1. Is free trade a negative or a positive force for developing states? Why?
2. How does Iran differ with respect to the structure of its nondemocratic regime in comparison to contemporary China and Mexico during their periods of authoritarian rule? What about Iran makes it more or less likely to transition to a democracy than these cases?
Write an essay in which you made 5 predictions for future technology. For each, explain why you think each prediction will come to pass.
Your submitted work should be double-spaced, a maximum of three pages in length.
Using the Internet or Strayer University databases, research health care organizations / providers that have recently had a significant information technology failure, and complete this assignment.
Write a seven to eight (7-8) page paper in which you:
Determine the key factors contributing to the failure in question. Next, analyze how the failure impacted both the organization’s operations and patient information protection and privacy.
Analyze the leadership team’s reaction to the failure, and indicate whether the leadership took sufficient measures to deal with various stakeholder groups impacted by the failure. Provide support for the rationale.
Take a position on whether the health care provider that you identified should either develop a custom application or select a proprietary system. Provide support for the rationale.
Recommend at least three (3) best practices that any organization could adopt in order to avoid such a failure in the future. Provide support for the recommendation.
Suggest how health care leaders can use project metrics and portfolio management to ensure operational efficiency and effectiveness. Provide specific examples to support the response.
Analyze a government intervention into health care businesses, meant to ensure that health care and patient information is secure and thus to minimize information breaches and technology failures. Argue for or against such intervention. Support the position.
The final six- to eight-page paper will demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the course topics and concepts. The title of the paper will be “An e-Business Analysis of _____________.” The blank will be filled in with the name of a company you select that is doing business online. It can be a traditional brick-and-mortar company, or one that is completely online. The company can be in any of the four categories of e-commerce. The goal in writing the Final Paper is to demonstrate an ability to analyze a company based on the concepts presented in this course. The paper will discuss the following:
A thorough executive summary and an overview of the company, its history, background, and stage in the company life cycle
The need(s) the company addresses and the customers it pursues
The role of the Internet in strategy: business strategy, Information Systems Strategy (IS), Information and Communication Technology Strategy (ICT), and e-Commerce Strategy (EC)). Also, address the knowledge management strategies the company uses.
The online user types for this company and the e-commerce considerations.
Technological advantage of e-business to this company.
The impact of Internet regulation to e-business companies.
EC Metrics of an e-business company.
EC Security of an e-business company.
Limitations to Global e-commerce.
Using a company of your choice, determine the strategic business goals. Develop an IT strategy that aligns to the business goals. You can use the balanced scorecard approach or you can develop your own method for defining and aligning the IT strategy to the business strategy. You will need to cite at least two credible sources that will provide justification for your strategy or approach.
Finding a company: If you are employed, it is best for you to use your current place of employment so you can practically apply the concepts in this assignment. Alternatively, you can use a nonprofit organization or any other organization you may have ties or access to.
Your IT strategy should include:
Business Goals and Objectives
List at least two or three specific business goals for the next year or two with an explanation of the business’ rationale for the goal.
List an objective for each business goal to explain what the company needs to do to achieve the goal.
IT Strategies aligned with business goals and objectives
List one or two IT strategies for each business goal
These should be recommended strategies that would enable the business goals and objectives to be achieved.
If your company already has IT strategies, you may provide an analysis and justification or new recommendation for each of the strategies
Organizational Structure
Describe the structure of the organization including:
Organizational design
Organizational culture
Leadership factors (the types of leadership displayed within the company)
Business processes
Physical layout (i.e., how many offices, virtual offices, international locations)
Unit IV Essay Describe an important problem faced by society today. Provide your own analysis of the problem in terms of each of the elements of thought as defined by Paul and Elder. In addition, explain the three intellectual standards and three intellectual virtues that you believe are the most important for resolving the issue. In one paragraph at the end of your paper, reflect on your analysis of the problem that you selected in order to address the following questions: 1. Which of the five methods did you use to generate questions that lead to disciplined thinking? 2. Explain how you applied deep learning in your consideration of this problem. 3. How does your analysis differ from that of a minimalist student? Your response should be at least three pages in length, double spaced, and in Times New Roman 12pt. font. You are required to use at least your textbook and one scholarly article from any database within the CSU Online Library as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in APA format. The title and reference page do not count towards the threepage minimum.
Compilation
Summarize, in 3-4 pages, this assignment that provides information from Weeks 1 to 4.
In addition to the work you completed in the last four weeks, your assignment should also:
Include an introduction and a conclusion.
Implement the recommendations from the instructor.
Describe the role of nursing informatics.
Explain how nursing informatics or technology in health care will help or hinder your leadership.
Assignment Overview
A rapidly growing trend in the business world is the growth of virtual teams. Some companies are allowing teleworking, which means that more and more workers have to coordinate their activities with other team members through the phone or internet. Even among workers who are working from their office, more and more companies are having employees work in teams with employees who work at other locations who they may or may not have ever met in person. New technologies have been developed to help facilitate virtual teamwork, but challenges still remain.
Review the background materials and also do some research on virtual teams. Here are a few articles on virtual teams to get you started:
Garfoot, A. (2003, 05). The reality of virtual teams. IT Training,. 32-34. [Proquest]
Sadri, G., & Condia, J. (2012). Managing the virtual world. Industrial Management, 54(1), 21-25. [Proquest]
Rigby, R. (2013). How best to manage a virtual team. The Financial Times [Proquest]
When you are finished with your research, integrate what you learned in general about group dynamics in the background materials with more specific information you learned about virtual teams. Write a four to five page paper addressing the following issues:
How do you think the five stages of group development (forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning) will be different for virtual teams as compared to traditional teams? Discuss in regard to all five stages of group development as covered in Nair (2010) and Aswathappa (2010).
Do you think virtual teams will be more or less cohesive than traditional teams? Include a discussion of the issue of groupthink in your discussion, and use Nair (2010) and Aswathappa (2010) as your guide to the concepts of group cohesiveness and groupthink.
Overall, do you think virtual teams will perform better or worse than traditional teams? Explain your answer with references to the background readings.
Mikki Jag is a self-employed rock star who hires you as his new CPA to prepare his 2014 federal income tax returns, which are currently on extension. He explains that in 2014 he spent $10,000 on special “flashy” clothes and outfits for his rock concerts. Mikki would like to deduct the cost of these clothes as work-related because the clothes are not acceptable to his sense of fashion on a daily basis. He would like to know under what circumstances he can deduct the cost of these work clothes.
Instructions:
Please research the tax law and write Mikki a brief memo of no more than two pages, in which you communicate the results of your research. Use the format for communicating research findings discussed in the Learning Resources for Week 1: “Tax Research – Federal,” and “Locating Tax Authority,” as well as under “Syllabus and Course Schedule: Tax Research Assignment How to Complete” in the Course Content area of LEO.
Identify relevant statutory, administrative, and judicial authorities and discuss how these authorities affect your conclusion concerning the deductibility of Mikki Jag’s clothes.
*Remember: while IRS publications are useful as secondary sources, they are not primary sources that can be cited and relied upon in a tax research memorandum.
Your research assignment will be graded using the following criteria:
1. Recognition of the important facts and issues
2. Correct conclusion
3. Clarity of writing
4. Proper use of relevant sources to support your conclusion and analysis.
5. Proper citation of relevant sources
6. Proper format, spelling & grammar
For the Module 3 SLP you will be again be applying the concepts from the background materials to your own personal experiences. You can write about the same supervisor you wrote about in Modules 1 and 2, or choose a different supervisor that you worked with and got to know well.
Carefully review the concepts and definitions of charismatic, transformational, and transactional leadership. Then write a two to three page paper addressing the following issues using specific examples from your personal experiences:
Did your supervisor meet any of the characteristics of a charismatic leader as defined and discussed in the background readings?
Did your supervisor meet any of the characteristics of a transformational leader?
Did your su