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Dissertation...

STeaMSTeaM
edited July 2009 in Chit chat
All,

I'm currently half way through my MBA and I need ideas for a dissertation/thesis which I must write in my second year.

The trouble is, this will be my 4th one of these buggers and I'm completely dry on ideas.

My MBA is specialising in IT Management so I need something that links business and IT, anything innovative would be good too, which I can spend a year or so researching and writing.

I was going to do something along the lines of current recession/energy saving/virtualisation type combo...but that would bore my knackers off after so long.

Anyone got anything? Even if it doesn't sound much, it could cause a bigger idea and develop into something I like the sound of...and I'd appreciate it!

The more novel the idea, the better.

Cheers,

STeaMy
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  • chevchev
    edited July 2009
    Software-as-a-Service (also known as cloud computing) is the current big thing. All Google OS will do is run Chrome to connect you to the web -- no local apps at all. Business benefits of pay for what you use against supporting a large infrastructure. Yadey yadey ya.
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited July 2009
    The moon landing: Is todays software good enough to REALLY do it this time ;)
    Every night is curry night!
  • HerculesHercules
    edited July 2009
    Something which combines I.T and Business?

    Here's one for you:-

    Try Googling 'Digital Marketing', whereby you can read up on 'Goggle Adwords', and 'Adtext', and how companies raise revenue using Google. You may also want to read up on 'PPC' (Pay-per-click) which is commonly used in the world of Digital Marketing too to raise revenue :-)

    Good luck!
  • STeaMSTeaM
    edited July 2009
    cheveron wrote: »
    Software-as-a-Service (also known as cloud computing) is the current big thing. All Google OS will do is run Chrome to connect you to the web -- no local apps at all. Business benefits of pay for what you use against supporting a large infrastructure. Yadey yadey ya.

    Cheveron, can you expand more on that? I'm liking what I here initially...it sounds like virtualisations big brother (in a way...).

    I may be waaaaaaaaaaaaaay off the mark there :smile:
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    The moon landing: Is todays software good enough to REALLY do it this time ;)

    There's always one! :lol:
  • frobushfrobush
    edited July 2009
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    The moon landing: Is todays software good enough to REALLY do it this time ;)

    Mine is.

    But you're not having it!
  • murtcepsmurtceps
    edited July 2009
    Tyre Swing - A true reflection of IT Projects Today ?

    tire_swing_tall.jpg
  • frobushfrobush
    edited July 2009
    Proof of the landing...

  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited July 2009
    frobush wrote: »
    Mine is.

    But you're not having it!

    Yeah yeah!

    Fuck off fatboy!

    You know you love the helmet :lol:
    Every night is curry night!
  • frobushfrobush
    edited July 2009
    Stop stealing someone's thread!

    And loving my helmet!
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited July 2009
    What about a discussion on how open souce software is affecting industry, for both for the commercial software developer and users.

    Or

    What next? In the continual push to bring us new and improved software and computers... have we reached a platau. It seems that these days software upgrades are change for the sake of change as the new technologies and software upgrades become less and less about customer need.

    Or

    Do a search on the criticisms of Adobe Editions, for example how it Adobe are attempting to lock in vendors to their proprietry PDF format that actually is so radically different from PDF that should by rights not even be associated with that file format.

    Or

    Ebooks and DRM is this an effective business model? What about the customer?



    These are incomplete ideas but may be idea forming for you.
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  • chevchev
    edited July 2009
    STeaM wrote: »
    Cheveron, can you expand more on that?

    The main selling point of virtualization is you stop wasting power, CPU cycles, and to a lesser extent bandwidth, on servers that aren't really doing very much by clustering them together as virtual servers running under a hypervisor.

    In the Software-as-a-Service model, you sell off your hardware and rent software running on someone else's hardware (which you access securely over the Internet). Now you don't have to maintain your own hardware infrastructure, which gives you a massive cost saving because you eliminate the space and power requirements, reduce the IT support staff to dealing with people's PCs, get rid of the big bang software and hardware refresh every decade (because all the PCs are doing is acting as terminals), and you never have to upgrade your software again, because it's done for you.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service

    Right now Google, Amazon and a few others are offering this kind of thing. For example, the commercial version of Google Apps.
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