Your supervisor has told your work group that you and your colleagues will soon be converting to a new computer-based record-keeping system that will eliminate some of the course participant files that you have been maintaining in separate Excel spreadsheets.

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Part 1

Your supervisor has told your work group that you and your colleagues will soon be converting to a new computer-based record-keeping system that will eliminate some of the course participant files that you have been maintaining in separate Excel spreadsheets. There has been little discussion of this new system so far, and you want to know more about it. Discuss the following:

  • What, exactly do you want to know?
  • What information can you share with your colleagues about these types of record-keeping database systems? What question would you ask about part 1 assignment?

Part 2

Discuss the following:

 

  • What problems do you foresee?
  • What opportunities do you foresee?
  • What do you and your colleagues need before you undertake the systems change from individual spreadsheets to the cloud-based database?
  • Are you motivated to undertake the change? Why or why not? What question would you ask about part 1 assignment?