Briefly review at least three of the first page results regarding RTO.

Make a backup of any Lab Assessment Worksheets you may have completed from this

lab manual. If this is the only lab you’ve worked on, then make a mock Lab Assessment

Worksheet using the worksheet from this lab and back that one up instead.

Write the backup procedures and recovery procedures you used.

Describe your personal procedures in terms of your RTO as explained in Web sites

visited earlier in this lab.

Describe ways you can lower the RTO.

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Strategic IT Planning: Your 3-Step Process

Introduction

Strategic IT Planning is required to ensure your resources and assets continue providing the results and the support your organization needs.

What is a Strategic Plan?

It is a roadmap to achieving a goal. It may cover your entire department or responsibility or it may focus on a specific issue or element of your role. It can be long and involved or a simply one-page document that provides guidance and steps you need to implement to achieve a goal.

Making it Happen

There are a few things that are important to your success. While it may seem that developing the Strategic Plan is the hardest part, most plans fail because of the implementation. The key is to keep it small and be successful, then build on that success for the next initiative. Don’t bite off too much or try to be too ambitious.

• Take your time and keep it manageable

• Link your plan to your company’s strategy

• Justify your initiative and get buy-in and support

• Don’t re-invent, rebuild

• Go slow, manage change

• Set aside time from your operational responsibilities to make it happen

Without a Strategic Plan, you and your team won’t be effective and you won’t be able to get results, get attention and get ahead.

Why you need an IT Strategy:

Redirect from tasks to opportunities and result

• Switch from fighting fires to preventing fires

• Reduce risk with planning and a longer view

Most Strategic Plans never get written or they fail because they are too involved and complex. Keep them simple and use these three basic steps as your core approach. Ask yourself these questions:

1. Why do you need to do it? What is your goal?

2. What are the things you need to get done to achieve your goal?

3.  How can you make those things happen?

By following the 3 steps above and writing them down, you will have the outline of your Strategic IT Plan. Then, you establish the tactical things that will help you implement your plan.

Implementation Plan

Once you have established your strategic plan using the 3-step process, you need to develop your implementation plan. This includes getting approval and resources as well as the steps you need to take to achieve your strategic objective.

1. Set the objective for each step

2. Analyze internal/external factors

3. Develop solutions

4. Identify and eliminate barriers

5. Allocate resources (people, time, money)

6. Develop detailed tasks

7. Implement your plan!

Step Implementation

What Are The Roadblocks?

How Can You Overcome The Roadblocks?

What Resources Do You Need?

What Are The Timelines?

What Are The Main Steps To Implement Your Plan?

Several Big Data Visualization tools have been evaluated in this week’s paper. While the focus was primarily on R and Python with GUI tools, new tools are being introduced every day. Compare and contrast the use of R vs Python and identify the pros and cons of each. Provide an example of both programming languages with coding examples as well as your experience in using one or both programming languages in professional or personal work. If you have no experience with either language, please discuss how you foresee using either/both of these languages in visualizing data when analyzing big data.

Please make your initial post and two response posts substantive. A substantive post will do at least two  of the following:

Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail

Provide an outside source (for example, an article from the UC Library) that applies to the topic, along with additional information about the topic or the source (please cite properly in APA 7)

Discussion on Social media:

Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and even Tiktok have become very powerful and influential.

Please give your thoughts on whether governments should regulate the content of content on these media. Minimum 450 words. Please add references in APA format.

Research Paper of 3 pages and PPT 12 slides on Phishing Attacks

Discussion 1 (Chapter 1): Compare and contrast predictive analytics with prescriptive and descriptive analytics. Use examples.
Note: The first post should be made by Wednesday 11:59 p.m., EST. I am looking for active engagement in the discussion.  Please engage early and often.
Your response should be 250-300 words.  Respond to two postings provided by your classmates.
There must be at least one APA formatted reference (and APA in-text citation) to support the thoughts in the post.  Do not use direct quotes, rather rephrase the author’s words and continue to use in-text citations.

 Create a PowerPoint presentation strictly following the instructions in the Presentation file. While you are welcome to do so, this presentation does not require a voice over recording. Only the slides will be required. Please include additional details for your slides as appropriate in the slide notes. 

  Organization I am researching for is: WALMART

ITS 631 Presentation
100 Points Possible, Individual Effort Only! 

Using the organization that you have been researching and writing about during this course, create a PowerPoint presentation with the following slides representing your written papers. Do not copy and paste large sections from your paper to each slide. Your presentation should follow best practices in PowerPoint slide creation. This site may be beneficial to follow if you need help: http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/design/

1. Slide 1: Cover slide

2. Slide 2: Introduction of the organization

3. Slide 3: Your role within the organization

4. Slide 4: Your summary of the current IT strategy for competitive advantage 

5. Slide 5: The gap(s) you identified which you have sought to address in your project

6. Slide 6: A summary of your research regarding the IT strategy

7. Slide 7: A summary of the positive or negative impacts to business operations involving the IT management processes

8. Slide 8: A summary of your recommendations for TQM, Six Sigma, and/or change management

9. Slide 9: Your 2 recommendations to address the gap(s) identified in your case

10. Slide 10: Your change management plan

11. Slide 11: Your summarized thoughts on IT Governance and security culture within the organization

12. Slide 12: Your overall thoughts of the potential benefits to the organization by implementing your change recommendations 

13. Slide 13: References for all slides (full APA formatted references)

For additional content, use the notes view of PowerPoint to include details. Minimize pictures to those that are relevant to the content. If you quote a source directly in your presentation, a citation must also be included on that slide for the quote in APA format. Do not provide citations for paraphrased information in your slides. For this presentation the final references slide will suffice. 

Assessment criteria (25 points per criteria): 

· The presentation makes good use of course concepts/practices/strategies; 

· The presentation demonstrates understanding of the IT Operational Excellence practices covered during the course; 

· The presentation demonstrates appropriate application of Operational Excellence ideas/concepts/practices/strategies in addressing the case issues;

· Thoroughness, appropriateness, and creativity demonstrated by the descriptions; clarity, organization, coherence, and correctness (spelling, grammar) of the writing, quoted content where appropriate with citations, and full references.

Chapter 5 – Discussion question #1, #2, #3, & #4 and
                   Exercise #6 and
                   Internet Exercise #7 (go to   neuroshell.com  click on the examples and look at the current examples.  The Gee Whiz example is no longer on the page.)

Chapter 6 – Discussion question #1, #2, #3, #4, & #5 and
                   Exercise 4

– Each answer must be at least 100 words

– 2 references apa format

– no plagiarism

– write only answers, do not mention questions

• Do you think that ISO 27001 standard would work well in the organization that you currently or previously have worked for? If you are currently using ISO 27001 as an ISMS framework, analyze its effectiveness as you perceive in the organization.
• Are there other frameworks mentioned has been discussed in the article that might be more effective?
• Has any other research you uncover suggest there are better frameworks to use for addressing risks?

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be approximately four to six pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
• Follow APA 7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
• Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The UC Library is a great place to find resources.
• Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

Project Management Integration Framework – Week 7 Assignment

Closing/Change Control

Create a 2-3 page Word document and include the following. Be sure to label each section. You can embed your change control log and close out document or attach them separately.

·  Often times a project will have a contract with a third party. Explain the importance of conducting procurement management when working with sellers and awarding contracts

·  Review one of the case studies from the previous week(s). Identify at least two unexpected changes that were encountered and will impact your project schedule by making your schedule 2-4 weeks late. Create a change control log. How will you handle this change? 

·  Create a close out document that describes the steps for finalizing and implementing a project