Use the weighted score method to evaluate your alternatives using the criteria and weightings you have specified.

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Assignment 1 – Report

Worth: 20%

This is an INDIVIDUAL assignment

Submission instructions: You should submit your assignment via the ICT393 LMS site. You can receive email notification that your assignment has been received. Late submissions will be penalised at the rate of 5 marks per day late or part thereof unless prior approval for an extension has been gained.

You should submit the report as a Word document and ensure that you include your name in the document. You must keep a copy of the final version of your submission and be prepared to provide it on request.

The University treats plagiarism, collusion, theft of other students’ work and other forms of dishonesty in assessment seriously. Urkund will be used to report on potential plagiarism. For guidelines on honesty in assessment including avoiding plagiarism see http://our.murdoch.edu.au/Educational-technologies/Academic-integrity/

Background

Some organisations use very ad hoc approaches to selecting and acquiring software that may result in them not being aware of appropriate products, or in choosing non-optimal software. Using a systematic approach to software evaluation is important to ensure that software that meets organisational requirements.

Later this trimester you will analyse and model a business process from a real organisation and then design improvements to it. The modelling will be done using a visual modelling language for representing processes called BPMN 2.0 (see Topic 5). Undertaking business process modelling and improvement requires appropriate modelling software. This assessment is intended to give you practical experience with evaluating software and also with report writing to document the evaluation process.

To do

To successfully complete this assignment, you should:

  1. Read the Topic 8 material on software evaluation and acquisition. This will introduce you to the notions of evaluation criteria and the weighted score approach.
  2. Investigate criteria that might be important in making a decision about which modelling software package to recommend. You should consider what you will need to do to complete the modelling in the Business Process Management and also what has been written by others about selecting this kind of software.
  3. Choose the set of criteria to be used in the evaluation (note: there must be at least 6). You will need to justify the choice of each criterion in your report.
  4. Determine the relative importance of each of these criteria for choosing a tool to undertake the Business Process Management. The outcome of this will be a relative weighting for each criterion.
  5. Identify 3 possible modelling packages that support BPMN 2.0 – these will be your alternatives. Microsoft Visio must be one of them. You must be able to get access to all of them for the purposes of the evaluation – this could be by downloading a full copy (e.g. obtain Visio from Azure Dev Tools), obtaining a trial copy or getting permission to test it on someone else’s machine.
  6. Use the weighted score method to evaluate your alternatives using the criteria and weightings you have specified. An Excel spreadsheet should be used to support the evaluation and identify which product has the highest ranking. This should use the variation of the weighted score method that includes raw scores and final scores for each criterion (see Topic 8 slides).
  7. Determine which modelling software package you recommend.
  8. Create a report based on your evaluation. This must follow the specified structure (see below).

Format Guidelines

  1. Your report should be clearly written in language suitable for IT professionals to understand.
  2. Your report should be around 1500 words in length.
  3. Your report should have the following structure to ensure that it presents the information in a logical and useful way:
  • Title page, with a title that clearly reflects its contents.
  • Table of contents. This must be generated using the Word Table of Contents feature.
  • Introduction. This section should introduce the purpose of the report.
  • Criteria. This section should:
    • describe how you identified relevant criteria
    • provide a brief discussion of potential criteria
    • include your final set of criteria (note: there must be at least 6) and why each of them was chosen to include as important in the decision
  • Relative importance of criteria. This section should discuss and justify the relative importance of each criteria for choosing a tool to undertake the Business Process Management. It should include the percentage weighting of each criterion.
  • Modelling packages. This section should provide a brief description of each of the 3 candidate modelling packages modelling packages that support BPMN 2.0. Microsoft Visio should be one of them.
  • Evaluation. This section should briefly describe how you evaluated each software package on of the criteria in order to provide the data for the the weighted score method.
  • This section should include a table that documents the outcomes of the evaluation and be supported by a recommendation of which modelling software package is recommended based on the evaluation.
  • This should list all the resources you consulted in undertaking the evaluation and writing the report. These should be presented using APA referencing style. Your report should also include citations when you directly quote facts you have obtained from sources – but it is not intended to be an academic essay and should primarily be your work and words. See http://libguides.murdoch.edu.au/APA/ for information about how to reference your sources.

NOTE: Plagiarism is not acceptable. Urkund will be used to report on potential plagiarism.  Find out more about how to reference properly and avoid plagiarism at
http://our.murdoch.edu.au/Student-life/Study-successfully/Referencing-and-citing/

The overall distribution of marks will be:

  • Introduction (5 marks)
  • Criteria (20 marks)
  • Relative importance of criteria (15 marks)
  • Modelling packages (15 marks)
  • Evaluation (20 marks)
  • Recommendation (15 marks)
  • Report structure and presentation (10 marks)

 

Create an organization chart (use Visio or Dia) which illustrates the roles that will be required to ensure the design, evaluation, implementation, and management of security programs for the organization.

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Part 1: Organization Chart

Create an organization chart (use Visio or Dia) which illustrates the roles that will be required to ensure the design, evaluation, implementation, and management of security programs for the organization.

Within your organizational chart, clearly identify the reporting structure for roles such as IT Security Compliance Officer, Security Manager, CIO, CISO, IT Security Engineer, Privacy Security Professional, and IT Procurement Specialist.

List the types of resources required to fulfill each forensic duty of the organization below each of the roles you identified.

Align your organization chart to reflect the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Essential Body of Knowledge’s three areas of information security: physical security professional, privacy professional, and procurement professional.

Provide comments and comparisons on how your organizational chart fosters these three values.

Use three sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment. For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides.

Part 2: Request for Proposal (RFP) Plan

Develop a Request for Proposal (RFP) plan to solicit qualified vendors that could partner with your internal team to deliver optimum IT service delivery.

The RFP Plan should contain qualifying criteria of potential vendors and the responsibilities of the vendor once the contract is awarded.

As part of the plan, you must:

Describe at least two perspectives that need to be closely monitored within the contract.

Give your perspective on at least two methods that could be used to evaluate and develop a qualified trusted supplier list.

Use three sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment. For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides.

Part 3: Physical Security Plan

Recommend a physical security plan that could be used to protect sensitive areas such as telecom rooms, employee-only areas, and manufacturing facilities in which you include at least three specific methods.

Use three sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment. For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides.

Part 4: Enterprise Information Security Compliance Program

Establish an enterprise information security compliance program that addresses the concerns of the board of directors of the organization in which you describe specific plans and control objectives that could be adopted to address the known issues.

Suggest at least three information security policies that could be developed and practiced within the organization for data security assurance.

Outline the steps you would take to define the security needs of the organization in terms of duties, staffing, training, and processes.

Part 5: Risk Management Plan

Develop a risk management plan in which you describe at least three possible risk management efforts that could be used to assess threats and unknown issues.

Determine why defining priorities is an important part of the process when enumerating and having efficient risk control measures.

Suggest specific technical and management controls that could be enacted in order to monitor risks accurately.

Use three sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment. For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides.

How [does] the racial diversity impact workplace behavior

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How [does] the racial diversity impact workplace behavior

Write a 500-word paper that defines, compares, and contrasts the Ross and Kimball approaches to data warehousing.

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Write a 500-word paper that defines, compares, and contrasts the Ross and Kimball approaches to data warehousing.  Include the characteristics of the data warehouses as output of each approach. Provide five references within the paper and cite at least two within your writing.

Give an example of how a distinction between the novel and the romance is central to one of the novels you have studied.

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Answer the questions relating to the extract below. READ the extract carefully and the Patrick Parrinder Nation and the novel 2008 novel.

Question 1) Summarise Parrinder’s argument as to how the novel differs from the romance. What does he mean when he suggests that ‘all attempts to separate the novel from folk tales and romances depend on the novel’s identification with rationality and modernity? (400 WORDS)

Question 2) Give an example of how a distinction between the novel and the romance is central to one of the novels you have studied. (INCLUDE AN ARGUMENT) (600 WORDS)

EXTRACT:

Patrick Parrinder, Nation and the Novel (2008)

What is important in the present context is the way in which the distinction between the novel and the romance has shaped European literary and cultural history, for it was this belief that brought ‘the novel’ into being. Without it, whether or not there were individual novels, the novel as an institution could not exist. In England the distinction was first formulated in the late seventeenth century. William Congreve, the dramatist and occasional author of prose fiction, wrote in his preface to Incognita (1692) that romances are ‘generally composed of the constant loves and invincible courage of heroes, heroines, kings and queens, mortals of the first rank, and so forth’; they are characterized by ‘lofty language, miraculous contingencies, and impossible performances’. Novels, by contrast, are of a ‘more familiar nature’. One hundred and thirty years later Walter Scott distinguished between romance plots, with their ‘marvelous and uncommon incidents’, and the novel which is ‘accommodated to the ordinary train of human events, and the modern state of society’. The distinction is not as clear-cut as these critics have wished to suggest, since virtually all novels contain romance elements such as coincidence, extremes of good and bad fortune, and a manifest moral significance in events. The keyword of Scott’s definition is, in fact, ‘modern’; all attempts to separate the novel from folk tales and romances depend on the novel’s identification with rationality and modernity. To anyone who is troubled by the restrictiveness of Congreve’s and Scott’s definitions, we should simply say: for ‘novel’ read ‘modern novel’. […]

Folk-tale and fairy-tale heroes are always the same, no matter how often their stories are told, but a novel must be novel just as today’s newspaper (also a seventeenth-century innovation) must differ from yesterday’s. Characters in novels ‘live and die once—in their novel’. The story that each novel tells is a new one, however neatly it fits an established pattern.

  • Include an argument.
  • INCLUDE QUOTATIONS TO YOUR POINT
  • Provide a brief introduction and conclusion
  • Include Harvard referencing and bibliography

Please use sources and include reference to this specific extract

  • Please answer the questions separately

Novels to relate to in the questions: QUESTION 2 Argument

(choose 1 or 2 novels to include)

  1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  2. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
  3. The rise of fictionality Bye Catherine Gallagher
  4. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  6. Great expectations By Charles Dickens
  7. Middlemarch By George Eliot
  8. Benedict Anderson cultural roots

 

 

Reflect on how Formative feedback in ESL must be used to facilitate High Quality Teaching and Learning?

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A critical reflection on how Formative feedback in ESL must be used to facilitate High Quality Teaching and Learning?

Create an incident response and disaster recovery plan for a healthcare.

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Write a research paper (8-10 pages double spaced) that focuses on creating an incident response and disaster recovery plan for a healthcare or telecommunications entity. Pay particular attention creating a business impact analysis and a contingency plan.

Utilize critical thinking to identify the problem or issue. Determine whether the potential threat needs to be addressed utilizing creative thinking or if maintaining the status quo will suffice.

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Instructions
You are a division vice-president of a major high-end clothing retail chain. The products in your stores are tailored specifically for each customer. Logic seems to point toward the fact that the individualized attention, personal measuring process, and personal tailoring would insulate your organization from online competition. However, some in the organization are beginning to sound alarms that technology is catching up, and that your organization needs to examine its strategy. The CEO has put you in charge of a committee charged with investigating the claims of the employees.

Analyze this situation by addressing the following.
Utilize critical thinking to identify the problem or issue.
Determine whether the potential threat needs to be addressed utilizing creative thinking or if maintaining the status quo will suffice.

Develop arguments in favor of your proposed solution.
Utilize the textbook and at least one additional outside source for support.

Please format your paper utilizing APA style. This paper should be a minimum of three pages in length not counting the title page or reference page.

How did inter-generational tensions, household dynamics, and/or family networks contribute to the expansion of Christianity in the Roman Empire?

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Info – Focus should be on lively debates in the study of late antiquity. Essay should be on the Christianisation of the Roman Empire with special attention to households, family dynamics, and family networks. he long transition from the unified Roman Empire to the fragmented post-Roman order (second to seventh centuries) involved important and far-reaching social and cultural shifts, and the rise of Christianity was one of the most decisive.

Please be sure to only use the sources attached and use almost all the sources (at least 70%)

Provide a brief overview of each article, its intended audience, and its purpose.

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Literature Review Assignment Instructions

In this assignment you are required to submit a 500-600 word review of the three articles “The Magic of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy – In Search of the Genie’s Lamp in Multicultural Education” by Nawang Phuntsong, “Transforming Practice in Urban Schools” by Etta Hollins and “The EPIC Leadership Development Program Evaluation Report”. These articles can be found attached.

Please write no more than 600 words in this paper.  The front matter (title page and abstract page) and the back matter (References Cited, Appendices, etc) do not count towards word limit.  All three articles should be concisely reviewed within this paper.  Please do NOT write three separate papers.  Try and use the overall theme of the week as a loosely overarching theme of your paper.

Include the following elements in your critique:

  1. Summary – Provide a brief overview of each article, its intended audience, and its purpose.
  2. Critique – Analyze the article’s strengths and weaknesses providing evidence to support your opinions.
  3. Reflection – Explain various ways that you could incorporate the ideas expressed in the articles into your teaching methods. Also, explain how the ideas demonstrate Christian principles in teaching.

 

Format the reviews in current APA style and refer to the Literature Review Grading Rubric(attached) for the specific grading criteria.

 

Note: Please avoid using passive voice when writing. Avoid words below:

be being been am is
are was were been has
have had do did does
can could shall should will
would might must may

*Any passive writing will result in an automatic revision.