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Applying the concepts

Companies often develop and test hypotheses about their products. Regulatory and consumer protection groups must also test claims resulting from

hypotheses used to promote products.
Assume you are working at the Consumer Protection Agency. Recently, you have been getting complaints about the highway gas mileage of a new minivan.

The car company agrees to allow you to select randomly 41 of its new minivans to test their highway mileage. The company claims that its minivans get

28 miles per gallon on the highway. Your test results show a sample mean of 26.7 and a sample standard deviation of 4.2.
Part 1 (Confidence Interval):
• Calculate a 95% confidence interval around your sample mean.
• Is the claimed mean inside your confidence interval?
• What does your result mean, in terms of the company’s claim?
Part 2 (Two-tail test):
• List the null and alternative hypotheses for the appropriate test.
• Use alpha = 0.05. Find the critical value(s) and calculate the observed value of the test statistic.
• Is the observed test statistic in the critical (rejection) region?
• Will the p-value be higher or lower than your alpha? What does this result mean, in terms of the company’s claim?
Part 3 (One-tail test):
• List the null and alternative hypotheses for the test.
• Use alpha = 0.05.
• Find the critical value and calculate the observed value of the test statistic.
• Is the observed test statistic in the critical region?
• Will the p-value be higher or lower than your alpha?
• What does this result mean, in terms of the company’s claim?
Part 4 (Conclusion):
• What conclusions did you reach?
• What did you learn from each method of checking the claim for means?
• Were there important differences between methods? Which method would you prefer?
• Which carries a higher risk of a type I error?
• Based on this experience, why do you think it’s important to decide on the method　before conducting the test?
• Based on your results, do you support the company’s claim?
• What action, if any, should the company take?
Note: The 2-page requirement does not include the graphs you prepare for this Assignment. Embed the graphs you create in the Word document with your

written responses to the questions. Drawings may be hand-drawn and either scanned or photographed, or they may be drawn using Minitab or other

statistical drawing packages.

 

 

What are the ethical codes of conduct and ethical issues for a nurse practitioner

Assignment Brief
As part of the formal assessment for the HNC/D programme you are required
to submit an assignment for each module. Please refer to your Student
Handbook for full details of the programme assessment scheme and general
information on preparing and submitting assignments.
After completing the module you should be able to:
 Understand information needs within different functional areas of
organisations
 Compare information systems
 Use information systems to produce management information
Assignment Task
Read the following scenario and base your answers on the individual tasks by
completing all parts of: Task 1, Task 2 & Task 3 with reference to the particular
business of the organisation described.
Scenario – Information systems in the Barclays Bank Organisation
Your role – A consultant in information systems in organisations
Consider yourself in the role of a consultant in the area of information systems with a
particular expertise in banking organisations as part of the OIS information systems
consultancy firm. The consultancy focuses on large banking companies, and their
information system needs, with a view to providing expert advice on how
organisations may be better supported into the future by adapting to emerging
information systems trends.
Your particular expertise focuses on how information systems support:
1) the main levels in the management hierarchy of organisations, and
2) the main business functions of organisations.
You specialise in how information systems support operations, middle, and senior
management level decision making using information that is relevant at each of
these levels in the organisation. OSI also advises chief information officers (CIOs) of
business organisations with respect to future information systems in organisations
developments, e.g. e-commerce, Big Data, ‘Cloud’ computing, and Business
Intelligence.
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Some background organisation information – Barclays Bank:
“Barclays PLC (Barclays) is a global financial services holding company. The
Company operates in five business segments: Personal and Corporate Banking
(PCB), Barclaycard, Africa Banking, Investment Bank and Head Office. Barclays
Bank PLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Barclays. The Personal and Corporate
Banking (PCB) comprises personal banking, mortgages, wealth & investment
management, and corporate banking. Barclaycard is an international payments
services provider. The Africa Banking business is managed under three primary
businesses. Its businesses include retail and business banking (RBB); wealth,
investment management and insurance (WIMI); corporate and investment banking
(CIB), as well as an Africa Head Office function. The Investment Bank consists of
origination-led and returns-focused markets. Head Office comprises head office and
central support functions. It also includes the businesses in transition and
consolidation adjustments.”
[Sources: http://www.reuters.com/; http://www.barclays.com/]
The consultancy:
You are about to start work on a Barclays contract to consultant as part of OIS to
help the company better understand its current information systems, and future
needs, in this large organisation.
Task 1:
This task concerns understanding the information needs of different functional
areas of the Barclays organisation (Word count: 1500 words).
a) With reference to the generic business functions of organisations, describe
and evaluate each of the Barclays business functions with respect to their
different information needs (1.1).
Task 2:
This task concerns comparing the different information systems that are
suitable for the different functional areas of the Barclays organisation (Word
count: 1500 words).
a) With reference to the generic types of information system, describe the
different types of information system that may be used in organisations (2.1).
b) Investigate then describe current trends in information systems to solve
problems in business organisations (2.2).
c) Identify and evaluate the suitability of the different types of information
system you have described and investigated, in the earlier parts of this task,
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for application in the different functional areas of the Barclays organisation
(2.3).
Task 3:
This task concerns producing management information in the Barclays
organisation and alternative methods of problem solving. (Word count: 1000
words).
a) Generate two valid, accurate and useful pieces of realistic management
information, using MS Excel, to display financial performance in a part of
the Barclays organisation (e.g. branch-based personal retail banking) over the
last 12 months, which will be useful and relevant to:
1. operations management, and
2. middle management
to assist them in their respective decision making processes in their
respective parts of the company, and briefly explain why each piece of
information is appropriate for middle and senior management respectively
(3.1).
b) Describe and evaluate the alternative methods available for solving
performance problems that could be used at Barclays (3.2).
Formative Feedback Opportunity
In order to assist with your learning and to give you some early, formative feedback
you are encouraged to submit a PLAN / OUTLINE of your report (i.e. not full answers
– just a couple of sentences explaining what you intend to include in your answer for
each section) to your tutor. If you do decide to complete the PLAN / OUTLINE then,
in order to receive feedback, the document must be emailed to the tutor by 7th July
2016.
The tutor’s email address can be found on the module front page on iLearn and you
will receive feedback within seven days.
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Student Guidelines
1. You should write the answers to the tasks in the form of a report, including a title
page, contents page, and sections headings based on the tasks and sub-tasks.
2. You must ensure that the submitted assignment is all your own work and that all
sources used are correctly attributed. Penalties apply to assignments which show
evidence of academic unfair practice. (See the Student Handbook which is in the
Induction Area). Please also refer to the ‘Guide to Unfair Practice in Assessment’ on
the module page on ilearn.
3. You MUST underpin your analysis and evaluation of the key issues with
appropriate and wide ranging academic research and ensure this is referenced using
the Bournemouth University (BU) Harvard system. The ‘My Study Skills’ area
contains the following useful resources; Study Skills Guide (containing a BU Harvard
Referencing section) and a BU Harvard Referencing Interactive Tutorial. You must
use the BU Harvard Referencing method in your assignment.
4. You should use diagrams and tables of figures where appropriate ensuring to
reference their source using the BU Harvard Referencing method.
5. You are required to write your assignment within 4000 words in order for your
research and summarising skills to be developed, and for effective time
management. You are required to ensure that the assignment addresses all of the
assessment tasks. In the interests of good academic practice, an assignment
submitted with excessive word counts (i.e. more than 10% in excess of the
limit) will be returned to you. You will be given a maximum of 48 hours to edit the
work to reduce the word count to the permitted maximum. In the event that the
submission is still regarded as excessively long then, in line with advice
received from Pearson, we will be unable to accept it for marking and you will
receive a Refer grade for Non-Submission.
The word count excludes the title page, reference list and appendices. Where
assessment questions have been reprinted from the assessment brief these will also
be excluded from the word count. ALL other printed words ARE included in the
word count. Printed words include those contained within charts and tables.
6. Your assignment should be submitted as a single document. For more information
please see the “Guide to Submitting an Assignment” document available on the
module page on iLearn.
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Recommended Additional Resources
Textbooks (Search terms: including “information systems”)
EBSCO Business Source Complete – Online ‘library’ resource available via
ilearn
HND Computing – BTEC HN Computing & Systems Development Study Guide
Avison D, Fitzgerald G –Information Systems Development: Methodologies,
Techniques and Tools (McGraw Hill, 2006) ISBN-10: 0077114175
Benyon-Davies P – Business Information Systems (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
ISBN-10: 023020368X
Giarratano J, Riley G – Expert Systems: Principles and Programming (Course
Technology, 2004) ISBN-10: 0534384471
Laudon J, Laudon K – Essentials of Management Information Systems
(Pearson, 2008) ISBN-10: 0135013534
Pijpers G – Information Overload: A System for Better Managing Every Day
Data (Microsoft Executive Leadership Series) (Wiley, 2010) ISBN-10:
0470625740
Turban E et al – Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems
(Pearson, 2008) ISBN-10:0131580175
Websites (Search terms: including “information systems in organisations”)
www.bsa.org various business software alliance resources
scholar.google.com various general texts and other resources
www.ukais.org.uk various specialist resources are available here
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Assessment Criteria for Pass
To achieve a Pass you must meet all of the assessment criteria as
stated below. Failure to cover all of the assessment criteria will
result in a referral grade and you will be required to re-submit your
assignment.
Further guidance on completion of your assignment can be found in
the guidance notes which are posted on the group learning space
by your module tutor. For additional support please post questions
onto the group learning space, or email rmanderson@arden.ac.uk
Learning
Outcomes/
Assessment
Criteria
Criteria Met
For tutor use
(you may wish to
use this in your
preparation for
your assignment
submission)
LO1 Understand information needs within different functional
areas of organisations
1.1 evaluate the information needs of the different
functional areas of an organisation
Task 1
LO2 Be able to compare information systems
2.1 describe different types of information systems
2.2 investigate the current trends in using information
systems applications to solve business problems
2.3 evaluate the suitability of information systems for
different functional areas of an organisation
Task 2
LO3 Be able to use information systems to produce
management information
3.1 use an information system to generate valid, accurate
and useful information for a given problem
3.2 evaluate alternative methods of solving the problem
Task 3
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Assessment Criteria for Merit
To achieve a Merit all of the Pass criteria need to be met, then the
tutor will assess whether you have met the Merit Criteria. Each of
the Merit criteria must have been met at least once within the
assignment.
The following statements are examples of how a merit may be
achieved, if you do meet the Merit Criteria by showing you have
reached this level in other ways then credit will be awarded for this.
You will need to meet M1, M2 and M3 at least once.
M1 Identify and apply strategies to find appropriate solutions
 A range of credible sources of information have been used
to identify appropriate information systems in organisations
solutions
 Effective judgements have been made when selecting
appropriate operations and management information
systems
M1
M2 Select, design and apply appropriate methods/techniques
 Material presented is clearly and directly related to the
information systems in organisations scenario
M2
M3 Present and Communicate Findings
 Material is presented in a logical and accurate manner
matching the stated requirements for each information
systems in organisations task
 Appropriate levels of material are presented, taking into
account the target audience – senior management
 Some use of referencing in the domain of information
systems in organisations is made
M3
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Assessment Criteria for Distinction
To achieve a Distinction you have met all of the Pass and the Merit
criteria. Each of the Distinction criteria must be met at least once
within the assignment.
The following statements are examples of how a Distinction may be
achieved, if you do meet the Distinction Criteria by showing you
have reached this level in other ways then credit will be awarded
for this. You will need to meet D1, D2 and D3 at least once.
D1 Use critical reflection to evaluate your own work & justify
valid conclusions
 Information systems in organisations proposals offer clearly
justified matches to the requirements, with alternatives
being discussed. These must be real and different
alternatives, not just another variation on the same
information systems in organisations solutions
 The work demonstrates a clear understanding of the
overall information systems in organisations requirements
of the client as well as the individual system requirements
D1
D2 Take responsibility for managing and organising activities
 Independent information systems in organisations
research, outside that provided in class, has been utilised
to prepare the work
 Assignment is completed fully to deadline
D2
D3 Demonstrate convergent, lateral & creative thinking.
 Solutions presented show an innovative approach to
information systems in organisations based on the latest
available technologies
 A clear understanding of the current trends in information
systems in organisations is demonstrated by the
specification of systems that will handle future
requirements appropriately
D3

 

 

While developing your papers, attempt to identify Deming’s 14 Points for Management. Not all the points will relate to all businesses or corporations.

Analyze the company’s history, development, and growth
A convenient way to investigate how a company’s past strategy and structure affect it in the present is to chart the critical incidents in its history – that is, the events that were the most unusual or the most essential for its development into the company it is today
Some of the events have to do with its founding, its initial products, how it makes new-product market decisions, and how it developed and chose functional competencies to pursue. Its entry into new businesses and shifts in its main lines of business are also important milestones to consider
Identify the company’s internal strengths and weaknesses – (Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunity, and Threats) SWOT analysis
Use all of the incidents you have charted in the historical profile to develop an account of the company’s strengths and weaknesses as they have emerged historically
Examine each of the value creation functions of the company, and identify the functions in which the company is currently strong and currently weak
Some companies might be weak in marketing; some might be strong in research and development
Make lists of these strengths and weaknesses
Analyze the external environment – identify environmental opportunities and threats
Here you should apply all information you have learned to analyze the environment the company is confronting. Which factors in the macroenvironment will appear salient depends on the specific company being analyzed. However, use each factor in turn (for instance, demographic factors) to see whether it is relevant for the company in question
Having done this analysis, you will have generated both an analysis of the company’s environment and a list of opportunities and threats
The SWOT checklist lists some common environmental opportunities and threats that you may look for, but the list you generate will be specific to your company
Evaluate the SWOT analysis – what do your findings mean?
Balance strengths and weaknesses against opportunities and threats
Is the company in an overall strong competitive position?
Can it continue to pursue its current business- or corporate-level strategy profitably?
What can the company do to turn weaknesses into strengths and threats into opportunities?
Can it develop new functional, business, or corporate strategies to accomplish this change?
Analyze corporate-level strategy
First, define the company’s mission and goals. Sometimes the mission and goals are stated; at other times, you will have to infer them from available information
The information you need to collect to find out the company’s corporate strategy includes such factors as
Its line(s) of business and the nature of its subsidiaries and acquisitions
An analysis of the relationship among the company’s businesses
Do they trade or exchange resources?
Are there gains to be achieved from synergy?
Alternatively, is the company just running a portfolio of investments?
This analysis should enable you to define the corporate strategy that the company is pursuing (for example, related or unrelated diversification, or a combination of both) and to conclude whether the company operates in just one core business
Other issues should be considered as well
How and why has the company’s strategy changed over time?
What is the claimed rationale for any changes?
Often it is a good idea to analyze the company’s businesses or products to assess its situation and identify which divisions contribute the most to or detract from its competitive advantage
It is also useful to explore how the company has built its portfolio over time. Did it acquire new businesses, or did it internally venture its own?
All these factors provide clues about the company and indicate ways of improving its future performance
Analyze business-level strategy
Can the company deal with these threats?
How should it change its business-level strategy to counter them?
To evaluate the potential of a company’s business-level strategy, you must first perform a thorough SWOT analysis that captures the essence of its problems
Once you know the company’s corporate-level strategy and have done the SWOT analysis, the next step is to identify the company’s business-level strategy
If the company is a single-business company, its business-level strategy is identical to its corporate-level strategy
If the company is in many businesses, each business will have its own business-level strategy
You will need to identify the company’s generic competitive strategy – differentiation, low cost, or focus – and its investment strategy, given the company’s relative competitive position and the stage of the life cycle
The company also may market different products using different business-level strategies
For example, it may offer a low-cost product range and a line of differentiated products
Be sure to give a full account of a company’s business-level strategy to show how it competes
Identifying the functional strategies that a company pursues to build competitive advantage through superior efficiency, quality, innovation, and customer responsiveness and to achieve its business-level strategy is very important. The SWOT analysis will have provided you with information on the company’s functional competencies
You should further investigate its production, marketing, or research and development strategy to gain a picture of where the company is going
For example, pursuing a low-cost or a differentiation strategy successfully requires a very different set of competencies
Has the company developed the right ones?
If it has, how can it exploit them further?
Can it pursue both a low-cost and a differentiation strategy simultaneously?
The SWOT analysis is especially important at this point if the industry analysis, particularly Porter’s model, has revealed the threats to the company from the environment
Once you complete this analysis, you will have a full picture of the way the company is operating and be in a position to evaluate the potential of its strategy. Thus, you will be able to make recommendations concerning the pattern of its future actions. However, first you need to consider strategy implementation, or the way the company tries to achieve its strategy
Analyze structure and control systems
The aim of this analysis is to identify what structure and control systems the company is using to implement its strategy and to evaluate whether that structure is the appropriate one for the company
Different corporate and business strategies require different structures
For example, does the company have the right level of vertical differentiation (for instance, does it have the appropriate number of levels in the hierarchy or decentralized control?) or horizontal differentiation (does it use a functional structure when it should be using a product structure?)?
Similarly, is the company using the right integration or control systems to manage its operations? Are managers being appropriately rewarded?
Are the right rewards in place for encouraging cooperation among divisions?
These are all issues that should be considered. In some cases, there will be little information on these issues, whereas in others, there will be a lot. Obviously, in analyzing each case, you should gear the analysis toward its most salient issues. For example, organizational conflict, power, and politics will be important issues for some companies. Try to analyze why problems in these areas are occurring. Do they occur because of bad strategy formulation or because of bad strategy implementation?
Organizational change is an issue in many cases because the companies are attempting to alter their strategies or structures to solve strategic problems. Thus, as a part of the analysis, you might suggest an action plan that the company in question could use to achieve its goals. For example, you might list in a logical sequence the steps the company would need to follow to alter its business-level strategy from differentiation to focus
Make recommendations
The last part of the case analysis process involves making recommendations based on your analysis. Obviously, the quality of your recommendations is a direct result of the thoroughness with which you prepared the case analysis. The work you put into the case analysis will be obvious from the nature of your recommendations
Recommendations are directed at solving whatever strategic problem the company is facing and at increasing its future profitability
Your recommendations should be in line with your analysis; that is, they should follow logically from the previous discussion
For example, your recommendation generally will center on the specific ways of changing functional, business, and corporate strategy and organizational structure and control to improve business performance
The set of recommendations will be specific to each case, and so it is difficult to discuss these recommendations here. Such recommendations might include an increase in spending on specific research and development projects, the divesting of certain businesses, a change from a strategy of unrelated to related diversification, an increase in the level of integration among divisions by using task forces and teams, or a move to a different kind of structure to implement a new business-level strategy

 

 

 

 

Griswold v. Connecticut
Go to http://www.oyez.org. Using the search bar at the top, find your chosen case, and click on the “Oral Argument” links. Listen to (or read the

transcript of) the actual oral arguments presented to the Supreme Court for the case.
Go to http://www.oyez.org. Using the search bar at the top, find your chosen case, and click on the “Oral Argument” links. Listen to (or read the

transcript of) the actual oral arguments presented to the Supreme Court for the case

1) What are the facts of the case? 2) What is the constitutional question that the Court must answer? 3) Which side’s arguments did you find most

convincing, and why? You need to cite specific arguments from the Oral Arguments you find convincing and defend them against the opposing side. 4) What

decision did the Court actually make, and why?

 

e-portfolio
Length: Each e-portfolio should be around 500 words.

Assessment Objectives:
This assessment items relates to course learning outcomes:
1.Articulate the recent developments in e-business industry and its likely future directions.
2.Compare and explain various types of e-business infrastructure technologies, business models, and payment and security systems in a corporate

setting.
3.Formulate and critically evaluate the impact of e-business strategies on organisational processes and outcomes.
4.Demonstrate the technical research skills to assess existing and emerging e-business technologies to transform organisations for competitive

advantages.
5.Develop the ability to work independently and contribute as a member of team employing appropriate interpersonal, professional and technical

communication skills.
6.Interpret the legal, ethical, social and cultural issues that affect the use, design, and implementation of e-business systems.

Assessment Task:

This is an individual assessment. In other words, the e-portfolio is to be maintained by every student individually.
The e-portfolio assignment aims to enhance your weekly learning and teaching as per the weekly topic and maximise your engagement with the course

resources (please see weekly topics under Schedule in this course profile).

As a learning tool, e-portfolio will enable you to accumulate evidence of your learning during the term. In this assignment, you are required to

research at least
three references (two academic and one general; and published within the last 3 years) that are relevant to the topics covered in each week from

teaching Week-3 to Week-8. So the entries will be made in the portfolio on a weekly basis starting from Week-3 until the end of Week-8 (due date).

You will briefly describe and relate the academic sources to the topics covered in that week. You will enrich your weekly e-portfolio with relevant

illustrations, video clips, and other multimedia applications as well. As a total you need to have 6 e-portfolio documents, and each e-portfolio

carries 5 marks. The length of each weekly e-portfolio should be approximately 500 words.

Marking Criteria for E-Portfolio:
• Knowledge and understanding of the topic
• Quality of academic source
• Relevance of the academic source
• Description of the source
• Relating the source with the topic.
• Overall quality of the work

Six Portfolios Topics
1. Building an E-commerce Presence
2. E-commerce security and Payment system
3. E- commerce Business Strategies
4. E-commerce Marketing and Advertising
5. Social, Mobile and Local Marketing
6. E-commerce Retailing and Services.

Click link to read Mark Twain’s essay “The Late Benjamin Franklin” (Attached)

Resource: Twain, M. (1983). THE LATE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Saturday Evening Post, 255(2), 18-93. Retrieved from Academic Search Complete database.

In a 1-page essay, provide an analysis that identifies fallacious reasoning in the story and explain why.

     Background

• Instructions are process descriptions written to help readers perform a specific task. When you write instructions, you use the same planning, drafting, reviewing, editing, and proofreading process that you use with other kinds of technical documents. In addition, you might perform one other task – usability testing – to ensure that the instructions are accurate and easy to follow.

     Assignment

• Assume you are going to familiarize your colleagues with the process of creating a blog on a blogging platform such as WordPress or Blogger. You are to write a set of instructions that one can use to create a blog, upload a photo with a caption, and write a post with a link to another page. Set up your own blog and create a post that includes a photo with a caption and a link. Then write a clear set of instructions for someone who knows how to operate a computer but has not set up and posted on a blog.

     Content

• Designing a set of instructions is much like designing any other kind of technical document. You want to create a document that is attractive and easy to use. When you design a set of instructions, you need to consider a number of issues related to both document design and page design
  • What are your reader’s expectations?
  • Do you need to create more than one set of instructions for different audiences?
  • What languages should you use?
  • Will readers be anxious about the information?
  • Will the environment in which the instructions are read affect the document design?

     Format

1. Introduction: provides the preliminary information that readers will need to follow the instructions safely and easily. Every set of instructions is unique and therefore calls for a different introduction. Where appropriate, consider answering the following six questions
   1. Who should carry out this task?
   2. Why should the reader carry out this task?
   3. When should the reader carry out this task?
   4. What safety measures or other concerns should the reader understand?
   5. What items will the reader need?
   6. How long will the task take?
2. Step-by-step instructions
   1. Number the instructions; for long, complex instructions, use a two-level numbering system
   2. Present the right amount of information in each step
   3. Use the imperative mood
   4. Do not confuse steps and feedback statements
   5. Include graphics
   6. Do not omit articles (a, an, the) to save space
3. Conclusion: states that the reader has now completed the task; can also end with maintenance tips or a troubleshooting guide (a table) that identifies common problems and explains how to solve them
4. Length: is approximately two pages with headers for this assignment.  Remember that this is just a guideline

Plagiarism

Three common types of plagiarism you need to be aware of as a student:

• Recycling a paper; “double-dipping”; self-plagiarism: Reusing a paper you have written for a previous course
• Copying directly from a source without proper quotations or paraphrasing: When you try to pass something off as your own work
• Not using proper citations

According to the Academic Integrity and Academic Dishonesty Handbook:

Your paper should have at least 80% of your own original thought, not “borrowed, paraphrased [or] quoted” from material pulled from the Internet, articles, journals, books, etc. Your thoughts, not someone else’s!

Please review the Handbook for more examples of plagiarism and how to avoid it.

 

Question 1

Read the article, “HPE Business Value Dashboard.” Then, find an organization that has adopted
a real-time dashboard for its internal use Within the last three years. Do not repeat examples from
the textbook or that have been posted by other students. Please respond to the following:

What are the most important parts of this dashboard?

How do these parts help the business managers? How do they help the individual contributors?
Have real-time dashboards replaced the traditional business report? Justify your answer.
Question 2

A small but fast-growing company has called you in as a consultant to help with their IT
infrastructure. When they first started, they put their business data in the cloud and changed their
business processes to fit their SaaS. Now, they want to know if they should customize their SaaS
to fit their business processes, or keep changing their business processes to fit their SaaS.
Propose a set of 3-5 initial questions you would ask them to help you prepare your
recommendation. Be sure to explain why you are asking each question

Question 3

The purpose of project management and the SDLC is to increase successful software
implementation. The article titled “IT Project Failure Rates: Facts and Reasons” makes it clear
that a lot of projects still fail.

Identify an IT system development failure that occurred within the last 2 years. Do not repeat an
example from earlier in the course or one that has been posted by another student.

In your initial post this week, analyze which project management concepts were not respected
by the project managers and where in the SDLC these lapses occurred.

Describe how you might have spoken up had you been on the steering committee

 

Based on the reading, how would you assess the similarities and differences between Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin? Consider the two dictators and their

political movements (fascism and communism) as well as their countries and historical contexts.

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