A Comprehensive Report on Learning Experience and Business Research

This report provides a comprehensive overview of a student's learning experience, focusing on business research and cloud computing. The student reflects on the value of the learning process, highlighting the acquisition of research skills, understanding of cloud computing's impact on business, and the ability to conduct literature reviews. The report details the activities undertaken, including a literature review on cloud computing and a research project exploring its advantages, disadvantages, theories, and future. Lessons learned emphasize the importance of research in business decision-making and the transformative potential of cloud computing. The student outlines the practical applications of these skills in coursework, future career, and life, emphasizing improved decision-making and data evaluation abilities. The report concludes by summarizing the student's enhanced employability due to the acquired skills.

Understanding Learning Experience
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Effectiveness and Importance of Learning Experience
From a personal perspective the learning experience was quite informative as it provided
me with insights into the role of business research in ensuring that an organization is successful.
It also provided me with the opportunity of learning how to conduct research. The experience
was not only informative but also intriguing as students got the opportunity to develop and test
put new concepts. Personally I found the experience to be quite valuable to any student looking
to venture into the business and or research world. Through the different activities conducted,
students were able to learn about research work and how to perform research effectively. I also
obtained insight into the practice of cloud computing and how it can be helpful to a business. In
summary it is logical to conclude that the experience served to enhance the student’s knowledge
and skills on different fields that are integral for business operations this serves to make the
students better suited for venturing into the employment sector.
Usefulness of the Learning Process
One of the most important aspects of any learning process is that they provide the
student with knowledge that he can apply in other areas of his life. As indicated in this learning
process I got the opportunity to learn about how to conduct research, cloud computing and the
importance of research in business. The knowledge obtained from the learning process can be
used in a number of ways in different settings.
Course- In performing my course work, I would use the knowledge obtained on conducting
research and literature review to perform the necessary research needed for my assignments. This
will serve to ensure that I deliver quality work that has been proficiently researched.
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Program- Through the learning process we also got to learn about planning. This knowledge will
play a significant role in helping me to develop well thought out programs that can be efficiently
followed.
Future Career- The knowledge on cloud computing and business research will enable me create
highly efficient solution for my future business career. The research skills learnt can also help me
with the decision making process.
Life generally- Generally through the knowledge and skills obtained from the learning process, I
will be able to make better well informed decisions and effectively plan out my activities.
Objective Description of Activities in the Learning Process
The learning process was based on two key assignments namely1 and 2. The first
assignment was a literature review assignments. In this assignment, the student was tasked with
the responsibility of discussing a number of different published information on the subject area
of cloud computing. Through the literature review, the student got insight into the various
aspects of cloud computing, its advantages and disadvantages and its impact on the business
sphere. Conducting the literature review also provides with the ability to effectively analyze data
from different sources and compile them together in a single paper (Webster, and Watson 2002).
This skill is important when making decisions regarding businesses as the decision makers need
to be able to skim through information from different sources, identify the important
information, group the information based on their level of importance, and make a decision
based on a collection of the important information (Webster, and Watson 2002).
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Once done with the literature review, the students proceeded to the second part of the
learning process which is assignment 2. In assignment 2, students were expected to conduct a
research that would investigate the primary advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing
for business, the different theories and models of cloud computing and explore the future of
cloud computing on business. To achieve this the student needed to develop a business research
proposal and learn about the different research skills that they would need to effectively execute
the tasks expected of them The second aspect of the learning process entailed identifying the
project objectives, developing a scope of the research conducting a literature review of the
relevant articles, and developing questioners to collect the relevant data. The students then
proceeded to develop a hypothesis, create research design methodology and analyze the findings
of the research.
Evaluation of Lessons Learnt
Through the learning process, I have been able to learn a number of valuable lessons. One
of the most important lessons that I have learnt is that research is an integral aspect of any
business operation. Through research, organizations are able to effectively evaluate the subject
matter and make decisions that are based on facts. This helps to ensure that the decision made by
the organization is the most appropriate in the situation. A number of studies have proven that
organizations that base their decisions on research work are more successful than those that do
not. Through business research, I was also able to learn of the various processes that a person
needs to go through when conducting a research. The processes rang from developing the
research hypothesis to be investigated, to determining the scope of the investigation, to
determining the best data collection method and the various data analysis methods. I learnt that
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despite its disadvantages, cloud computing is a revolutionary concept in the business sphere and
it is bound to significantly disrupt the way business is conducted (Avram 2014). Through cloud
computing, information storage and sharing for business will be significantly improved (Avram
2014). Individuals will also be able to access important company data from any part of the world
thereby ensuring that people from different regions in the world can be able to work on the same
data. This will help to significantly increase productivity within the business sphere as it removes
most of the preexisting barriers to information sharing. In the lesson I also learnt that there exist
a number of limitations to business research that a person should consider when conducting the
research.
Learning Process
As already indicated, the primary reason for engaging in assignment one was to provide
the student with insight into the world of cloud computing. Engaging in the literature review also
served to provide the student with skills of reviewing different sources of material to obtain
relevant data. The primary reason for doing the second assignment is to equip the students with
sufficient research skills and enable him explore the various advantages and disadvantages of
cloud computing in business.
Application of the Learning
The knowledge obtained from this learning process can be utilized in a number of ways
in my future. The knowledge on business research can be utilized in decision making process. As
is evident from assignment 2, through the research the organization was able to deduce that even
though it has a few challenges, cloud computing has the capacity of increasing organizations
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productivity. By applying research principles I can ensure that the decisions I make are based on
facts and hence have a higher probability of being the right choices. Other than in making
decisions, the lessons leant from this learning process can be used in evaluating data. By using
the skills obtained in the literature review process, I can be able to easily review different types
of data and pick the important elements presented in the different pieces of data. This skill is
quite important in analyzing and helps to ensure that a person is able to distinguish irrelevant
information from relevant information. Based on the information provided it is logical to
conclude that by utilizing the skills obtained from this learning process, I will be able to
significantly increase my employability due to the fact that I would be able to work in different
fields in the organization.
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Bibliography
Avram, M.G., 2014. Advantages and challenges of adopting cloud computing from an enterprise
perspective. Procedia Technology, 12, pp.529-534.
Webster, J. and Watson, R.T., 2002. Analyzing the past to prepare for the future: Writing a
literature review. MIS quarterly, pp.xiii-xxiii.
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