Contingency Planning

  1. Contingency Planning
    Contingency planning is a risk mitigation process for developing back-up plans in anticipation of events (scenarios) that might disrupt ‘business as usual’. Business continuity planning is an expanded version of contingency planning that typically encompasses a more comprehensive and extended response plan for getting back to ‘business as usual’. In a well-formatted, highly-detailed research paper, address the need to contingency planning, ensuring to address the following items:
    (1) Benefits of scenario events/planning.
    (2) Questions to consider when implementing scenario planning.
    (3) The common types of scenario planning.
    Your paper should meet these requirements:

    • Be approximately 4 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.

Data Analysis

https://lionbridge.ai/datasets/10-open-datasets-for-linear-regression/
– https://careerfoundry.com/en/blog/data-analytics/where-to-find-free-datasets/
OR ANY REPUTABLE SOURCE OF DATA.
Write a 2 page (minimum) paper.  In the paper, define the problem that you are analyzing.  What is the question that you want to be answered from the data?  What is your hypothesis?
25%:  Analysis of the dataset (explain the data and also perform a statistical analysis).  Speak to which features you kept and why. 
25%: Use the techniques learned in this class and discover at least 1 “AHA” in the data.  By that, I mean that I expect you to discover a relationship between two variables or an INSIGHT into the data.  Explain your findings.
25%: Define which visualization(s) you choose to use and why you chose them.  I expect the visualizations to be professional and readable by themselves without references to anything else.  (I am not going to be looking through your data to try to understand your visual).  Attach your visuals to the end of the document.  Create a Tableau Story that combines your visuals and provide the link to it in the document.
15%: Summarize your work from a social or business perspective.  Why is this important?  How could this insight be used to make a difference?
CITE YOUR SOURCES and add them to the end of your paper.  (I recommend citefast.com.  You can cite all of your sources there and export to word and just add it to the end of your paper.)
In summary – you will turn in:
A 2-page Analysis
A page (or 2) of Visualizations
A list of your sources/references

Project Part 1 Task 2: Risk Assessment Plan

  

Purpose

This project provides an opportunity to apply the competencies gained in the lessons of this course to develop a risk management plan for a fictitious organization to replace its outdated plan.

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

You will gain an overall understanding of risk management, its importance, and critical processes required when developing a formal risk management plan for an organization.

Required Source Information and Tools

The following tools and resources that will be needed to complete this project:

  • Course textbook
  • Internet      access for research

Deliverables

As discussed in this course, risk management is an important process for all organizations. This is particularly true in information systems, which provides critical support for organizational missions. The heart of risk management is a formal risk management plan. The project activities described in this document allow you to fulfill the role of an employee participating in the risk management process in a specific business situation.

  

Submission Requirements

All project submissions should follow this format:

  • Format: Microsoft Word or compatible
  • Font: Arial, 10-point,      double-space
  • Citation Style: Your school’s preferred style      guide
  • Minimum 2 pages per task

Scenario

You are an information technology (IT) intern working for Health Network, Inc. (Health Network), a fictitious health services organization headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Health Network has over 600 employees throughout the organization and generates $500 million USD in annual revenue. The company has two additional locations in Portland, Oregon and Arlington, Virginia, which support a mix of corporate operations. Each corporate facility is located near a co-location data center, where production systems are located and managed by third-party data center hosting vendors. 

Company Products 

Health Network has three main products: HNetExchange, HNetPay, and HNetConnect.

HNetExchange is the primary source of revenue for the company. The service handles secure electronic medical messages that originate from its customers, such as large hospitals, which are then routed to receiving customers such as clinics.

HNetPay is a Web portal used by many of the company’s HNetExchange customers to support the management of secure payments and billing. The HNetPay Web portal, hosted at Health Network production sites, accepts various forms of payments and interacts with credit-card processing organizations much like a Web commerce shopping cart.

HNetConnect is an online directory that lists doctors, clinics, and other medical facilities to allow Health Network customers to find the right type of care at the right locations. It contains doctors’ personal information, work addresses, medical certifications, and types of services that the doctors and clinics offer. Doctors are given credentials and are able to update the information in their profile. Health Network customers, which are the hospitals and clinics, connect to all three of the company’s products using HTTPS connections. Doctors and potential patients are able to make payments and update their profiles using Internet-accessible HTTPS Web sites.

Information Technology Infrastructure Overview

Health Network operates in three production data centers that provide high availability across the company’s products. The data centers host about 1,000 production servers, and Health Network maintains 650 corporate laptops and company-issued mobile devices for its employees.

Threats Identified

Upon review of the current risk management plan, the following threats were identified:

· Loss of company data due to hardware being removed from production systems

· Loss of company information on lost or stolen company-owned assets, such as mobile devices and laptops

· Loss of customers due to production outages caused by various events, such as natural disasters, change management, unstable software, and so on

· Internet threats due to company products being accessible on the Internet

· Insider threats

· Changes in regulatory landscape that may impact operations 

Management Request

Senior management at Health Network has determined that the existing risk management plan for the organization is out of date and a new risk management plan must be developed. Because of the importance of risk management to the organization, senior management is committed to and supportive of the project to develop a new plan. You have been assigned to develop this new plan.

Additional threats other than those described previously may be discovered when re-evaluating the current threat landscape during the risk assessment phase.

The budget for this project has not been defined due to senior management’s desire to react to any and all material risks that are identified within the new plan. Given the company’s annual revenue, reasonable expectations can be determined.

  

Project Part 1 Task 2: Risk Assessment Plan

After creating an initial draft of the risk management plan, the second part of the assigned project requires you to create a draft of the risk assessment (RA) plan. To do so, you must:

  1. Develop an introduction to the plan      explaining its purpose and importance.
  2. Create an outline for the RA plan.
  3. Define the scope and boundaries for the RA      plan.
  4. Research and summarize RA approaches.
  5. Identify the key roles and      responsibilities of individuals and departments within the organization as      they pertain to risk assessment.
  6. Develop a proposed schedule for the RA      process.
  7. Create a professional report detailing the      information above as an initial draft of the RA plan.

Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics

  • Did the student demonstrate an      understanding of the competencies covered in the course relating to risk assessments?
  • Did the student include all important      components of a RA plan in the outline?
  • Did the student demonstrate good research,      reasoning, and decision-making skills in identifying key components and      methodologies?
  • Did the student create a professional,      well-developed draft with proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation?

D10

What are the common business problems addressed by Big Data analytics?  In the era of Big Data, are we about to witness the end of data warehousing? Why?

250-300 words with a minimum of 2-3 references in APA format

HomeWork

This week’s journal article was focused on how information and communication innovation drives change in educational settings. The key focus of the article was how technology-based leadership has driven the digital age.  Also, that the role of technology leadership incorporates with the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM).In this paper, address the following key concepts:

  1. Define TAM and the components.
  2. Note how TAM is impacting educational settings.
  3. Give an overview of the case study presented and the findings.

Be sure to use the UC Library for scholarly research. Google Scholar is also a great source for research.  Please be sure that journal articles are peer-reviewed and are published within the last five years.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.

The writing should be clear and concise.  Headings should be used to transition thoughts.  Don’t forget that the grade also includes the quality of writing.

Assignment

 Consider the data flow “octopus,” as shown in Figure 8.1. How can the analysis system gather data from all these sources that, presumably, are protected themselves? 

Week#3 Discussion

 

After reading this week’s article, and any other relevant research you locate, please discuss the following in your main post:.

  • Which case study in the paper was most interesting to you and why?
  • Do you think that ERM is necessary in the contemporary organization and why?