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Peer Feedback Questions

  1. Whose draft are you responding to?
  2. Audience Awareness: Your audience for the memo are WRIT professors who have not taken this section of WRIT 1122. Given that the audience knows nothing about the specific assignments and WPs in this class, how well does the author explain the WP’s purpose, the WP’s audience, the WP’s argumentative approach?
  3. Which learning goal is best discussed and why?
  4. Which WP is best discussed and why?
  5. Which learning goal and which WP could be more fully discussed and why?
  6. In relation to the learning goals the author discusses, offer three suggestions of work done in and out of class over the last 10 weeks that the author could use as evidence to support their claim.
  7. What should the writer prioritize when they revise?

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Research the various change models used by organizations today. After assessing these models, make a change model conducive to your field, and that will work within your organization’s culture. This model should serve to implement a strategic process that can help your organization integrate a change and respond to the internal or external driving forces that affect organizational success.

produce a visual representation of your model using a graphic organizer of your choice (flow chart, concept map, etc.). The design of your model will be unique and relevant to your organization, based on a critical analysis of its culture and behavior. However, your model must demonstrate the necessary steps for realistic implementation. Your model will be assessed on the quality of strategic implementation you design, the support you present for your model, and inclusion of the following concepts:

  1. Methods to evaluate the need for change
  2. Approach and criteria for choosing individuals or teams necessary for a change initiative
  3. Communication strategies
  4. Strategies to gather stakeholder support and overcome resistance
  5. Implementation strategies
  6. Sustainability strategies

Once you have made your model, prepare a 15-20 slide PowerPoint presentation to present your model and demonstrate how this model is relevant to your organization and why it will work well within your organization’s culture. In conclusion, discuss why this model will lead to sustainable change when most change initiatives fail. You will utilize this change model for your final paper.

 

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You have to select a topic to perform research, plan and design a business information system during the first week of this course. Please refer to Week One of this Course Guide for some suggested example of this topic.

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  • -An employee expenditure tracking system (tracking of trips, travel expenses, food costs, etc.)

Focus of the Final Paper Construct a system analysis paper based on your weekly presentations. Please note this is an individual paper. The paper should represent the research and recommendations you have performed for the proposed business information system over the previous four weeks in a cohesive format. Your paper should demonstrate critical thought. The paper should be 2400 to 3000 words, excluding the title, diagrams, and reference pages. The structure of the paper should be as follows: 

  • Cover Page 
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Introduction  The introduction should familiarize the reader with the proposed business information system and outline the major points that you will cover in the paper. It should include your thesis statement. If you need assistance with writing a thesis statement, visit the Ashford Writing Center’s website for help.
  • Body Make the suggested changes to the PowerPoint assignments for Weeks One through Four based on the constructive feedback provided by your instructor. Do not simply copy and paste your previous assignments into your final paper. Read your writing and improve upon what you have already written to connect everything learned in this class. Be sure that your paper addresses the following points.
    • System Overview
      • Provide a brief overview of the proposed business information system and describe
        • What it would accomplish for the business organization
        • Who are the stakeholders in the proposed business information system
        • What are the business information system requirements
        • How the requirements are elicited, analyzed, documented, reviewed and confirmed
        • How would the business analyst ensure the business information system or solution satisfied all stakeholder requirements.
      • Explain which of the potential approaches to system development (computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools, joint application design (JAD), rapid application development (RAD), participatory design (PD), or the use of Agile Methodologies should be considered for the proposed business information system design. Support your explanation with examples from your own experiences and/or from any scholarly journal citations.
      • Briefly discuss what each stage of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) approach would accomplish in your proposed business information system.
    • Requirements Determination
      • Discuss the types of documents that would be useful to analyze for requirements gathering purposes and why they would be important. Additionally, discuss which documents would be possible to obtain as well as which ones would be difficult to obtain (think about the records and knowledge keeping within the organization, some information resides in specific documents while some is scattered throughout the organization).
      • Create a questionnaire that includes at least ten well-written questions that you can use for information gathering.
        • Explain your rationale for the style in which you wrote the questions.
      • Identify which modern requirements determination methods (Joint Application Design and/or Prototyping) would be appropriate for this business information system and explain why you think they would be suitable.
      • Using your proposed business information system scenario, discuss at least one example of each of the nine system characteristics:
        • What are the Components and Interrelated Components in the proposed business information system,
        • What would be the Boundary of the proposed business information system,
        • What is the Purpose of the proposed business information system,
        • What is the Environment of the proposed business information system,
        • What are the Interfaces of the proposed business information system,
        • What are the Constraints of the proposed business information system, and
        • What are the Inputs and Outputs to the proposed business information system
    • Scope and Feasibility
      • Explain the proposed business information system’s scope. Please refer to Table 4-3 in the text
      • Develop a business information system plan. Please refer to Table 4-4 in the text.
      • Assess the business information system’s feasibility from the system analyst’s perspective by using the six categories of feasibility factors (economic, operational, technical, schedule, legal and contractual, and political feasibility) outlined in the text (pp. 90-98)
      • Develop a Project Scope Statement for the proposed business information system, refer to Figure 4-12 in the text. Include the following categories in the statement:
        • General Project Information,
        • Problem/Opportunity Statement,
        • Project Objectives,
        • Project Description,
        • Business Benefits,
        • Project Deliverables, and
        • Estimated Project Duration.
    • Diagrams
      • Develop a context-level data-flow diagram for the proposed system (use Fig. 6-5 in the text as a guide). You can use Microsoft PowerPoint to develop the data flow diagrams.
      • Develop a level-0 diagram for the proposed system (use Fig. 6-6 in the text as a guide).
      • Using the level-0 diagram that you previously constructed, select one of the level-0 processes and prepare a level-1 diagram (use Fig. 6-8 in the text as a guide).
    • Data Modeling
      • For the proposed business information system and the data flow diagrams developed previously, consider potential customer transactions. Provide a list of all the entities (like supplier, customer, etc.) for which system will need to store information.
      • Identify a set of attributes for each entity listed above (like customer name, supplier phone). See pp. 197-199 in the text.
      • Specify an identifier (like employee ID, supplier phone, etc.) for each entity and explain the rules you applied when you selected the identifier. See pp. 199-201 in the text.
      • Develop an entity-relationship diagram for entity relationships. Be sure to specify the cardinalities for each relationship (use Fig. 7-10 in the text as a guide). Remember, cardinality of a relationship is the number of instances of an entity that can be associated with each instance of another entity.
    • User Training and Maintenance
      • For a business analyst, it is also important to plan for training of all users of the system and develop a maintenance plan for the life of the system (use Table 10-5, and 10-6 in the text as a guide). Provide a brief suggested plan for user training.
      • For the proposed business information system, provide a brief plan for maintenance of the system (use Table 10-7 in the text as a guide).
      • To ensure readability, supply headings for each section of the body. 
  • Conclusion In your conclusion, restate your thesis statement. Review your conclusions. Include any ideas you have about the business information system that you did not already discuss.
  • References Provide an APA-formatted reference list. In addition to the text, cite at least four additional scholarly references from the Ashford library to support your discussion. 

The Final Paper

  • Must be 2400 to 3000 words (8 to 10 double-spaced pages) in length (not including title, diagrams, and references pages).  Format the paper according to APA style as outlined in theAshford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least three scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
    • TheScholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sourcestable offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

 

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Each learning team member will select one of the following companies:

Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco.

Each team member should post an original message with the name of their company as the subject line in the week 3 team forum. There will be a different thread for each company. For the selected company, each team member will locate the company’s most recent SEC Form 10K.  Post the link to the Form 10K in a message in the company’s message string in the team forum.

Using the financial statements from the Form 10k, in an Excel worksheet, each team member will calculate the following ratios for their company for the most current year reported (I have provided a template for the Excel worksheet):

1.        Current ratio

2.        Current cash debt coverage ratio

3.        Receivables Turnover ratio (assume all sales are credit sales)

4.        Inventory Turnover ratio

5.        Debt to Total Assets ratio

6.        Times Interest Earned ratio

7.        Return on common stockholders’ equity ratio

8.        Return on assets ratio

9.        Profit margin ratio

10.      Price-Earnings ratio

Appendix Chapter 13A starting on page 665 shows how to calculate all of these ratios for the Chicago Cereal Company. Each team member is required to post a message in the string for their company with their spreadsheet for their company as an attachment.  I have provided an Excel template for each team member to summarize the needed financial statement information and to calculate the ratios for the current year for their company. Please follow the instrucitons in the Excel template carefully. If you do not completely understand the instructions, ask questions. You need to complete your ratio spreadsheet as required or you will lose significant points on this assignment.

In a new message thread, the team should create a summary Excel Spreadsheet for the purpose of comparing the ratios of all of the companies. I have provided an Excel template for this summary sheet.

Each team member is responsible for inputting their ratios into the summary spreadsheet. All team members must review all of the calculations for all of the companies. The team has final responsibility for the accuracy of the ratio calculations.

As a team, highlight the company that has the best number/performance for each of the ratios.

Part II

Copy the summary of all the companies’ ratios into a table of ratios into a Word document as the first section of a financial analysis of your companies.  The table is required in the paper so the reader can see all of the ratios with the analysis.

Develop a 700-word evaluation of the selected companies in which the team does the following:

  • Evaluate the financial opportunity presented by the companies. If the team was going to lend money to one of the companies reviewed, which one would it be? Defend the team’s decision by identifying and discussing specific ratios that would be important to a creditor.
  • Evaluate the investment opportunity presented by the companies. If the team could invest $100,000 in one of the companies, which would the team select? Provide the rationale by identifying and discussing specific ratios that would be important for an investor.
  • Evaluate the employment opportunity presented by the companies. If the team members could work for any of the companies, which company would the team select based on the company’s financial position? Defend the team’s decision by discussing the ratios as it relates to the overall financial position of the companies.
  • Overall, which if the companies has the strongest financial position?  Which of the companies has the weakest financial position? Refer to the ratios to support the team’s conclusions.

Format the assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

The following files must be submitted:

-Each person needs to personally submit their completed individual ratio worksheet

-One person needs to submit the final ratio summary sheet for the project

-One person needs to submit the final paper

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

 

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