Operational Excellence: Information Systems for Business and Beyond Questions

Information Systems for Business and Beyond Questions:

  • Chapter 6 – study questions 1-10, Exercise 3, 6, & 7

Information Technology and Organizational Learning Assignment:

  • Chapter 6 – Review the section on knowledge creation, culture, and strategy.  Explain how balance scorecards impact knowledge creation, culture, and strategy.  Why are these important concepts to understand within an organization?

The above submission should be one -page in length and adhere to APA formatting standards.

Information Governance discussion 5

Chapter 14 – From the week’s chapter reading, we learn from the authors that, the use of mobile devices in our society today has indeed become ubiquitous.  In addition, CTIA asserted that over 326 million mobile devices were in use within The United States as of December 2012 – an estimated growth of more than 100 percent penetration rate with users carrying more than one device with notable continues growth.  From this research, it’s evident that mobile computing has vastly accelerated in popularity over the last decade due to several factors noted by the authors in our chapter reading. 

Q2: In consideration with this revelation, identify and name these factors, and provide a brief discussion about them?

Chapter 13 – According to Franks and Smallwood (2013), information has become the lifeblood of every business organization, and that an increasing volume of information today has increased and exchanged through the use of social networks and Web2.0 tools like blogs, microblogs, and wikis.  When looking at social media in the enterprise, there is a notable difference in functionality between e-mail and social media, and has been documented by research – “…that social media differ greatly from e-mail use due to its maturity and stability.” (Franks & Smallwood, 2013).  

Q1: Please identify and clearly state what the difference is? 

Operational Excellence: Information Systems for Business and Beyond Questions.

  

Information Systems for Business and Beyond Questions:

  • Chapter 10 – study questions   
  1. What are the steps in the SDLC methodology?
     
  2. What is RAD software development?
     
  3. What makes the lean methodology unique?
     
  4. What are three differences between second-generation and
    third-generation languages?
     
  5. Why would an organization consider building its own software
    application if it is cheaper to buy one?
     
  6. What is responsive design?
     
  7. What is the relationship between HTML and CSS in website design?
     
  8. What is the difference between the pilot implementation methodology and the parallel implementation methodology?
     
  9. What is change management?
     
  10. What are the four different implementation methodologies?
     
  •    Exercise :

    

  1. Which software-development methodology would be best if an organization needed to develop a software tool for a small group of users in the marketing department? Why? Which implementation methodology should they use? Why?
     

Information Technology and Organizational Learning Assignment:

  • Chapter 8 – Review the Siemens AG      case study.  Note the importance of understanding the      interrelationships amongst all the senior leaders at every location.       Pay special attention to Figure 8.1 and Figure 8.2. Note how the corporate      CIO should engage with each of the regional leaders.  Why is this      important?

SWI-Prolog coding

 

Please do the following exercises in The Art of Prolog, Second Edition, and submit a ZIP file consisting of your submission files.  There should be a separate file ending in .prolog or .pl for each section. Please make sure that your solutions run in SWI-Prolog.

Section 8.2 (p. 153-154): i, ii

Section 9.2 (p. 173): i

Section 10.1 (p. 179): i, ii

Section 11.1 (p. 195): i, ii, iii

Section 11.3 (p. 202): i, ii

Business Stratergy

 1) 350 words – Why is it critical for company managers to have a clear strategic vision regarding their organization? 

2) 1 reply of 150 words

PLEC Week 8

 Answer each these questions in a paragraph with at least 3-4 sentences: Include the question and number your responses accordingly. Provide a citation for each answer.  

1. With all the stories about millions and millions of bytes of personal data having been exposed, why is their still any faith at all in the Internet?

2. How has the term hacking changed meaning over the years?

3. What is the most dangerous hacker tool?

4. From the news: How were NSA’s hacker tools  compromised? 

5. What was the vulnerability in the Target Breach?

6. What do you think of hactivism?

7. How did Stuxnet work? 

8. What was the Arpanet?

9. Deep brain stimulation is a treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Medical devices such as these are now becoming accessible through the web. Consider the dangers (threat surface)?

10. What is the Red Team?

Cloud Computing

 

A three-tier web application architecture has been generically defined as the presentation, business logic, and data storage tiers. However, Amazon Web Services defines the three-tier web application architecture as the web, application, and storage/database tiers.

Write a paper comparing the generic three-tier web application architecture to that applied by Amazon Web Services.

Apply APA Edition 6 formatting.

Use at least three properly documented references (do NOT use wikis).

Correctly cite your references using APA Edition 6 formatting.

Your paper should be at least 500 words in length using good grammar.

Use complete sentences and paragraphs. Do not use bullets.

Be sure and use a spelling and grammar checker.