Topics/Course Competencies [1, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14]

• Adaptive Planning in the Agile Project Context
• The Science of Adaptation
• Responding to Change
• Adapting over Conforming
• Principle of Deferred Commitment
• Advanced Release Planning

Readings:

Highsmith: Chapters 7 and 8

Goodpasture: Chapters 5, 6, and 7

Meyer: Chapter 6

Assignment

This week’s Discussion Forum will ask you to correlate what you are studying in the texts with real life examples from the business or organizational world – including your personal experience(s).

Answer these Questions for this week’s Discussion Forum (200 word minimum):

1. Based on the readings for this week, what do you see as the Implications of Adapting over Conforming?

2. Review the front page of your local newspaper or the front page of the business section (online or hard copy). Try to identify at least one “project” that might have had a better outcome/result had it been focused on adapting versus conforming? (You can also use the Wall Street Journal, New York Times or Dallas Business Journal.)

for references: please use those book…

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Cyber Security and Risk Management

Read at least two (2) academically reviewed articles on Cyber Security and Risk Management and complete the following activities:

(Wikipedia articles will not be accepted. Professor may check originality of all posts. Avoid copy-and-paste.

1. Summarize the two (2) articles in 300 words or more. Please use your own words. No copy-and-paste

2. Base on your article review and the assigned reading, discuss the relationship between cyber security and risk management.

3. As an IT manager, discuss how you will use the concepts discussed in the four articles in the management of IT risks within your company.

More details on the attached file

Class: Native Americans & the Struggle to Be Heard

Essay topic: How did the economic development of America during the early national period impact native culture?

Essays should be 2-3 pages, typed, and double-spaced.

Required Readings:

Readings: First Peoples – Chapter 1 and Indian Slavery in Colonial America

Readings: First Peoples – Chapter 1-2

Readings: First Peoples – Chapter 2-3 and Indian Slavery in Colonia America

Readings: First Peoples – Chapter 4-5 and Indian Slavery in Colonia America

Book:

Gallay, Alan. Indian Slavery in Colonial America. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015) ISBN: 978-0-8032-6849-4

Circuit City was an American consumer electronics company founded by Samuel Wurtzel in 1949. By 1990s, Circuit City became the second largest consumer electronics store in the United States with annual sales of $12 billion. On March 8 2009, Circuit City shutdown all its stores.

On January 8th at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Circuit City CEO announced a comeback and relaunch of Circuit City into “a dynamic, a social-focused e-commerce site” and a new business strategy for its retail stores.

In this case study, assume that Circuit City hired you as the new chief information officer (CIO) to help relaunch the company into a global e-commerce multinational company. Create a PowerPoint presentation containing the IT strategic plan that will address Circuit City e-commerce initiatives.

The following information should be covered in the research project.

1. History of Circuit City

2. What were the issues and challenges that caused the collapse of Circuit City in 2009?

3. What are the issues and challenges with Circuit City 2018 latest e-commerce initiative?

4. Discuss the major competitors in global e-commerce.

5. How would IT deliver value to the business?

6. Proposed the IT infrastructure required to support global e-commerce

7. Proposed the IT budget for the e-commerce initiative

8. Discuss the IT based risks associated with global e-commerce

9. Discuss how IT can leverage innovative technologies such as social media, big data and business intelligence to provide value to the business

10. Discuss the future or emerging technologies

The following should be there in the research project template along with
TOC (Table of Contents), APA format, Introduction, problem statement, research question, Literature review, Methodology, Findings, Conclusion and references.

Please refer attached APA template and format. Content no need to be more than 12 page.