How Technology Fixed London’s Traffic Woes | CIO

This semester you have acquired new knowledge that will help you design and develop information systems. During this knowledge acquisition journey, you explored and learned new concepts which include systems thinking, project management, problem solving, cause effect analysis, system development methodology, system user requirements, data and process modeling, use cases, system feasibility, and system architecture. These concepts will help you to become a successful business professional who understands how technology can be leveraged to add organizational value. 

This week you will read about a successful system implementation and then answer questions based on your understanding of the concepts we covered during the semester. The implementation story of How Technology Fixed London’s Traffic Woes provides great insights on the concepts we studied this semester. After reading this story answer the following questions.

 How Technology Fixed London’s Traffic Woes | CIO 

1. What was the goal of the new system and how does systems thinking help us develop a better understanding of the problem the city of London was trying to address?

2· What development approach did they use for the project, traditional waterfall or agile? Provide a brief rationale for your answer.

3· Were user requirements met in the new system that was implemented? 

4.What would you have done differently if you were the project manager?  

Project execution, control, and closure

Instructions

Write a 3–4 page in which you address the following:

1. Now that the project is in the execution process, summarize your project to date.
2. Describe 3–4 deliverables produced from the execution of your project.
3. Explain how project baselines are established and why they are important to EVM calculations. 
   • Note: this relates to project control.
4. Explain how you assess the results (what is good, what is bad) when you do EVM calculations. Provide examples using 3–5 EVM metrics. 
   • Note: this relates to project control.
5. Apply the PMBOK best practices to close your project. 
   • Note: this relates to project closure.
6. List 3–5 lessons learned from your project. Provide examples.

Understanding smoking habits using bcos model and how to quit

Marketing Strategy

For the social issue you have been assigned, research and develop the following sections:

1. Background Research on Issue

2. Target Market

3. BCOS Model for your issue (from perspective of your target market)

4. Marketing Objective (statement) (which stage of decision process)

5. Positioning of Issue (statement)

6. Marketing Strategy (may include some or all of the following depending on  your strategy)

– Advertising Plan (creative and planned media) (show your     advertising)

– Public Relations Plan

– Event/Sponsorship Plan

– Sales Promotion Plan

– Personnel Selling Plan

– Direct Marketing Plan

7. Summary of how your strategy will help achieve your marketing objective.

8. Sources (include all secondary sources as well as copies of any primary  research done)

Watch film and complete assignment

Film:

Shakespeare Behind Bars

TASK:

How can you apply (choose TWO of the following):

Symbolic Interaction/Labeling Theory,
Control Theories,
Social Bonding Theory, and
Social Learning Theories
to this program?

Remember that the emphasis of the assignments is always on the theories; discuss theory and concepts thoroughly, and then provide an example that illustrates your point.

You may discuss particular prisoners, and their relationship to each other, the prison, and their roles in The Tempest.

3 – 4 pages, typed and double-spaced.  CITATIONS MUST BE UTILIZED.

Share your thoughts on what you view as some of the more important considerations. 

One of the topics covered in this chapter is psychological evaluations. Most psychological test and evaluations are completed by psychologists, though not all psychologists receive adequate training to conduct competent evaluations. There are a number of important factors to take into consideration when conducting psychological evaluations. Share your thoughts on what you view as some of the more important considerations. 

Assignment 2: Current Events and U.S. Diplomacy

Assignment 2: Current Events and U.S. Diplomacy

Write three-to-four (3-4) new pages that address the following:

1. Define presidential doctrine and summarize the regional or global events during the Cold War leading up to the formation of the presidential doctrine you wrote about in Assignment 1.
2. Select one country you wrote about in Assignment 1 and describe the Cold War relationship that existed between the country you selected and the U.S. before the presidential doctrine was announced.
3. Describe the relationship that currently exists between the U.S. and the country you selected in section (2) above.
4. Describe the effect that the presidential doctrine has had on regional or global affairs since it was announced during the Cold War.
5. Assess whether or not the presidential doctrine you wrote about in Assignment 1 doctrine had had the intended effect of altering the behavior of the country you selected in section (2) above since the doctrine was first announced.
6. Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Global Economic and Political Issues

Global Economic and Political Issues

write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions

The importance of trade continues to be a topic that is debated because the gains are not always quantifiable by those involved. An article by Ed Crooks published on January 6, 2011, America: Riveting Prospects, discusses why American companies are sometimes opposed to exporting.

Using a search engine, search for the article titled America: Riveting Prospects by Ed Crooks, which was published in the Financial Times on January 6, 2011. You will notice several options under this title, chose the link that is provided by the Financial Times. There is a free version of this article through the search engine. A subscription payment is not necessary to review this article. Complete the following:

• Discuss the 5 reasons that Mr. Crooks outlines in the article regarding issues with exporting.
• Offer your opinion of whether the economist’s viewpoint or the industrialist’sviewpoint is more agreeable to you.

How many immigrants should Canada be accepting; more, the same or fewer?

Your response will be in answer to this question: How many immigrants should Canada be accepting; more, the same or fewer? 

You will need to write a thesis in which you answer the question and provide a reason for your stance on this issue. For example, you could say that we need more immigrants to fill job vacancies. 

You will need to make at least three points in which you provide evidence from the readings that support your position. You must directly refer to each of the readings at least once. You may refer to any of the readings more than once. Be careful to avoid making claims that you cannot support. 

This should be formatted as a multi-paragraph composition of at least 300 words. 

Select an organization and conduct an in-depth managerial analysis of a selected organization,

Select an organization and conduct an in-depth managerial analysis of a selected organization, e.g., a corporation, company, firm or association (ideally, an organization which you have some interest in joining as an employee or associate). In your analysis you should address the following elements:

1. What is the mission of the organization?
2. What planning methodologies are utilized?
3. Define and assess the organization’s strategy.
4. Identify its customers and/or constituents; and its competitors. 

1. Describe how the firm is organized.
2. Note the formal structure (organizational charts); also what informal entities exist?
3. Describe the decision-making process.
4. How does the organization manage change?

1. What is the leadership style?
2. Who are the organization’s heroes?
3. Describe the motivational environment.
4. Assess the effectiveness of the organizational communications.

1. Comment on the processes for control.
2. Note the type of controls.
3. Describe the financial controls.
4. Describe the operational controls.
5. What role(s) do information systems play?

1. Evaluate any innovative managerial practices.
2. How is entrepreneurship encouraged?
3. What ethical dilemmas are faced?
4. What sources of “employee empowerment” are utilized?
5. Role(s) of technology

1. Assess your interest in joining the organization.
2. Why or Why Not?
3. How?

What is the filibuster, how is it used today, what changes could be made to it, and should we make them?

1.  Perhaps the most fundamental role of Congress as an institution is legislating, but passing legislation in a highly polarized environment is very difficult.  The filibuster is one of the primary obstacles in the legislative process.  What is the filibuster, how is it used today, what changes could be made to it, and should we make them?  Also, in the lecture, I note that Congress is widely disliked — so then why do its members almost always get re-elected? 

2.  The Founders gave limited powers to the presidency — and yet the office is today the most powerful in American government, by far. What are the expressed, delegated, and inherent powers of the presidency? What additional tools and resources do modern presidents use today? As presidents rely more on the unilateral actions inherent in many of those tools, does that pose a threat to the Founders’ ideal of checks and balances? Why or why not?

3.  What is “bureaucracy,” and why do we have it?  How is the U.S. executive bureaucracy organized?  How do Congress, the President, and the Courts control bureaucracy — and how effectively?  How might the executive bureaucracy be reformed?

4. What is judicial review, and how did the courts originally acquire that power? The competing philosophies regarding the exercise of judicial review — judicial restraint versus judicial activism: what are they, and how do they differ? The text’s authors note that, “…the philosophy of activism versus restraint is, in part, a smoke screen for political ideology” — what do they mean by that?