...he problem with Compaq is that they developed too much IT architecture using financial advisory, where R&D and openness keys to development and the culture, while ignoring the environment. Open communication and trust was barricaded and destroyed by ASK (financial IS). The workers were being motivated by fear, much like Geneen in Morgan’s Images Of Organization. From an IT architecture standpoint, numbers based on the finance division depicted the entire company, even the organizational structure. The organizational structure did not align with the IT architecture, and the culture did not align with it either. Morgan stated, “The division of labor characteristic of industrial societies creates a problem of integration, or what may be more accurately described as a problem of integration, or what may be more accurately described as a problem of “cultural management.”” Compaq started as a functional structure, changed into a divisional fairly soon and then back to functional. Culture was strongly emphasized over anything else. CASH stated, “The process encompassed a whole range of ideas, including (1) the rule of inclusion, (2) teamwork, (3) “working the issue,” and (4) consensus building.” The IS system at Compaq did allow the free-flow of information through email named “B-mail.” ASK was used for financial services so that the company could easily track orders, and know where it stood financially. The culture felt monitored by ASK operators since it “becomes responsible for...
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...Chapter 1: The Nature of Information Technology Projects What is the current state of IT projects? What are key factors for successful IT projects? Hint: Refer to the summary of CHAO study IT Projects are showing higher success rates. Better project management tools & processes, smaller projects, improved communication among stakeholders, more skillful IT project managers What are four different approaches to improving the likelihood of success of IT projects? Hint: Understand the major characteristics of each approach. 1. Value-Driven Approach; Plain & Simple: IT Projects must provide value to the organization 2. Socio-technical Approach; It’s not just about the technology or building a better mouse trap 3. Project Management Approach; processes and infrastructure (Methodology), resources, expectations, competition, efficiency and effectiveness 4. Knowledge Management Approach, lessons learned, best practices & shared knowledge What is a project? And its attributes? Project: a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result. Attributes: Time Frame, Purpose (to provide value!), Ownership, Resources (the triple constraint), Roles (Project Manager, Project Sponsor, SME (domain & technical)), Risk & Assumptions, Interdependent Tasks (progressive elaboration – steps & increments), Planned Organizational Change, Operate in Environments Larger than the Project Itself What are different roles in...
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...Mohammed Rafi 1 Mohammed Rafi Mohammad Rafi Background information Born Origin 24 December 1924 Kotla Sultan Singh, Punjab, British India Indian Died 31 July 1980 (aged 55) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Genres Indian classical, ghazal, playback singing Occupations Hindi and Punjabi playback singer Instruments Vocalist Years active 1944–1980 Mohammad Rafi (Urdu: ,عیفر دمحمHindi: मोहम्मद रफ़ी; 24 December 1924 – 31 July 1980), was an Indian playback singer whose career spanned four decades.[1] He won a National Award and 6 Filmfare Awards. In 1967, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India.[2] In a career spanning about 40 years, Rafi sang over 26,000 film songs.[3] His songs ranged from classical numbers to patriotic songs, sad lamentations to highly romantic numbers, qawwalis to ghazals and bhajans, and from slow melancholic tunes to fast and melodious fun filled songs. He had a strong command of Hindi and Urdu and a powerful range that could accommodate this variety.[4] He sang in many Indian languages including Hindi, Konkani, Urdu, Bhojpuri, Oriya, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, Sindhi, Kannada, Gujarati, Telugu, Maghi, Maithili and Assamese. He also recorded a few English, Persian, Spanish and Dutch songs. An article in Times of India, published on 24 July 2010 sums up his voice as, "If there are 101 ways of saying "I love you" in a song, Mohammed Rafi knew them all. The awkwardness of puppy love, the friskiness of teen romance, the philosophy of...
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...www.Grammarly.com/Grammar_Check Who Uses Each Format MLA style was created by the Modern Language Association and is used primarily for writings about language and literature and is the go-to style for those studying or working in the humanities. APA style is intended to clarify and strengthen scientific writing. Organized by the American Psychological Association, APA style is used most often by those in the social science fields. Format The difference between a paper written in MLA style and one written in APA style should be apparent to a reader almost immediately. A paper written in APA style will always have a title page, while those written in MLA style will only have a title page if it has been specifically requested. APA style also requires the inclusion of an abstract, a brief summary of the paper, while MLA does not. The main body of documents written in the two formats will look very similar, but they diverge again later on. In an MLA paper, the full list of references will be found on the "Works Cited" page at the back of the document. APA documents, on the other hand, will include a "References" page at the end. Citations While both styles require clear and detailed attribution of sources, referred to as citations, MLA and APA styles require a slightly different presentation of that data. In-text or parenthetical citations are brief references directing the reader to the full source list appended to the end of the paper. In MLA style, in-text citations will...
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...Week 4 Posted on: Monday, April 8, 2013 1. Watch: Food, Inc. 2. Write: Respond to Food, Inc. prompt in BB Discussion Board. Due Apr. 11 by 11:59pm. Respond to 2 (or more) classmates by Apr. 14 by 11:59pm. 3. Write: Response 3: Minimum Word Count: 500 words. Due Apr. 14 by 11:59pm in Assignments, R3. 4. Write: Essay 2 Rough Draft: Analysis. Due Apr. 17 by 11:59pm. Turn in under E2R in Assignments. Specifics for Response 3: 1. Prompt: Further the research of one topic in Food, Inc. (for example, you might further research cloned foods and the law regarding labeling, illegal immigrants' status in the meatpacking industry, or the level of chemical additives in foods...) Give an updated view of the issue, along with further analysis into that issue through your research. 2. Your research should come from EKU databases only. Of course, you can use the free web to get more background information, but that information can not be used as an outside source. 3. Your sources should be no older than 3 years, so anything published before 2010 is not allowed. 3. Minimum Word Count is 500 words (the word count is for essay text alone, not the word count of the works cited page). Minimum Sources: 3. Due: Apr. 14 by 11:59pm in Assignments, R3. 4. The purpose of this assignment is to practice analysis and focus on advanced & time-sensitive research. Specifics for Essay 2: 1. An analysis is an argument in which you study the parts of something to understand how it works, what...
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...One of the many factors that make us unique as individuals is the way we interrupt and process information. Daily we absorb information through reading, conversations and social media, Sometimes we subconsciously take ownership of others ideas; allowing what we take in to influence our thoughts and actions. Ultimately, this can lead to poor habits such as lying when it comes to being responsible for our actions. As college students, we are expected to challenge ourselves by writing good scholarly papers. Collecting our thoughts about our research and putting them on paper is easy for some but difficult for others. While researching, we can take notes and reflect on them; this can help with the content and flow in our papers (Kirszner & Stephen, 2012). Our papers should capture the reader’s attention by explaining our thesis statement and providing adequate explanations that supports our findings. Papers can be formatted and written in various ways; the most common forms of writing are APA and MLA. Some colleges may require MLA style (Modern Language Association); which is used for humanities such as arts, literature, and history. On the other hand, other colleges may require their students to write their papers in APA style. APA means American Psychological Association. It was designed by anthropologist, business managers, and psychologists as a way of arranging the components of writing and reading (Kirszner & Stephen, 2012). The APA format consist of the body, in-text...
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...School: School of Arts and Humanities Course Number: ENGL101 Course Name: Proficiency in Writing Credit Hours: 3 Length of Course: 8 Weeks Prerequisite: COLL100 is recommended Table of Contents Course Description Course Scope Course Objectives Course Delivery Method Course Materials Evaluation Procedures Grading Scale Course Outline Policies Academic Services Selected Bibliography Table of Contents Course Description (Catalog) ENGL101 Proficiency in Writing (3 hours) This course provides instruction in the writing process with a focus on self-expressive and expository essays, and will include practice in the conventions of standard written English, responding to readings, and incorporating sources into essays with appropriate documentation. Table of Contents Course Scope This course gives students practice in the conventions of Standard Written English, responding to readings, and incorporating sources into essays with appropriate documentation. Thus the course prepares students for writing effectively in all undergraduate courses by sharpening the writing skills necessary to answer essay examinations, dialogue with reading assignments, and write term papers. Table of Contents Course Objectives Students who successfully complete this course will be able to: CO-1: Recognize and formulate the kind of writing required to respond properly to college-level assignments, examinations, and projects. (Essay types) CO-2: Use a process of writing from pre-writing...
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...|Discussion Board |Percentage of |Letter Grade |Letter Grade |Letter Grade |Letter Grade |Letter Grade | |Assignment Points |points |A |B |C |D |F | |Total= 85 | |Point Spread |Point Spread |Point Spread |Point Spread |Point Spread | |Grammar, punctuation, |10% |Student has 0-2 mechanical errors and no spelling|Student has 2-4 mechanical and/or|Student has 4-6 mechanical and/or |Student has 6-8 mechanical and/or |Same as D | |spelling, mechanics | |errors. No run-on sentences or fragments. |spelling errors |spelling errors, such as a run-on |spelling errors. Appears to lack |0-5 | | | |Student does not write in the second person. |8 |or fragment |proofreading. Run on sentences and| | |= 10% | |9 | |7 ...
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...The citation goes first and is followed by the annotation. Make sure that you follow your faculty’s preferred citation style. The summary needs to be concise (please note the following example is entirely fictitious). In the sample annotation below, each element is numbered (see Key). (1) Trevor, C.O., Lansford, B. and Black, J.W., 2004, ‘Employee turnover and job performance: monitoring the influences of salary growth and promotion’, Journal of Armchair Psychology, vol 113, no.1, pp. 56-64. (2) In this article Trevor et al. review the influences of pay and job opportunities in respect to job performance, turnover rates and employee motivation.(3) The authors use data gained through organisational surveys of blue-chip companies in Vancouver, Canada to try to identify the main causes of employee turnover and whether it is linked to salary growth.(4) Their research focuses on assessing a range of pay structures such as pay for performance and organisational reward schemes.(5) The article is useful to my research topic, as Trevor et al. suggest that there are numerous reasons for employee turnover and variances in employee motivation and performance.(6) The main limitation of the article is that the survey sample was restricted to mid-level management,(7) thus the authors indicate that further, more extensive, research needs to be undertaken to develop a more in-depth understanding of employee turnover and job performance.(8) This article will not form the basis of my research;...
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...CITATION The Meaning of Citation Citation is a way writer tells his readers that certain materials in his work comes from another source, it is also a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly manner, It is an abbreviated alphanumeric (combination of both numbers and letters) e.g (Newell84). It gives the readers information necessary to find that source again. This information includes: 1. Information about the author. 2. The title of the book. 3. The name and location of the company that published the copy of your source. 4. The date the copy was published. 5. The page numbers of the material you are borrowing. Importance Of Citation 1. To uphold intellectual honesty and avoid plagiarism or piracy. 2. To attribute prior on unoriginal work and ideas to correct sources, to allow the readers to determine independently whether the referred material supports the argument in the claimed way and to help the readers gauge the strength and validity of the materials the author has used. 3. Allows readers to locate and further explore the source you consulted, show the depth and scope of your research and give credit to authors for their research. Types of Citation and Their Parts 1. Book citation Author Date of publication Title Place of publication Publisher 2. Popular magazine article citation Author Title of article Date Magazine title Volume number Page 3. Scholarly...
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...work is cited, should be given in parentheses before the page nnumber. The items in parentheses should be divided by a comma. For example: 1. Joseph Gibaldi points out,“Nearly all research builds on previous research. Researchers commonly begin a project by studying past work in the area and deriving relevant informaton and ideas from their predecessors. This processs is largely responsible for the continual expansion of human knowledge”(Handbook, 114). 2. What is plagiarism? Simply speaking, “Using another person’s ideas or expressions in your writing without acknowledging the source constitues plagiarism”(Gibaldi, Manual, 151). Works Cited Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 2nd...
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...Complete all assessment tasks below in a Microsoft Office compatible document or a PDF. • If you need to provide supporting documentation please ensure it is in Microsoft Office or Office compatible document such as PDF. • It is recommended that you include your name on each page of all documents you submit. For more information on assessment procedures, appeals and recognition of prior learning please refer to the student handbook. Task 1 If you are in a workplace, locate your company style guide and document storage policy. If you are not in a workplace (or your workplace does not have a style guide or document storage policy) use the XYZ Company style guide and the XYZ Company document storage policy. (The XYZ Company style guide and document storage policy can be downloaded from the screen where you accessed this assessment.) Imagine you have to create a text from notes. a) Referring to your style guide, list two (2) requirements you would need to consider with regards the presentation of the text that you will produce from your notes. b) Referring to the document storage policy,...
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...Resource 1: EDA 575 Educational Leadership in a Changing World Benchmark Assessment and Rubric Targeted Essential Learning Students will examine the fundamental concepts of organizational theories and leadership models on a macro level as they relate to educational enterprises in their quest for school improvement. (ISLLC 2008: 1, 3) Assessment Tool Selected * Essay Specific Performance/Task(s) Create plans to achieve defined organizational goals. (ISLLC 2008: 1C; ELCC 1.1, 1.2) Establish effective management of the organization to support the learning environment. (ISLLC 2008: 3A; ELCC 3.3) Relevancy of Task to Principal Candidate An effective leader must understand the fundamental concepts of organizational theories and leadership at a macro level, as well as the complexity of being a school leader with a vision for systematic change and practical skills that work to ensure smooth day-to-day operations of a school. Assessment: Student Prompts/Directions 1) Individual: The Big Picture: A Strategic Plan (Benchmark Assessment) a) School Profile i) In Module 3 and using the institution you with which you are associated, you wrote a school profile (1000–1250 words). The school profile’s major goal is to describe the school and its programs with the intent to improve the institution through informed decision making. Issues to consider when developing the school profile included: (1) Philosophy, mission, and vision. ...
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...Maevers - Course Syllabus COM/172 r4 1 Course Syllabus College of Humanities and Sciences Copyright © 2013, 2011, 2009 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. COM/172 r4 Elements of University Composition and Communication 2 Course Start Date: February 1, 2014 Course End Date: March 1, 2014 Campus/Learning Center: San Diego Campus – Palm Desert Learning Center Facilitator Information Kevin L. Maevers, MA, MBA klmaevers@email.phoenix.edu (University of Phoenix) or kevin@kozma-maevers.org (Personal) 760-799-7790 (Mobile) or 760-296-1625 (Home Office) - Pacific Daylight Time Skype: kevin.maevers (please make an appointment for a Skype conversation) I also stay connected with students through social media. You can find me on: LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/kevinmaevers); Twitter (http://twitter.com/KevinMaevers); Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/kevin.maevers); and Google+ (http://google.com/+KevinLMaevers); In addition, if you like any of the videos that I use in class, you can find them on my YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/klmaevers. Enjoy! Course Description This course builds upon the foundations established in COM/170. It addresses the various rhetorical modes necessary for effective college essays: narration, illustration, description, process analysis, classification, definition, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and argumentation. In addition, requirements for research essays, including the use of outside sources and appropriate...
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...Study Guides and Lesson PlansStudy smarter. Welcome, Guest!Set Background Blackboard Green Chalkboard Desk Sign In Join eNotes . HOMEWORK HELPSTUDY GUIDESLESSON PLANSQUIZZESeBOOKS & DOCUMENTSETEXTSSHAKESPEAREMATH HELPSCIENCE HELPSUBJECTS subjects LITERATUREHISTORYSCIENCEMATHARTSBUSINESSSOCIAL SCIENCESLAW AND POLITICSHEALTHBLOGJOIN eNOTESeNOTES PEOPLE Homework Help Better Students Ask More Questions. In Macbeth, how does the sergeant characterize Macbeth in Act I? What images does he... user profile pic hyun980106 Student Undergraduate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- eNotes Newbie Up1 DownTopic: Macbeth In Macbeth, how does the sergeant characterize Macbeth in Act I? What images does he associate with Macbeth? Posted by hyun980106 on March 5, 2009 at 9:55 AM via web and tagged with act i, literature, macbeth, sergeants description, the tragedy of macbeth 1 Answer | add yours user profile pic mshurn -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- College Teacher -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Level 1) Educator Emeritus Up2 DownFrom the sergeant's description of Macbeth in battle, we can conclude that Macbeth is a strong and valiant soldier who does not retreat, despite the odds against him. Macbeth fights furiously in defense of his King and country, his sword...
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