Category: Information technology (IT)

company that you are working for is considering buying another smaller firm. However, there is some business analysis needed for your company to make its final decision about purchasing. Throughout this course, you will be working on creating the Business Strategy and Management Plan.

Keep in mind that the final Business Strategy and Management Plan template should contain the following elements:

• Title page
• Course number and name
• Project name
• Your name
• Date
• Table of contents
• Auto-generated
• Up-to-date
• Maximum of 3 levels deep
• Section headings

Each week, you will add a section to your Business Strategy and Management Plan and submit it for grading. For Week 1, you will make a qualitative evaluation of the industry’s strategic position using Porter’s five forces. Please include section headings below.

• Qualitative Evaluation of the Industrys Strategic Position (Week 1 IP)
• Choose an aspect of the information technology (IT) industry that has not been previously used as an example in this course. Use Porters five forces to make a qualitative evaluation of the industrys strategic position. Be sure to explain each of the five forces, as well as how they relate to your chosen industry.
• Note: The mobile phone industry was provided as an example in the video material and may not be used as the subject for this assignment.
• Remember to include the following elements (Porters five forces):
• Threat of new entrants: Are new entrants being attracted to the market, and are there barriers to entry in the industry?
• Threat of substitute products or services: Are there other products that could be alternatives to offerings in the chosen industry?
• Bargaining power of customers: What degree of bargaining power do the buyers have in terms of putting the industry under pressure to provide more products or less cost?
• Bargaining power of suppliers: What is the importance of raw materials, components, labor, and services that are required for the industry, and are there substitutes for those inputs? Discuss the possibility of switching suppliers, if necessary.
• Intensity of competitive rivalry: Does the industry have a sustainable competitive advantage?

Topic 1: Infrastructure Strategy

Discuss how the emergence of cloud technologies has impacted investments in infrastructure and how strategies are changing at the enterprise level in relation to infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Why is it important to consider the factors based on the political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal (PESTEL) when considering the impact of cloud technologies on an organization?

Include a question that responding students can reply to within your initial post(s). Add a URL or reference at the end of the initial post.

Complete the following questions in an MS Word Document in APA format.

1. Provide a technical description of 4B5B digital encoding scheme. Contrast it with the Manchester scheme. Explain how and why it provides better data rates.
2. Create a ranked table (see below) based on transmission speed, comparing three types of twisted pair: coaxial cable, fiber-optic cable, microwave, and satellite. A total of seven media. Include distances and typical installation use cases.

• Type of Media
• Transmission Speed
• Distances
• Typical Installation Use Cases

1. Using your favorite search engine, include an image or create a diagram comparing a low Earth satellite deployment with a geosynchronous satellite deployment in a situation where you would need 24/7 coverage of the whole Earth as your basic criteria. The image or diagram should include ground stations and appropriate locations. (Hint: All satellites [GEO and LEO] and ground stations need to be included and/or labeled.)
2. Compare the difference in expense (cost) of the two solutions (Cite your source).
3. Include in the response the importance of satellites to wireless communication and connectivity.
4. Include a relevant reference.
5. Discuss the data communication features of USB standards and implementation. What are the pros and cons of using USB drives? In your opinion, what is a portable alternative to the USB drive?

Assignment Requirements

Written work should be free of spelling, grammar, and APA errors. Points deducted from the grade for each writing, spelling, or grammar error are at your instructors discretion.

Be sure to use in-text citations where relevant and a reference page. The cover page and reference page are not included in the page count.

Discussion Directions

Go to NIST SP 800 catalog and find a document (that no one else has posted yet). Review the document and create a one paragraph summary of what the document covers.

Use the following criteria to guide your response:

• Provide a summary of what the document does and its purpose.
• Describe how the document is used.
• Talk about anything you found interesting about the document. Reference something specific that comes from the provided link.

Collaboration is pivotal to the field of IST for problem-solving, completing overall work, and working with virtual teams. As a leader in your selected field, you will be expected to foster collaborative work and synthesize the results of collaborative work into reports and presentations in a clear, concise manner that makes technical information understandable to those outside the field.

It is also important for leaders in the field to understand IST history and advances to gain a better grasp of their importance and how they apply to todays work in the field.

Research the antecedents of collaboration technologies in the IST field and prepare to integrate elements of that research into this assignment.

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in which you describe real-time collaboration technologies employed by virtual teams.

Note: For this description, use a private or public enterprise with which you have experience, other workplace experience, or classroom experience.

The paper should:

• Describe infrastructure, software, and interconnected systems.
• Consider key IST components and the relationship that defines them as a system in your description.
• Describe how collaboration in IST changed over time.
• Explain the historical achievements that have significantly changed collaboration.
• Consider key events described in your Week 1 assignment.
• Evaluate the current state of the collaborative technology in the organization.
• Recommend strategies to achieve IST collaboration goals and objectives in a manner that will meet broader organizational goals.
• Include tools and technologies the organization should implement for more effective virtual collaboration.
• Include supporting graphics as appropriate.

Follow doctoral writing style standards.

Cite at least 3 academic sources to support your assignment.

Please no plagiarism and I have attached two pdf and i have also provided the instructions in instruction section

Identify and describe at least three key concepts in your own words, learned from the Chapter 3 lecture

Please no plagiarism and I have attached two pdf files and I have provided instructions on how to write this journal

Identify and describe at least three key concepts in your own words, learned from the Chapter 2 lecture

After reviewing the (Emergency Management Template) use the Finding Page document and answer (A) how would you use this as a framework for organizing your emergency management program, associated plans and (B) what are the key elements and (C) benefits of each? Your only writing on the findings page.

Review the instructions for the course project assignment below and revise as needed the “Solution Design” (see attached files). Research and design the solution(s) to address the problem thats identified and defined in the Problem Definition deliverable. This is the continuation of the Problem Definition phase, so the solution design should be appended to the previous deliverable.

The design should clearly explain how to address the identified problem. It should also be forward-thinking, proactive, and realistic.

Here are the key components of the Solution Design deliverable.

Define and design appropriate policies, procedures, regulations, agreements, products, and services that will effectively solve the IT Governance problem or support an opportunity.

Analyze the risk exposure of not taking any action to address the compliance problem.

Suggest what should happen after the design is implemented (i.e., a follow-up to the solution design)

Provide cost and impact estimates where available. Estimate the labor hours required to implement the design (e.g., the average IT Governance consultation hourly rate is $300)