Your business sponsor and customer are impressed with your project schedule, but due to some factors out of your / their control, you’ve been told to deliver your project early. Explain how you would go about assessing the possibility of delivering your project early. How will that affect scope, costs, and schedule?
IT Strategic Planning
Using a company of your choice, determine the strategic business goals. Develop an IT strategy that aligns to the business goals. You can use the balanced scorecard approach or you can develop your own method for defining and aligning the IT strategy to the business strategy. You will need to cite at least two credible sources that will provide justification for your strategy or approach.
Finding a company: If you are employed, it is best for you to use your current place of employment so you can practically apply the concepts in this assignment. Alternatively, you can use a nonprofit organization or any other organization you may have ties or access to.
Your IT strategy should include:
- Business Goals and Objectives
- List at least two or three specific business goals for the next year or two with an explanation of the business’ rationale for the goal.
- List an objective for each business goal to explain what the company needs to do to achieve the goal.
- IT Strategies aligned with business goals and objectives
- List one or two IT strategies for each business goal
- These should be recommended strategies that would enable the business goals and objectives to be achieved.
- If your company already has IT strategies, you may provide an analysis and justification or new recommendation for each of the strategies
- List one or two IT strategies for each business goal
- Organizational Structure
- Describe the structure of the organization including:
- Organizational design
- Organizational culture
- Leadership factors (the types of leadership displayed within the company)
- Business processes
- Physical layout (i.e., how many offices, virtual offices, international locations)
- Describe the structure of the organization including:
- IT Infrastructure
- Describe the current IT infrastructure including:
- Hardware
- Software
- Network
- IT resources
- This should be a high-level overview
- Describe the current IT infrastructure including:
- IT Challenges
- Describe internal and external challenges IT faces in meeting the business needs
- Include social and/or ethical considerations
- Risks
- Describe risks IT might face when implementing change
As you develop your strategy, you may want to consider the following:
- An effective IT strategy will enable the business operations, helping business leaders achieve business goals more efficiently and effectively.
- Focus on top priorities. Take the time to understand organizational issues, how they are related, and how they affect performance. Determine what will happen if nothing changes and where IT can have the greatest, positive impact.
- Identify how IT supports business processes. The business is relying on their capabilities to achieve the business goals. The IT strategy should include a plan for supporting those business capabilities, creating efficiencies, and competitive advantage for the business.
- Define IT priorities and governance for IT. Without priorities and a process for IT governance in place, progress will be slowed. An agreed upon plan for governing IT will enable the decision process.
Understand the challenges. Improving processes and increasing efficiencies through IT implementation also requires behavioral and sometimes organizational change. With these changes come inherent challenges. Understanding and planning for those challenges will increase the chance of success in meeting the business goals.
Write an 8 pages paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.
Compensation management
On average, these types of employees earn less than core employees.
What are the two criteria that part-time employees must meet to be eligible to participate in qualified retirement plans?
Working condition fringe benefits apply to what type of worker?
What is the dual employer common law doctrine and when does a leasing company become responsible for leased employee’s retirement benefits?
Pricing and Globalization Strategies
- Compare the object-oriented approach to design to the traditional approach. Give your opinion on whether or not you believe there are certain projects where one design approach might be better that the other. If so, provide an example of one (1) such project. If not, explain why not.
- Give your opinion on which approach discussed in Part 1 of this discussion you believe is easier for you to understand, and explain why.
Pricing and Globalization Strategies
- Use the Internet to find and research a company in which you are at least somewhat familiar. Be prepared to discuss.
- Pricing and Globalization StrategiesPlease respond to the following:
- discuss the best possible pricing strategy based on whether the company you selected is a retailer, manufacturer, or service firm. Explain your rationale.
- Discuss the best possible way the company you selected could expand its market globally.
- Discussion 2
- Globalization and Sources of Equity FinancingPlease respond to the following:
,- discuss how the company you selected might benefit from selling new customers on e-Bay (as opposed to building and maintaining its own Website).
- Referring to the same company, determine the best source of equity capital available to the company you selected. Explain your rationale.
Emerging IT Trends
Information technology evolves rapidly and businesses must stay abreast of that evolution in order to remain competitive in today’s market.
Research emerging IT trends. Use your research and what you have learned in this course over the past five modules to develop your responses to this discussion.
Respond to the following:
- Which emerging IT trend is currently impacting your business or could impact your business in the future?
- Should your organization respond by being an early adopter or wait to see what transpires?
- What are the risks involved?
- What might be other considerations regarding this technology trend?
Write your initial response in 300 words. Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail, include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA Style, and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation
celebrity endorsement
Uber is largely hailed as the advent of the gig economy, which is the idea that people will not work for any one employer, but instead will work on projects for any variety of companies desiring their services. While creating a new type of entrepreneurship for individuals, it raises a host of new legal questions for companies around the law of agency.
An investment firm has asked you to evaluate Uber’s legal exposure for the conduct of its drivers.
Write an interoffice memo in which you:
- Summarize the main principles of agency.
- Analyze the circumstances under which Uber might be liable for the conduct of its drivers.
- Identify the steps Uber can take, if any, to limit its legal exposure for the conduct of its drivers.
- Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference and proprietary Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
- Your news brief or memo should include a heading, summary statement, background and recommendations.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
- Analyze and apply the concepts of ethical decision making, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility.
- Analyze and evaluate the employment-at-will doctrine and the statutory protections afforded employees.
- Analyze and evaluate laws and regulations relative to product safety, liability and representations.
- Write clearly and concisely about law, ethics, and corporate governance using proper writing mechanics.
celebrity endorsement in business
Read this article, “In Sneaker Wars, It’s Also Curry (Under Armour) vs. James (Nike)” (you can also view the PDF here), on the use of celebrity endorsements in the competition between Nike and Under Armour.
Think about a time when a celebrity endorsement influenced you to buy a product in the last five years. In the discussion thread, describe the following:
1. The product and the celebrity endorsing it
2. How the endorsement influenced your decision to buy the product
OR
In the discussion thread, comment on whether or not you think celebrity endorsements are an effective marketing tool and why.
Interpretive Journey Paper Instructions
the 5 major steps of the interpretive method of Bible study. This paper will reflect a personal and independent study of a selected passage of Scripture; as such, bibliographic resources are limited to course materials, mywsb.com, the Bible, and the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary.
In order to complete this assignment, you will first select 1 of these 3 passages:
- Deuteronomy 22:8
- Acts 6:1–7
- 1 Peter 5:6–7
Once you have selected a passage, you will then take the verse through the interpretive journey process. Your answer must engage each of the following steps:
Step 1: Grasp the text in their town. Summarize the original situation and the meaning of the text for the biblical audience.
Step 2: Measure the width of the river to cross. What are the differences between the biblical situation and our situation?
Step 3: Cross the principlizing bridge. Explain the theological principle(s) communicated by the passage.
Step 4: Consult the biblical map. How does the theological principle fit with the rest of the Bible?
Step 5: Grasp the text in our town. How should individual Christians today live out the theological principle(s)?
While the amount of material will vary based on the passage you select, it is expected that your answer to each step in the interpretive journey will be at least 300 words.
Your paper must be completed using the provided template that contains both a title page and a bibliography (for you to document any of the limited bibliographic resources mentioned that you may have used in your paper). The Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary will be the only required text resource (other than the Bible).