Category: information technology

Contrasting Quantitative and Qualitative Research: Philosophical Assumptions and Methodological Characteristics

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Compare and contrast the characteristics of quantitative and qualitative research, addressing the philosophical assumptions of both. Based on your review of the assigned readings, identify and describe what you believe to be meaningful about the qualitative research design and methodology.

Define and describe the context in which qualitative research is applicable.
Discuss the reasons for choosing a qualitative methodology.
List some subjects in which qualitative analysis is the methodology of choice.

Communication Strategies for Remote Teams in Different Locations

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Think about how communication plans and methods are affected when some project team members or stakeholders are in a different location.

Then, make a post that answers the following questions:

Have you been a part of a virtual team or do you have experience communicating with a virtual team? What methods did you use for communication? Were they successful? What were the challenges? Explain.

What strategies could be used when creating a communication plan for a remote or virtual team in a different city in the same time zone? Explain.

What strategies could be used when creating a communication plan for a remote or virtual team in a different country in a different time zone? Explain.

 

Enhancing Business Efficiency through Technology: A Comprehensive IT Solution for a Growing Bike Shop

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Instructions
This assignment requires familiarity with productivity software, computer hardware, and operating systems. These components are designed to fit together, and IT professionals must be able to evaluate and recommend an optimum combination of them to potential users.
Consider this scenario: A family-run bike shop is growing, but all of its data is currently on paper. This data includes expenses, sales, wages for workers, and so on. The shop owners want software to better organize and use this information, as well as information on how software could help as the store expands to new locations.
Research alternatives for operating systems, software, and hardware and make a recommendation to the shop owners that addresses the following:
• Compare the features of operating systems. o Be sure to consider both Mac and Windows operating systems, comparing the advantages and disadvantages of each for the bike shop. • Recommend productivity software for a specific business context. o The shop will need basic word processing and spreadsheet software. Given its growth, it will also need productivity software to keep track of expenses. In addition, the store will need to design posters, signs, and labels to highlight merchandise, promotions, sales, and special events. • Apply appropriate evidence to support a recommendation. o Return to the Undergraduate Information Technology Research Guide 5 list of IT industry resources, in addition to other resources found through research. Select authoritative evidence to support your comparisons and recommendations.

 

 

Potential Career/Internship Opportunities in Business Intelligence/Analytics

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Prepare a one-page Word document with your answers to the questions below. The response to requirement 1 should be about one-half to three-quarters of a page. The response to requirement 2 should be about one-quarter to one-half a page.
Requirement 1
Research potential career/internship opportunities that include business intelligence/analytics as a required skill. Find 3 job roles that you find intriguing. Review the job descriptions and requirements for the job roles that you found. Include the links to the job roles in your paper. Then answer the following questions:
1) What was interesting about the roles to you? Why?
2) What concerns you about the roles? Why?
3) What did you learn about roles in BI/Analytics from this exercise?

Requirement 2
Answer the following 2 questions regarding your learning from this course and how you will leverage what you have learned going forward:
1) What are 3 concepts that you learned in this course that you feel will be useful to you? Why?
2) How do you plan to use these concepts going forward? What resources do you plan to leverage to keep up with what is going on in the industry and/or to continue your learning?

 

Proposal for Enhancing Security Measures at ESL Inc.

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You have been hired as the new protection officer for ESL Inc. ESL Inc. has a large facility over 900 employees can be in at any given time. The organization has core hours from 8 AM to 6 PM but workers arrive at the organization as early as 6 AM and leave as late as 9 PM. The organization has 3 guards that work core hours only, posted at the front entrance to the building. Employees have badges that have their picture and key cards that let them in the building. The security guards open the door and check badges in the event a key card does not work. There is no security to prevent users from getting on the grounds, the front of the organization is off a major highway, and the back of the plant is backs up to acres of undeveloped woods. ESL Inc was just awarded a federal contract and after the site visit they were told they would lose the lucrative contract if they did not make their organization secure.

As the new protection officer you are to create a comprehensive proposal to make the facility secure which includes the following elements:

Develop a plan to for effective communications, and increase security awareness in the organization.

Case Study Analysis: The Rise of TalkingData

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Case Study 2 – Giving Data A Voice: The Rise of TalkingData
Q1 (5 points possible): What areas did TalkingData identify as potential areas to focus on in
order to expand its business going forward?
Q2 (5 points possible): Explain the concept of TDID. What is your opinion on the benefits of the
TDID concept? Are there any drawbacks? What impact did TDID have on BI/Analytics for
TalkingData?
Q3 (5 points possible): Do you think the current sensitivity around privacy, data protection and
confidentiality will have an impact on TalkingData? If so, how? If not, why not?
Q4 (5 points possible): What are 2-3 strengths of TalkingData? Why? What do you feel are 2-3
weaknesses of TalkingData? Why?
Overall Written Skills (5 points possible): Ensure your submission is effectively organized: for
each question, please include a header for each question’s response. Your paper should be
easy to follow and comprehend and be free from spelling and grammar errors.
Case Study 2 Assignment.doc

Research Project Design: Inverted Pyramid Approach

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Some research projects use an inverted pyramid data-collection strategy, with broad, quantitative measures gathered from a large population on top, narrowing to more intensive qualitative measures (focus groups, individual interviews) with a smaller subset of the population at the bottom.
Can you imagine applying this approach to your Research Project?
If the answer is “yes”, then describe briefly your inverted pyramid. Show what measures, sample size, and what research subjects you would use at each level of the design

If your answer is “no,” then design a research project that resembles such an inverted pyramid, still showing what measures, sample size, and what research subjects you would use at each level of the design, but applied to your “imaginary” project.

Leveraging Data to Enhance Cybersecurity: A Comprehensive Analysis

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You will conduct research and write and defend a detailed proposal for your paper including the statement of the problem, the research question and hypothesis statements, the unit of analysis, an overview of the current literature on the topic indicating the scope of the problem; the methodology for collecting primary or secondary data relevant to that problem and, in general, how you will analyze the data. The proposal will be presented to the class in the final week in the form of a narrated PowerPoint presentation. A sample of what will be required will be posted on Blackboard.
TOPIC

Proposal Is one page long

How can data help prevent cyber attacks

Essay 8 pages long