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1. Discuss what performance management is and how it influences effective teams.
2. Define leadership behaviors (in your own words) and note which behaviors are beneficial at specific organizational activities (example: project planning, leading coworkers, etc…). Please note at least five organizational activities and be specific when responding.
3. Note at least two organizational capabilities and compare and contrast each.

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CNET is a great website for technology news and review. Their About Us page states, “CNET tells you what’s new in tech, culture and science, why it matters, how it works and what you need. Our global team works 24/7 to explore and explain the changing world around us. You can depend on CNET for news, commentary, analysis, features, FAQs, advice, hands-on reviews, buying guides, amazing photography and fun and informative videos.”

We want you to read at least one article or view a video about hardware (not software). Then write a brief summary (or create a short presentation) summarizing the article using MS Word or PowerPoint. Brief means no less than 10 sentences but not more than one page. Make sure to cite your source properly.

Post this summary to the Hardware Assignment discussion board. Read at least one other student’s summary on hardware and provide a peer review. A peer review is an evaluation of another student’s academic work. This could include but is not limited to taking a stand on the topic and providing evidence for/against it; providing additional information on the other student’s topic; posing questions about the topic and possible answers; demonstrating your understanding or application of the topic with examples. You may need to cite a source in your reply. Remember that if the information does not come out of your own head, you need to cite it. The summary is work 35 points and the review 15 for a total of 50 points for this assignment.

Check your course Detailed Schedule for the due date.  

There have been many books and opinion pieces written about the impact of AI on jobs and ideas for societal responses to address the issues. Two ideas were mentioned in the chapter – UBI and SIS. What are the pros and cons of these ideas? How would these be implemented?

Need about 350 words. APA format with citations and references

In 500 words

Video Link: https://time.com/5168202/russia-troll-internet-research-agency/

Read this Time article and view the video explaining how Russian trolls spread fake news.  Discuss in 500 words whether the government should regulate Facebook more closely.  

Use at least three sources. Use the Research Databases available from the Danforth Library, not Google.   Include at least 3 quotes from your sources enclosing the copied words in quotation marks and cited in-line by reference to your reference list.  Example: “words you copied” (citation) These quotes should be one full sentence not altered or paraphrased. Cite your sources using APA format. Use the quotes in your paragraphs. Do Not Doublespace.

Copying without attribution or the use of spinbot or other word substitution software will result in a grade of 0. 

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

Include References, do not copy paste strictly.

A project’s Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Gantt chart provide structure for a project. In this week’s assignment you develop both the WBS and Gantt chart for a fictitious organization. The Manage Your Health, Inc (MYH) scenario will be used in the weekly assignments for the rest of the course.

Review the Manage Your Health Scenario and follow the directions below for completing a WBS and Gantt chart.

Develop a work breakdown structure (WBS) for the project. Break down the work to Level 3 or Level 4, as appropriate. Use the Work Breakdown Structure Template and Work Breakdown Structure example in this text as guides. Upload the WBS in list form. The WBS should be based on the information that would be in a project scope of this scenario. You can review your project plan from Wk 1. 

Create a Gantt chart using the WBS you developed with Microsoft Excel or another software of your choice and approved by your instructor. Do not enter any durations or dependencies. 

Submit 2 deliverables: the WBS and Gantt Chart. 

Describe how to design, organize, implement, and maintain IT security policies.

Key Concepts

• Core principles of policy and standards design
• Implementing policy and libraries
• Policy change control board purpose and roles
• Business drivers for policy and standards changes
• Best practices for policy management and maintenance

Keywords

Use the following keywords to search for additional materials to support your work:

• Information Systems Security (ISS)
• IT Security Policy Framework
• Policy Change Control
• Policy Change Control Board (PCCB)
• Policy Maintenance
• Policy Management
• Security Policy

Some organizations keep documents in Word format and publish them in PDF format. Other organizations use tools like Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). What makes one type of tool better than the other?

1) Chapter 6– discussion question #1-5 & exercise 4

Choose Any question  Discussions Initial post (goal: by Weds) + 2 responses (100-300 words). 

 Discussion #2: List and briefly explain different learning paradigms/ methods in AI. 

Discussion #3: What is representation learning, and how does it relate to machine learning and deep learning?

 Discussion #4: List and briefly describe the most commonly used ANN activation functions.

 Discussion #5: What is MLP, and how does it work? Explain the function of summation and activation weights in MLP-type ANN. 

2)

Assignment:
Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study. 

Requirements:

Provide a 500 word (or 2 pages double spaced) minimum reflection.

Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.

Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.

Demonstrate a connection to your current work environment. If you are not employed, demonstrate a connection to your desired work environment. 

You should not, provide an overview of the assignments assigned in the course. The assignment asks that you reflect how the knowledge and skills obtained through meeting course objectives were applied or could be applied in the workplace. 

 Don’t forget that the grade also includes the quality of writing.

My subjects 

Business Intelligence

Organization leader and Decision Making  

Please read the each discussion post and provide one response for each discussion in 75 to 100 words

Discussion Post 1:

BPaaS comprises of an integration of all processes as conducted by businesses hence enabling commercial enterprises achieve economy and efficiency in conducting business operations. With the shift to cloud computing, organizations are adopting automation of their operations to reduce on the overall cost of hardware, software amongst other resources. The implication of BPaaS on organizational operation include reduced cost of business transaction, minimal risks as well as enabling organizations achieve scalability in utilization of cloud computing infrastructure (Schwarzbach, 2016). For this reason, organizations could continue adopting BPaaS to increase their overall productivity in their operations.

BPaaS could be centrally managed by organizations unlike with other standalone applications. As an integration of all critical business processes such as payroll processing, e-commerce amongst other process, it would be possible for organizations to manage all processes at a single entry point. As a composition of multiple application, it would be relatively easier for enterprises to monitor the performance of BPaaS unlike when individual applications are used in managing business processes. As such, the risk reduction aspect is incorporated to BPaaS by reducing the multiple vulnerability points to organizational operations. BPaaS enables enterprises to have access to a skilled workforce and expertise who have knowledge in application development.  It is hence possible for organizations to seek immediate support from expertise who have knowledge on BPaaS operations. In comparison, to other traditional applications it hence becomes possible for enterprises to reduce the risks of operating BPaaS in the event of failure. It is possible to incorporate new design processes and implement further security measures to the operation of BPaaS by the help of these experts and professionals in the cloud computing platform (Duipmans& Pires, 2012)

BPaaS offers a platform for facilitating social collaborations, web analytics, business process management, security governance, compliances and risk management (Babu, 2013). The effective running of business operations requires business to adopt a comprehensive and a streamlined approach that facilitate efficient service delivery. It hence becomes possible that with the integration of BPaaS, organizations would have it easy having efficient business processing. Risk of business failure due to unstructured business process is hence not possible with the incorporation of BPaaS for business operations.  There is multifunctional capabilities usually associated with the BPaaS. The multifunctional capability hence offers opportunities for organization to adopt flexibility in their operations an attribute that is not present in many applications.  Also, before the full integration of BPaaS by most enterprises, there is usually a trial period upon which organizations should test their business processes in line with the BPaaS. The trial period as offered by most BPaaS service provider is set to make organizations familiarize themselves with the functioning of BPaaS (Babu 2013). As such it hence becomes relatively easy for organizations to use BPaaS with full knowledge on its capability hence minimizing risks of failure due to lack of knowledge and interoperability of BPaaS.

Discussion Post 2:

Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) is a type of outsourcing model that outsources cloud-based services to businesses and commercial organizations. Companies or business organizations can increase the agility of their business processes by using BPaaS services. BPaaS provides these companies with some valuable emerging technologies to implement and deploy their business processes. It will definitely reduce the cost related to labor by increasing automation. BPaaS outsources cloud services that can be accessed from the Internet because it is an Internet-based technology. One of the accepted definitions of cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient and on-demand network access to a shared group of configurable computing resources that can be Quickly provision and launch with minimal effort from management or service provider interaction. The core elements of BPaaS are security and privacy and can be achieved by designing some robust business processes in the Cloud. Businesses, organizations or any customer can meet their rapidly growing and changing business needs with the help of BPaaS. BPaaS is defined as a collection of activities that takes one or more types of inputs and creates an output that is of value to the customer. “Automation” will improve operational efficiency and reduce errors, but management middleware of business processes has no tools to quantitatively track these business metrics. (Woitsch & Utz (2015, October))

There are many benefits to the increasing popularity of BPaaS. It is a type of cloud services with almost all cloud services that give business organizations the peace of mind of reducing risks and improving the speed of commercialization. Cloud services store information on servers and hardware that an organization does not control. These external servers have strict security measures that prevent any form of a data breach. They typically require the most powerful firewalls, access credentials, and security protocols to ensure business managers are comfortable storing critical information on their servers. The data is stored in a central repository managed 24/7 by internet security experts. Vendors also perform a threat assessment analysis for each cloud application launched by the company. They constantly work to ensure that the security measures implemented are stronger and more effective. According to KPMG Managing Director Randall Wiele, aside from this, there are many other benefits to focus on avoiding the capital, not only on underlying capabilities but also on constantly updating services. (Barton & Seel (2014).

Now, the business environment or the one-day process changes each new business investment carries a risk, however, BpaaS helps to reduce this risk as a team of professionals with extensive experience in new technologies and processes will be implemented to carry out these activities. Therefore, such an experience could reduce the risks that can come with new systems or growths. As of today, more and more organizations are realizing the benefits of BPaaS or other cloud services to reduce their exposure to risk and are committing to this innovative business approach.

Business Process as a service is intended to automate any business process of a company through cloud services. These cloud services make use of the infrastructure, an application that contains the logic and other details related to the cloud, and these services work collectively. “These cloud services that include software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) are therefore dependent on related services. Another description of BPaaS is that it is a way to automate BPM with the help of very particular software for the business. (Accorsi (2011, July).)

n a 2-3 page APA formatted paper, describe your workplace. 

• Describe in detail the industry this company belongs to, and who represents its customer base. 
• Who is your customer in this organization, internal or external, and how do you serve your customers’ needs as an Intern/Employee? 
• Describe how your IT skills have helped you in your current job in terms of IT management and/or project management, leading a team, and enhancing your career in the field of IT management.

Your paper should be formatted in the 7th edition APA style and include references as required.

 Write an essay discussing sqlmap, an automated tool for sql injection and database takeover in 500 words or more. Why do we need an automated tool for sql injection? 

Do not copy without providing proper attribution.  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 at least one quote from each of 3 different articles. Use the Research Databases available from the Danforth Library, not Google. Cite your sources in a clickable reference list at the end.