Facebook Organization

Facebook Organization
Operations IT System
Professor Chew
T/Th 2:00pm
Students Name:
Canena M. Funes
School Name:
Notre Dame de Namur University
Introduction
Facebook has been a growing organization for the past five years. It constantly adheres to the technology that embeds itself seamlessly in the lives of each user. According to statistics, active users log in to Facebook on a day-to-day basis. Lately, participants access Facebook through the latest technologies such as mobile phones (Baltzan, 2012). Facebook has been embedded as an “app” or application in various mobile platforms designed for iPods, Androids, iPhones, Blackberries and other gadgets designed to allow access to the site at all durations. The key objective of this thesis paper is to understand the direct impact of information towards Facebook’s performance functions. Since its creation, Facebook has undergone changes in its structure as well as in the way it serves its users.
Since its launch in 2004, it has continued to dominate the social networking industry, which allows individuals to connect and reconnect with friends. It also links people and groups that have common interest and characteristics. Facebook is a clear investment that shows that a single idea can change the world if only implemented effectively (Mithas, 2012). Its rapid growth globally with millions of users creating accounts gave the company the reputation it needed overcoming predecessors in the industry. Its initial set up that restricted the users to Harvard College students was a step in the business making decision that needs to taken in the initial stages of a business.
This paper is also going to examine ways on how the organization is going to critically analyze its management decision-making needs in terms of appropriate business applications. Facebook has recently unveiled many applications one of them being Facebook Timeline. Moreover it will explore ways on how Facebook as an organization is going to establish appropriate methodologies which would be used to develop technical architectures and applications for intranet, extranet and internet systems for business management as these are very crucial to the performance of an IT organization (Qu, 2012). Since there is a need for collaboration with other businesses, the paper will look into ways to develop collaborative enterprise business management practices. This paper will also try to evaluate enterprise application software needs for intranet, extranet and internet systems for collaborative business scenarios. Despite the extensive research on information technology (IT) outsourcing, the knowledge of how the organization characteristics impact the use of IT outsourcing remains limited hence there is a need to understand the systematic steps in research, development and presentation of a business case which will be used to analyze the design and implementation of IT management systems.
Technology is always dynamic and any businesses that invest in it must be ready and willing to strategize on the winning formula. The need to develop appropriate methodologies to remain relevant in the internet industry necessitated Facebook management to develop several applications and features. Indeed, the move from ...