week 13 & 14

Week 13 & 14

As expected, IT dept needs to split up development efforts based on whether it is about maintaining backbone transactional systems of old, as versus front facing/customer interface types of apps/platforms. Dept ideally would separate them into different units since they are fundamentally so different in thinking.  You can pick and review the articles you found useful for yourself.  In terms of overall IT trends, there are many materials, I would recommend focus on the Mckinsey 2020 tech trends and find articles that you want to review. Then post what you think here, citing the article(s) you reviewed so we know what you are discussing.  

read the attached article.  It shows how far data collection and analytics can go.  Do you think it is a good idea for us here in US to do the same?  Why?  You can do your own research on this type of efforts and talk about them too if you like