IA 04


Cameron Smith
Dr. Chung
BUS 105
5 December 2018
IA 04
I attended Chatham’s Business and Entrepreneurship Club Accounting and Information Systems Networking Mixer on September 25th. The event had speakers that spent a little while talking about a number of things. The speakers took time to talk to the audience about aspects of business and then allowed for the audience to ask questions that they wanted a professional’s answer on. The event included a two hour panel that was conducted by Dr. Chung. On this panel was Tom Bartos, the CFO of Cognistx, Jim Marino, technology manager at PNC and professor at Chatham University, Dan Desko, the team leader of auditing and risk management at Schneider Downs. The panel consisted of Dr. Chung asking the three panelists a question that they would answer. This event was very helpful and allowed me to learn much additional information.
My takeaway from this event was that it is very possible for people to be successful in their small section of business. In particular, I learned that people do use technology and information systems in their daily life and can be very successful doing so. In the textbook, the chapter on information systems, especially the focus on careers in IS, discuss the amount of technology and the ability to use these systems is important and capable of providing a very solid career. In class we have had people who work in information systems speak to us and the event really put in context the careers that these individuals have and the success that people have in this career path. Informationweek.com provides more context by providing a lot of factual information relating to the information systems career.
This event was very successful in making providing information and giving factual proof of the success of these careers and the practicality of knowing and using information systems. I am glad that I attended this event and was able to come away with the the knowledge that I obtained while at the event. My hope would be to go to more of these events and continue to learn more about specific fields.

(n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.informationweek.com/digitalsubscription?itc=MP_IWK_DI_IWKDIGSUB_HEAD

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Individual Assignment #2

IA 02           The person that I chose to interview is a criminology/psychology major in their third year at Chatham. My Interviewee preferred to stay anonymous, but said that in their free-time they enjoy going to the Cold Cases Club meetings, watching Netflix, and hanging out with their friends.            My interviewee said that the study strategies that they have found most successful while here at Chatham are studying with flash cards, and studying with a friend. The reason that they claimed these are the best study methods are because they allow for you to study with interaction. Studying with a bunch of flash cards is a good way to learn because it allows you to go over a topic and giving yourself an attempt at solving it before flipping it over and getting the correct answer, which makes the memorizing of a topic more convenient. Studying with a person is also a good way to learn because it is the same concept as usin...
Read more
The article that I read was about whether or not the Israeli army is prepared for war.  In this article, they discuss why there are doubts about the Israeli army's ability to fight a war. The debate is going back and forth between levels of the government since some believe that they are ready for a war, but many involved in the military claim differently. One of the arguments being made about the IDF or Israel Defense Forces is that they have had " long  periods of low-level operations in which their military skills are eroded." This is a large setback for the IDF because they have been traditionally considered one of the best equipped and overall militaries in the past and now it appears that they have fallen off. One reasoning behind the fall off of the Israel Defense Force is that there is mandatory service for citizens of Israel in the military and as said in the article " two-thirds of young people serve time in the army", and the fact that so many ser...
Read more