Week 4

Reflection on the week 4 Seminar

On Friday the 23rd of February, our seminar on Management and Information system went well. We worked on Excel exercises and were taught how to solve problems and also gave us the opportunity to do some practice questions by our self. The excel worksheets and the tasks that we had to complete were very helpful and it also increased my knowledge on the different types of formulas we can use in Excel and it also helped me gain more confidence as to how to use different techniques to work out the formulas for specific tasks. Personally, at first, I did find it difficult as if you make a tiny error, then your results would be incorrect and you would have to start all over again. Although it was confusing, the teacher helped us and went through each tasks with a step-by-step instruction which was easy to follow and it was less confusing as to what to type and where to type your formulas, etc. With the help of the teacher and my fellow classmates we all worked to help each other out to do our tasks correctly. If there was a doubt, I did not have to hesitate to ask my teacher as she was more than willing to repeat her instructions and to show how to do it. In our lecture which was on the 19th of February, our lecturer was speaking from the topic, 'Enhancing Business Intelligence Using ISs'. The lecturer went in a comfortable pace where all students could understand and follow what the lecturer was saying. If there was a doubt or a question, all I had to do was either ask during the lecture or ask him after the lecture, but wither way the lecturer is always willing to help and would make sure that we understood what was being taught. If I didn't understand a specific topic, he would try and use different examples in order to help me understand what was being taught. The main sub-topics that we covered in the lecture was : Databases, Business Analytics, Decision Support System (DSS) and GIS. After our seminar, we came together in our group and discussed and planned on what we should eb doing for the next week. What type of tasks each individual would be doing and we planned on meeting later next week outside of lecture to present our ideas and our findings.