Bro. Schlag's lecture talked about how to cooperate and to organize a stable information management. He shared his story when BYU Hawaii first have a website and how there are many conflicts and chaos pop-up about the style and the idea of unification of different pages. Back in the days, he detailed his story, many BYUH departments will hire their own webmaster to develop their website and store it in many different servers which lead to confusion between department and users because each page of the website have different front-page and style. He eventually assign to made the first information system management in BYUH to manage the conflict and bring every sites into the same page. However this idea have downside, that is they became slow and needed to put many departments in hold due to lack of human resources. Eventually BYUH information management came up with a solution, which is certifying some students to be a webmaster and equipped them with unified template of design and then 'distributing' these students webmasters among departments.
From this lecture I learn about how in an organization or in a company, managing a website is not as simple as turn your hand upside down. There are many aspects and elements involves in it. There are Board of directors that need to approve the design, there are the departments that have different issues and importance that needs to be address in their website and not to forget also the human resource of technical skills that is needed to develop the website. I learn to imagine the idea of cooperating management skills with the knowledge of IS. I think it will help much to know how to organize the system and manage it to fit and to be able to serve people's different importance.
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