Independent Component 1

Literal:

1. I, Brandon Beghtol, affirm that I completed my Independent Component which represents 30 hours of work.
2. My best source throughout the Independent Component has been Dr. Gregory Carlton, my mentor, whose class I have been allowed to sit in on and accumulate hours. The book for the class: "Business Driven Information Systems" by Baltzan, Paige has also been a very helpful source of information.
3. Done.
4. I have completed 30 hours of work that have helped me understand how integrated technology and business have become through listening to the lectures each class, as well as doing the labs which were very helpful and interesting. 

Interpretive: The most important parts of the Independent component have been taking the CIS 310 class, which Dr. Carlton allowed me to sit in on, which being two hours twice a week have added up to most of my hours. The rest of the hours were taking notes for a couple of the next classes, which will be added to my cornell notes, and doing the lab 2, which was about 4 spreadsheets using data and connecting each of them to provide different information for different purposes and other things that a business might use to increase performance.

Applied: With my EQ being about business and technology, and my mentor having the experience in both of those and the class also having to do with the integration of technology into businesses, it has helped me tremendously with learning about how businesses are structured and really how important the technology they use is to the success of them, at least in this day and age.