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If you have you been involved with a company doing a redesign of business processes, discuss what went right during the redesign and what went wrong from your perspective. Additionally, provide a discussion on what could have been done better to minimize the risk of failure. If you have not yet been involved with a business process redesign, research a company that has recently completed one and discuss what went wrong, what went right, and how the company could have done a better job minimizing the risk of failure.

• Be approximately 4-6 pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.

Unions play a role in both private and public organizations in the United States.  During the country’s height in manufacturing, unions were predominant in many organizations such as steel mills, auto manufacturers, etc. The 1960s began to show a rise in union activity and membership in public organizations. It was noted that there were dissimilarities in collective bargaining between public-sector and private sector organizations.

This week’s journal article was focused on the Complexity of Information Systems Research in the Digital World.  Complexity is increasing as new technologies are emerging every day.  This complexity impacts human experiences.  Organizations are turning to digitally enabled solutions to assist with the emergence of digitalization. 

Please review the article and define the various technologies that are emerging as noted in the article.  Note how these emerging technologies are impacting organizations and what organizations can to do to reduce the burden of digitalization.

 The paper should meet the following requirements:

• 3-5 pages in length (not including title page or references)
• APA guidelines must be followed.  The paper must include a cover page, an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
• A minimum of five peer-reviewed journal articles.

Please read the each discussion post and provide one response for each discussion in 75 to 100 words

Discussion Post 1:

BPaaS comprises of an integration of all processes as conducted by businesses hence enabling commercial enterprises achieve economy and efficiency in conducting business operations. With the shift to cloud computing, organizations are adopting automation of their operations to reduce on the overall cost of hardware, software amongst other resources. The implication of BPaaS on organizational operation include reduced cost of business transaction, minimal risks as well as enabling organizations achieve scalability in utilization of cloud computing infrastructure (Schwarzbach, 2016). For this reason, organizations could continue adopting BPaaS to increase their overall productivity in their operations.

BPaaS could be centrally managed by organizations unlike with other standalone applications. As an integration of all critical business processes such as payroll processing, e-commerce amongst other process, it would be possible for organizations to manage all processes at a single entry point. As a composition of multiple application, it would be relatively easier for enterprises to monitor the performance of BPaaS unlike when individual applications are used in managing business processes. As such, the risk reduction aspect is incorporated to BPaaS by reducing the multiple vulnerability points to organizational operations. BPaaS enables enterprises to have access to a skilled workforce and expertise who have knowledge in application development.  It is hence possible for organizations to seek immediate support from expertise who have knowledge on BPaaS operations. In comparison, to other traditional applications it hence becomes possible for enterprises to reduce the risks of operating BPaaS in the event of failure. It is possible to incorporate new design processes and implement further security measures to the operation of BPaaS by the help of these experts and professionals in the cloud computing platform (Duipmans& Pires, 2012)

BPaaS offers a platform for facilitating social collaborations, web analytics, business process management, security governance, compliances and risk management (Babu, 2013). The effective running of business operations requires business to adopt a comprehensive and a streamlined approach that facilitate efficient service delivery. It hence becomes possible that with the integration of BPaaS, organizations would have it easy having efficient business processing. Risk of business failure due to unstructured business process is hence not possible with the incorporation of BPaaS for business operations.  There is multifunctional capabilities usually associated with the BPaaS. The multifunctional capability hence offers opportunities for organization to adopt flexibility in their operations an attribute that is not present in many applications.  Also, before the full integration of BPaaS by most enterprises, there is usually a trial period upon which organizations should test their business processes in line with the BPaaS. The trial period as offered by most BPaaS service provider is set to make organizations familiarize themselves with the functioning of BPaaS (Babu 2013). As such it hence becomes relatively easy for organizations to use BPaaS with full knowledge on its capability hence minimizing risks of failure due to lack of knowledge and interoperability of BPaaS.

Discussion Post 2:

Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) is a type of outsourcing model that outsources cloud-based services to businesses and commercial organizations. Companies or business organizations can increase the agility of their business processes by using BPaaS services. BPaaS provides these companies with some valuable emerging technologies to implement and deploy their business processes. It will definitely reduce the cost related to labor by increasing automation. BPaaS outsources cloud services that can be accessed from the Internet because it is an Internet-based technology. One of the accepted definitions of cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient and on-demand network access to a shared group of configurable computing resources that can be Quickly provision and launch with minimal effort from management or service provider interaction. The core elements of BPaaS are security and privacy and can be achieved by designing some robust business processes in the Cloud. Businesses, organizations or any customer can meet their rapidly growing and changing business needs with the help of BPaaS. BPaaS is defined as a collection of activities that takes one or more types of inputs and creates an output that is of value to the customer. “Automation” will improve operational efficiency and reduce errors, but management middleware of business processes has no tools to quantitatively track these business metrics. (Woitsch & Utz (2015, October))

There are many benefits to the increasing popularity of BPaaS. It is a type of cloud services with almost all cloud services that give business organizations the peace of mind of reducing risks and improving the speed of commercialization. Cloud services store information on servers and hardware that an organization does not control. These external servers have strict security measures that prevent any form of a data breach. They typically require the most powerful firewalls, access credentials, and security protocols to ensure business managers are comfortable storing critical information on their servers. The data is stored in a central repository managed 24/7 by internet security experts. Vendors also perform a threat assessment analysis for each cloud application launched by the company. They constantly work to ensure that the security measures implemented are stronger and more effective. According to KPMG Managing Director Randall Wiele, aside from this, there are many other benefits to focus on avoiding the capital, not only on underlying capabilities but also on constantly updating services. (Barton & Seel (2014).

Now, the business environment or the one-day process changes each new business investment carries a risk, however, BpaaS helps to reduce this risk as a team of professionals with extensive experience in new technologies and processes will be implemented to carry out these activities. Therefore, such an experience could reduce the risks that can come with new systems or growths. As of today, more and more organizations are realizing the benefits of BPaaS or other cloud services to reduce their exposure to risk and are committing to this innovative business approach.

Business Process as a service is intended to automate any business process of a company through cloud services. These cloud services make use of the infrastructure, an application that contains the logic and other details related to the cloud, and these services work collectively. “These cloud services that include software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) are therefore dependent on related services. Another description of BPaaS is that it is a way to automate BPM with the help of very particular software for the business. (Accorsi (2011, July).)

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1. Discuss the key components of human resource management.  Pick at least four concepts from chapter nine and describe how these concepts interrelate to individual performance on a team.

2. Review table 9.2 and select one of the dimensions listed, note why it was chosen and how you relate to this behavior.  If you have a personal experience, please share.

3. How do leaders select the best talent? What are some tools they can use to select the best-talent?

Please read the below discussion posts and provide the response in 75 to 100 words

Post#1:

A cloud SLA (cloud service-level agreement) is an agreement between a cloud service provider and a customer that ensures a minimum level of service is maintained. The SLA should include not only an outline of the services to be provided and their expected service levels, but also metrics by which the services are measured, the duties and responsibilities of every party, the remedies or penalties for breach, and a protocol for adding and removing metrics. Now we have discussed 5 features of cloud SLA. “Based  on  policy  guidance,  autonomic  system  keep  the  system stable  in  unpredictable  conditions  and  adapt  quickly  in  new environmental  conditions  like  software,  hardware  failures” (Singh, Chana, & Buyya, 2017).

Uptime: Some cloud providers will offer lower uptime than what they can actually achieve just to give themselves some breathing space in the event of a data incident. This may be adequate for some businesses that can handle a brief loss in productivity, but for healthcare providers and government agencies that need immediate access to data, it is still considered inadequate (Zhao, et.al., 2016).

 Data Protection: Data protection processes, such as backup and disaster recovery, should be addressed in any SLA. The agreement should detail what each party is responsible for, acceptable performance parameters, which applications and services are covered, monitoring procedures and a schedule for remediation of outages whether by power outage, natural disaster, human error, or malware.

Exporting Data: Some cloud providers make it easy to migrate your data into their cloud, but charge large sums of money to return it to you—or they return it to you in an unusable format (we call this the Hotel California effect). So, you want to be sure you’re able to exit the contract if you need to and that there are no fees associated with doing so (or that they are minimal). You should also negotiate the export of your data in a predefined format (CSV, XLS, XML etc.). If you don’t have a skilled IT team that can make the export easy, you might also make it a condition that the provider assists you in the export. Finally, because some contracts require a notice of non-renewal within a certain period, make sure you understand the time period and if it seems unreasonable, try to talk it down or eliminate it altogether. “One of the main green cloud computing strategies used for the reduction of energy consumption consists in maximizing the utilization of a number of physical machines (PMs) and turning off or suspending unused servers” (Malekloo,, et. al.,2018).

Scalability: Many SLAs are designed to meet the needs of the customer at the time of signing, but we all know organizations can change dramatically in size over time. Make sure the SLA details intervals for reviewing a contract so that if your organization grows larger, your cloud capacity can grow with it and if your organization happens to grow smaller, you’ll want the option to reduce capacity; no sense it paying for unused capacity.

Data Location: Although cloud computing is all about the ease of accessing your data anytime, anywhere, it’s ultimately housed somewhere. Some providers may scatter your data across multiple locations, or house it overseas. Knowing where data physically resides is key when it comes to matters of compliance. “A Service Level Agreement (SLA) can be used to address these concerns, increasing trust in the purchased services through the clear description of the guarantees offered by the provider to the subscribers” (De Carvalho, et. al., 2017).

Post#2:

The agreement entered between the cloud service provider companies and the client or the user of the clouding service is cloud service level agreement (SLA). This is a type of a commitment that is signed between the service provider companies and the users of the clouding services. The agreement defines the different aspects of the services and responsibilities that are agreed on mutually between the service user and the service provider. It can between two or more parties. The agreement happened between the parties has many components which are defined from starting of the service till the termination of the agreement. Service level agreements helps in proper monitoring of the services in cloud computing. These define the quality of the service the company must provide to the customers till the end of the service agreement.

SLA is responsible for setting the security system required for management of the clouding space and free from intruders and vulnerabilities and also explains well about the backup plan the company has already set to prevent the data loss of any of the customers for the failure of the performances. There are many challenges associated with the clouding services which both provider and user face. SLA defines the terms and conditions which are agreed upon by both the parties for provisioning and consuming of the clouding service. SLA clearly defines and sets the expectations for both the parties. For the purpose of the development of an effective SLA, there are certain criteria which are needed to be established between both the provider and the user of the service. “Although there are many energy-aware resource management solutions for Cloud data centers, existing approaches focus on minimizing energy consumption while ignoring the SLA violation at the time of virtual machine (VM) deployment” (Zhou, 2018).

1) Cloud hardware and software: the cloud service provider must use all the essential hardware and the software devices required for providing the services effectively to the customers potentially. The agreement must include the hardware devices that the company would be using to provide the services. When the company knows the equipments and the software specifications of the hardware devices then it becomes easy for the providers to build the cloud construction environment and teach staff about it. “Resource overbooking is one way to reduce the usage of active hosts and networks by placing more requests to the same amount of resources” (Son, 2017).

2) Customer Responsibility: the clouding responsibility is not solely hold by the provider companies but it is shared between the user and the provider both. The provider companies should well explain about the roles and responsibilities of the users before entering into an agreement.

3) Disaster recovery and backup: the service provider companies should be well equipped with a disaster recovery plan so that there is not any kind of data loss of any customer. The system must be updated with automatic backup technology and must be mentioned about its use and blueprint into the agreement. This will make the user satisfied about the data saved in the clouding space provided by the service provider companies.

4) Data Ownership: the service level agreement must clearly specify the ownership status of the data to make everything clear and transparent between the user and the service provider and avoid any kind of future conflicts.

5) Availability: the service level agreement must clearly specify the provider’s promised availabilities. The network and the service must be same throughout the agreement and must not break in between the agreement. The promises made should be accomplished upto 99.99% successfully. “As SLAs are critical for cloud deployments and wider adoption of cloud services, the management of SLAs in cloud and IoT has thus become an important and essential aspect” (Mubeen, 2017).

In your initial post, answer the following questions about IT Project Management. In addition to your course textbook (chapter 11 attached), utilize the UC library for information and examples.

What is a project, and what are its main attributes? How is a project different from what most people do in their day-to-day jobs? Discuss the importance of top management commitment and the development of standards for successful project management. Provide examples to illustrate the importance of these items based on your experience on any type of project. Discuss the unique challenges that an IT project presents.

Please make your initial post substantive. A substantive post will do of the following:

At least one scholarly source should be used in the initial discussion thread. Be sure to use information from your readings and other sources from the UC Library. Use proper citations, intext citations and references in your post.

Case scenario. An HU Investment Firm employee who had signed a non-disclosure agreement at the time of hire was identified as posting corporate protected information on the internet which has led to a loss of corporate income and trust of the companies that the corporation represents and does business with. The corporation has taken the incident to a Law firm in an attempt to lead to prosecution against the employee who has since been fired.

Write a Summary Report to the Prosecutor based on the case scenario and your work in previous units.

1. Applicable laws and policies that relate to cyber defense

2. Describe the major components of each pertaining to the storage and transmission of data.

3. Describe the responsibilities related to the handling of data as it pertains to legal, ethical and/or agency auditing issues.

4. Describe how the type of legal dispute (civil, criminal, private) affects the evidence used to resolve it.

5. Support your report with documents that you have created previously, such as the Risk Assessment Report and the Mitigation Plan. 

Remember to use a professional writing style and support your statements with logical evidence. 

 In 500 words or more, discuss the risk and costs of compromised data integrity breaches. Focus on integrity, not confidentiality. Look at military, education, science, medicine, finance, utilities, municipalities, etc. 

Please find the sources from  https://libguides.nec.edu/az.php