Many organizations have now adopted or begun to offer cloud computing. This type of computing has advantages and disadvantages that may vary from organization to organization.

Select two (2) organizations in which you are interested, and use the Internet and Strayer Library to research the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing for the selected organizations. Use the Internet to research the characteristics of organizations most likely to use cloud computing.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. Determine whether or not there are definite characteristics of organizations that are more likely to use cloud computing than other organizations. Provide a rationale for your response.
2. Examine the major advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing for the two (2) selected organizations. Recommend whether or not each of the selected companies should use cloud computing. Provide a rationale for your response.
3. Determine whether or not government agencies such as the National Security Agency (NSA) or Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) would be good candidates for cloud computing. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze the types of organizational and computer architectures for integrating systems.
• Compare and contrast the types and role of distributed software architecture.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in enterprise architecture.
• Write clearly and concisely about Advanced Computer Architecture topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

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Written Assignment guidelines

Discuss the strategies a mentor can implement to support an underperforming learner. (1500 words limit)

These areas mentioned below must be addressed in your essay. Please take particular note on the bold/ highlighted areas.

• Explore how the mentor determines that a learner is ‘underperforming’.
• Appraise the potential difficulties associated with mentoring the underperforming learner.
• Evaluate the timing and content of feedback that the underperforming learner should be given.
• Who should the mentor involve when identifying objectives and planning interventions?
• Discuss how the objectives identified for the learner must be documented.
• Critically discuss the approaches the mentor might employ to facilitate student learning so that the learner develops the requisite competence.
• Critically discuss what would signify that the learner has successfully achieved what is required.

You must address accountability in relation to decision-making about learner achievement.

1500 word limit.

Appendices must be used appropriately and essential information placed within the text. Appendices, reference lists, tables and figures are not included in the word count.

Relevant literature should be used throughout to support your work.

Note:  Because you are not required to explore your own experience, this essay should be presented in the third-person .

Countries have imposed international laws in their own ways based around many factors. Such factors include social status, religion, economy, and more. Many enterprise organizations have ways of coping with international laws, yet most are under scrutiny of the countries.

For further assistance in understanding how companies are dealing with these types of laws, use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) as an example of how a worldwide company conducts business across the globe.

Write a (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. Identify at least five (5) IT-related laws and regulations that affected HP in its Asian, European, and U.S. Operations. Analyze why these laws affected HP.
2. Determine the impact of the three (3) most controversial laws and analyze how they affected HP operationally and financially.
3. Analyze the ethical issues that organizations, such as HP, might face when operating internationally. Determine how these issues could impact an organization and recommend the risk management strategies to mitigate the impact of these issues.
4. Suggest at least three (3) ways individual organizations can reduce the necessity of these scrutinized laws and regulations without disturbing the balanced structure of other laws.
5. Evaluate the equality of the scrutinized laws discussed in this assignment compared to other more globally accepted laws across countries. Provide an example to support your response.
6. Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Identify compliancy laws, standards, best practices, policies, and ethical issues of risk management.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in IT risk management.
• Write clearly and concisely about topics related to IT risk management using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions

Week 5 Discussion Question

In working out your responses to the Discussion Question, you should choose examples from your own experience or find appropriate cases on the Web which you can discuss. You will receive credit for references you make to relevant examples from real companies. Please make sure that you cite and reference all your outside sources properly, as per the Harvard Referencing System.

Many organisations have a well-defined and well-scoped strategic process. Frequently this process is augmented by a broader idea capture which provides insights and suggestions for the tactics associated with the implementation of the overall strategy. What is recognised, however, is that regardless of the process which is used to set strategy, the critical challenge is the actual execution of that strategy. Indeed, as is widely recognised, weakness in execution, not weakness in strategy, is a primary reason for CEO failure. Knowing this, it is important to tie the strategic theory governing the business to the experience of project management. Without this linkage, either the project portfolio ignores the needs of the business or the strategic goals are empty, with no support at the executive level. It is clear that this is an area which businesses must get right for long-term success.

Strategy needs to come before portfolio ranking and selection. In order to select the right set of projects, strategic goals must be defined in advance. Furthermore, the strategic goals should ideally be relatively limited. Having a small number of goals helps to keep the goals memorable and at the necessary high level, thus avoiding the blurring of strategic goals with the tactics for their implementation. Of course, the process of linking projects to strategic goals is critical. If the projects an organisation undertakes do not reflect its strategy, then what does? It is much less likely that operational work has a strategic impact relative to projects, which are more likely to create some level of change within the organisation.

Though the strategic goal definition must come before project selection, it must not be rushed. Selecting the right strategy is imperative for defining a portfolio which will have a strong impact on the future of the organisation. A poor strategy which is executed flawlessly is still a failure.

Linking projects to strategic goals, however, is only one step in the ranking and evaluation process for a project portfolio. The most important projects are the ones which provide the most business value. Business value, measured using a variety of means, might be a way to create more customers, retain the ones you have, or create a new market altogether. It is important that value is clearly defined and assessed, and that the organisation uses analytical techniques which are thoroughly defined and accepted throughout the organisation. It might be a way to release products faster, to make more money on support, or to spend less money on support. Business value will be unique for your organisation and your projects.

In the ranking process, however, there are some common approaches (detailed in the supplemental articles for this week) which corporations have found to work. The ranking process should be standard across the corporation, so that ‘apples are compared to apples’. Another approach is to have the ranking process involve collaboration across the organisation, so that not just one individual or organisation makes the decisions. These and other approaches are essential to ensure buy-in from the organisation to the overall results.

For this week, discuss the following questions:

1. Assess and explain the advantages and disadvantages of the different methods for evaluating projects and rank portfolios. Discuss how project evaluations can be used to make decisions on individual projects—especially in the termination of projects.
2. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the methodology outlined in the Sharpe and Keelin article. How were these individuals able to gain buy-in to the approach which they used for this portfolio evaluation within the SmithKline-Beecham organisation?

JIT Manufacturing

In the discussion of TPS, the concept of value that was introduced in Week 1 is brought to your attention once again. From this context, respond to the following:

 

• Explain how JIT manufacturing (of which TPS is an example) or the broader concept of Lean production is related to the concept of providing value in the eyes of the customer.
• Give two examples (other than Toyota) of companies that use the Lean or JIT philosophies and cite the sources from which you learned about their Lean or JIT efforts.
• Describe any improvement of productivity or efficiency that was identified in the sources that you cite.

PRODUCT INNOVATION

Develop a written proposal outlininga specific product or service idea you have forTriangle Solutions. Triangle’scompany type and product area have been left unspecified in order to allow you creativity in invention of your own product ideas and exploration of areas of interest in the market.You may not use the same area or idea used in previous assignments.

Part 1: Proposal

Your professional proposal should describe a new product idea in detail, giving brief consideration to the feasibility of the following categories:

• the industry
• market size
• team requirements
• scalability of product
• financials (whether or not the product can be sold for more than it costs to make it—profit potential)

Your product idea must pass feasibility tests for it to be a viable product idea.Future class assignments will further investigate each of these areas in greater depth and will build from the information you identify and deliver within this assignment.

Part 2:Subsidiary Company

Then, provide the strategy to be employedto getideas implemented internally, or describe the reasons whya product idea should be spun off into a new subsidiary company owned by Triangle Solutions. Important aspects of this outline are as follows:

• the practical definition of the multidisciplinary team that the product idea requires
• describing the different types of team members needed and their respective skill sets
• where one would find them for an intrapreneurial versus entrepreneurial approach.

Stand-Alone Project: Managing the Legal Aspects of Establishing and Operating a Business

You should begin working on the Stand-Alone Project early in the course. Each assignment provides a benchmark for completing the Stand-Alone Project in a timely manner while working through the course. You will find this information in the “Stand-Alone Project Benchmark” section of each assignment.

Instructions: This project requires you to think critically and analytically about the legal aspects of forming and operating a business. You will apply the legal concepts in this course to the practical aspects of conducting business. You are expected to research the information on these topics in order to gain a broader knowledge of how others are handling these issues. Your writing style should be professional, logical, and clear.

In preparation for your work on this Stand-Alone Project, we will begin with some background material on the business with which you are involved and for which you will manage the legal aspects of its establishment and operation. You and two former employees of GoSoftware have developed a software program to address a variety of human resource needs, from hiring, to compliance with legal rules, to termination. You want to establish a business to market and license this program and develop others. You have a few programmers who are working on a contract basis, but you want to hire them as employees and add more workers in the future. You are seeking investments from venture capitalists in exchange for an ownership interest in the business. Your Stand-Alone Project responses should be both grammatically and mechanically correct, and formatted in the same fashion as the project itself. If there is a Part A, your response should identify a Part A, etc. In addition, you must appropriately cite all resources used in your response and document in a bibliography using APA style. (300 points) (A 20-page response is required.)

Part A

Groundwork for the Business: Address the following basic elements of business formation. (119 points)

1.    Develop an idea/vision for the business.  (11 points)

2.    Identify and define two (2) legal and two (2) regulatory issues to consider when establishing this business.  (36 points)

3.    Select at least four (4) professionals on whom to rely for business advice.  List the types of professionals you would choose, discuss why you would choose them, list at least three (3) methods you could use to select them, and describe the roles you would expect each of these professionals to play in connection with the business.  (30 points)

4.    Select a specific legal entity for your business.  Discuss the possible choices and explain why you chose your particular legal entity over the others.  (42 points)

Part B

Contract Letter to Legal Counsel (91 points)

1.    Identify four (4) types of suppliers and three (3) business customers with which the organization will be contracting.  (39 points)

2.    Prepare a letter to the organization’s legal counsel identifying the criteria he or she should utilize in developing standard contracting language for your organization when dealing with a specific supplier or business customer.  Include at least the following in your letter.  (52 points)

a.    Performance Specifications: Describe the basic elements of what is to be provided under the contract, such as product specifications, description of services, project deliverables, etc.  (16 points)

b.    Terms and Conditions: Address the basic elements of how the parties will work together, including payment, timing, contact information, etc.  (16 points)

c.    Dispute Resolution: Describe the method(s) to be used to resolve disputes arising under the agreement.  Should a dispute resolution be included?  (20 points)

Part C

Liability Assessment Letter to Legal Counsel: To enable legal counsel to recommend how to protect the business, identify and assess at least three (3) likely risks in each of the following legal areas arising from the operations of the business. In the letter you write, ask legal counsel to address the risks you have identified. (90 points)

• Lists the factors that contributed towards Sarah’s attitude regarding her curfew and how did these factors contribute.
• Explains the ways Sarah displays cognitive dissonance.
• Describes the situations that Sarah conforms to her peers’ beliefs and how. Explains some possible reasons that Sarah did this.
• Explains some possible reasons that Jack was interested in Sarah and how these relate to the factors of attraction.
• Describes the type of social interaction that was displayed through the fight at the party and how this social interaction affects others at the party.

Explains how Sarah’s behavior was influenced by others throughout the night

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