Thursday, April 19, 2012

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Anthemena Cooley, Wanda Gellington, & Kimberly Jones
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Regina Baker
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Technology and Organization uses for Adult Education and Training



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What technologies are currently in use?

The technlogies Walmart currently have in use are internet for data exchange with thousands of its global suppliers, radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, and Web 2.0. social networking tools and contracts with Oracle and Hewlett-Packard

 


How does the organization manage those technologies?

  • “The company has an IT department to handle any and all maintenance of the systems.
  • Tech support is supplied by some of the technology companies that Wal-Mart lease/buy equipment from.


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How does the organization address concerns such as the type and size of bandwidth and the capability of implementing Web 2.0 tools?

 Radio frequency identification and working with MIT on the development of "cheap chips. Cheap chips replace bar codes over time

We’re plugged into the research and development labs of all of our key suppliers, whether it is Cisco, IBM, NCR, AT&T or HP. We spend a lot of time in Bell Labs, and research centers


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What upgrades or changes are necessary to provide better technology integration for adult learning opportunities?

Voice over IP will certainly take off and will lower costs and help from an infrastructure standpoint, using more voice recognition technology, Also have a team of folks that helps us do proof of concept and pilot key technologies, associate portal and devices on our sales floors, computer-assisted selling, ubiquitous storage within the next three years that will help us truly drive anywhere-anytime-anything computing, development team expected to get out and do the function before they do the system specification, design or change analysis.



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Reference:

Hoffler, B. (2008). Informational Technology in Wal-Mart [Video

         file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5K1yrICMII.

Lundberg, A. (July 1, 2002). Wal-Mart inside the world's biggest 
   


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