Wk 1 – Apply: Case Study: Appliance Warehouse – Analysis & Planning

  

Assignment Content

  1.     Overview
    The Appliance Warehouse case study is designed to practice systems analysis and design skills using a life-like scenario. Appliance Warehouse is facing a big business change: create a Service Department as one of their product offerings.

    They need you, the new systems analyst, to help them. You have been tasked to help develop a technological solution to help schedule service appointments and integrate it with existing systems. As a newly hired analyst, you report to Carlie Davis, the IT manager, who will guide you through the steps of this project.

    In the MindTap simulation environment, you will see email examples to your (simulated) Appliance Warehouse email inbox. These simulated emails will contain instructions for each session, and you will consult the Appliance Warehouse’s resource libraries and website for additional information.

    You will complete several weekly individual assignments based on this case study as well as the Signature Assignment: Case Study: Appliance Warehouse Services – Application Maintenance assignment in Week 5.

    For this week’s assignment, be sure to refer to the Appliance Warehouse Resources: Organizational Staffing Document, Appliance Warehouse website, Historical Analysis Phase Durations spreadsheet.

    Directions
    In MindTap, review the Appliance Warehouse Case, and do the following:

    • Read the Before You Begin Message and the Module 1-3 Appliance Warehouse Webmail Client Emails. Read the messages to help determine the tasks you must complete.
    • Review and analyze the weekly Appliance Warehouse case study content and resources.
    • Create a 2- to 3-page document (to submit in Blackboard) that includes the following:
    • An Organization Chart to support the Appliance Warehouse case study
    • The SWOT Analysis diagram you performed and created to support the Appliance Warehouse case study
    • The Mission Statement to support the Appliance Warehouse case study
    • The Problem/Opportunity Statement to support the Appliance Warehouse case study
    • Submit your document.

HW

 Competency
Determine how the environment and economies are interconnected.

Student Success Criteria
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Scenario
You are a member of a community planning committee. The committee is reminding local citizens about recently enacted environmental laws. You are responsible for developing an infographic to showcase one of these new laws. The infographic will be displayed at the next community meeting in the community center.

Instructions
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website contains information concerning laws and regulations that impact the environment. Search this EPA website to choose one law to focus on.

The infographic should contain:

  • A recently enacted environmental law (The law can be local or national, and focused on any part of an environment such as water, air, land, energy, wildlife, etc.)
  • Present the major players and the stakeholders (Who is involved and who is impacted by the new law?)
  • Examine the impact to the economy (Does the law help or hinder the economy and why? Do the benefits outweigh the costs?)
  • Identify the controversy surrounding the law (differences in opinion)
  • Your infographic should be clear and organized. References should be in APA format
  • Resources
    Please click here for information on creating an infograph

General Computer sciences

 Well-written essay in a Microsoft Word document, no fewer than 250 words explaining: ( for Application system Engineer)

Explain each question separately. 

  • How communication and leadership is incorporated into your job. 
  • What communication and leadership roles you have at your job. 
  • What you hope to learn and grow in your communication and leadership ability in your workplace
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Analyize

 Review The Power of Good Design and select three of the ten principles noted for good design. Next in R, utilize these three principles in a problem that you will solve. First note the problem to solve, the dataset (where the information was pulled from), and what methods you are going to take to solve the problem.  Ensure the problem is simple enough to complete within a two-page document. For example, I need to purchase a house and want to know what my options are given x amount of dollars and x location based on a sample of data from Zillow within each location. 
Ensure there is data visualization in the homework and note how it relates to the three principles selected.

 

Discussion

 

Watch this video about Joseph Shumpeter’s concept of Creative Destruction. For example, many think that the introduction of self-driving cars will disrupt the job market for drivers. 

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.

Assignment 350 words 3 references

On April 18, 2016, The United States Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari (refused to review the lower court’s ruling) in the case of Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., 804 F. 3d 202 – Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit 2015.

Tell me what you would do if you were the Supreme Court.

That case let stand the ruling of the Court of Appeals which can be found at the following website: 

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2220742578695593916&q=Authors+Guild+v.+Google+Inc&hl=en&as_sdt=4000006  last accessed February 9, 2019.

Please write a 400 word summary of fair use as this court decision says it.

Student accurately summarizes the effects of this Supreme Court decision.