...3/29/2014 1 CIO Organization Memo Before you begin this assignment, be sure you have read the “Wobbly Wheels Case Study,” as well as Chapter 21, Service Management, and Chapter 22, Balancing IT’s Workload. You will also need to review any feedback you received on your IT Strategic Plan assignments. Purpose of this Assignment This assignment gives you the opportunity to apply the course concepts to address the organizational changes needed to evolve the information technology (IT) department into a true CIO organization to support the Wobbly Wheels Distribution Company (WW). This assignment specifically addresses the following course outcome to enable you to: explain the roles and responsibilities of an information technology department to support an organization’s IT strategy CIO Organization Memo For this assignment, you will assume the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at WW (i.e., you are Carol). Since you are WW’s first CIO, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has asked you for a plan for the organizational changes you need to make. One of the first things you realize is that the organization that exists is just an ‘IT Department’ and you know that what WW needs, and has hired you to do, is to create an organization that fulfills the broad responsibilities of a Chief Information Officer. You know that your proposal needs to be convincing to the CFO in order for you to get the resources you need. Assignment You will develop a memorandum addressed to the CFO...
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...CPA Program Guide— professional level 2011 © CPA Australia 2011 CPA PROGRAM GUIDE—PROFESSIONAL LEVEL i Foreword Since its inception in 1986, the CPA Program has undergone many changes to maintain its relevance to the business world and ensure graduates are equipped to be leaders in finance, accounting and business advice. The CPA Program continues to be recognised as a leading professional program and receives strong endorsement by graduates. Over 75 000 members have completed the CPA Program to date. The CPA Program provides graduates with a world class, internationally recognised professional qualification. Employers need good strategists from a wide range of areas, whose skills are complemented by excellent business training. The CPA Program you are undertaking delivers top quality graduates who provide advice of the highest order to the business world. Approximately 23 000 CPA Australia members hold the position of General Manager, Financial Controller, Chief Financial Officer or Chief Executive Officer. CPA Australia strives to continually enhance the CPA Program’s global relevance and provide more ways for people to develop a career built on professional accounting skills. The CPA Program ensures candidates develop the appropriate skills, knowledge and values required of a CPA through a combination of coherent learning experiences. As shown in the following CPA Program diagram, the CPA Program formal education model consists of two levels: ■ The foundation...
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...Individual Team Assignment Case Analysis of the Orion Shield Project Dennis J Paffrath April 18, 2013 AMBA 640 Professor Marsh 1 Table of Content Executive Summary…………………………………………………………….3 Technical Issues…………………………………………………………………5 Initiating Process Group…………………………………………………5 Planning Process Group…………………………………………………5 Executing Process Group………………………………………………..10 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group…………………………….11 Closing Process Group………………………………………………….14 Ethical Issues……………………………………………………………………15 Legal and Contractual…………………………………………………………..16 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………17 References………………………………………………………………………18 2 Executive Summary K. Schwalbe (2012) has provided a basic understanding of what project management is and explains that it requires planning and use and management of organizational resources in order to complete a project within the required time, scope and cost. Project managers must understand that one of the most important aspects of project management is to complete a project with a successful delivery of the product while ensuring that it is within the required timeline and within the resources allocated to the project. Therefore, it is imperative that the managing of a project makes efficient use of time, resources, cost, risk, quality and scope. By understanding these constraints, the project manager will be able to successfully complete the project. In reviewing the Orion Shield project case, it is very clear that the Scientific...
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...grading parameters are detailed below and under each task. You must follow instructions and formatting requirements as listed below and under task assignment Submit using MS Office Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project) as instructed Include a cover page (where indicated) containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; properly document any references used All Assignments are Uploaded via Moodle Site to correct assignment folder Must submit each case study by the assignment due date – or points will be deducted Must be of high quality These are individual assignments – do your own work The specific course learning outcomes associated with these case studies are: Apply the concepts, knowledge and process areas of project management in accordance to the Project Management Institute Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) Guide and as detailed in this course and associated textbook Describe in detail the vision, goals and deliverables of the project Describe and demonstrate ethical practices in project management. Use technology and information resources to research and address issues in project management. Write clearly and concisely about project management to include problems and issues...
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...NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Student: Max Boller THIS FORM MUST BE COMPLETELY FILLED IN Follow these procedures: If requested by your instructor, please include an assignment cover sheet. This will become the first page of your assignment. In addition, your assignment header should include your last name, first initial, course code, dash, and assignment number. This should be left justified, with the page number right justified. For example: BollerMPM7000-6 1 | Save a copy of your assignments: You may need to re-submit an assignment at your instructor’s request. Make sure you save your files in accessible location. Academic integrity: All work submitted in each course must be your own original work. This includes all assignments, exams, term papers, and other projects required by your instructor. Knowingly submitting another person’s work as your own, without properly citing the source of the work, is considered plagiarism. This will result in an unsatisfactory grade for the work submitted or for the entire course. It may also result in academic dismissal from the University. | | PM-7000 | Dr. Christopher Barrett | | | Procurement Project Management | Assignment 7 | | | Comments: ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Faculty Use Only ------------------------------------------------- ...
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...gaps in identified priority sectors/fields. They aim to provide awardees with the skills and knowledge to drive change and influence economic and social development. Australia Awards Scholarships are prestigious international awards offered by the Australian Government to the next generation of global leaders for development. Through study and research, recipients develop the skills and knowledge to drive change and help build enduring people-to-people links with Australia. Applicants will be assessed for their professional and personal qualities, academic competence and, most importantly, their potential to impact on development challenges in Pakistan Applications are strongly encouraged from women, people with disability and people from the following focus areas— Balochistan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Priority fields of study The priority areas of study for Pakistan are: * Basic education services * Maternal, neonatal and child health services * Rural development and food security * Governance * Trade and Economic Growth * Mining Level of study Australia Awards Scholarships These Scholarships provide citizens of Pakistan with the opportunity to obtain a postgraduate qualification at an Australian tertiary institution. Applicants must be able...
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...University of Phoenix Material Case Study Analysis Peer Review Form • 1. Reviewer question: What is the author’s thesis? The author’s thesis is about procrastination. She is telling us not to put off for tomorrow what we can do today 2. Reviewer question: Is the thesis clearly stated? If not, how would you help the writer restate it? I think the thesis is clearly stated because that is what happened to Carl Robbins. He put everything off until the last minute Writer question: List the changes made based on this feedback. Also list those suggestions that were offered but that you did not make, and explain why you did not make the suggestions. 3. Reviewer question: Does the essay’s body stick to the main topic? If not, where does it digress, and how could the writer revise the paper to make it stay more on the main topic? The essay body does stick to the topic. Writer question: List the changes made based on this feedback. Also list those suggestions that were offered but that you did not make, and explain why you did not make the suggested changes. 4. Reviewer question: Does the paper contain any ambiguously-worded or confusing sentences? Please list them below and offer a suggested revision for each one you identify. Under the part that says Recommendations, there is a sentence that I am confused about. The sentence is “Whether it be morning meeting of prioritizing tasks or via e-mail or phone call to advise the progress of where the...
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...No Peace WiThouT Justice Closing the gap The role of non-judicial mechanisms in addressing impunity Closing the gap The role of non-judicial mechanisms in addressing impunity No Peace WiThouT Justice No Peace Without Justice Copyright 2010 © No Peace Without Justice Via di Torre Argentina 76, I-00186, Roma, Italy www.npwj.org Permission to reproduce and distribute this document is hereby granted provided that this notice is retained on all copies, that copies are not altered and that No Peace Without Justice is credited. This publication is also available at www.npwj.org. No Peace Without Justice is an international non-profit organisation founded by Emma Bonino and born of a 1993 campaign of the Transnational Radical Party that works for the protection and promotion of human rights, democracy, the rule of law and international justice. NPWJ undertakes its work within three main thematic programs: International Criminal Justice; Female Genital Mutilation; and Middle East and North Africa Democracy, including specific work on Iraq. NPWJ is a Member of the TRP Senate, a Member of the Steering Committee of the NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court and the Italian civil society partner in the Democracy Assistance Dialogue. This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of No Peace Without Justice and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European...
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...1. Under what circumstances, if any, is signing a merger or acquisition agreement with a go-shop clause an effective substitute for a pre-signing market check by the seller? 2. Under Revlon duties, directors are expected to take steps to obtain the best transaction reasonably available for the stakeholders. The Delaware Supreme Court has stated, “there is no single blueprint that a board must follow to fulfill its [Revlon] duties” (citation). After the Smurfit-Stone case, it became clear that board did not need to do a pre-signing market check to fulfill their fiduciary duties. Therefore, “go-shop” provisions have been used more often in place of pre-market checks. Go-shop clauses are a provision that allows the target company to solicit competing proposals for a certain amount of time after they have signed an agreement with the potential buyer. The advantages of the “go-shop” are that it decreases the amount of time until closing as the agreement is already in place, sets a “floor value” which the seller can canvass the market, and provides a “break-up” fee to the potential buyer if they are outbid. The seller usually has a bifurcated fee structure with a lower termination fee payable through the go-shop clause. If there is a reduced termination fee, it may generate more interest than a “no-shop” provision, and potentially more offers. From the seller’s perspective, a go-shop clause may be favored if there are risks during an auction such as lower than expected price...
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...Case Study – SaleSoft Section C – Group 11 Consumer Behaviour Section - C Group – 11 Name Aman Srivastava Deepak Sudhakar Krishna Bajaj Prasanna Patange Richa Singh Saikiran Pollamarasetty Vivek Gupta PGP 2011-13 Roll Number PGP2011532 PGP2011617 PGP2011696 PGP2011770 PGP2011823 PGP2011843 PGP2011944 Page 1 Case Study – SaleSoft Section C – Group 11 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY SaleSoft, Inc. is a 2 year old company in the Software Automation industry. It was founded by Gregory Miller in 1993, who is the CEO. The company currently markets a product called PROCEED which is a Comprehensive Sales Automation System (CSAS). It integrates and automates various functions across the organization which helps in bringing down order cycle time and improving efficiency. However, the product is still incomplete and will take around 8 months and USD 1 million dollars to be completed. SaleSoft also recognizes that a portion of its consumer base wants a product that is based on the completed part of PROCEED (Sales System) but offers greater functionality (Sales Forecasting). This product, called Trojan Horse (TH), if developed will take 3 months and USD 200000 to be completed. It is much cheaper than PROCEED. However, SaleSoft doesn’t have the resources to either develop or market the 2 products simultaneously. Further, it has already spent a substantial amount of money on the development of PROCEED. But the sales of PROCEED are not satisfactory and...
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...University of Phoenix Material Case Study Analysis Peer Review Form Writer’s Name: Reviewer’s Name: April 1. Reviewer question: What is the author’s thesis? a. He does not have one. He is starting the paper off as an essay. I made sure that my paper had a thesis and that it was clearly stated. 2. Reviewer question: Is the thesis clearly stated? If not, how would you help the writer restate it? a. I know his topics but I do not know which way to guide him. I made sure that my paper was clearly stated and my thesis was clearly stated. Writer question: List the changes made based on this feedback. Also list those suggestions that were offered but that you did not make, and explain why you did not make the suggestions. 3. Reviewer question: Does the essay’s body stick to the main topic? If not, where does it digress, and how could the writer revise the paper to make it stay more on the main topic? a. Unfortunately, I think that the paper was very patchy and wordy. I think that if an outline was completed, Christopher would have a smoother transition in his paper. Some places were okay but then he would go back and rewrite what he just mentioned a few lines above. I made sure the essays body stuck to the main topic. Also I made sure that my essay was not repeating the same information over and over. Next time I will spend more time creating an outline. Writer question: List the changes made based on this feedback. Also list those...
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...Case Study – SaleSoft Section C – Group 11 Consumer Behaviour Section - C Group – 11 Name Aman Srivastava Deepak Sudhakar Krishna Bajaj Prasanna Patange Richa Singh Saikiran Pollamarasetty Vivek Gupta Roll Number PGP2011532 PGP2011617 PGP2011696 PGP2011770 PGP2011823 PGP2011843 PGP2011944 PGP 2011-13 Page 1 Case Study – SaleSoft EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Section C – Group 11 SaleSoft, Inc. is a 2 year old company in the Software Automation industry. It was founded by Gregory Miller in 1993, who is the CEO. The company currently markets a product called PROCEED which is a Comprehensive Sales Automation System (CSAS). It integrates and automates various functions across the organization which helps in bringing down order cycle time and improving efficiency. However, the product is still incomplete and will take around 8 months and USD 1 million dollars to be completed. SaleSoft also recognizes that a portion of its consumer base wants a product that is based on the completed part of PROCEED (Sales System) but offers greater functionality (Sales Forecasting). This product, called Trojan Horse (TH), if developed will take 3 months and USD 200000 to be completed. It is much cheaper than PROCEED. However, SaleSoft doesn’t have the resources to either develop or market the 2 products simultaneously. Further, it has already spent a substantial amount of money on the development of PROCEED. But the sales of PROCEED are not satisfactory and customers are demanding a complete product. SaleSoft...
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...Case Study – SaleSoft Case Study – SaleSoft Section C – Group 11 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY SaleSoft, Inc. is a 2 year old company in the Software Automation industry. It was founded by Gregory Miller in 1993, who is the CEO. The company currently markets a product called PROCEED which is a Comprehensive Sales Automation System (CSAS). It integrates and automates various functions across the organization which helps in bringing down order cycle time and improving efficiency. However, the product is still incomplete and will take around 8 months and USD 1 million dollars to be completed. SaleSoft also recognizes that a portion of its consumer base wants a product that is based on the completed part of PROCEED (Sales System) but offers greater functionality (Sales Forecasting). This product, called Trojan Horse (TH), if developed will take 3 months and USD 200000 to be completed. It is much cheaper than PROCEED. However, SaleSoft doesn’t have the resources to either develop or market the 2 products simultaneously. Further, it has already spent a substantial amount of money on the development of PROCEED. But the sales of PROCEED are not satisfactory and customers are demanding a complete product. SaleSoft now faces a dilemma whether to continue developing PROCEED or to switch over to TH. While analysing the data, it was observed that the demand for TH was mainly from one of the decision making party, i.e., Sales VP, in the overall Buying Centre consisting of the...
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...Tools Instructor Name Date Submitted Cold Calling Success Many industries rely on cold calling in one form or another in order to secure new leads to potential customers. It is a relatively cheap way to introduce a product or service to those who are looking for a type of product, or those who may be in need of that service. It is critical that callers be upbeat and understand each person they contact should get the same enthusiasm and personal attention as the first call of the day. Cold calling is most often successful when the people making the calls have a solid understanding of the companies they represent, the products and services they are offering those they contact, and are well versed in adapting their scripts on a case by case basis. Background Information Cold calling has always been an inexpensive way of reaching out to potential customers in order to persuade them to purchase a good or service from a business. Companies frequently buy lead lists, which include the contact information for potential customers and may be tailored to the needs of the company. For example, a pest control company may purchase a list of names and information about people who have just purchased a home. These people have been prescreened to potentially need such a service, so they are a god solid foundation for cold calling. A cold calling strategy is more than just picking up the phone and speaking to a person. A caller must realize that they need to have a well formed...
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...Anatomy and Physiology: In order to understand about cleft lip and palate we must know the complete anatomy and physiology of cleft i.e. we must know what is cleft? What is the normal and abnormal anatomy?, what are the factors that causing clefts? Etc. As the number of children’s with cleft lip and palate increasingly day by day that's why there is a critical need of effective and appropriate diagnosis and treatment of person's suffering from cleft lip and palate. 1. Hard palate: In simple words we can say that hard palate is a bony part of the roof of the mouth. We cannot see the bones because it is covered by the mucosa ( moist , pink tissue covering the body parts ). When you open your mouth you can see the hard palate which is present in front of your mouth. Hard palate is made up of processes of maxilla and the horizontal plates of the palatine bones. It is bounded: • Anteriorly and Laterally : alveolar arches or maxillary teeth • Superiorly : respiratory epithelium of nasal cavity • Inferiorly : masticatory epithelium of oral cavity • Posteriorly : connected to the soft palate Blood supply of hard palate is mainly from greater palatine artery and nerve supply is via tha anterior palatine and nasopalatine nerves. [2] 2. Soft palate : It also known as " Velum palatinum ". Posteriorly hard palate...
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