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1. Now that you’ve identified the organization’s SWOT, you need to determine the project and its objectives and metrics. This project should be based on an unmet opportunity for the organization, or to minimize a potential threat. What does the organization need to do to advance its goals and/or expand its competitive advantage? How will you measure their progress?

   Complete the following:

   • Explain why this opportunity/threat was selected, and how it is anticipated to benefit the organization.
   • Create at least 3 measurable project objectives based on your analyses. Determine timelines and responsibilities for each objective (e.g. with a RACI chart)
   • Explain why these objectives are appropriate for the project.
   • Develop at least 2 metrics to evaluate achievement of each of the project objectives.
   • Provide a 1-page explanation for why these are appropriate metrics for each of the objectives
     

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     1. Now that you’ve identified the organization’s SWOT, you need to determine the project and its objectives and metrics. This project should be based on an unmet opportunity for the organization, or to minimize a potential threat. What does the organization need to do to advance its goals and/or expand its competitive advantage? How will you measure their progress?

        Complete the following:

        • Explain why this opportunity/threat was selected, and how it is anticipated to benefit the organization.
        • Create at least 3 measurable project objectives based on your analyses. Determine timelines and responsibilities for each objective (e.g. with a RACI chart)
        • Explain why these objectives are appropriate for the project.
        • Develop at least 2 metrics to evaluate achievement of each of the project objectives.
        • Provide a 1-page explanation for why these are appropriate metrics for each of the objectives

You are the new IT Manager for the Cougar Corporation, a firm of 500 employees, with 5 buildings located in three different states.  Much of the information is critical to the operation of the business and contains key customer information.  As the new IT Manager, one of your employees comes to you concerned with the safeguarding of the firm’s information.  As you investigate this issue further, you too are concerned as it does not appear many methods of safeguarding the firm’s information are in place.  What methods would you want to make sure are in place to help with the safeguarding of information?  What role do you see firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus systems playing in promoting security?

Write up a memo to your supervisor detailing methods you would like to see implemented across the firm and the role of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus systems in promoting better safeguarding of the firm’s information.

You are the new IT Manager for the Cougar Corporation, a firm of 500 employees, with 5 buildings located in three different states.  Much of the information is critical to the operation of the business and contains key customer information.  As the new IT Manager, one of your employees comes to you concerned with the safeguarding of the firm’s information.  As you investigate this issue further, you too are concerned as it does not appear many methods of safeguarding the firm’s information are in place.  What methods would you want to make sure are in place to help with the safeguarding of information?  What role do you see firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus systems playing in promoting security?

Write up a memo to your supervisor detailing methods you would like to see implemented across the firm and the role of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus systems in promoting better safeguarding of the firm’s information.

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  Discussion Activity.

  Provide an initial discussion of approximately 500 words

  case study is provided for this discussion activity and also what to do file is attached, please have a look at all the files attached.

  just focus on table 1
  rest all is not required for this 500 word activity

  Discussion Activity.

  Provide an initial discussion of approximately 500 words

  case study is provided for this discussion activity and also what to do file is attached, please have a look at all the files attached.

  just focus on table 1
  rest all is not required for this 500 word activity

· Please read the case study entitled as “Job Design at Pepperdine University.” available in your textbook “Organization Development & Change” 10th edition by Cummings, T and Worley, C and answer the following questions:

Assignment Question(s):

· Q.1 Describe the culture of Pepperdine University within which an individual job is enriched. Support your answer using two examples from the case study (Lo 1.5 & 3.1)

· Q.2 Based on your understanding of the individual-level diagnosing of job designs, discuss and evaluate each of the following components for the MSOD program’s administrator as proposed by Pepperdine University:

-Skill variety (Lo 2.5)

-Task identity (Lo 2.5)

-Task significance (Lo 2.5)

-Autonomy (Lo 2.5)

-Feedback (Lo 2.5)

· Q.3 Explain why it is important for an individual job design to be congruent with the larger organization design. Support your answer using one example from this case study (Lo 1.5 & 3.1)

Consider the profile examples on project leaders Sir John Armitt and Jim Watzin from the chapter. If you were to summarize the leadership keys to their success in running projects, what actions or characteristics would you identify as being critical? Why? What are the implications for you when you are given responsibility to run your own projects? Consider the profile examples on project leaders Sir John Armitt and Jim Watzin from the chapter. If you were to summarize the leadership keys to their success in running projects, what actions or characteristics would you identify as being critical? Why? What are the implications for you when you are given responsibility to run your own projects?