Essays on Business Needs

I. Physical Network Design

Introduction

A. Network Topology Business Needs In order to complete the needed full-time assignment efficiently and effectively, the University of Maryland University College will need a system in addition to tools to help the student attain their objectives. This entails new office space, a library, classrooms and computer labs will be able to achieve this capacity and optimize student learning potential

Proposed Topology

In order to plan for the facility of the network, I am proposing a star network topology for the facilities networking. This kind of network infrastructure is considered expensive due to numerous network devices that ...

A & F Ltd.: Integrating Learning into Mashup Implementations

I. Introduction Organizations are learning differently. Compared to a conventional model by which individuals, work groups and whole organizations used to learn new business processes, current business practice has opened up new potentials for company-wide learning enabled by ICT platforms and applications. The growing collaboration, communication and sharing learning (and fun) experiences in current business practice is, indeed, both evolutionary and revolutionary. The learning behavior of operating businesses is evolutionary by phasing out older modes of learning (e.g. formal professional development, meetings and water cooler chats) and implementing similar platforms and applications (e.g. interactive, collaborative, user-friendly wikis). Thus, by ...

Abstract

The report below examines data gathering and analysis for network design and implementation. It presents the two major reasons for data gathering and analysis, which are descriptive and predictive. It also discusses the data gathering process involved for the networking project. In this case, the selected data gathering and collecting tools selected are questionnaires and interviews. These are two highly inexpensive and effective data collection tools that find use in the gathering of large amounts of data. The report also discusses the different stakeholders the data will be gathered from. These will include employees, system users, top-level management, and ...

Introducing Azure

Overview The paper aims at expressing the need for employing different business intelligence tools to help solve diverse business challenges. To achieve the study objective, the paper outlines how Azure can be introduced to "Your House, Your Design Company" which is a business company with significant issues in data management. The paper starts by appreciating the vital role played by information need to companies and the need for proper administration of the same. Furthermore, the challenge with data management at Your House, Your Design Company is explained in detail with an explanation on how the problem can be solved ...

Business Case: IIS Solution Analysis and Best Implementation Scenario

Business Case IIS Solution Analysis & Best Implementation Scenario

Executive Summary 2 Project Overview 3 1.1 Project Overview 3 1.2 Project Description 3 1.3 Alternatives Considered 3 1.4 Recommended Solution 3 1.5 Risks 3

Project Description 4

2.1 Project Background and Opportunity 4 2.2 Business Needs 4 2.3 Project Objectives 4 2.4 Organizational Benefits 4 2.5 Project Scope 5 2.6 Out of Scope 5

Alternatives and Cost/Benefit Analysis 6

3.1 [Possible Solution 1] 7 3.2 [Possible Solution 2] 7 3.3 [Possible Solution 3] 7 3.4 Comparison 7 3.5 Recommended Alternative 7 Project Risk Assessment 8

REFERENCES 9

IIS Solution Analysis & Best Implementation Scenario Description IIS (Intelligent Solutions Imaging) has a $ ...

For the sake of efficiency and agility and up-scaling the ability to innovate, insurers are moving ahead as they have come to the realization that legacy systems are a real impediment to these goals. It is clear that something needs to be done about this issue but the available option and demands are overwhelming. Global aero like any other company has had a legacy system that needs to be modernized. Since the 1960s the system has been in use and is based on aging developmental standards with diminished usability and functionality. Surprisingly enough, despite the modern outlook of graphical ...

Bose, S. (2016). Xerox (XRX) Misses on Q1 Earnings, Split Likely in 2016. Zacks. Web. 21 July 2016. Supriyo Bose (2016) discusses financial results of Xerox Corporation in first-quarter of 2016. Despite a little decline in earnings some years ago and a challenging macroeconomic environment, a company has improved its positions and productivity that resulted in adjusted earnings. The author informs about the current economic environment, financial result of Xerox, and provides points of view of experts on how to increase earnings.

Areas of Agreement

Supriyo Bose (2016) proclaims that Xerox has adopted a decision to provide a three-year strategic transformation program ...

Strategic thinking is a key goal needed for exceeding leadership. The process of strategic thinking is to analyze what a business needs and how to improve the business. The plan could consist of attracting more customers, increasing profit, and decrease loss prevention. A good strategic thinker will involve every aspect of the issue and puts a goal-oriented plan into motion. The main words for a great strategic thinker are the how and when. How will this plan help the business and when can we see an increase in business from this plan? These two questions need to be answered ...

Problem

The company is a prominent player in the athletic footwear market and also serves as a key supplier of quality athlete footwear. The business is currently selling over five million pairs annually. The main problem faced by the company was that its operational activities were not efficient. The past few years have not been good for the company, and the board of directors suggested increasing the return on sales would help in increasing the efficiency.

Analysis

As a CEO, I have proposed a plan that involves revision of strategies such as product design, R&D, sales, production operations, value chain and ...

The management’s assessment of the financial condition for Star Bucks agrees with the previous analysis of the company’s financial statements. A close examination of the consolidated income statement confirms that the net revenues earned in 2015 by the entire business increased by 17% from 16.4 billion in 2014 to 19.2 billion in 2015. This net increase in the incomes earned by the business has been contributed to by the segmental growth of the business revenues. A trend analysis shows that the net revenues from the company operated stores, licensed stores, and the CPG, food service and others ...

1-2 Paragraph Response

Question- "Optimizing Performance"   In order to ensure the fault tolerant network design with no point of failure, administrators can use different approaches. One of them is redundancy. A network without a single point of failure should consist of redundant network-infrastructure components like routers and switches. Moreover, these devices should be interconnected with redundant links. Redundant components, paths and services can also be included in the network topology to ensure its high availability. Another approach is replication. It is a way of providing a couple of identical instances of the one system or one subsystem, directing tasks or requests to ...

Part 1 Option 1: Video marketing campaign site (1250 word equivalent)

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Video Script

Talking Head Hello, are you looking for latest games, HD videos, music, and memorabilia or caters? That is always a daunting task to do by yourself when we are here and ready to serve you. We are a U.K based company that specializes in selling video games, both latest and all-time favourites that will always leave you wanting for more. Also, we have been dealing with all range of videos and music genres and we guarantee you will not miss your portion too. Additionally, we have a range of memorabilia and caters that you can order anytime and ...

INFORMATION SYSTEMS STRATEGY AND DEVELOPMENT

FOR PROJECT REVERIE

Executive Summary Software development methodologies (SSADM, DSDM, Agile and Extreme Programming) were examined for possible applications to Project REVERIE which is a prototyping project for social network communications and natural interaction in immersive environments over the internet. DSDM was chosen as the most suitable as it has the best balance of speed of delivery and a structured approach. The sensory interactive technologies in immersive environments lend well to the iterative, adaptive and flexible techniques of the agile programming methods such as DDMS. At the same time, DDMS still retains the disciplined structured process framework of the ...

Communication & Soft Skills

Dear Jerry: Thanks for the trust you have put in me and asked me to lead this project. This project is undoubtedly one of its kind in the division and would go on to serve the business well immediately and in the future. Definitely this project had hiccups right from the start – the first possible one was the unfortunate exit of Mark. Well, we accept that as a personal career choice. Having accepted that, I have spent time in understanding the overall project since having taken over the project as per your directives. I have arrived at two remarkable ...

Abstract

The purpose of this academic article is to illustrate the importance of high availability databases for enterprises in the twenty-first century. It will outline the best practices for implementing high level functionality ...

The healthcare sector is a crucial department in any organisation. Poor health of the workers leads to the reduction of their performance and overall economic loss. Health care providers have the mandate of ensuring that their services are of the highest quality. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) legislation were formed to ensure proper checks and balances in the mode of handling sensitive client information. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as Public Law 104-191[H.R .3103] / The Kennedy-Kassebaum bill, came into law on August 21, 1996. The US congress passed HIPAA for five main ...

An ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is software that enables an organization to manage business processes where it enables several applications to be integrated to the system. This enables an organization to manage back office functions in an effective manner. One example ERP system is SAP (Systems, Applications and Products). In NIBCON, there are essential principles that are required in order for SAP ERP to be effectively installed into the system. One principle is to have effective communication in all the branches of the company. NIBCON has expanded in business so that there are many branches that have been ...

Based on the need to develop a model or metric for performance measurement in companies, the business needs to focus centrally on the four core elements that define the strength of every business. The four areas are the threads that hold the business to its destiny at all times. They include; the financial perspective, customer perspective, internal business processes and the learning and growth perspectives. It is believed that if the business is able to strategize effective management of its intangible assets, then developing a measure for the intangible asset is inevitable

Therefore, balanced scorecard creates an in-depth focus and insight ...

Ace Project

Ace Project is an online project management software and a time tracking as well as a collaboration tool. It offers a wide collection of features, is efficient as well as affordable hence can be used by both big businesses, as well as the small ones. Ace project has been actively providing good quality product with useful features for about twelve years, thus making organizations achieve their goals such as improving productivity as well as efficiency via online collaboration. This site targets the medium and big businesses given their setup, site design, and its various packages. Its media presence regarding advertisements, partners, as ...

Emotional intelligence is the ability of a person to understand his/ her emotions and those of people around them in order to know how to interact with them. People with high knowledge of emotional intelligence understand their surroundings well and are able to manage their emotions accordingly. Psychologists argue that people with a high level of emotional intelligence have great leadership and problem solving skills due to their ability to read and interpret the work force around them. Emotional intelligence helps people in leadership in a number of ways depending on the level of conscience of the people on different issues regarding ...

Introduction

The cross boarder business deals have been made more common than ever by the globalization process. Nevertheless, these business deals are lost or jeopardized when foreign associates are essentially offended by a particular country unaware of the other countries’ manners, cultures, and customs. Thus, it is important for those particular countries to be cultural sensitive. This is simply being both aware and accepting the other cultures. In business, this is vital because what seems to be acceptable in a particular country may appear derogatory in another and this might have negative effects on someone’s business.

A company’s competitive advantage ...

Question One

- You should then summarize, in a short paragraph, which parts of the business you need to strengthen.

The business needs to strengthen its use of the website. They should try to make it an easy method of selling directly to customers. This will enable it to compete with their competitors in a better way. People love to visit the business -a business heritage-, however, it is costly to maintain and thus they need to break away from it. In addition, the business needs to uses technologically advanced production methods since, it still uses labour intensive methods of production. The business ...

Introduction

In the current developed world, Object Oriented (OO) system development approach has attracted a lot of attention. Many software development companies have shifted their attention to graduates with knowledge on Object Oriented development. This change has also taken effect and is largely being implemented in the System Analysis and Development texts, which are increasingly adapting Object Oriented approach as well as the Unified Process of system development (Rob, 2011, p.2). While this seems to be the issue, traditional approaches are not being left being since they have managed to outline the necessary processes including phases and activities, which have led ...

Globalization is increasingly changing the business landscape with organizations having access o more markets and facing diverse environments. In that respect, global operations management through suitable strategies is becoming a key focus for business leaders. Also, the management requires consideration of various forces influencing the market as well as the organizations’ capabilities. Thus, understanding market issues, stakeholders, and business capabilities is crucial in devising suitable strategies that can enhance sustainability and performance (Sengupta, 2005). In that view, this report seeks to demonstrate how environment and market issues influence business strategies determining their success as well as challenges that need to ...

The importance of effective decision making in the corporate world has continued to transform how many organizations make their decisions. The type of decisions made today influence the outcome and the face of the company tomorrow (Shaw, 2008). Decision analysis has continued to be a current trend in every decision making process. Business decision making is never a matter of just choosing between solutions. Managers have to daily analyze outcomes and choose among the options that they have (Shaw, 2008). Making decisions is always a collective process that requires teamwork and strategy formulation. Getting the best strategy remains to be the task ...

1.1 Describe with examples, some of the characteristics of food production and food and beverage service systems that is in use within the hospitality industry. The food and beverage industry are a multi-billionaire industry, that has catered to many, making it a new industry that people can look forward to. There has to be a system, that the service directors are using to inherit a food service system that are to be followed by the directors all day-long.An option in food service industry is what we are bound to look for if there has to be a look-out and fixed system in food ...

5. Results and analysis of mystery points, hardware and software system for the business 6. Bus topology diagram 7. Analysis of journey map 8. Overall Budget plan for the business. 1. Business description: Semesh is a business organization that wants to incorporate information technology in business. The business management wishes to determine the lowest cost for installing hardware and software and spend less than $25,000.The budget should not include expenses such as cost of the ISP-set up and communication system. The business, however, intend to get a router that is free as part of the ISP-set ...

Introduction

With increasing globalization and changing market needs, the fresh food and fruits industry has gone through a number of changes with technological advance and innovation being key change drivers. In that respect, the industry’s players need to establish suitable strategies in their operations as well as develop new products as means of enhancing their competitiveness. In that reference, this analysis seeks to demonstrate how businesses address market needs and changing environment through application of suitable business strategies. To achieve the objective, the discussion uses the case of Fresh Tec with its introduction of SmartPac Technology into the market being ...

BUSINESS DRIVEN INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Introduction Business driven information systems entail a system where information systems technology is incorporated in business (Baltzan, 2012, p. 2). Information technology is vital for any business to thrive. Failure of a business to take advantage of the technological breakthroughs will make the business lag behind. The information systems that are used by any business need to be thought about carefully so that implementing it will serve the intended purpose, using a business plan because of its availability will result in wastage of resources. The business strategy and the goals of the business are the key components that should determine the ...

Businesses need a well-defined marketing plan when venturing into newer market segments. This is to help new brands to penetrate markets effectively. On the other side, a marketing plan ensures that new businesses effectively compete with already established brands in the market. Marketing is the process by which relationships with customers is established through value creating activities, while maximizing returns to stakeholders (Pride et al 4). Marketing can help businesses such as Saks, Nordstrom to easily penetrate a given market, already occupied by other brands such as Holt Renfrew.Sak’s Saks is a retail store that sells both ladies and men’s wear. ...

Introduction

Every business needs effective replenishment of its inventory to ensure smooth flow and profitability. The article explores lead time and shows the importance of setting up accurate lead times. This paper will give a summary of the article. It will, therefore, highlight all the main points noted by the article. On the same note, the paper will express the opinions of the author.

First the article defines the anticipated lead time. According to the author, this is time (days) which a business takes to replenish its stock from primary suppliers. The necessity of this process is to ensure that there are ...

INTRODUCTION:

Process management, project and system management are seen, as the best way to improve the business productivity (Miers, 2006). Project and system management allow the businesses to enhance the business productivity by reducing the cost, increasing the efficiency and capability to turn the business immediately. A business success hugely depends upon the people it takes to work, the way they perform together, the advance technology and system they use, and under what conditions these performance goals work (Dabaghkashani, Hajiheydari, and Haghighinasab, 2012). This report has discussed the importance of project management, process and system management in businesses and their ...

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Vendors Offering IaaS Public Cloud Services

The description of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is straightforward. Cloud infrastructure such as storage, servers and networks are available on rent in a pay-as-you-use model. There are many players in this field of public cloud services and below is a classification and comparison of the three most dominant leaders of the industry in IaaS.

IBM SmartCloud

IBM provides cloud computing services called Blue Cloud that presents tools over IBM Cloud to manage large scale applications and database. IBM also offers consulting services to assimilate infrastructure into the cloud. IBM offers ...

Business technology has transformed how the business world operates with many business enterprise approaching the role played by technology.Technology has had a positive impact with many businesses now thriving on the use of technology rather than the traditional means of business operations. Business success is now being determined by how well a business adopts and integrate technology in its operations starting from the top level management to the senior most employees.Competition is now based in technology with companies adopting the use of technology in almost all areas of operation. Data storage is a key area where technology has played a key role; ...

ABSTRACT

CRM databases are created to aid organizations in managing their customers thereby increasing their revenue and profits. A central database of customers and contacts can help an organization drive forward sales to get higher returns on marketing activities. This paper describes the design of a customer relation management database for an auto part store. The store will document relationships between customers, salespeople, inventory, and products, through parameters such as orders and order lines among others. Using modeling tools such as ERD, a model of the auto part store CRM will be developed. The model encompasses the analytical and transactional components to ...

Request for Proposal

[Writer] [Supervisor]

Introduction 3

Statement of Purpose 3 Summary of RFP Requirements 4 Proposed Plan 4 Conference Rooms 4 Conference Space 4 Dining and Cuisine 5 Business Facilities 5 Scheduling Event 5 Qualifications and Resources 8 Work Plan 8 Budget 9 Authorization 10

Bibliography 11

Introduction This proposal is in response to the RFP for Bradley Division Development Council (BDDC) annual conference. BDDC is a 2 days conference expected to be held on 6-8 July. We would like to introduce our conference facilities at Park Hyatt Hotel Toronto for hosting the ...

Organizational Efficiency

Organizational Efficiency The efficiency is an extremely broad term and is based on various concepts in any organization. Every organization has its own way of defining efficiency as for some it is being budget efficient and spending less than allocated in a budget and for other organizations, it is producing higher quantity of output in a given period with a given input (Jeston & Nelis, 2008). In production, it means making labor and capital more productive so that they produce more in a low cost, leading organization towards saving costs, delivering needs of customers, and grasping large proportion of market. Efficiency also means ...

Problem Statement

Proposed Solution As briefly noted, Healthy Buff Catering Services offer food services for your varied corporate endeavors on a periodic basis through a formally written contract that would satisfy your business needs. We would propose a contract which stipulates terms of conditions including provision of planning; providing food choices and menus that clearly indicate ingredients to be used, as well as detailed computation of costs of each planned meal; full gourmet presentation and accessories for catering (including table linens, plates, silver, glasses, food servers, and other catering paraphernalia); and food servers in elegant uniforms to assist during the event. ...

The success of any business organization is determined by the level of strategizing and planning. Unless a company is able to understand the operations system that work within it and from the external market, the ability to compete with other businesses might not be possible. One of the main needs is understanding the needs of a business. The needs vary from those required in the internal business planning and the external one. With the changing market dynamics, a business needs to stay in line with the market and organization changes. ASS Technologies needs to understand the organization needs for it to ...

Memorandum to the Board of Directors

- It is common knowledge that in the business world, disasters are inevitable. In my capacity as the company’s Chief Information Officer, I would like to comment on a number of areas that require immediate attention in terms of security. The considerations and recommendations highlighted in the memo are in the best interest of the company and its wellbeing. I would like to draw attention on some view areas of security and recommend relevant DRBC practices/ procedures that have been developed by the cyber security arm of the company. - DRBCP is comprised of a host of factors including ...

The channel of distribution, branding, and pricing are vital components for effective functioning of a business. The success of a business depends on a distribution channel that is cost effective, branding that stands out, and optimal prices.

Global branding strategy

For better and faster growth of a business, going global plays a significant role. Besides an expanded market, the business enjoys the economies of scale; comparatively lower market costs, faster integration of innovations, among others. To create a global branding strategy, global brand constants like corporate brand, brand essence, and brand identity system (which is normally your logo) must be maintained. After taking the global brand constants into ...

Question 1

The pub business in the United Kingdom has witnessed significant growth in the recent years. This growth is associated with the increased sales and profitability of the business. Most businesses attribute their success to their market segments as it contributes to increased sales. Selecting the best market segment is essential in realizing success or failure to an establishment due to the customer base. Appreciating success in business requires proper segmentation and management towards segmentation benefits. The benefits of segmentation can only be realized once a complete study of the business needs is conducted. This is consistent with the notion that ...

Business Leadership

The global economy is undergoing many changes every year and organizations need to retain the personnel that have talent. The management of businesses continually seeks to define and understand what it means to manage and lead people. Organizations spend many resources trying to understand the whole idea of leading a business successfully and ensuring that it meets its objectives. Leaders need to navigate through many challenges and at the same time lead the organization. Leadership is the ability to create a direction and influence people to follow the direction without much friction. Leadership is comes from leaders and they inspire the ...

Garden Centres are confronted by an unfriendly environment that inevitably points to the direction of change. Applying the PESTEL analysis on the centres reveals a situation that paints a grim picture of the centres. This section shall discuss two key macro external factors that cumulatively add up to posit a rough situation to the business. The technological advancement within the industry comes out as one key macro external factor that the business ought to be wary of. For starters, the business is still left wallowing with traditional approaches of management and production over technological applications. The system of management is still ...

Q.1: Explain to John why it is important to look beyond the “bottom line”.

Bottom line in business is the amount of profit that is deduced after the deduction of all expenses and taxes, this phenomenon helps the investor to determine promptly the current status of the business. JJ and Son are realizing a healthy bottom line for the past four years, yet for John it is important to understand that it is high time to start looking beyond the bottom line. In today’s business world, when the companies have to face so much economic pressures with tighter ...

Choosing a software system for the business can be an extremely hard task because a lot depends on the choice made. It does not just stop at selecting the right package for the business; it also extends to doing it a way that gains favor with those who will be using the software system. While deciding on the software system to purchase for the business, it is important to consider some factors. For instance, the ability of the software system to meet the current and future needs is of paramount importance. Other factors include the costs incurred, the usability of the software ...

Background

According to Gheen (1), illegal immigration originated from legal migrations that took place between the late 1800s and the early 1900s. In 1928, Edward H. Dowell who was the vice president of the California Federation of Labor announced that 67000 Mexicans had legally immigrated to America the previous year but an even larger number had illegally immigrated to America. Gheen (1) further argues that massive illegal immigration started in the early 1940s due to labor shortage on America. The federal government arranged for the temporary importation of Mexican labor to contribute to agriculture, under the Bracero Program. Even after ...

Information System’s Role in E-business and E-commerce

In today’s world, ICT has become a vital component of almost every office and business. The emerging global economy that is the digital economy has relied mainly on the use of ICT for the proper conduct of business transactions. Business models have changed to attuned to the present needs of the markets. Information Systems plays a big role and is actually a main driving force for the successful conduct of e-business and e-commerce. BusinessDictionary defines information systems (IS) as “ a combination of hardware , software and trained personnel organized to facilitate planning, control, coordination, and decision making in an organization (2012). Technology ...

Introduction

Cloud computing is a new technological model that’s transforming the world of computing (Jin et al. 2010). In this model, computation and data are operated in a cloud, which is a collection of data centers that a third party owns and maintains.

Cloud computing refers to the applications, systems, software, and hardware that are “delivered as services over the Internet” (Jin et al. 2010, p. 3).

Brief History of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing isn’t exactly a new concept. Existing structures such as adaptive computing, utility computing, and grid computing have paved the way for cloud computing (Molen 2010). ASP (application service providing) also “signifies the growth towards ...

1. Introduction

The decision to expand the operations of Millennium Coaches to the London market is a tough one that requires a lot of considerations to be done before the venture. Expansion plans are a part of every business and are a strategic way for growth. A business can witnessed the real dangers of expansion when it proceeds with expansion plans quickly without having it controlled or conducting a thorough analysis of the new market. The most common causalities affected by the dangers of expansion include customer satisfaction and cash flow. Conducting a comprehensive market analysis is therefore the most crucial and essential thing that ...

SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT

Introduction The development of quality systems in the field of software engineering has been a core driving goal in the previous two decades of system development. Other core qualities that a system must have include maintainability and reusability. The concept of object-oriented system development is helpful in the development of systems that have high levels of maintainability and usability. Languages and development environment that are object-oriented are already effective in ensuring the development such quality systems. The limitations however is that they cannot be used for the development of quality systems on their own, there is need to integrate them ...

The Top-Down Approach

Network Architecture and Design: The Top-Down Approach

Network architecture and design are many times two separate stages in a network implementation project. McCabe (2007) identifies network architecture as a higher level concept of a network. He says that it focuses on more general relationships between the major components of a network. For example, "addressing and routing, network management, performance, and security." (p. 211). The design stage of the project normally starts after the higher level architectural plan has been approved. This is where the real detailed work starts and the nuts and bolts start to come together. In designing your network, ...

Reading “The Disposable Worker” from the January 7, 2010 edition of Businesweek is a real eye opener. The idea of an employee working for one corporation for his or her entire career is a thing of the past. Corporations hire employees on an as needed basis to meet their business requirements. This can take the form of hiring temporary workers through agencies such as Manpower or it can take the form of hiring freelance workers for a particular project. When these business needs are met, the employee is suddenly out of work, thus creating the disposable worker. The main theme of ...