the topics to the competitive strategies and approaches that we covered in Module 1. (i.e. differenation as a strategy with a decision based approach).
Back up your assertions through research from established news articles, business cases, the module notes, etc.