6. In your responses to your peers, address any thoughts you have on their
selected megatrend and how this trend could be influential to the
different business sectors and impact business today.
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CMGT 557 Week 1 Emerging Technology Briefing
Document
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You recently graduated from your MIS program at UOPX and have been
hired as an IT consulting manager to work with clients who want to take
their new web development company to the next level.
However, the client is not sure how to accomplish this. The client has
been so busy working and trying to build a customer base, that they have
had no time to research or attend useful conferences in web
development/web technologies. As a consulting manager, you have been
asked by the client to research and provide a briefing document on how
more revenue and outreach to clients can be made and to let them know
what is upcoming and trending in the area of web development/web
marketing. Based on this information the client may or may not expand
their business, but at the least, they want to be informed on the latest and
7. greatest practical information they might share with their clients or use
personally to further their web design business.
Research 5 to 8 emerging technologies that might assist the web
development company and their clients, focusing on only
practical/actionable information.
Create a 2- to 3-page executive briefing. Your briefing should:
Be sure to list each of the technologies you researched in the document.
Pick at least 2 of the emerging technologies that were researched and
identify how each could be used to increase profitability for the web
development company. Discuss how each of the selected technologies
would be useful to the client’s web development company and how each
will help advance their business and business prospects.
8. Submit your assignment..
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CMGT 557 Week 2 Cloud Computing Presentation
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The manager of the web development company introduced in Week 1
has asked you for information on cloud computing and how it could be
incorporated into their business.
As a response, you have decided to create an IT-based executive level
presentation and an executive summary that identifies key points on how
Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) could be used to gain a greater
technological advantage for their organization.
Create an 8- to 10-slide multimedia rich Microsoft® PowerPoint®
presentation with graphics and speaker notes identifying the key
9. characteristics of how cloud computing could be used in their company.
Be sure to cover the major areas of cloud services that include SaaS,
PaaS, and IaaS. For each of the identified cloud services, include a set of
pros and cons and the risks associated with its practical use in the
business.
Write a 1- to 2-page executive summary accompanying the presentation
that you would hand out to the executives and elaborates on the key
points.
Submit your assignment.
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CMGT 557 Week 2 Discussion Cloud Computing in an
Organization
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Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
10. You are part of a company that is looking to move to cloud computing.
Your manager has asked you to identify the characteristics and
advantages of cloud computing and how cloud services are used in
business.
In response to your manager, answer the following questions:
How can cloud computing benefit an organization?
What specifically would cloud computing help with?
What cloud service would you recommend to your manager? Why?
In your responses to your peers, address any thoughts you have on the
advantages of cloud computing and how it can benefit a business.
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CMGT 557 Week 3 Big Data Leadership Briefing
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The leadership team of the web development company introduced in
Week 1 has heard a lot about Big Data lately and is interested in
knowing how integrating Big Data into their company will help them
become more effective in their operations.
You have decided the best way to explain Big Data is to create a 4- to 6-
page briefing document for leadership. The briefing should:
Describe what Big Data is and how it will be used by the company.
Explain why using big data elements would be important to business
profitability, in general, and how the use of Big Data will help the web
development company, specifically, see value and add to profits.
Compare and suggest tools and methodologies that can be used to
extract data and build reports to address marketing needs in the web
development company. Be sure to include data management concepts of
warehousing, data mining, and data processing in your descriptions.
Also, include how the tools and methodologies can be used to integrate
Big Data into the company’s operations.
13. requests. What big data tools and methodologies would you use to
integrate big data systems within the organization, and why?
In your responses to your peers, address any thoughts you have on how
the various big data tools can be used in an organizational setting.
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CMGT 557 Week 4 Discussion Security Concerns
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Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
You are a CIO of a technology company and have been invited to give a
presentation on home automation to a group of high school students in a
technology club. You have been asked to discuss how the internet can be
used to provide full home automation and the larger concept of IoE.
14. Explain what you would present to the students, and why.
In your responses to your peers, address any thoughts you have on
management considerations/security concerns relative to the
organizational use of advanced networking/Internet connectivity (IoT
and IoE) devices.
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CMGT 557 Week 4 IoT and IoE Presentations
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You are an IT client consultant and have been asked by your IT manager
to provide an impactful IT-based presentation with an infographic
handout for non-technical employees that discusses IoT. The goal is to
allow the client to see possibilities for further web enablement and areas
for potential further business growth.
15. Create an 8- to 10--slide, multimedia-rich presentation that presents the
concept of IoT to non-technical computer users. Be sure to discuss the
following:
Advantages
Features
Convenience
Consumer applications
Commercial applications
Industrial applications
Life enhancement
Trends and characteristics
Security concerns relative to organizational use
Create a 1-page infographic handout, using an infographic tool of your
choice, covering the topic of IoT that employees will be able to use as a
quick reference.
16. Submit your assignment.
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CMGT 557 Week 5 Discussion Implementing Digital
Transformation
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Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
IT leaders often need to make difficult choices to save money, stay
competitive, and retain or generate additional profits. The idea of
outsourcing and perhaps offshoring has been mentioned as a possible
consideration.
Discuss the pros and cons of both outsourcing and offshoring. How
might a leader introduce this to the organization without creating
speculation and panic in its employees? What steps would you take to
implement a digital transformation? Why?
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CMGT 557 Week 5 Disruptive Digital Transformation
Timeline
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Select one of the following industries: banking, logistics, oil and gas, or
manufacturing.
Using Microsoft® Word, PowerPoint®, or various digital timeline sites,
such as ReadWriteThink, Timeline JS, timetoast, etc., create a timeline
of low-end and high-end disruptive digital transformations over the past
20 years. The timeline should focus on at least 10 major transformations
in your chosen industry and identify how the new direction provided
competitive advantages for the companies that used these emerging
technologies.
18. Pick a technologically deficient company within your chosen industry,
and write a 1- to 2-page summary of what you would do to develop a
digital transformation plan to help your chosen company become
technologically up-to-date.
Format your summary according to APA guidelines.
Submit your assignment.
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CMGT 557 Week 6 Discussion Evaluating Emerging
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Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
19. You have recently been hired by a progressive tech firm, and they want
you to start a new department for exploring emerging technologies in the
industry.
Explain how you would define the needed skill set to hire three analysts
for this department. What would your process be for researching and
evaluating emerging technologies? Why would you use this process?
In your responses to your peers, address any thoughts you have on other
suggested processes for researching and evaluating emerging
technology.
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CMGT 557 Week 6 Strategic Management of Emerging
Technologies Presentation
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For this assignment, select a publicly traded company, your place of
employment, or an organization you are familiar with.
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of your selected company is
concerned that the strategic management of emerging technologies is not
leveraging the company’s competitive advantage and providing for the
future direction of the company.
According to the CTO, strategic management of emerging technologies
should consider:
Evaluating the company’s environment and current position
Evaluating the company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats,
and trends (SWOTT)
Establishing the company’s competitive intelligence
Developing of the company’s strategic intent
21. Create a 10- to 12-slide, multimedia-rich Microsoft® PowerPoint®
presentation with speaker notes that will be presented to the CTO
addressing the concerns about the company’s strategic management of
emerging technologies. Then, record at least a 5- to 6-minute voiceover
to accompany your presentation.
Recommend ideas for the bulleted points above to leverage the strategic
management of emerging technologies to further benefit the company.
Add sufficient detail to support your recommendations.
Identify examples for each of the above requirements and how they
collectively benefit the company.
Your presentation must include the following:
22. A title slide (not included in the slide count)
Appropriate and relative graphics or images
Detailed speaker notes or recorded audio narration (instructions on how
to add audio to Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations can be found on
the Microsoft® Office® Support site)
A references slide citing all resources used in the presentation and
speaking notes (not included in the slide count)
Submit your assignment.
Note: You can locate much of the required information for this
assignment on a company’s Investor Relations webpage. Annual reports
and press releases will be of particular interest.
Note: The University Library maintains “Company Directories and
Financials” (i.e., Business Source Complete: SWOT Analyses); and
Hoover's Company Profiles by ProQuest, which contains lists of
competitors.