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Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Research various methods of communication that are commonly used in business, such as email, VoIP, texting, messaging, as well as software applications used to support each (Microsoft® Outlook®, Skype®, Twitter®, Instagram®). 

Discuss the questions:

• In what business context would it be appropriate to use each communication method?
• What are some of the advantages of using one method or application over another?

Due Monday

Reply to at least 2 of your classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses.

In the transformational leadership model, we learn how important it is for a leader to articulate his or her vision to others. One way of doing that is through personal stories. The stories should involve lessons you have learned about YOURSELF, about other people, about leadership, or about life in general. Some questions to prompt reflection and recognition:

· What people have had a significant impact on your life and why?

· What hardships have you faced and overcome?

· What are the greatest blessings in your life?

· What do you really, really believe?

· What ideas make your heart skip a beat?

· What do you know about life now that you wish you had known in high school?

· What is the one best piece of advice you could give to a person?

· What life lesson would you like to pass on to your children some day?

· If you only had one year left to live, how would you spend it?

Think beyond clichés (e.g., Love makes the world go round) to insights that are unique to you. How might others benefit from hearing your stories? How do the stories point to your vision as a leader? 

A project implementation plan, or roll-out schedule, must identify the tasks to be done, the order they need to be done in, and who is responsible for doing each of them. However, in real life, schedules often fall behind what is planned.

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• Discuss some ways for building contingency and resilience into a roll-out schedule.

 Select from the following list four (4) topics and discuss. Use only 50-words max per topic to discuss and present your answer.  The discussion questions this week are from Chapter’s 6 & 7  (Jamsa, 2013).Chapter 6 topics:

• Define and describe a SAN.
• Define and describe NAS.
• Describe how cloud-based data storage works.
• Assume that you must select a cloud-based data storage solution for your company. List the factors you would consider when selecting a vendor.
• Many users do not yet feel comfortable storing data within the cloud. Discuss some steps you can take to reduce their concerns.
• Assume that you must select a cloud-based data storage solution for your company. List the factors you would consider when selecting a vendor.
• List the pros and cons of cloud-based data storage.
• List the pros and cons of a cloud-based database.

Chapter 7 topics:

• Define collaboration.
• Define and describe cloud-based collaboration.
• The CIO of Ace Accounting Services suggests that the company can save considerable money using VoIP for phone calls. Define and describe VoIP. Then present three companies that provide VoIP offerings. Compare and contrast each company’s offering. Also, discuss whether or not you agree with the CIO and justify why.
• List the questions one should consider when evaluating a cloud-based collaborative solution.

Assignment Description

Project Background

Throughout this course, you will be working on several aspects of the implementation of an e-commerce Web site for an organization of your choosing, either real or imaginary. The work will focus on actual development work on an e-commerce prototype Web site.

Project Selection

The first step will be to select an organization as the target for your e-commerce implementation plan. This organization will be used as the basis for each of the assignments throughout the course and should conform to the following guidelines:

• Nontrivial: The selected or invented organization should be substantial enough to allow for the reasonable expectation of e-commerce traffic and interest.
• Domain knowledge: Choose a topic for your organization that is familiar enough to allow you to focus on the planning and development tasks without having to spend significant time learning more.
• Accessibility: Your organization’s products will need to be visualized in a product catalog, so make sure that you can find images from a search engine that can represent what you plan to sell. You may use existing images; you do not have to make them yourself. For example, if you plan to sell cigars, many images of cigars are available online.
• Relevance: Services and advisory type products (e.g., consulting services) may not be appropriate for this assignment. Physical products are recommended. If you are not sure, consult with your instructor and be prepared with alternatives. Motivation is important, but keep the focus on learning and experience.
• Appropriateness: Aim your project toward a general audience. Professionalism is required

Note: You are permitted to select a company or organization that already exists. You will not be able to use existing code or layout, but you may use some branding elements (such as a logo) in your project, if you wish.

There is no documentation required for this assignment. However, you should write down your decisions and ideas so that you can refer to them in later units of this course.

Once you have decided on an organization and its products, it is time to create your application service provider (ASP) Web site.

Software Installation

To build the e-commerce project, you will need to download and install the following software:

Visual Studio 2019

Click the above link to open the installation instructions. You will need to install the ASP.NET module for ITSD325, as indicated in the instructions.

Once you have completed installation, watch the video lessons for Unit 1. These are listed in the Learning Activities for Unit 1. These lessons show how to create an ASP project and how to add some simple content to the page.

When you have completed viewing these lessons, create a project with the following parameters:

• The project type must be an ASP.NET Web application using .NET Framework (not Core) and the C# programming language.
• Use a single Web form named Home.aspx, not an HTML page.
  • Tip: To view a page in a browser window, right-click on it either in the editing window or in Solution Explorer, and then click “View in browser.”
• In your own words, provide a message welcoming visitors to your e-commerce site, explaining briefly what the organization is and describing what products you plan to sell. Invite users to visit the catalog page and make a purchase.
• Display at least 1 logo or image that is relevant to the topic of your site. This can be a logo for the organization, an image of a product you plan to sell, or something else that is related in some way. Although not required, you can quickly create your own logo at Design Iconic, Looka, or LogoMakr.

When you have finished creating this project, save it on your hard drive, and create a ZIP out of the folder it resides in.

Unit 1 Project Deliverables

Your deliverable for the Unit 1 Individual Project is a ZIP containing your first ASP project.

Please submit your assignment.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Grading Rubric

Rubric Item

Requirements

Points

Project Creation

Student submitted a Visual Studio project of the correct type and language.

60

Content

Web page welcomes visitors and explains the organization and its products.

20

Branding

Web page displays a logo or image relevant to the content

20

Total Points

100

After reviewing this week’s video choose one of the Major New Themes in Marketing outlined by Professor Kotler and discuss it in detail.  Provide a current day example and how this will withstand environmental impacts of the seven Major Wicked Problems Facing Humankind as presented by Professor Kotler.  The criteria for responses are as follows:

• Your initial response to the discussion question should be 250-300 words. You must have at least one course (our text) and one non-course scholarly/peer reviewed source in your initial posting.  Sources require in-text citations and must be incorporated into the body of the post in addition to a full APA citation at the end of the post. 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDrja9d0SU4&t=19s

Write a  5-page research paper(cover and reference page inclusive) on the topic 

“The impact of Data Mining in the Healthcare Sector”

Requirements:

1.Use Times New Roman font size 12 and double spaced.

2. Include a cover page and reference page. Use section headers for good readership.

3. Use figures and tables if needed(not mandatory).

4. Use Self-Assign to check your research paper and similarity score should be less than 15%.

5. Use APA for in-text citations and references(in-text citations must match reference list)

6. Provide at least 3 scholarly references.

Discussion – Please read Productivity Paradox from Chapter 7 (Information Systems for Business and Beyond).

Chapter 7: Does IT Matter?

The perspective of the research addressed concludes that investments in IT did not improve productivity. Consider a recent technology implementation in your current or previous organization. Do you think that employee productivity increased as a result of the new technology implementation? Why or why not?Your response should be 250-300 words.

Assignment – Human Computing Interaction and Usability 

Read – Interaction Design by Helen Sharp, Jennifer Preece, Yvonne Rogers 

Provide a reflection 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 – 600 word 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 (AWS Cloud Engineer). 

the analysis of the data you’ve chosen. The assignment due this week is simply an outline/template for your final presentation in MS PowerPoint format.

You should prepare approximately 15 slides, outline below is suggested:

• Cover Slide
• Agenda
• [Name of Your Data Set] (discuss the data chosen and who would benefit from this analysis)
• [Visualization slides – at least 8-12 viz’] (display a screenshot of the viz created in Tableau – each of these slides should include not only the viz but also a brief description of it, the trend you’ve found or other important things you’ve found in the data – you will explain in greater detail when you record your presentation for the final submission)
• [Data Set Dashboard – 1 dashboard] (this will be one dashboard displaying the most important viz’s you created. You will explain in greater detail the dashboard and how it could be used for the identified stakeholders of such data.)
• Conclusion – based on your findings, what would next steps be to dig into an issue you’ve found, or interesting trends? Are there any predictions that could be implied based on your findings? These are just some questions to help you formulate your conclusion.

    Overview:

The purpose of the project is to create an incident response/disaster recovery document that can be used by your organization in the event of a perceived or potential threat that may harm your business or employees. First, make sure it is a credible solution since a hurricane disaster plan for a business in Michigan is about as realistic as a loss of power due to a major snow storm at sea level in Hawaii. Yes, it could happen, but the likelihood is very slim. Second, it should be a threat that has a potential for happening such as mechanical failure, natural disaster, human caused and so on. Lastly, make sure it is a business and a geographic location you are familiar with to make this a worthwhile exercise.

Examples of incidents could include, but not be limited to;

Malicious Virus infects a computer

Employee Destruction of Critical Information

ISP provider goes down

City-wide Power Outage

Flooding

Physical break-in with damage and/or theft of major equipment

Paper Requirements:

(1pg) Cover page

Name

Course Number

Date

(~2pgs) Business overview

Current business situation

Customers

Employees

Geographical Location

Potential threats

The purpose of the document

Known threats encountered by other businesses in a similar setting

(5-8pgs) Incident response/disaster recovery/contingency planning

This may include more than one scenario

(1pg) Sources cited page.

APA or other formal documentation method is not required.

All sources must be listed here and cited within the document.

Five to ten sources should be used when putting your plan together.