Friday, April 17, 2009

Technology helped our group reach our project goals immensely. We used our group page on Blackboard and the file exchange to post files and things we were working on for our proposal. This was a great technological resource because it allowed all group members to have access to all of the proposal's materials all in one place. It made things go really smoothly from ideas to early development to completion and compilation.

We also used email, as any group these days would, to organize meetings and delegate responsibility when we couldn't all meet at one time. It seems that email is an almost necessary part of any group work as it is hard to find time to meet in our difficult and busy schedules at school.

Other software such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign helped us to create professional looking examples, images, and diagrams to better convey the message of our proposal to our clients. We were also able to create a very cohesive layout and design that brought our entire project together really nicely.

Overall, technology was a necessary part of our group work. We could have probably done without some of it, but this would certainly have hindered our progress.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

This week we discussed several ethical issues in class that relate to how we should look at ethics in the business world. I think all of these examples serve to show us that if we have to beat around the bush when describing any activity, and if we can't look what we are doing in the face, then there is a good chance it is not ethically sound. A person shouldn't have to try and hide what is really going on with terminology and euphemisms.

When I enter the workplace, I hope that I can be honest with myself and with others about what I am doing. I think that first if I can live with what I am doing and second if what I do does not negatively affect others in an unnatural way, then this will for the most part let me know I am being ethical. Sometimes, it can seem better in the immediate time period to do something unethical or cheat in order to gain an advantage or accomplish some goal. However, long-term full disclosure will always pay off. Playing by the rules of ethics in business is always best.