Focus on Grammar

9. Complete the following sentences by putting the verbs in brackets into the correct form (Past Simple or Present Perfect)

1. Recently the Information Technology Association of America (to hold) a conference for the biggest IT companies.

2. The study of information systems (to originate) as a sub-discipline of computer science.

3. The IBM (to move) its headquarters to New York in 1980 and (open) many branch offices in the U. S.

4. Mr. Jones (to be) CIO of the company for two years and we are very pleased with his work.

5. The researchers (to collect) the data concerning the e-commerce and (to conduct) the study for a leading industry trade group.

6. The meeting (to be over) after we (to discussed) the issues of digital intellectual property protection.

7. For the last few decades the emphasis (to shift) from the quality and quantity of production to the production process itself.

8. When I (to start) to study the IS I (to focus on) why and how technology can be put into best use to serve the information flow within an organization.

9. Our new employee finally (to gain) some experience in the field of Information Systems Management.

10. Yesterday there (to be) a blackout in the office and we (can) not work for two hours.

Focus on Speaking

10. Role-play the following situation.

As you already know the biggest asset of companies today is their information represented by people, experience, know-how, innovations etc. and for a market operator to be able to compete, he or she must have a strong information infrastructure. Imagine that you work at a large company and you understand that it needs to create a position of Chief Information Officer in order to help the employees with the information flow within the company. Your boss doesn’t want to create such a position. You must persuade him.

Student A: the Top Manager of the Personnel Department.

Student B: boss is the CEO of the company.

Unit 5

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