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Please see attached questions

Discussion (Need in 250-300 words): 

 This week we focus on the productivity paradox.  Please define the productivity paradox and explain current thinking on this topic.

Assignment (Need in 1 page): 

 Information Systems for Business and Beyond Questions:

• Chapter 7 – study questions 1-10, Exercise 2
• Chapter 8- study questions 1-10, Exercise 2

Information Technology and Organizational Learning Assignment:Chapter 6 – Review the section on knowledge creation, culture, and strategy.  Explain how balance scorecards impact knowledge creation, culture, and strategy.  Why are these important concepts to understand within an organization? 

( Note the first assignment should be in one section and the second section should have the information from the Information Technology and Organizational Learning assignment.  The paper requirements for the two-pages applies to the second part of the assignment directly related to the Information Technology and Organizational Learning assignment. )

Mid-term (Need in 2 pages without introduction): 

• Define the IT organizational structure and how the IT organizational structure impacts culture and change management practices.  Additionally, how does the organizational structure impact competitive advantage?

Write an essay of at least 500 words discussing discussing how a blockchain implementation would improve data security in a military, education, or other context. 

Do not copy without providing proper attribution. This paper will be evaluated through SafeAssign. 

Write in essay format not in outline, bulleted, numbered or other list format.  

Use the five paragraph format. Each paragraph must have at least five sentences. Include 3 quotes with quotation marks and cited in-line and in a list of references. Include an interesting meaninful title.

Include at least one quote from each of 3 different articles.    Place the words you copied (do not alter or paraphrase the words) in quotation marks and cite in-line (as all work copied from another should be handled). The quotes should be full sentences (no more, less) and should be incorporated in your discussion (they do not replace your discussion) to illustrate or emphasize your ideas.

Cite your sources in a clickable reference list at the end. Do not copy without providing proper attribution (quotation marks and in-line citations).

It is important that you use your own words, that you cite your sources, that you comply with the instructions regarding length of your submission Do not use spinbot or other word replacement software. Proof read your work or have it edited. Find something interesting and/or relevant to your work to write about.  

This topic puts students in the mindset of an executive-level manager, and allows them to gain an understanding of laws and how they affect decision-making.

In 500 words or more, describe what types of businesses benefit most from the implementation of each of the four models of governance. How does the implementation of these models define how decisions are made?

This assignment requires the use of at least two additional scholarly research sources published within the last 5 years. Include at least one in-text citation from each cited source.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

Assignment Content

1. Projects that conform to the Agile methodology often use something called a scrum board. You can think of a scrum board as a digital whiteboard containing yellow “stickies,” each listing a task, posted beneath categories such as “to do,” “in process,” in testing,” etc. Using a scrum board in this way allows all project members to see where important tasks are in the overall project process quickly and easily.  

   For this Learning Team assignment, you will collaborate with your team members to create an Agile scrum board based on the Global Treps project from the Wk 2 Team assignment (see below).

   Note that in an industry situation, you would most likely use a specialized software tool to manage your scrum board such as Jira, Rally, Asana, or Basecamp. However, in this course, you will be using a tool that you may already be familiar with—Microsoft Excel—to create your scrum board and other deliverables. It is the organization and assignment of tasks that is important about a scrum board, not the specific software tool you use to create and manage it. 

   To complete this Learning Team assignment: 

   Reread the Global Treps Scenario that you read in the Wk 2 Team – Apply assignment.

   Review the Learning Team Scrum Board Example spreadsheet. (Note: Click the Board tab that appears at the bottom of the spreadsheet to see the scrum board example.) 

   Create a scrum board in Microsoft Excel format, similar to the linked example, to align with the project scoping document your team created in Wk 2. Ensure that your finished scrum board incorporates a project budget.  

   Submit the team assignment. 

Here are some questions that may help you in your investigation.

Identify and Investigate the Problems from below questions

1. Critique current and emerging disruptive technologies and their potential to impact social conditions and the global economy.
2. Contrast current and emerging technologies and their implications for social ethics and the global workplace.
3. Distinguish the unique characteristics of and differences between disruptive technologies and their impacts.
4. Assess emerging technologies from the perspective of the Virtuous Business Model.
5. Evaluate emerging technologies as potential contributors to organizational success.
6. Assess the challenges and opportunities in designing projects that implement new and emerging technologies.
7. What is known about the social and ethical challenges related to your chosen emerging technology?
8. What is unknown about the social and ethical challenges of your chosen emerging technology?
9. If any resources are cited, please use APA style to format in-text citations and the 5 APA references list. 

Minimum 5 pages required with references

Proposal Presentation 

You made it through the board review and are now ready to kick off your project! As a result of your large funding approval, your team is responsible for communicating the details of your project to the enterprise. Introducing a project to the enterprise as a whole is a common occurrence as companies seek to provide transparency and collaboration throughout their organizations. Prior unsuccessful presentations have failed to present technological solutions and concentrated on the business value, leading to drawn-out Q&A sessions and making the CIO extremely unhappy.

Your sponsor has requested that you create a PowerPoint slideshow with extensive speaker notes included. The sponsor will be the first to present the slide show during the companywide quarterly meeting. The sponsor will only have 15 minutes to talk and answer questions and has requested that no more than 10 slides be used in the final presentation.

Through this presentation, provide a clear message as to why the company is spending the funds and resources to complete your project. Inform the enterprise of the changes that will be made during project implementation and how different departments may be impacted. In addition, your enterprise is a highly technologically savvy group that enjoys seeing technical diagrams representing changes in topography and architecture that will occur in all proposed projects. The CIO expects to see at least one context diagram of what changes are being made to infrastructure at the enterprise level within the presentation.

Please Use the Rubric attachment to complete the work

Exp19_Access_Ch04_Cap – Foodies Forms And Reports 1.2

Exp19 Access Ch04 Cap Foodies Forms And Reports 1.2

Access Chapter 4 Capstone – Foodies Forms and Reports

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Project Description:

You will create a form so that users of the database can enter and  edit suppliers of products to your business easily. You create an  attractive report that groups the products that you purchase by their  suppliers, and then export it to PDF format for easy distribution.  Finally, you create a Navigation Form so that database users can switch  between major objects in the database readily.

   You will create a form to manage the data in the Suppliers table.  Use the   Form tool to create the form, and then modify the form as  required. You will   also remove the layout control from the form so  that the controls can be   repositioned freely.
 

  Select the Suppliers table as the   record source for a form. Use the Form tool to create a new form with a default   layout.

Change   the form’s title to Enter/Edit Suppliers.   Change the width of the text box controls to approximately 3.4″.

Delete   the Products subform control from   the form. View the form and the data in Form view. Sort the records by   CompanyName in ascending order.

In   Layout view, set the background color of the CompanyName text box to Blue, Accent 1, Lighter 80%, and set   the font size to 14. Save the form   as  .   Close the form.

Open   the Edit Suppliers form in Design   view.  Select all controls in the Detail section of the form, and then remove    the layout. View the form in Layout view. If necessary, arrange the  fields on   the form one below the other in the following order: SupplierID, CompanyName, ContactName, ContactTitle, Address, City,   Region, PostalCode, Country, Phone, and Fax. Ensure that the left edges of the labels and the text boxes   align. Delete the Contact Title label   from the form and move the text box   up and to the right of ContactName so that their top edges are aligned.

Delete the Country label from the form and move the text box up and to the right of PostalCode so that their top   edges are aligned. Move the Phone   and Fax labels and text boxes  up to below PostalCode so   that they close in the white space, keeping  the spacing close to that of the   rest of the controls.

View   the form in Print Preview and set the orientation to Landscape. Switch to Form view, and then save and close the form.

You   will create a report based on the Company by Product List  query. You decide   to use the Report Wizard to accomplish this task.  You are planning to email a   copy of the report to your business  partner who is not conversant in Access,   so you will export the report  as a PDF file prior to sending it.
 

  Select the Company by Product List   query in the  Navigation Pane as the record source for a report. Activate   the Report  Wizard and use the following options as you proceed through the    wizard steps:
 

  Select all of the available fields for the report. View the data by   Suppliers. Accept the default grouping levels and click Next. Use ProductName   as the primary sort field in ascending order.
 

  Accept the Stepped and Portrait options. Save the report as Products by Suppliers.

Switch   to Layout view and apply the Organic   theme to this report only. Set the width of the ProductCost label  to approximately 0.8″ so that the entire   text of the label is  visible. Switch to Report view to determine whether all   the columns  fit across the page. Switch to Layout view and drag the left edge   of  the ProductName text box to the   left so that the column width is wide enough to display the values in the   field (approximately 2.5″).

Delete   the ContactName label and text box from the report. Drag the   right edge of the CompanyName text box    to the right so that the column width is wide enough to display the  values in   the field (approximately 2.6″). Save the report.

Switch   to Print Preview and export the report as a PDF file named ProductsbySuppliers. Close the reader program that   displays the PDF report and return to Access. Close Print Preview. Close the   report.

You   realize that the Country field was not included in the query  that is the   record source for your report. You add the field to the  query and then modify   the report in Layout view to include the missing  field.
 

  Open the Company by Product List query   in Design view. Add the Country field   from the Suppliers table to the query design grid, after the ProductCost   field. Run, save, and close the query.

Open   the Products by Suppliers report in Layout view. Add the Country field from the Field List pane by dragging it into the   report layout. Click the selection handle at the top of the Country column and move the column   immediately to the left of the Phone field. Resize the Country text box so  that the column width is wide enough to   display the values in the  field (approximately .75″). Switch to Print   Preview, then save and  close the report.

You   will create a Navigation Form so that users can switch between objects in the   database readily.
 

  Create a Vertical Tabs, Left   Navigation Form.
 

Drag   the Edit Suppliers form icon from   the Navigation Pane onto the [Add New]   tab at the left of the form.

Drag   the Products by Suppliers report icon   from the Navigation Pane onto the second   [Add New] tab at the left of the form. Save the Navigation form with the   default name, Navigation Form.

Project Topic: Top ten recommendations for securing virtual servers

Take any industry and relate your recommendations to that particular industry. 

Your Research Project must consist of:

1. Five source annotated bibliography

2. Slide presentation with 12 or more slides

3. Summary or Abstract containing at least 750 words.

The topic must be appropriate for graduate level. Find a topic that we covered in the course and dig deeper or find something that will help you in your work or in a subject area of interest related to the course topic. Use the  Research Databases available from the Danforth Library not Google.

you may use the following references.

References

Carr, D. F. (2006). Primer virtual servers; what is a virtual server? Baseline, 1(54), 1. Retrieved from http://nec.gmilcs.org/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.nec.gmilcs.org/docview/213422891

Dubie, D. (2007). Hypervisor security a growing concern. Network World, 24(46), 1-1,18. Retrieved from http://nec.gmilcs.org/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.nec.gmilcs.org/docview/215982137

Antonopoulos, A. (2007). Virtual servers: More or less secure? Network World, 24(28), 16. Retrieved from http://nec.gmilcs.org/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.nec.gmilcs.org/docview/215980025

Mitchell, R. L. (2010). THE scary SIDE OF VIRTUALIZATION. Computerworld, 44(21), 19-20,24,26. Retrieved from http://nec.gmilcs.org/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.nec.gmilcs.org/docview/816471301

CCL Are your virtual servers vulnerable and exposed?; are they intrusion protected and firewall secure?; are they open to external attack through unsecured VPN access? (2009). M2 Presswire Retrieved from http://nec.gmilcs.org/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.nec.gmilcs.org/docview/444121791

It should be your own work and should pass a plagiarism check.

IFSM 370 Project 5: Final Assessment Paper Instructions Introduction
This is an individual project. Using the case study below, develop a 3 – 5 page paper
that is well organized and provides specific answers to each part of the assignment.
The document must be complete and demonstrate that you can apply what you have
learned in the course. The deliverable should also demonstrate that you can meet the
course outcomes.
The completed Final Exam Paper deliverable is due by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the
due date shown in the Course Schedule. See the Additional Information section of the
syllabus for the penalty for late or missed assignments and projects.
This assignment is valued at 15% of the course grade. Case Study
You are a consultant working with an architectural firm that has just merged with
another team of architects and construction project managers. The original New York
office housed: 5 architects,
3 construction project managers,
3 executives and business managers,
3 administrative (HR, Finance & Accounting, Sales & Marketing, etc.) staff
members, and
1 receptionist/office assistant When the merger is completed, there will be five (5) offices located in New York, Miami,
San Diego, Seattle, and Las Vegas.
The combined offices will have: 17 architects,
13 construction project managers,
7 executives and business managers,
12 administrative (HR, Finance & Accounting, Sales & Marketing, etc.) staff
members, and
5 receptionists/office assistants. All of the managers and staff work in the various offices, but 25 architects and
construction project managers also work remotely when they are at construction sites
located throughout the United States and Canada.
Page 1 of 5 IFSM 370 Project 5: Final Assessment Paper Instructions
When remote, the architects need to be able to access, download, and upload
architectural drawings and the associated documents on a daily basis. The construction
project managers must have real-time access to all financial and accounting
documents, client records and daily schedules. The CIO has reminded you that they
are required to meet Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB) and Right to Financial Privacy Act
requirements for protecting client financial information.
You, as a telecommunications/communications consultant, have been asked to design
the telecommunications network to support this new multi-location company. Others
on the team (not you) will develop the applications and databases. Your task is to
identify the requirements and design a network solution that will meet those
requirements (including security and privacy requirements). Page 2 of 5 IFSM 370 Project 5: Final Assessment Paper Instructions The Deliverable
Define the requirements and then design an appropriate network that will support the
merged architectural firm. Your paper should:
1. Analyze the given case and provide a clear set of requirements for the network
solution
2. Identify the information that is to be protected and the related security
requirements
3. Identify the types of network(s), components, devices and equipment that would
be involved in meeting the needs of the stationary offices and the mobile
architects and construction project managers
4. Provide a network design diagram that clearly shows an appropriate network
configuration to meet the requirements, with components and locations properly
labeled
5. Explain the benefits of the proposed network solution
Your deliverable will be a 3 – 5 page paper (MS Word document). The page
requirement includes illustrations or diagrams, but does not count the cover page and
Works Cited page.
The paper is to be prepared using the APA format. At least three (3) professionally and
academically credible external sources (other than the textbook and other materials
provided in the course) must be used, and citations and references must be in the APA
format. The online textbook, course models and other course materials should be used
and referenced using the APA format. Information from your research should be
appropriately incorporated into your written work in your own words. Extensive use of
direct quotes is not permitted.
Use the Scoring Rubric below to ensure all aspects of the assignment have been
adequately covered. Successful papers will include the bolded rubric attributes as
major section headings. Page 3 of 5 IFSM 370 Project 5: Final Assessment Paper Instructions Scoring Rubric
Attribute
Requirements
Analysis Information
Protection &
Security
Requirements Full points
Requirements are
clearly defined and
explained for new
multi–location
accounting firm and
demonstrate an
understanding of the
course concepts,
analysis, and critical
thinking.
Client financial and
business information
that must be protected
is clearly identified
along with the security
requirements. Communications An appropriate
Technology
technology solution is
Solution
provided and
thoroughly explained. It
addresses all identified
requirements.
Network
Diagram Communications
component layout is
appropriately integrated
in a network diagram.
Work demonstrates
understanding of
course concepts,
analysis, and critical
thinking. Partial points No points Possible
Points
3 Requirements lack
definition and/or
explanation and
may be lacking in
demonstration of
understanding of
course concepts,
analysis, and/or
critical thinking. Requirements are
not identified and
explained Client financial and
business
information that
must be protected
and the security
requirements are
partially identified.
A technology
solution is partially
appropriate and/or
partially explained.
It may only
partially address
the requirements.
Communications
component layout
somewhat
appropriately
integrated into a
network diagram;
work may be
lacking in
demonstration of
understanding of
course concepts,
analysis, and/or
critical thinking. Client information
and security
requirements are not
considered. 3 No technology
solution is provided. 2 Communications
component layout is
not contained a
network diagram, or
is not incorporated
correctly. 3 Page 4 of 5 IFSM 370 Project 5: Final Assessment Paper Instructions
Attribute
Benefits of
Proposed
Solution Document
format Full points Partial points Benefits of proposed
solution are clearly
explained and are
compatible with the
identified requirements.
Work demonstrates
understanding of
course concepts,
analysis, and critical
thinking. Benefits of
proposed solution
are partially
explained or only
partially consider
the requirements.
Work does not
fully demonstrate
understanding of
course concepts,
analysis, and
critical thinking.
The document reflects
The document is
effective organization
not well-organized,
and correct sentence
and/or contains
structure, grammar, and grammar and/or
spelling; it is presented spelling errors; it
in a professional format; does not contain
it incorporates
appropriate
illustrations or
illustrations or
diagrams; and
diagrams; and/or it
references are
does not follow
appropriately
APA style for
incorporated and cited, references and
using APA style. At
citations. One or
least three
two
professionally and
academically credible
references a No points
Benefits of proposed
solution are not
included. The document is
extremely poorly
written and does not
convey the
information. Total Points Page 5 of 5 Possible
Points
2 2 15