Objectives+and+Narrowed+Focus

Health issues, a greater dependence of organizations on IT and social effects of social telecommunication.
 * Matt's Ideas**

http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/August2006/3419.htm

AND another idea which we should think about is international business and safe secure access to the main servers….

I also thought further about the narrowing down of the subject. Communication in International Business even better Mobile Communication.

Social Ethical: Reliability of the IT solution, Health repercussions, People and Machines over dependence.

IT part: Mobile communication devices.

Sample Objective: Demonstration of a knowledge and understanding of the social and ethical implications of IT systems and development of Mobile Communications in international Businesses.

Sub topics (these could be the pages of our voice thread)

Slide one/two: an introduction to todays mobile communication technology. slide three/four: How international business use mobile communications technology Slide five/six: Reliability slide seven/eight: People and Machines (in conjunction with health)

-- I like your ideas, but I have a few comments. Firstly, health issues aren't totally related to tech in international business - it would be nice if you could be a bit more specific, because your topic could be good but I don't see where it's going. " international business and safe secure access to the main servers". You'd need to be a bit more specific, because again I'm unsure as to where this is going. We'd need to be quite specific with our narrow focus... because it's a narrow focus ;D Also, tech in international business is a very broad topic.

-__The impact of telecommuting on international business.__ --Specifically, how it affects the business, does it help productivity, how wide-spread is telecommuting, is it better for the employees? - __Communication between businesses internationally__ -__Automation of processes (such as delivery lines, etc) and how it affects productivity__
 * My (Roderick) ideas:**

Yes, i agree, my bad i was rushing. I believe that the Communication between business internationally is a good idea you have there. "Sample Objective: Demonstration of a knowledge and understanding of the social and ethical implications of IT systems and development of Mobile Communications in international Businesses."

But also I think that "exotic_pet's" idea about biometrics is quite a good idea as well. Take a think about it and then write back and then we can start to narrow down on it all.

Maybe the Specific objectives could be; Biometrics used in mobile communication technology for international businesses.

Ah ok. I liked the biometrics idea too. There's another group doing theres on RFID, and that sounds pretty good, so biometrics would also be a good idea. Constantin, it'd be nice if you clarified what you were thinking a bit ^_^

And Matte, my teacher said that before we start doing the objectives we need to have a narrow focus - in fact I think we are a bit behind compared to other groups since we don't have ours yet, but we'll just have to hurry later on. That narrow objective you wrote there for biometrics sounds really nice, only problem I see is that it seems a bit futuristic, and we wouldn't have any substantial research for it. But look into it and tell me if I'm wrong :) 1207839654 p.s. you can sign your name by typing ~ ~ ~ ~ without any spaces in between

Ok, so we're going to vote on this now because we're ridiculously behind. Narrow Objective:
 * 1) Demonstration of a knowledge and understanding of the social and ethical implications of IT systems and development of Mobile Communications in international Businesses.
 * 2) Biometrics used in mobile communication technology for international businesses.
 * 3) Automation of processes (such as delivery lines, etc) and how it affects productivity/efficiency.

My vote is for number 3, because many processes these days are automated, and it has a huge impact on industries and businesses. Say **ASAP** if there's another idea - we've stalled on this part for far too long :( 1208183297

Can you give some deeper examples to automation of processes? It's very vague. - Yeah sure. Automated assembly lines in companies making products, or even electronic cashiers these days that help the process of buying things from stores... It's just any kind of process in business that is automated. Even including things such as using computers to help a business process stuff much easier than they could before - spreadsheets of profits, sales logs, customer databases, etc. The important part is how it impacts that businesses' efficiency.

Ah yay, we've decided! =Narrow Focus: Biometrics used in Security.=