Information System

In Chapter 2 of ISMG (Module 1) you read about strategy and technology. In this module, in Chapters 9, 10 of ISMG, you learned that there are several enterprise systems / software. You also read about the concepts of cloud computing and open source software.For the “Discussion 2 Forum”, read the scenario below and answer the question:”Imagine that you are an IT / IS manager in an organization. Your organization is planning to implement a new ERP system. You have two options – a cloud based solution offered by a reputed vendor and an open source product used by many competitors. You are responsible for making the decision. Which one will you choose and why? Provide at least three specific reasons to justify your choice.”Support your answer with appropriate sources as needed.(Note: References will not be counted in the word count, you can use any format MLA / APA. See the supporting guide on how to add citations in Word document in Module 2 if needed).

In this project, you will create a professional presence on LinkedIn (a professional social media network that is widely used by professionals and employers in most industries). If your profession or personal beliefs prevent you from establishing a LinkedIn site, ask about an alternative to building a live LinkedIn profile. As part of this project, you will conduct research into your present or desired industry, you will create a branding statement, and finally, create or revise an existing LinkedIn profile, using what you have learned about the industry and yourself.My desired Industry is Information TechnologyNow that you’ve analyzed the situation, you can start on your branding statement.Step 1: Engage in Analysis and ReflectionYou now know your assignment, but before you get started, take a few minutes to think about a strategy for success. Watch the See Yourself in a New Career Video for some inspiration and ideas.For background information, read Professional Use of Social Media and LinkedIn on the Using LinkedIn resource page.Are you seeking to advance in your current field? Are you changing fields? Where are you right now in your career? Where do you want to be? Will you be seeking a new position in your field or will you need to seek opportunities for getting experience in a new field? What are your goals and objectives? What particular positions do you want, and what is your time frame for obtaining them? For example, you might ask yourself “Why am I pursuing a graduate degree?”Next, answer the question: What’s the market like in the industry or field in which you’d like to apply your degree? Is the demand for employees increasing, decreasing, or remaining steady? Does the geographic region play a role? Does specialization within the field matter? Use the UMUC library to locate journal articles, books, and other sources that will enable you to identify information about your industry or field. You can refer to the Project 2 information on Business Research.Finally, you need to think about what’s competition like? Who are the other competitors seeking positions in this profession? Who are the primary competitors for employment and upward mobility in this field? Can you identify particular individuals who are your main competition (which will be the case if you are competing internally). How do you compare to these competitors? What do you need to do to become more competitive? Look at Competitor Analysis for some guidance on these issues.STEP 2See Branding Statements for some resources and tips to create your statement. Draft a personal branding statement of 200 words or less. Edit for clarity and conciseness. It should be error-free as the representation of you!STEP 3Next, you will create or revise a LinkedIn page.Now that you’ve analyzed the situation, you can start on your branding statement.

You are in networking at a large international company. Your company recently decided to implement a cross-training initiative and you have been selected to give a presentation to an audience of non-networking professionals working at various departments in your company.Your presentation must be clear and concise enough to convey technical information to professionals who have a limited understanding of how networking actually works. However, it must also be accurate enough that your audience can understand how their company roles (such as scheduling resource-hogging reports, allowing contractors access to the system, and setting the hours international customers can place orders on your company’s system) can impact the company’s network, particularly in terms of security.You decide to use the OSI model to explain the fundamental characteristics and components of networks because it is visual and presents the complexity of network communication in 7 layers.Draft your speaker notes to hand off to an assistant who will turn your notes into a graphic-rich presentation. Each of your answers should be about 150-250 words long.Note: Your assignment is to draft speaker notes. Do not create a presentation and do not write a paper.1. Overview of Networking and SecurityYou decide to begin your presentation by providing your audience an overview of networking, with an emphasis on security and why it is important for all company roles to assist in securing the company’s network.Discuss the potential security risks for each layer of the OSI model and the risks in each of the following:· Distributed vs. centralized computer systems and why your department chose to be distributed/centralized· Different network topologies and why your department chose the topology it did· Why standards bodies are essential in networking and how your department complies with standards· The importance of communication protocols and which one(s) your department chose· The differences between LAN, WAN, and wireless technologies, and how your department incorporated each· The responsibilities associated with providing telecommunications services such as security, privacy, reliability, and performanceClick or tap here to enter your speaker notes.2. Routing and SwitchingDescribe basic routing and switching in the context of the OSI model (i.e., in which layer routing, switching, and cabling occur). To underscore your department’s commitment to achieving 24/7 availability, describe 3 strategies your department uses to ensure the availability of network access in switched and routed networks.Click or tap here to enter your speaker notes.3. Effective Security PolicyDescribe at least 3 characteristics of an effective security policy, emphasizing the ways in which all departments in the company are responsible for helping secure the company network.Click or tap here to enter your speaker notes.4. Security StrategiesExplain strategies your department used to build security directly into the design of your company network.Click or tap here to enter your speaker notes5. MalwareDefine malware in layperson-friendly language and identify at least 2 strategies your department has put into place to protect your company’s network against malware.Click or tap here to enter your speaker notes.6. ClosingSummarize your presentation.Click or tap here to enter your speaker notes.

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:Research how to identify the IP address of your computer. After you have identified the IP address of your computer, share the URL of the resource that you found most useful in figuring out how to find your own IP address. What other details about your computer’s network connection, if any, did you learn while locating your device’s IP address? Note: If your computer is behind a firewall (which it may be if, for example, you’re using a computer at a public library or your place of work), your computer will be associated with two IP addresses: an internal IP address and an external, or public, IP address generated by the firewall.

To help you understand the design challenges and issues in mobile apps development.Topic of DiscussionOver the last ten years, mobile devices technology has changed significantly and becoming a necessity to human being. These developments have led to a huge variety of mobile applications to improve the quality of life. These mobile applications are typically harder to design and build because of several issues. Discuss TWO (2) issues in designing a mobile app with examples.Submission InstructionsPost your responses, examples, ideas, and discussions on this topic on the blackboard.You must write at least ONE original post and at least four respond commenting on the posts uploaded by your classmates.

 To facilitate cultural assimilation, IT and non-IT must become more integrated.  What are some strategies to implement to allow this type of interaction to occur?  300 words.

Discussion and exercises:Chapter 5:· Discussion 1: What is an artificial neural network and for what types of problems can it be used?· Discussion 2: Compare artificial and biological neural networks. What aspects of biological networks are not mimicked by artificial ones? What aspects are similar?· Discussion 3: What are the most common ANN architectures? For what types of problems can they be used?· Discussion 4: ANN can be used for both supervised and unsupervised learning. Explain how they learn in a supervised mode and in an unsupervised mode.· Exercise 6: Go to Google Scholar (scholar.google.com). Conduct a search to find two papers written in the last five years that compare and contrast multiple machine-learning methods for a given problem domain. Observe commonalities and differences among their findings and prepare a report to summarize your understanding.Chapter 6· Discussion 1: What is deep learning? What can deep learning do that traditional machine-learning methods cannot?· Discussion 2: List and briefly explain different learning paradigms/ methods in AI.· Discussion 3: What is representation learning, and how does it relate to machine learning and deep learning?· Discussion 4: List and briefly describe the most commonly used ANN activation functions.· Discussion 5: What is MLP, and how does it work? Explain the function of summation and activation weights in MLP-type ANN.· Exercise 4: Cognitive computing has become a popular term to define and characterize the extent of the ability of machines/computers to show “intelligent” behavior. Thanks to IBM Watson and its success on Jeopardy!, cognitive computing and cognitive analytics are now part of many real- world intelligent systems. In this exercise, identify at least three application cases where cognitive computing was used to solve complex real-world problems. Summarize your findings in a professionally organized report.Your paper should meet these requirements:· Minimum 5 pages length, not including the required cover page and reference page. Also do not include questions, just number and the answer.· 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.

How Will You Measure Your Life?This is by necessity an individual project. Two of the key learning objectives for this course are to 1) learn about individual behavior and 2) learn about interpersonal behavior. One subcomponent of interpersonal behavior is leadership. And yet one of the most difficult people to learn to lead is oneself; what I refer to as “that guy or girl that we see in the mirror every morning.”As leaders of organizations, we frequently participate in strategic planning wherein, we document the organization’s values, purpose, mission, and strategy. In this project, you will reflect upon and document your personal values. You will think about your purpose and propose a mission. You will develop a life and career strategy based on your own strengths and weaknesses. We will effectively answer for each of ourselves, the question that Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen asked of the HBS class of 2010, “How will you measure your life (Links to an external site.)?”The good news is that there are no wrong answers because only you can answer these questions for yourself. However, the bad news is that nobody can give you the answers either. Your grade on this project will be based on the level of thought that you put into it. This type of reflection can positively affect the trajectory of your career and your life. You will get out of it, only what you put into it. Carpe Diem!Essay format with text of 4-5 Pages, Double Spaced, 12 point font.Rubric:MGMT 5113How Will You Measure Your LifeGrading RubricOverviewThe HWYMYL project is the first and often the most popular assignment in MGMT 5113. It is an assignment that students prepare individually. Students are assigned to apply strategic planning concepts to their careers and personal lives.The assignment is usually 4-5 pages in length. However, there is not a hard and fast rule on the length of the paper. Rather the focus of the grader should be on how well the student applies the specific concepts presented in the assigned reading and videos.Students are assigned to:Read the HBS article, “How will you measure your life?”Document 4-6 core values.Write a statement of purpose.Write a mission statement.Perform a SWOT analysis.Based upon the student’s vision (values, purpose & mission) and their SWOT analysis, they should develop a life strategy that includes Objectives, aka SMART Goals.Document how they will measure their progress going forward.The paper includes 4 – 6 core values that are such that the values are likely to never change; i.e. not dependent on technology, the economy etc.+ / -The paper includes a statement of purpose that is such that it could potentially last the person their entire life.+ / -The paper includes a mission statement such that it can be clearly evaluated whether or not it has been achieved by the date indicated; i.e. has a clear finish line.+ / -The paper includes an analysis of the student’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT). Note that the strengths should meet Marcus Buckingham’s definition in that they are not simply something the person is good at. Strengths are activities that make the person feel stronger.+ / -The paper includes specific Objectives that meet with definition of a SMART Goal; i.e. specific, measurable, attainable, results oriented, time-bound.+ / -The student has indicated what type of Measurement System that they will use to track their progress toward their Mission+ / -There is a particular consistent theme between the different components of the student’s submission; i.e. innovation, adventurousness, conservatism, frugality etc. The particular theme is not as important as the fact that there is a consistency between the different components that indicates a coherent strategy.+ / –

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:The most frequently used measures of central tendency for quantitative data are the mean and the median. The following table shows civil service examination scores from 24 applicants to law enforcement jobs:83 74 85 7982 67 78 7018 93 64 2793 98 82 7868 82 83 9996 62 93 58Using Excel, find the mean, standard deviation, and 5-number summary of this sample.Construct and paste a box plot depicting the 5-number summary.Does the dataset have outliers? If so, which one(s)?Would you prefer to use the mean or the median of this dataset’s measure of central tendency? Why?

Read and critically analyze this week’s assigned readings related to considerations within the IoT field. Select a technical challenge, issue, consideration, or another topic from this week’s readings, or from last week’s research, that is an open research question that requires additional research to address. Write a problem statement in which you address the items below.What is the problem that should be addressed with additional research (i.e., what is going wrong)? Support the existence of the problem with at least three recent references.What is the impact of the problem? That is, how are the victims (field of study, researchers, practitioners, industry, civilians, etc.) negatively affected by the problem, when is the problem evident, and where does the issue exist or become obvious? Provide an example of the problem in action or as experienced by those affected by it. Support the impact of the problem with at least three recent references.Why does the problem exist? Discuss the conceptual basis, the nature of the problem, and outline of the problem as defined by the literature. Support the underlying cause of the problem with at least three recent peer-reviewed references.Length: 5-7 pages, not including title and reference pagesReferences: At least 5 scholarly peer-reviewed sources in addition to the assigned readings for this weekYour paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.