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Planning and Managing IT Infrastructure

Notes Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
6. The ...................................... statement describes who we are and what we do as a company.
7. The ...................................... statement is the owner’s view of where the enterprise should be
in the future.
8. The purpose of ...................................... is to match the company’s current or prospective
products and services with the market’s potential.

9. ...................................... analysis is a valuable, proven, effective tool to use in the discovery
and evaluation stage of strategic planning.
10. ...................................... analysis provides an opportunity to insightfully look at the skills,
processes and systems of the company.
11. ...................................... are those functions, activities or business practices, defined by the
market and as viewed by the customer.
12. The ...................................... statement of the business describes what, to whom and how the
business product or service is to be brought to the market.
13. The ...................................... process provides a timeframe to determine if the hurdles set up
through the scorecard are being met.

14. The ...................................... phase assists organisations in the identification of business
priorities, key initiatives and goals, etc.
15. The ...................................... provides workbooks and templates for each participant, the use
of group decision making technology, and the facilitation by a seasoned professional.

Case Study Cisco’s Internet Scenarios to 2025

Cisco and Monitor Global Business Network set out to develop scenarios that answered
important questions about the future of the Internet.
What will the Internet be like in 2025?
How much bigger will the Internet have grown from today’s 2 billion users and
$3 trillion market?
Will the Internet have achieved its full potential to connect the world’s entire
population in ways that advance global prosperity, business productivity, education,
and social interaction?
In Cisco’s Internet scenarios report, titled “The Evolving Internet: Driving Forces,
Uncertainties, and Four Scenarios to 2025,” it identified the following drivers and scenarios:
Key Drivers: Cisco’s three driving forces are (1) size and scope of broadband network
build out, (2) incremental or breakthrough technological progress, and (3) unbridled
or constrained demand from Internet users.
Scenario 1 Fluid Frontiers: This scenario predicts a world in which the Internet
becomes pervasive and centrifugal. Technology continues to make connectivity and
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