#1 We hope you have discovered more about the world around you. What was the most surprising thing you learned in this course? What is one thing you learned in this course that can be applied to your life right now? Was there any material that you struggled with? How would you explain climate change to a family member? What would be the hardest part to explain? Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. #2 After learning about several ways in which our everyday actions impact climate change, choose one action to conduct more research on and create a PowerPoint presentation to tell us more! Use the unit material and reliable online resources to gather more information. There are several ideas with information throughout the unit but there is even more information out in the world! Think about what you do every day, and how the activity uses energy or natural resources. Think about a product you buy—how it was made, what natural resources were used to make it? You can also do a quick google search of “everyday activities that effect the environment” and start reading some articles for more ideas. Remember to use reliable sources from the Internet. There is a lot of misinformation out there and finding reliable information can be difficult. The best sources of reference material for your presentation are scientific journals found in the CSU Online Library databases. Click here for a biology research tutorial that demonstrates how to locate library resources relating to biology You can also find reliable statistics at organization websites listed in the Unit under “Combat Climate Change.” Your presentation must include: 1. What everyday activity or product have you chosen to present? Why did you choose this activity or product? Why is it important? 2. Connect the activity/product to its impact on the environment and climate change. How does doing the activity or making the product use natural resources, disrupt habitat, impact wildlife or other effects on the environment? 3. Report data and statistics, with references, on how this activity/product effects the environment. 4. What can people do to decrease the activity/product’s impact on the environment? Be sure to follow the formatting and guidelines provided below: · Include at least three visual aids. · Include three reliable references, and at least one source must come from the CSU Online Library. · Use bulleted information on slides (five lines or fewer). · Include substantial and detailed speaker's notes that include what you would say in an actual presentation. The speaker's notes should also reflect the depth of your research. · Include a separate title slide and separate reference slide. · Use an appropriate font and background. · Include at least 11 slides, but not more than 15 slides (not counting your title slide and reference slide). · Use correct APA format for references and citations, and use correct grammar and spelling. · Upload the presentation as a .ppt or .pptx file. ...

1. #1
We hope you have discovered more about the world around you.
What was the most surprising thing you learned in this course?
What is one thing you learned in this course that can be applied
to your life right now? Was there any material that you
struggled with? How would you explain climate change to a
family member? What would be the hardest part to explain?
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words.
#2
After learning about several ways in which our everyday actions
impact climate change, choose one action to conduct more
research on and create a PowerPoint presentation to tell us
more! Use the unit material and reliable online resources to
gather more information.
There are several ideas with information throughout the unit but
there is even more information out in the world! Think about
what you do every day, and how the activity uses energy or
natural resources. Think about a product you buy—how it was
made, what natural resources were used to make it? You can
also do a quick google search of “everyday activities that effect
the environment” and start reading some articles for more ideas.
Remember to use reliable sources from the Internet. There is a
lot of misinformation out there and finding reliable information
can be difficult. The best sources of reference material for your
presentation are scientific journals found in the CSU
Online Library databases. Click here for a biology research
tutorial that demonstrates how to locate library resources
relating to biology You can also find reliable statistics at
organization websites listed in the Unit under “Combat Climate
Change.”
Your presentation must include:
1. What everyday activity or product have you chosen to

2. present? Why did you choose this activity or product? Why is it
important?
2. Connect the activity/product to its impact on the environment
and climate change. How does doing the activity or making the
product use natural resources, disrupt habitat, impact wildlife or
other effects on the environment?
3. Report data and statistics, with references, on how this
activity/product effects the environment.
4. What can people do to decrease the activity/product’s impact
on the environment?
Be sure to follow the formatting and guidelines provided below:
· Include at least three visual aids.
· Include three reliable references, and at least one source must
come from the CSU Online Library.
· Use bulleted information on slides (five lines or fewer).
· Include substantial and detailed speaker's notes that include
what you would say in an actual presentation. The speaker's
notes should also reflect the depth of your research.
· Include a separate title slide and separate reference slide.
· Use an appropriate font and background.
· Include at least 11 slides, but not more than 15 slides (not
counting your title slide and reference slide).
· Use correct APA format for references and citations, and use
correct grammar and spelling.
· Upload the presentation as a .ppt or .pptx file.
School of Computer & Information Sciences
ITS-631- Operational Excellence
Chapter 10 – Information Technology and Organizational
Learning

3. Introduction
Digital transformation is defined as the changes associated with
the applications of digital technology within every of human
society
The challenge becomes how to get IT more engaged with the
buyer community
Review the six approaches for IT to be more engaged:
Sales/Marketing
Third-party market analysis/reporting
Predictive analytics
Consumer support departments
Surveys
Focus groups
Requirements without Users and Input
Technology generates change called digital disruption
Challenge in disruption is the inability to predict the consumers
wants and needs
Graphic depiction of the relationship between technology
advancements and market needs (figure 10.2)
Porter’s Five Forces
Competitors
New Entrants
Substitutes
Buyers

4. Suppliers
Langer’s Driver/ Supporter model
Figure 10.6 depicts the life cycle of any application or product
Organizational Learning and the S-curve
When designing a new application or system, the status of that
product’ s S-curve should be carefully correlated to the source
of the requirements.
S-curve analysis (Table 10.3)
IT Leader in Digital Transformation Era
The IT leader must become more innovative.
Quality requirements will be even more complex
Dynamic interaction among users and business teams will
require the creation of multiple layers of communities of
practice.
Application analysis, design, and development must be treated
and managed as a living process; that is, it never ends until the
product is obsolete (supporter end). So, products must
continually develop to maturity.

5. Organizations should never outsource a driver technology until
it reaches supporter status.
How Technology Disrupts Firms and Industries
The world economy is transforming rapidly from an analogue to
a digital-based technology-driven society. This transformation
requires businesses to move from a transactional relationship to
one that that is “interactional”
Dynamism and Digital Disruption
how to can anticipate the unexpected threats brought on by
technological advances that can devastate their business.
There are typically two disruption factors:
A new approach to providing products and services to the
consumer.
A strategy not previously feasible, now made possible using
new technological capabilities.
Critical Components of Digital Organizations
Unified digital platform
Solution
delivery
Analytics capabilities

6. Business and IT integration
Assimilating Digital Technology Operationally and Culturally
Organizations must create a new architecture when
implementing digital technologies.
Companies must recognize that speed and comfort of service
can be more important than just the cost.
Empower workforce to try new ideas without over controls.
Allow employees and customer to have choice of devices.
Organizations who force staff to adhere to strict processes and
support structures are exposed to digital disruption.
References
Langer, A. M. (2018). Information Technology and
Organizational Learning. 3rd edition. Taylor & Francis Group,
LLC. ISBN: 978-1-138-23858-9