Module I- Practical Exercise II

1) For the purposes of this exercise, identify a preferred professional context for practicing instructional development.

I have selected to use a marketing department in a corporate setting as my professional context.

2) Using this professional context as a referent, identify or describe the following related terms:

A) The system being served would be a marketing department within a large corporation who works with promoting a product or a service that the corporation uses..

B) The Suprasystem within my system would be the actual corporation itself.

C) Two subsystems would be a creative team in charge of thinking of ideas to promote a product or service and a design/art team in charge of creating and "beautifying" an idea for promotion.

D) Two information systems that would or should exist would be communication with polling companies who could determine mainstream societies thought and feelings about certain issues or topics. Another information system would be the world wide web where one could research what is currently being used and or the future of marketing (I.E. Viral marketing)

E) One example of a subsystem interface would a project manager who would speak to the head of the marketing who would then speak to his or her boss who would speak to the CEO.